Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-11-08
SEWER SYSTEM ORDINANCE.
Chanter -


An ordinance granting a franchise to
M. w. McGrath to construct, maintain
and operate a sewer system in the City
of Santa Fe.
Be it ordained by the city council of
the City Of Santa Fe:
Section /. That the right of way and
the right and privilege and franchise to
construct, maintain and operate a sew
er system in the City of Santa Fe, New
Mexico, for the purpose of carrying
away and disposing of the sewage Of
said city, is hereby granted to M. w.
McGrath, a citizen of the United States,
and a resident of the City of Chicago, in
the State of Illinois, or his assigns, for
the term of twenty-five years from the
passage of this ordinance, subject, how
ever, to the terms, provisions and con-
ditions hereinafter mentioned and set
forth.
Section 2. That. said M. w. McGrath
or his assigns, are hereby granted the
right of way as held by the said City Of
Santa Fee, and within it's limits as now
or hereafter incorporated, for the said
term of twenty-five years, to lay and
maintain sewers, mains or pipes in any
and all streets, roads, lanes, alleys and
other public highways and grounds
dedicated to, owned or controlled by
said city or which may hereafter dur
ing the existence of this franchise be
dedicated to, ownd or controlled by
within the present or future limits of
said city, and to construct all needful
devices and structures as may be need
ed and necessary for the operating and
maintaining of said sewer system in
said city; Provided, however, that no
device, structure or means detrimental
or injurious to the health Of the citizens
of said city OF Is a nuisance, shall be
used, maintained Or operated in con-
nection with the establishment or OPP
GRAFTON of said sewer system within
said city, under the penalty of law and
subject to be abated; and the said M.
w. McGrath or his assigns shall have
the right to excavate any street, road,
lane, alley or other highway or public
grounds within the limit Of said city
necessary to be lone in the proper con
struction, maintaining and operating
of said sewer system: Provided, there
shall be no unnecessary obstruction OF
any such street, road, lane, alley OF
other highway or public ground, and
any such street, road, lane, alley or 9th
err public highway or grounds shall be
restored to as good a condition, as neai
the same were in before such excava-
ton of the same without unnecessary
delay, and any unnecessary delay in sc
restoring any such street, road. lane, al.
ley, or other public highway or grounds
so excavated shall be declared a viola.
tion of the laws of the Territory of New
Mexico, and the ordinances Of said city
in references to the obstruction of pub.
lie roads, highways and public streets
Section 3. The said sewer system
when constructed and completed shall
be of sufficient capacity to meet the re,
quirements of said city, and there shall
be constructed, ready for use and op'
Grafton, not less than five thousand fee
Of sewer mains within the limits of sale
city on or before the first day of Jan
uary, 1902. and not less than one thous
and feet within nine months from pas
sage of this franchise, and in the even
of a failure to construct ready for us'
and operation five thousand feet of salt
sewer system in the said city by sale
date then the city council Of said cit!
shall have the power to declare thi,
franchise null and void and Of no fore