Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1905-10-27
AN ORDINANCE.

AN Of~OiNfhlNNsE.
Authorizing the Company
TO use the public streets of The Town of
razewell, Virginia. for the purpose of
placing poles aud electric conductors
thereon.
. SEC rlON 4. BE it ordained 10y the
Itseneraf Cos2cil OF the Towno of Tazewell =.
Virginia. that permission be and thesame
is hereby granted 20 the .....s Com
pany, It's SUCCESSORS and assigns. 20 erect,
operate and maintain lines of telephone
and telegraph. including the necessary
poles, fixtures aud electrical conductors
upon, along ana over the public roads.
streets and highways of the said Town,
as Its business may from time 10 time re-.
quirc, provided all poles shall ne neat
and y mmetrlcal.
SECTION >. That the work of ereo-
ting poles by virtue of this ordinance
shall Ice done under the supervision OF
the street committee, and the said To-.
Company shall replace and properly re-
lay any sidewalk or street that may b,
displaced by reason of the erection of
such poles, and upon failure OF the Com
pahy so Go do after twenty daS - notice
in writing shall have been given 10y th,
Mayor of said Town 90 said Company, Ia,
aid Town may repair such portion of
the sidewalk on street that may have
been disturbed by said Company. nhd col
lcct the cost SO incurred from said Com
Pany.
SECTION ?. I'm consideration of 10,
rights and privileges herein granted said
Company shall. upon demand, provid,
one cross-arm on each pole. en- which th,
said Town may desire Ca attach either hr,
alarm telegraph orpolice telegraph wires
Tor the free use of the police ana ir,
alarm telegraph system of said Town.
SECTION L. Said Company shall a
all times be subject TO the Town ordi.
nance now in existence or which may b'
hereafter passed relative To the use of The
public streets by telephone and telegraph
companies.
SECTION .. Said Company shall hi
demnify tie Town of Tazewel again-
and assume all liabilities for damages
} which may arise or accrue to the sal,
Town from any injury to persons or prop
) erty from the doing of any work hmeil
authorized, or the neglect of said Com
pany or any OF It's employees 60 compl,
with any ordinance relative to the use o
streets of said Town, and the acceptance
by the Company OF this Ordinance shal
be an agreement by IL to pay 10 the sal,
Town any sum ~ money for which TIA
, said Town may become Liable from or b.
! reason of such injury.
SECTION 8. The said Company, It
successors and assigns, Is hereby author
zed TO maintain and operate It's plant. o
so much thereof as it may desire, hereto
fore constructed, maintained and operate
within the limits OF said Sn OF Tazewel
free and clear of all Liabilities and obli
!, cations or prior grants from said town a
;, IazeweJl. as II constructed. maintmnc
, and operated under the terms and cond
!, tious OF this ordinance.
: SECTION z. This franchise Is gran
j. cd for period of thirty 1901 years.
Il SECTlON 8. Said Company, or i
'e successors and assigns, shall file with u
'e Clerk of the Council of the Town (
It Tazewell, its acceptance of this OrdinaI
p ce within sixty days from the date OF j
Is passage.
- SECTION .. This Ordinance sha
be In force from and after the date OF i
- acceptance by said Company. or lis su
cessors and assigns.
ii I, T. A. Repass, Jr., hereby certi
fc that the above is true and correct COZ
- of an ordinance passed at a meeting
- tine Mayor and Council of the Town
20 Tazewell, Virginia, held ON the 25th d'
~ of October, 1905.
4; (Signed) Il. A. REPASS, Jr..
Of Clerk of Council
10 Approved.
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