The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-06-21
BOROUGH ORDINANCE NO 16.

BOROUGH ORDINANCE NO l6.
AN ORDINANCE PERMITTING THE mon
TOUR AND COLUMBIA TELEPHONE COM.
PANY, ITS SUCCESSORS, OR ASSIGNS. To
CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE.
TELEPHONE EXCHANGE AND SYSTEM or
TELEPHONE SERVICE IN THE BORorGg
OF oRANGEvILLE, COUNTY OF COLIN.
BIA, AND TO ERECT THE NECESS,Py
POLES, WIRES AND CABLES, TO OPERATE
THE SAME, UPON CERTAIN TERMS AND
CONDITIONS.
BE It ordained and enacted by the Borough
Council OF the Borough OF Orangevllle, apdu
is hereby ordained and enacted by authoritvo q
the same:
Section THAT permission is hereby grant.
ed TO the Montour and Columbia TelcpBopc
Company, its successors, or assigns, 10 con.
struct, maintain and operate, telephone oy.
change and system OF telephone service I'm the
Borough Of orangeyille and for that purpose 70
erect and maintain the necessary poles, wires
and cables, upon, over and through, the several
streets, avenues, lanes and alleys, OF the said
| Borough OF orangeville, subject, nevertheless,
to the conditions and restrictions hereinafter
contained, viz
Section 2-That said construction and work
shall be done under the direction and subject to
the approval OF the Borough Engineer, and the
Committee on streets and Highways, in said
Borough.
Section 9-That no poles shall be erected
upon any street or avenue OF the laid Borough
where a lane or alley is available for the same
purpose.
Section 4.-That said Company its success
ors or assigns, shall so erect It's poles and wires
as not TO interfere with the wires OF other cor.
porations now having poles and wires upon ad
over the streets, avenues, lanes aDd alleys, OF
the said Borough, and so as not TO interfere
with the firemen in the extinguishment OF fires
Section 5.-That the said poles shall not be
erected so as to impede obstruct, or interfere
with the free flow and passage OF water IN,
through, over, or upon, any gutter, drain, sew.
er, culvert, or water course; nor so as TO inter-
fere with, or obstruct the convenient use OF the
streets, avenues, lanes and alleys OF the said
Borough; nor so as 10 Interfere with or damage
private property, or OF any corporation author
ized to do business in the said Borough.
Section 6-That the said Company, It's sue
cessors or assigns, shall erect neat poles, rea-
sonably straight, and repair and make good all
damage or injury TO the streets, avenues, lanes,
alleys, or highways Of. the said Borough
or OraDgevile, and sidewalks thereof or
shade trees thereon, caused by 1t, its success.
ors. or assigns, In the construction OF said eN-
change and system; and the poles so erected,
ana the fixtures thereon, shall be erected and
constructed In safe and substantial manner
ana as neat In appearance as may be, and shall
be located by the Borough Engineer and the
Committee on Streets and Highways OF said
rough, or under their direction, and all work
shall be erected, constructed, maintained, re-
paired and cared for, at the cost OF the said
Telephone Company, Its successors, or assigns
ana the Borough Engineer, for assisting IN this
work, shall be paid by the said Telephone COM
pany, its successors, or assigns.
Section THAT the said Telephone Company
shall place in the Council Room, one telephone,
which shall be for the exclusive use OF the said
Borough, and its Solicitor and Secretary, free OF
charge, as long as said Company, It's success
ors, or assigns, continue TO do business under
this ordinance in said Borough.
Section s.-That the said Montour and Colunl-
bia Telephone Company shall pay the charges
attendant upon the preparation and pubIlea-
tlon or this Ordinance.
Section 9-The privileges herein granted are
expressly made subject TO any ordinance here
totore or hereafter passed. regulating the erec-
ton, painting, repair or removal OF telephone
| poles, In, OR from the streets, lanes avenues
alleys and highways, OF the Borough OF orange
vllle and subject, also, TO the privilege, 10 the
| said Borough OF orangeyllle, at its election 70
| nave the free and uninterrupted use OF each
and all OF the poles OF said pole line or lines
Tor the erection or stringing OF wires for It's OWN
purpose, free of any charge. Provided that 10
wires, carrying high tension current, shall DO
placed on said poles
Section l0,-That before a permit shall DO
granted by the Borough Council TO the SAD
Telephone Company, TO construct its exchange
ana system, as herein provided, the said Iele'
phone Company shall file with the President oi
| the Borough Council bond, in the sum or O'e
| hundred dollars, conditioned upon full ana
! faithful performance OF the conditions OF thls
| ordinance, which said bond shall be subject 70
the approval OF the said Borough Council; ana
| until the said bond shall be approved and thS
proper ofilcer OF the said Montour aud Colun'
bia Company shall have certified TO the sald
| Borough Council in writing its acceptance
the terms and conditions or this ordinance, no
| work shall be commenced upon the erection
| and construction OF the said telephone line
Section ll.-That the work OF constructing
sald line snail be commenced Within SIX nohlus
from lhe passage OF this ordinance, ana toua
pleted within one year, and failure TO comp!
| WIN thls section shall revoke the pellnissloH
by this ordinance granted.
Section l2 This ordinance shall have force
anu emecl upon the aforesaid certincattoH W
| acceptance and legal publication thereof
| Passed May 2Sth 1900
| c. b. WHITE, .,
| President OF the Borough COUNCIL
| Attest CLINTON HERRING, Secretary.
| A. b. HERRING,
| r1ief Burgesi