The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-07

repair by the grantees herein at their
expense, provided that the minimum
charge shall not be more than one
dollar per month.
Section 7. The grantee shall not be
' equired to furnish electricity or gas
for light or power to any consumer
who shall refuse to comply with any
reasonable rules and regulations
adopted by the said company and
approved by the City Council of the
lily of Palatka, for the conduct of
Its business.
Section 8. The grantee shah at all
times be subject to the City ordinances
now in existence and which may be
hereafter passed relative to the use,
OF the streets in the City of Palatka
and said grantees and their agents
and employees shall be under the
same police regulations and liable to
the same fine and Imprisonment as
other persons violating the ordinances
of the City of Palatka.
Section 9. Said grantees shall in
demnify against and assume all LA
bility for any and all damages that
may be suffered by said City to its
property, or to which said City may
become liable in any manner for dam
age to the person or property of
Others on account of or through the
carelessness or negligence of said
grantees, their officers, employees,
agents or servants, or on account of
the failure of said grantees to comply
with any ordinance of said City rela-
tive to the use of its streets.
Section 10. The said grantees shall
within nine months from date of this
ordinance, so enalrge, extend. improve
and equip it's electric light plant in
the City of Palatka, that it will then
be capable of furnishing all electric
light and power required under the
terms of this ordinance that may be
necessary to then supply the demand
and requirement of the business and
people of the City of Palatka then at
tached, and from time to time shall
SO continue to improve and extend
said plant as to meet the growing de-
mand of the business and people of
the City of Palatka, so that said plant
shall at all times be capable of pro-
viding ample and sufficient electricity,
light and power for the City of Pa
latka; and the said grantees shall
within the said nine months begin the
operation of said electric plant and
shall thereafter operate the same on
q twenty-four hour per day schedule
and continue so to operate the same
day and night, thereby giving a con-
tinuous electric current for all nece5-
sary purposes during the life of this
franchise.
Section II. The said grantees shall
provide and keep in repair one cross
m on each pole when requested b!
the City Council, for the free use O.
the City of Palatka in operating ;
police or fire alarm system or bot
and shall also provide and equip tn
power plant of the grantees hereil
with a fire alarm whistle, and shal
upon notice by the City or its authori
ties, cause to be blown fire alarm
upon said fire alarm whistle indicai
| ing the ward within which fire ma
| occur.
Section IL. The City of Palatk
J give and grant the franchises, right
t and privileges herein set forth, re
serving the right and requiring tn
grantees as a condition precedent I
| the taking effect of this grant to Civ
= and grant to the City of Palatka til
r right and privilege at the periods {
: ten, twenty and thirty years frol
I the passage of this ordinance to pul
= chase said plant or plants used III
r der and in connection with the frau
e chise and rights hereby granted in a.
e cordance with the laws of the Stat
= of Florida, at a valuation of I'll
j property real and personal which va
: uation shall be fixed by arbitratio
as may be provided by law, provide
n however, that should the City elect l
+ purchase at the ten or twenty We;
e period, the grantees shall have thrt
+ months notice of such intention on II
S part of the City to do so.
n Section 13. The said grantee
p shall, whenever requested by the sa
5, City, extend its wires and insta
s electric lights at such places with
5, he City of Palatka as the said Gil
! may require, provided the said gral
Il tees shall be paid for at least OIL
Y light for every seven hundred al
q fifty feet of extension.
- DSGIlOl L. n SuDsOSlllbidl leflld
d on the part of the grantees herein
b; comply with the terms and provision
Il of this ordinance shall work a forfei
&c ure thereof, provided, however, tn
n there shall be no forfeiture unless
II cared by the said City.
Is Section Is. That the written q
/ ccptance of the provisions of this O
ID dinance by the grantees as here
n provided, shall be taken and constr
ed to be a surrender by said granite
IN of all rights, privileges, franchis
ct and powers granted to said granite
ID Under and by virtue of an ordinan
ut entitled, can Ordinance to Ora
Certain Privileges to the Palatka G
n. Light & Fuel Company" passed
n, open council October goth, 1885, a,
n. passed by the council over the mayo,
n. veto. October 9th, 1885.
n. Section 49, All ordinances a
n. parts of ordinances in conflict wi
IL the provisions of this ordinance
Ut and the same are hereby repealed.