Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-10
Ordinance No. 12,DS5
Man, GnrioaA

| i-lV-ll ~ Mayor.
Ordinance No. 12,os5
New Series.)
An ordinance granting to the Atchi-
| son. Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Com
pany, corporation, it's successors and
assigns. the right to construct and for
a period of twenty-one years to operate
| and maintain a single railroad spur
| track over, across and along certain
public street and a certain public alley,
In 1.-The the City of Los ngeles.
| The Mayor and Council of the City Of
Los Angeles do ordain as follows:
Section !. That the right and privilege
Is hereby granted to the Atchison Topeka
q Santa Fe Railway Company, a corpora
| tion, and its 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 GER
tain public street and that certain pub
lie alley hereinafter described. and for
a period of twenty-one years from the
| maintain single railroad spur track
| thereon, under the terms and subject to
the conditions hereinafter specified.
sec 2. That the route hereinbefore
said privilege is granted. is particu-
larly described as follows. to wit:
| commencing at point In the south
erly line of Third street in said city.
distant 142 feet westerly of the inter
section of the southerly line of said
! Third street with the westerly line of
Sanla re avenue, tnenCe In northerly
direction across said Third street in a
direct line at right angles to the lines
of said Third street a distance of so feet
TO point in the northerly line thereof.
Sec. 3. That the spur tracks which
may be laid and constructed under tho
privilege hereby granted shall correspond
to the official grade of the, street
may be placed where the same same is
improved to the official grade and shall
conform to the natural surface of the
ground where, such street is not
either case to be flush with the surround
ing surface of the street or alley, and
IN event such street or alley shall
proved under the authority of said City of
Los Angeles then such spur track over
or upon such street and the ground for
a, a dist distance aSeu OF two feet on each side
assigns. made to conform to said grade.
and shall be so maintained by said
grfanteee' ntee or or Its assigns, with the tops
| said street or alley.
Sec. 4. That the right and privilege
hereby granted shall be at all times eX
and subject to the following terms and
conditions:
| 1st That no cars or locomotives sha IL
be be permitted aF ted at any time to stand upon
tracks except during the time ac-
tually employed In switching, loading
| or unloading the cars placed thereon, and
\ that said spur track shall at all times be
| so used as to obstruct the use of said
streets by vehicles or passengers as
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
may now or hereafter be prescribed by
law. or ordinance.
Sd. That said grantee, or its as
signs, shall construct all necessary
fumes and culverts for the passage of
water under said tracks whenever and
| wherever necessary. and that all such
in accordance with plans and specifca-
tions therefor approved by the city En-
gineer Of the City. of Los Angeles.
assigns si THAT win Said BLANK anG repanE er
gravel and regravel. pave and repave, all
portions of the streets or alleys
occupied by said tracks and for
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 hereafter be planked or re-
repaved, and that all such work shall be
zone under the instructions of and to the
satisfaction of the Board of Public Works
of the City of Los Angeles. and in
case said grantee, or Its assigns,
shall fail for "a period of ten days after
StINlt6 upon IL OF Il written ncma n q
made by said Board of Public Works upon
the manager or agent of said gran tee.
or it's assigns. to perform any such
work orlt IN, IN & connection With said spur %
the said Board of Public Works of the
City of Los Angeles. then said Board of
Public Works may perform the work so
ordered and shall keep an itemized ac-
count Of the cost thereof which the
said grantee, or it's assigns by the ac-
ceptance of the privileges hereby
| ,tn1 a. 81, a.,
FIVE days after the presentation to it's
manager or agent i'm the City of Los
Angeles of such itemized account,
5th. That the work of construc ting
said spur track shall be fully compile ed
within six months from and after the
passage of this Ordinance, and that IL
said work of construction be. not so
completed within the time and in the
manner specified In this Ordinance, said
right, permission and privilege hereby
granted shall be forfeited as herein
9th. That any neglect failure or re-
fusal on the part of the grantee, or
it's assigns. to observe or comply
with any OF the terms OF, conditions IN
this Ordinance contained shall effect
a forfeiture of the right, privilege
and permission hereby granted. anc
City Council may tRereupon de-
clare such rights and privileges
forfeited and may exclude said grantee,
or its 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 expiration of the aforesaid
period of twenty years to purchase
the rails, track and roadbed and all prop
erty In any of the streets hereinbefore
mentioned belonging to said grantee or
it's successors in interest. laid or con
structed under the grant hereby
, made, or used by said grantee
or its successors in interest in
the exercise of this franchise, at 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 pure hased
pursuant to the provisions OF this
| OrdlnancA shall be deiertnInad nv