The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-04
COMPARISON OF PROVISIONS IN TWOORDINANCfS
ORDINANCE DRAWN BY
ClTYS ATTORNEY
Continued from Page u

~ all proposed trenches or conduits,
lid Of where it proposes to erect poles.
nd section u requires that all exca-
cations made By the company shall be
illed in and put in as good repair as
hey were before being opened.
The company is to he responsible for
my damage to person or property re-
ulting from any act of negligence on
IS part. or by the exercise of any of
* rights and privileges given by the
proposed franchise.
The prices of gas and electric light
Il ng remain the same as heretofore
tated as having been agreed on by
= he company and majority Of the COM
nittee-$2.20 per 1000 feet for illumin-
rs eting gas, SO cents per 1000 feet for nat
e lral gas. if furnished. $1.5O per 1000
Get for water gas, 11.2O cents per kilo-
#vatt 90 cents net) for incandescent
Z lighting, and 10 cents per kilowatt for
Electric energy used in arc lights.
Right to Inspect Meters.
BY section u the city is given the
flight to inspect and determine the
&Iuality of gas and electric lights and
he accuracy OF meters and appliances
BY section 16 the city is authorized
81 o change the manner Of placing poles
he company, its heirs or assigns, to
lace all wires and conductors under
ground in the paved districts within a
eaSOnable time
The company is made by following
sections to agree to sign over to the
ity all water rights and power rights
(Which il owns in the Big Cottonwood
reek west of the Utah Power cOmpa-
d lys tail race, including the Deseret
1aper mill water power, the Granite
fr4. mill
mill water power. The company is TO
r pay the city a license of $50 per car
.er year for the average number of
srs operated on its lines, but this does
hot exempt the company from paying
he regular state, county, school and
municipal taxes
The company is to furnish during the
4 fifty years of the franchise the equal
{ Df thirty horsepower of electrical en-
i ergy free to the city for power pur-
poses. 1T is also to furnish free to
he city the equal in Illuminating pow
er Of thirty siXty-candle power mean
descent lamps of the present standard,
or the purpose Of lighting the cttyS
a portion of the public square at the city
ma county building. 1t is also to light
rec OF charge the city'S portion of the
4 oint building, fire and police stations,
ibraries jails hospitals and other pub
4 ic offices or buildings owned by the
ity. Additional arc lights are pro-
,-lded Tor from time TO time IN para
graph of section II
4 In section IS a territory is defined in
which the company must place all its
transmission service wires under
4 ground within nine years from Jan. 1,
4 goo.
Agreements With lnterurban.
Section 10 requires the company to
submit to the council for it's approval
thy contracts or agreements the COM
4 with ipfaFfE1aR3y
Ompany to run cars into the city over
he tracks of the Utah Light & Rail-
way company.
BY section 20 the corporation of Salt
AXE City is given the right TO use
ne poles of the company for the pur-
lose of stringing wires thereon and
.iacing lights thereon for municipal
/ purposes. and whenever required, the
company shall furnish cross-arms for
he city's use.
-Thr. company is to file with the city
ccOrder within thirty days from the
iote of the franchise a good and suffi-
aient bond. with surety approved by
he mayor. in the sum of $4,000, cOndi-
Toned TO the effect that the company
win indemnify the city for any damage
may suffer by reason of any negli-
| sence or breach by the company of
any provision of the franchise.
The company must agree that it Will
install all improvements and inven-
lions OF demonstrated uInJN ana eX-
/ pediency with reasonable celebrity
a fine of 500 is imposed on the COM
pany by section p for any and every
failure on it's part 10 comply with such
ordinances and reasonable rules and
regulations as have been or may here
after be adopted by the city council
Franchise Not Exclusive.
Section p also requires the Utah
Light & Railway company to enter into
an arrangement with any other COM
pany to which the council may grant a
franchise to permit that company to
run its cars over the Utah Light &
Railway company's tracks. 1t also
and electric lighting franchises to other
companies.
! Section % gives the city the right to
do any paving. sewering pipe laying or
Cti work i'm the streets mentioned in
the ordinance as to be occupied by the
Utah Light & Railway company, and
section % provides that nothing in the
ordinance shall abridge the taxing pow
er Of the city.
Sections a and % define the manner
or construction of the cOmpany's cleo
trical system and provide for keeping
this and the tracks in good condition,
and for sprinkling paved streets on
which its lines run.
BY section % every violation of any of
the provisions Of the franchise is made
a misdemeanOr. punishable by fine of
mot less than 500 and not more than
$500 for each Offense. and each day that
the violations or breaches continue is
to be considered a separate and distinct
offense-