Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-19
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Ordnance No. ia.sso

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along a certain public street and a GER
tain public alley, in the City OF Los An
geles.
Los Angeles do ordain IS follows:
Section 1. That the right and priv
tlege is hereby granted to Leon Maupas
and his assigns to lay and construct a
single railroad spur track with neces-
sary turnouts and switches over and
along the route hereinafter described,
and over, and along and across that cer-
tain public street and that certain pub
lie alley hereinafter described, and for
n period Of twenty one years from the
date Of this Ordinance to operate and
maintain q single railroad spur track
thereon, under the terms and subject to
the conditions hereinafter specified.
Sec, 2. That the route hereinbefore
mentioned, over along and upon which
said privilege Is granted is particularly
described as follows, to witt
Beginning at a point in the westerly
line of Wilson street, the same being at
spur running easterly from the South
ern Pacific railroad tracks to said Will
son street. which said spur track last men
toned Is situate. along. the northerly
street, as vacated by Ordinance No.
7470 New Series), Ordinances of the
city of Los Angeles; thence along a
east across said Wilson street to the in
tersection of said Wilson street, with
that certain alley running easterly and
westerly In the block bounded by said
Wilson street, Atlantic street, Mateo
street and Violet street; thence CON
tinuing easterly along said alley to the
westerly line of the alley running
northerly and southerly I'm said block.
Sec. 8, That the spur tracks which
may be laid and constructed under the
privilege hereby granted shall corre-
spond to the official grade of the street
or alley across or along which 1t may
be placed, where the same Is improved
TO the official grade, and shall conform
to the natural surface of the ground
where such street lis not so improved,
the tops of the rails in either case to be
flush with the surrounding surface of
the. street or alley, and in event
such street or alley shall be graded,
paved or otherwise improved, under the
authority of said City of Los Angeles,
then such spur track over or upon such
street and the ground for a dis
tance of two feet on each side thereof
shall be by the grantee, or his assigns,
made to conform to said grade, and shall
be so maintained by said grantee, or his
assigns with the tops Of said rails flush
Sec. 4. That the right and privilege
hereby granted shall be at all times ex-
ercised and enjoyed in accordance with
and subject to the following terms and
conditions:
1st. That no cars or locomotives shall
be permitted at any time to stand upon
crossed by said spur tracks except dur
ing the time actually employed In
switching, loading or unloading the
cars placed thereon, and that said spur
tracks shall at all times be so used as to
obstruct the use of said streets by We
hicles or passengers as little as possible
consistent with the uses for which said
spur track is to be constructed.
I'd. That no locomotive, train or car
shall be operated or run over said
tracks at a greater rate of speed than
may now or hereafter be prescribed by
law or ordinance.
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assigns, shall construct all neces-
sary fumes and cuiverts for the
passage of water under said tracks
whenever and wherever necessary, and
that ali such fumes or culverts shall be
constructed in accordance with plans
and specifications therefor approved by
the City Engineer of the City of Los
Angeles
4th. That said grantee. or his
assigns, will plank and replank,
gravel and regravel, pave and repave,
all portions of the streets or alleys oc-
cuped by said tracks and for distance
of two feet on each side thereof with
the same material and under the same
specifications and in the same manner
as said streets or alleys are now or may
graveled or regraveled, paved or re-
paved, and that all such work shall be
done under the instructions of and to
Works Of the City of Los Angeles;
and in case said grantee, or. his
assigns shall fail for period of ten
days after service upon him OF a written
demand made by said Board of Public
Works upon the manager or agent of
said grantee, or his assigns, to per-
form any such work in connection
with said spur track which may be di :
rected or ordered by the said Board of
Public Works of the City of Los An
geles, then said Board of Public Works
may perform the work so ordered and
shall keep an itemized account of the
cost thereof, which the said grantee, or
his assigns, by the acceptance of the
privileges hereby granted to him, agree
tc pay within five days after the preSen-
tation to his manager or agent in the
City of Los Angeles of such Yitemized
account.
5th. That the work of constructing
said spur track shall be fully com
pleted within six months from and after
the passage of this Ordinance, and that
the rights hereby granted shall 1pso
facto cease and determine as to any
part of said spur track which shall not
be completed and in operation within
said time; provided, however, that the
failure of said grantee, or his assigns
to complete said spur track over or
along the entire route hereinbefore de-
scribeG shall only operate to work a
forfeiture hereof as to that part OF SAID
route which is not completed within
said period of six months from the pas
sage of this Ordinance.
9Th. That any neglect, failure or re-
fusal on the. part Of the grantee,
or his assigns, TO observe OF
comply with any of the terms or con-
ditions in this Ordinance contained
shall effect a forfeiture of the right,
privilege and permission hereby grant
ed, and said city by resolution of Its
City Council may thereupon declare
such rights and privileges forfeited and
may exclude said grantee, or his
assigns, from any further use Of
the streets and alleys occupied by said
spur track, and the grant hereby made
shall thereupon become and remain
null, void and of no effect.
7th That said city shall have the right
at the expira ton of the aforesaid period of
twenty-one years to purchase the rails,
track and roadbed and all property In any
of the streets hereinbefore mentioned be-
longing to said grantee or his successors
in interest laid or constructed under tne
grant hereb-- made, or used by said
grantee or his successors in interest in
the exercise of this franchise, at a fair
valuation provided that the option to
make such purchase shall have been de-
clared not more than three years nor less
than six months before the expiration of
said period, by resolution of the City
Council The valuation of the property
proposed to be purchased pursuant to the
provisions of this Ordinance shall be de-
bitrators Ts Of Of whom one shall be
appointed by the city, one by the
said grantee, or his successors IN