Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-22
CITY ORDINANCES.


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ALLEYS or THE CITY OF RICH 1,5
W WINS 4 4ARR TD SSEsfh FNoR THE
| PURPOSES Oh FURNISHING LIGHT
AND POWER BY ELECTRICITY
approved January II. lSsJ a.
city OF Richmond:
LIST. That the southern Electric Com
| pany, whose present officers are John u.
,WlIliams' president; Il. J. Wills secre-
/ Williams. W. w Henry, j. Wilcox
brown, Nelson Perrin Il. J. willis, d.
rectors, be, and Il IL hereby, authorized 10
construct conduits and run wires therein.
| under, and along the streets and alleys
OF the city OF Richmond to furnish and
supply electric light and power, upon the
herein set forth. and under those also
| set forth, as might be applicable hereto,
! In the ordinance, entitled IAN ordinance
! as To tho joint use of poles erected In the
mond for the support of wires used IN
| connection with the transmission or
electricity" approved September 10 1896.
"a. The city also reserves the right TO
require. at any time. or from time TO
| time, after the expiration OF FIVE years
| from the date OF the approval of this
ordinance. the said company TO remove
| its poles and wires from the streets, or
any number Of them, hereinafter speci-
fed, and TO run all its wires thereon in
| conduits.
Sd. The streets referred TO in the pre-
ceding section are as follows: Broad
street from west side OF Adams to
| east side of Ninth street; on Ninth and
Seventh streets from Broad TO Cary
street; Bank street from Ninth TO east
side Of Twelfth street and on Main and
| Cary streets from Seventh TO east side
| of Fourteenth
4th. The privileges herein granted are
| given upon the further condition that the
| city shall have the right. from time to
| time, after the expiration of six years
| from date Of the approval OF this ordi-
nance. 10 require, upon the same terms
and provisions, that the company shall
| remove its poles and wires from other
streets or squares I'm addition to those
above specified, and run it's wires in con-
duits therein at the rate OF not more
than two squares per year. The city may
| require such work to be done annually,
or ii may require the aggregate number
of squares for several years to be done
at one time for the then current year,
and those preceding IL.
9Th. Whenever the city shall order any
Of the changes contemplated in the three
preceding sections 10 be done, 1t reserves
the right TO require each company to
construct its own conduits and its own
man-hOles, or its own conduits with joint
man-holes. or all or any number of them
TO construct and use Jointly the neces-
sary conduts and man-holes. All con-
Quits shall be built with a capacity OF a I
least 10 per cent larger than the COM
pany or companies then 10 use them
shall need for its or their wires, and the
man-hOles shall be at least 20 per cent.
larger, as the city reserves the righ. TO
require the company or companies build
ing them TO allow other persons or COM
panies not then operating any such wires
in such streets TO use them, upon terms
to be determined either by agreement or
by arbitration. Whenever the city shall
require more than one company TO build
either cDntnitC mNn-lOlpS the initial
cost shall be borne jointly by the COM
panies constructing the same, and in
such proportion the said companies
may agree, or by arbitration, II an agree
ment cannot be reached in proper time.
Whenever. in the construction or use of
conduits or man-holes required under this
ordinance. it shall be necessary, in the
opinion Of the City Engineer. TO de-
termine by arbitration the proportions
of initial cost TO be borne, or of the costs
of maintenance or repairs, or of the re-
payment to the city of any costs or
damages paid by IL on account of any
suit brought against it for injury to
persons or property in the construction
or use OF the same or 10 determine the
terms under which the same can be used
by each company building the same. or af-
terward using the same, the arbitrators
shall be appointed and the arbitration
conducted in accordance with the pro-
visions of section Of the ordinance
entitled IAN ordinance to require the
removal Of poles and wires from over
structiOn and using of conduits in GER
tain streets" approved September 10, 1890
BY such arbitration, il necessary, shall
also be determined as 10 who and how
the said Joint cOnduits or man-hOles
shall be managed. For any failure to per-
form any requirements ordered under
this section, or TO obey and perform
promptly and properly any decision or
award which may be made in or under
any arbitration above provided for, with
in ten days after being notified Of such
cd strf ~ tl
each party so in default shall be liable
to a fine Of not less than 80 nor more
than $500: each days failure TO be
9Th The Committee on Streets may re-
ouire the said company TO use and occupy
the poles already erected by some other
nerson or company or which shall here
after be erected before the running Of
the wires upon such route. Each route
shall be first determined on by the Com
mittee on Streets before any poles are
erected, conduits constructed, or wires
7th. Wherever two companies shall de-
sire nj the same time 10 erect poles and
run wires along the same route. or
routes they shall use. as far as the Com
mitfee on Streets shall deem practicable.
the same poles; the proportion or initial
cost 10 be borne. and the subsequent
costs for repairs or maintenance, or Tor
indemnifying the cost for any costs or
DAMAGES TO which she may be subjected
nv reason of the negligent use or main
tpuance or Sdlu pDitS anu Wits 10 olldii
be determined by agreement. If possible.
and If not by arbitration as heretofore
designated as to conduits and man-holes.
Sth The privileges herein granted shall
continue for thirty years from the date
of approval of this ordinance.
9th. Whenever the privileges herein
Granted shall terminate. the said COM
many may be required, upon thirty days
notice. TO move the poles. wires, and
conduits from the streets and alleys. and
within the time prescribed by the Com
rnittpe on Streets, restore the same where
disturbed 10 condition similar to the
surrounding street or alley.
10Th The Council Of the city OF Rich
mond reserves the right to impose such
other regulations, conditions, and require
ments as il may from time to time deem
p11tb The privileges herein given are
Granted also subject to the provisions
and conditions contained In the ordinance,
entitled IAN ordinance TO require the
removal Of poles and wires overhead in
certain streets, and for the construction
and lsing cOnduits In certain streets"
ann-oved September TO- 1895. except so far
as the conditions and requirements OF
said ordinance arc herein modified.
10Th This ordinance shall be Of no ef-
feet unless the company shall within
thirty days after the approval of this
ordinance deposit with the Treasurer Of
the CITY of Richmond bonds of the said
CITY or of the United States TO the
amount of 5000 which bonds shall be
returned to the said company upon the
comuietion of its plant to the SatisfaC-
tion of the Committee on Streets And
upon the failure Of the company to erect
and construct said plant within twelve
months from the approval of this Ordi
nance the said bond shall be forfeited TO
and become the absolute property of the