Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-14
New Legislation Prom
ises to Be Far Reach
ing in Effect
PROVIDES PENALTY
FOR ALL OFFENDERS
Gas, Electric Lights and Tele-
phones to Be Inspected
and Reports Made

terms Of the ordinance passed by the
council yesterday.
Following is the complete ordinance
as passed by the council:
ORDINANCE NO. ---.
New Series.)
An ordinance regulating the sale of
gas and electric light and the inspec-
tion of gas and electric meters and
the charges for telephones and tele-
phone service and connections.
The mayor and council of the city of
Los Angeles do ordain as follows;
Section 1. That the rates to be
charged and collected by any person,
firm, company or corporation. for gas,
or for electric light, or for telephones,
telephone service or telephone con-
nections, furnished to the city of Los
Angeles or the inhabitants thereof
shall be fixed at a regular or special
meeting of the city council held during
the month of February of each year,
and shall take effect on the first day
of July thereafter, and shall continue
in full force and effect for the term
of one year and no longer.
Must Make Statement
Sect. 2. 1t is hereby made the duty
of every person, company or corpora
ton supplying gas to the city of Los
Angeles, or to it's inhabitants, to fur
nish to the city council in the month
of January of each year, statement
in writing, verified by the oath of
such person, or of the president or
secretary of such company or corpora
ton, as the case may be, showing in
detail the amount received by such
person, company or corporation from
the sale of gas and the revenue de-
rived by such person, company or cor
poration, from all other sources, dur
ing the year preceding the date of
such statement and showing in de-
tail all expenditures made by such per-
son, company or corporation during
said time for supplying gas to the city
of Los Angeles and it's inhabitants,
and for the purchase, construction and
maintenance, respectively, of the prop
erty necessary to the carrying on of
such business.
Every such person, company or cor
poration shall furnish detailed state
ment, verified in like manner as the
statement hereinbefore in this section
mentioned, containing an itemized in
ventory of all of the gas works, lines,
plant and property, owned or used by
such person, company or corporation,
and necessary or convenient to the car
rying on of the business of supplying
gas to said city or to the inhabitants
thereof, and showing the actual cost
and present cash value of each item
thereof.
Fixes Candle Power
Sect. g. That the minimum illumi-
mating and heating power and quality
of gas supplied to the city of Los An
geles or to the inhabitants thereof by
any person., company or corporation
engaged in the business of supplying
or distributing gas, to said city or to
the inhabitants of said city, is hereby
fixed and established at an illuminating
quality of 16 candle-power, with a gross
heat value of $50 British thermal units
per cubic foot; that is to say: OF
such an illuminating quality that when
burned with a self luminous flame in
burner adapted to the most economi-
cal consumption of gas and consuming
five cubic feet of such gas per hour
1t shall give a light equal to that af-
forded by sixteen standard sperm can
dies, each consuming 120 grains of
sperm per hour, and of such heat
producing quality that the combustion
of one cubic foot thereof in a calori-
meter will raise 500 pounds of water
one degree fahrenheit in temperature
when such gas is supplied to said
calorimeter under pressure of 14.7
pounds per square inch. and when
both gas and water are supplied to
said calormeter at a temperature of
60 degrees fahrenheit.
Sect. 4. The office of gas and gas
meter inspector is hereby created. Said
gas and gas meter inspector shall be
appointed by the mayor. Before en-
tering upon the discharge OF his duties
he shall take the oath of Office and
give bond in the sum of $1OOO with
sufficient sureties, to be approved by
the city council, conditioned for the
faithful discharge of his duties.
The gas and gas meter inspector shall
receive a salary of SIPS per month. He
shall have general knowledge of the
art OF gas making and OF the most
approved methods of examining and
testing gas meters and the Illuminating
and heat giving qualities of gas, and
shall be familiar with the appliances
generally used for such examination
and testing.
1t shall be the duty of the gas and
gas meter inspector TO test and ex-
anime once a week. and as much
oftener as may be required by reso-
luton of the city council, the illuminat-
ing and heat giving quality and value
of the gas furnished and distributed
to the city Of Los Angeles or to the in