, 1904-02-17
Ordinance No. 70.

An ordinance authorizing and empowering
the Coast Gas Company to lay pipes
through and under the streets, alleys,
highways, squares and public grounds in
the Borough of Wildwood, for the purpose
of constructing, maintaining and opera
ting gas works and supplying the inhab-
itants thereof with gas.
Section l.. Be it ordained by the Commo
Council of Wildwood that permission and
authority be and is hereby granted and given
to the Toast Gas Company to lay gas pipes
and conductors for conducting gas through,
in, along and under any and all the streets,
avenues, highways, lanes and alleys in the
Borough of Wildwood and public grounds
thereof, and to erect lamp posts, burners and
refiectors therein and thereon and to do and
Derform all things necessary in and about the
laying of such pipes and conductors and con-
n~ections Herewith necessary for or incident
to the construction, operation and mainte-
nance of gas works within the corporate
limits of Wildwood, for supplying the inhab-
itants and users thereof with gas.
Section2 BE it ordained that the public
travel shall at no time be unnecessarily affec-
ted or in peded by the laying of said gas pipes
and conductors and making connections, or
in the erection of said posts. and that not
more than one thousand feet of said streets,
avenues, lanes, highways, squares and public
grounds shall be at any one time excavated
for the purposes aforesaid, and all such
streets, avenues, lanes, highways, squares
and public grounds shall be put and left in as
good condition as they were before such pipes
or conductors were laid.
Section 3. Be it ordained that no street,
avenue, lane, alley, highway, square, or pub
lie ground shall be opened by said Coast Gas
Company for the purpose of laying gas pipes
and conductors until n bond n the sum of
one thousand dollars shall have first been
executed by said Coast Gas Company witt
surety, to be approved by Common Council,
conditioned that the said streets, avenues,
highways, lanes, alleys, squares and public
grounds shall be put in the same condition as
they were before the same were opened.
Section l.. Be IL ordained that the said com
pany shall not charge to private consumers
of its gas in the said Borough of Wildwood
more than one dollar and fItv cents Isl 500
per one thousand Il 600 cubic feet, and shall
not charge for use of meters; and shall fur
nish service pipe to building, and to furnish
gas free of charge to Borough Hall for Bor-
ough purposes.
Sect on 3. BE it ordained that the work OF
construction of said gas works or plant shall
be commenced within sixty days from the
passage of this ordinance and the same be
com pleted in six o. months from the da tie
thereof; provided, however, that if the legal
ity or validity of this ordinance be questioned
by writ of certiorari or injunction or any
proceedings, either at law or in equity, the
time which the said Coast Gas Company
shall be delayed by reason of such proceed
ings shall not be reckoned or constitute any
portion of the time aforesaid in which said
gas plant shall he completed and in opera.
ton. If said gas works or plant is construc-
ted in Wildwood, to be located west of Park
avenue.
Section G. BE it further ordained that the
said Coast Gas Compan, shall upon the pas
sage and acceptance of this ordinance by said
make, execute and deliver to said
Wildwood Borough a bond in the sum of five
thousand dollars $4,000 with surety to be
approved by Common Council, conditioned
that said company shall the work
of constructing said gas works or plant
within sixty days from the passage of this
ordinance and finish same in six u, months
from the date thereof
Section Z. Be it further ordained that the
said Coast Gas Company shall accept or re-
ject in writing the provisions of this ordi-
nance within thirty days next after the same
shall becom n law.
Section 8. BE it further ordained that the
sad Coast Gas Company shall pay into the
Borough treasury n sum of money equal to
the costs and expense of the publication OF
this ordinance.
Section 8 And be it further ordained that
this ordinance shall take effect Immediately
Passed February Sth, 1901.
Approved February 9th, 1901.
LAtIMER II. BAKER,
Mayor.
Attest-Ied Dubois, Borough Clerk.