Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1920-01-30
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ORDINANCE NO. 40. 4
A Franchise authorizing the Inter-
state Power Company, Corporation,
their successors, associates or assigns,
within the City of Cresco, Howard
County, Iowa, to acquire, construct,
reconstruct, maintain and operate =
power plant or plants for the genera
ton of electricity, transmission line
or lines, distribution line or lines and
use of electricity, to furnish electric
light, electric heat, and electric power
and electric current for any use to
which it may be adapted to the public,
industries and inhabitants of Cresco,
Iowa. .s&,
Sec. I. Permission and authority
are hereby granted by the City of
Cresco, in the County Of Howard,
State of Iowa, to the Interstate Power
Company, its successors, associates or
assigns within the corporate limits Of
the City of Cresco, as the same now
are or may hereafter be located or
extended, to acquire, construct, main
tain, operate and use power plant or
plants, transmission line OF lines
which have been heretofore or may
hereafter be erected and to enter up
on the public streets, avenues, alleys,
highways, bridges and public places
of said city now or hereafter opened,
extended or erected ~ hereinafter
provided; and thereon. therein and
thereover to erect, construct, use,
maintain, operate and reconstruct
systems Of electric wires, poles, con-
duits and other construction neees-
sary or incident to said systems and
their use, whether said systems have
been heretofore or may hereafter be
constructed, to sell, or furnish electric
light, electric power, electric heat,
and electric current to the city, its in
habitants, industries, railways, inter-
urban railways, and street railways,
and to carry on q general electric
light and power business.
Sec. 2. In this franchise, the word
city refers to and means the City of
Cresco, Howard County, Iowa. and
the word grantee" refers to and
means the Interstate Power Com
pany, corporation, its successors,
associates or assigns. @
Sec. 3. Said transmission and dis
tribution systems hereinafter erected,
including the poles, wires, conduits
and other constructions shall 50 far
as practical. be constructed and erect
ed in and upon the alleys Of said city
with the wires upon said poles and
brackets at least twenty-threo (23)
feet from the surface of the streets,
avenues, alleys, highways. bridges or
public place beneath; and said COM
struction shall be put up and main
tanned in accordance with the specifi-
cations Of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters in force at the time Of
said construction. The poles, wires,
conduits, and other appliances afore-
said and all the appurtenances con-
nected Herewith shall be located. ar
ranged, adjusted and maintained so %
not to endanger persons or un-reason-
ably to interfere, electrically or
otherwise, with other electric applian-
ces erected prior thereto or with any
Improvement the city may deem prop
er to make, nor unnecessarily hinder
or obstruct the free use of streets,
avenues, alleys. highways, bridges or
public places or private or public
property.
{ Sec. a. Whenever grantee, in erect
ing, constructing or maintaining said
poles, conduits, or appliances shall
take up any pavement on the streets,
avenues, alleys, highways, bridges. or
public places of said city, or make any
excavations thereon or in any of the
public places of said city, such exca-
vations shall be at once re-flled and
pavement replaced under the direction
of the City Engineer or other official
of the city having charge Of the
streets, avenues, alleys, highways,
bridges or public places and all sur
faces made as good as before by the
said grantee; or. in case of their fail
ure so to do as promptly as practical,
the city or any abutting property
owner may do the same at the ex.
grantee shall be liable in a civil &C.
ton for the cost of the same; and
provided further that when the
grantee shall make an excavation in
any of the streets, avenues, alleys,
highways, bridges, or public places, Of
said city, the same shall be properly
barriered, adequately lighted and pro-
vided with sufficient danger lights,
lamps, or signs of warning; grantee
shall at its own expense relocate any
poles or pole in any other suitable 10
cation selected by the City Council
whenever required so to do by the
resolution of the City Council. '.>'s.
Sec. S. Any person or persons
DESTROYS of moving any house, build
ing or thing, capable Of being moved,
over or along any of the streets, al
ieys, avenues, highways, bridges or
public places of said city, of such
type or size IS may interfere with the
poles. wires or other constructions Of
the transmission and Iistribution sys-
teus herein authorized, shall make
written application to the Mayor Of
sd city o. City Council, reqsestiag
der consent 70 move the same:
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