The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-07
Officia1-West Reyno1dsvi11e.
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cessors and assigns, the right to erect,
maintain and operate telephone line
on and along certain streets and alleys
of the borough of West Reynoldsville
as hereinafter designated. Be it Or
dained and enacted by the town coun-
Gil of the borough of West Reynolds
vile, jefferson County, Pennsylvania,
and it is hereby ordained and enacted
by authority Of the same.
Section /. That the right of way be
and the same is hereby granted to the
Red Bank Telephone Company, its sue
cessors and assigns to erect and main
tain lines of poles, mains, wires, along,
in, under, over through and across pub
lie streets, avenues, alleys, bridges, via
ducts and ways in the borough, said
public streets and alleys to be herein
after designated for the purpose of oper-
ating Telephone Exchange and tele-
phone lines, provided said lines of poles
shall be placed under the direction OF
the town council so as to interfere least
with the public use of said streets, ave-
nues and alleys as hereinafter stated.
The Company to be responsible to the
borough for all damages caused in erect
ing, maintaining and operating said
lines.
Section 2. The poles shall be OF sound
timber and kept properly painted and
not less in size than 10 inches in dame
ter, feet from butt, wires not to be less
than 80 feet elevation from ground, and
when placed on street or streets, ave-
nues or alleys as hereinafter designated
are to be placed within or without the
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the council may direct, so as not to in
terfere with any sewerage, gas pipes or
water lines now built or hereafter to be
built.
Section 3. Hereafter the wires of all
electric light, telegraph or telephone
companies to be erected or standing at
an angle across the wires of said Tele-
phone Company shall not in this case or
in any other be allowed to approach the
wires of said company nearer than two
(2) feet nor said Telephone Company be
allowed to place its wires nearer than
two (2) feet to the wires of said other
company. The provisions of this sec
tion are to apply with equal force to
motor wires for street railway purposes
except so far as they may interfere with
the proper placing of the motor wires
hereafter to be placed in which case it
shall be the duty of the said Telephone
Company to yield the right of way of
said motor wires and change the plac-
ing of their lines accordingly.
In case of the violation of this section
it shall be the duty of the Street Com
missioner to notify the offending COM
pany to remove its wires, poles and fix
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within three days of such notification
and in failure to comply with such notifi-
cation, it shall be the duty of the Street
Commissioner to remove the same at
the expense of the offending party or
company.
Section 4. That it is agreed by the
said Company that in the consideration
of the grant Of the right of way as here
matter provided that said Telephone
Company will put up and provide a
phone in the municipal building or
elsewhere in the borough as the coun
Gil may direct for the use of the bor-
ough officers, free of charge.
The use of the poles of the company
by the borough for carrying electric fire
alarm wires shall be permitted free of
expese and charge to the said borough.
Section 5. Said company, its success
ors and assigns, are to remove within
ten days after notice has been served by
the council or street commissioner, in
writing, all dead pole or poles not hav-
ing living wires on them.
Section g. The public streets, ave-
nues, alleys, bridges, viaducts and ways
for poles and lines shall be located in
said borough as follows: Pike street,
Brown street, Broad street and First
Avenue. All of said poles are to be sub
| ject to pole tax of --per pole,
said tax to be paid to the borough treas
urer annually on or before the first
| Monday of March of each and every
year. Said poles and wires are not to
be used in conjunction with the Red
Bank Telephone Company by any other
persons or company at the same time
| without the consent of the council of
the borough of West Reynoldsville, by
ordinance duly passed.
| Section I. This ordinance shall take
effect and be in force from and after its
passage and acceptance by the Red
Bank Telephone Company in behalf Of
| itself, its successors and assigns, and its
publication as provided by law, the
costs and expenses Of said publication
to be paid by the said Red Bank Tele-
phone Company, provided said company
shall file with the clerk of council it's
written acceptance within ten days af-
ter the publication Of said ordinance
and paying for said publication at the
time OF such written acceptance, and
provided further that its poles are
erected on or before January | 1907,
otherwise this ordinance becomes null
and void and of no effect,
Section 5 That the rights and privi-
leges hereby granted shall be held and
used subject to the terms and provisions
of the laws and ordinances OF the bor-
ough Of West Reynoldsville, now in
force or hereafter to be passed, regu-
lating and relating to the same.
Section 8. That any ordinance or
part OF ordinance, conflicting with the
provisions of this ordinance be, and the
same is hereby repealed, so far as the
same effects this ordinance,
Enacted and ordained by the town
council of the borough OF West Reyn-
oldsvilfe, Pennsylvania, at a regular
meeting held at the council chamber