Ordinance No. 91
Angeles
the County of Los
in
Vernon
City of
of the
being
An ordinance
State of California
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and
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which was introduced at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of said City
of Vernon held on the 6th day of August 1912, and which passed its first
reading on the 6th day of August. 1912, and which was finally adopted on
the 13th day of August, 1912, entitled an ordinance, Granting to the City
Railway Company of Los Angeles, a corporation, and its successors and
assigns, the right to construct and for a period of fifty (50) years to
operate and maintain a double track electric street railroad upon certain
public streets of the City of Vernon hereinafter described
ORDINANCE NO
OF TilE CITY OF VERNON DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS
to the City
to construct
a double
in said
privilege is hereby granted
its successors and assigns,
years to operate and maintain
upon those portions of streets
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Section 1. That the right and
Railway Company of Los Angeles
and for a period of fifty (50)
track electric street railroad
city described as follows
THE
Commencing at the intersection of Vernon Avenue with the
westerly boundary line of said city of vernon; thence easterly along
said Vernon Avenue to the intersection of Vernon Avenue with Santa Fe
Avenuej together with the right to construct and maintain all necessary
switches between the tracks of such electric street railroad, and the
necessary curves for connections at street intersections with other lines
of electric street railroad owned, controlled or operated by the grantee
of said franchise, its Successors or assigns, and such other appliances
or apparatus that may be necessary to properly equip operate and main-
tain said street railroad
Section 2. That the tracks to be laid under said franchise shall not
exceed four (4) feet, eight and one-half (8~) inches in width between
the rails, and shall be placed as nearly equi-distant from the center
of the street as possible and as near each other as a proper regard for
safety will allow
Section 3. lbat the grantee of said franchise successors or a~signs
shall use in the construction of said road the material including a
rail not less than sixty (60) pounds per yard, said rail shall be so
laid as to be continuously welded or otherwise securely fastened to-
gether, and the said grantee, its successors or assigns shall at its or
their own expense and cost, pave, macadamize, or otherwise improve the
said road between the rails, between the tracks, and for two feet on each
side th~reof with the same material used by the city and under the same
specifications and in the same manner as upon the streets over which said
road rUns respectively; and shall keep the same constantly so paved,
macadamized or otherwise improved and in repair flush with the street
and provided with suitable crossings, and shall make the roadbed conform
at all times to the established grade of the street, provided, however,
that where any of the above named streets have been graded or otherwise
improved prior to the granting of said franchise, said roadbed and rails
shall conform to, and be flush with the surface of said graded or other-
wise improved street or streets, whether such suttace be above or below
the official grade of such street or streets; and on all other street or
streets said roadbed and rails shall conform to such official grade as
aforesai.d; and provided further that upon any regrading or other improving
of said street or streets said road bed and rails shall,by said grantee,
or its successors or assign~, be placed upon and made to conform to said
official grade. All repairs and grades shall be made under the instructions
and to the satisfaction of the street superintendent of said city. In case
the said grantee or its successors or assigns shall fail to comply with
the instructions given by said strelt superintendent for ten (10) days
after service of such instructions upon said granteeoc it~ successors or
assigns or upon the manager or agent of said grantee or of its successors
or assigns in the City of Lus Angeles, the said street superintendent
shall enter upon said road and do the said work ordered by him and shall
keep an itemized accout of the cost of the same, which the said grantee
and its Successors or assigns by the acceptance of said franchise agrees
to pay immediately upon its being presented to said grantee or its
its
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Provided further that said grantee and its successors or assigns
shall construct all necessary flumes and culverts for the free passage
of water under the tracks of said railroad wherever and whenever necessary
and that all said flumes and culverts shall be constructed in accordance
with plans approved by said street superintendent
Los
in
such manager or agent stationed
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or
or assigns
successors
Provided further that said grantee and its successors or assigns
shall have the right, subject to such regulations as are now or may
hereafter be in force, to excavate and remove portions of the streets
necessary to properly construct such road, and the right to erect needful
apparatus, boilers engines and other appliances to properly equip and
run said road
Providing further that the City of Vernon in granting said
fran~hise expressly reserves the right to pave, macadamize or sewer any
of the said streets or lay gas, water or other pipes therein said work
to be done so as to injure said road as little as possible
Provided further that the cars upon said road shall not be
allowed to stand on any street or any street intersection in such a
lnanner as to obstruct the use of the said street by vehicles or pedestrians
Section 4. That the grantee of said franchise and its successors or
assigns shall and will at all times upon and after the completion of said
road during the operation of the same, and without extra charge, issue to
and receive from passengers going in one direction transfers good for
continuous passage over and upon any and every other line and lines of
any other road or roads within the said city which said grantee or
its successors or assigns does now or may hereafter own, control, operate
or have a controlling interest in; and provided as a further condition
that said grantee and its successors and assigns shall and will at all
times as aforesaid issue or cause to be issued to said passengers without
extra charge, a similar transfer from any and every other line or
lineswhich said grantee or its successors or as~igns does now 8r may
hereafter own control, operate or have a controlling interest in as
aforesaid, to from and upon the road operated and maintained under said
franchise
said road or its
cents (5c) for one
fare for any distance over
city shall not exceed five
That the rate of
way within said
Section 5
branches one
passenger
That persons under the age of eighteen (18) years who attend
any public school in said city shall be required to pay but one-half fare
provided that said rupils shall purchase their tickets in quantities of
at least onc dollar s ($1.00) worth at one time; such tickets to be
available only between the hours of seven o'clock a.m. and six o'clock p.m
in actual passage to and from the school and that said grantee and its
successors and assigns shall sell such tickets whenever requested so to
do by a pupil who shall present a certificate from a teacher approved
by the principal of such school that he or she is a pupil of said school
And provided further that said grantee and its successors and
assigns shall at all times carry the City Marshal and his regular deputies
when on duty, free over said road and over any other road or roads within
said city, which said grantee, its successors or assigns does now or
may hereafter own, control or operate, subject at all times to such
reasonable regulations as said grantee and its successors or assigns may
prescribe
Section 6. That the said grantee and its successors and assigns shall
during the life of said franchise pay to the City of Vernon in lawful
money of the United States two per cent of the gross annual receipts of
such grantee and its successors and assigns, arising from the use,
operation or possession of said franchise. No percentage shall be paid
for the first five years succeeding the date of said franchise, but
thereafter such percentage shall be payable annually, and said franchise
is to be forfeited by failure to make the payments provided for. Provided
that if the road for which said franchise is granted shall be an extension
of an existing system of street railroad, then the gross receipts shall
be estimated to be one half of the proportion of the total gross receipts
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of said system which the mileage of such extension bears to the total
mileage of the whole system, and said estimate shall be conclusive as
to the amount of the gross receipts of said extension
,
And it shall be the duty of the grantee of said franchise and
of its successors and assigns to file with the City Clerk of the City of
Vernon at the expiration of six years from the date of the granting of
said franchise, and at the expiration of each and every year thereafter,
a statement, verified by the oath of said grantee, or its successors or
assigns. or by the oath of the manager or presiding officer of said
grantee or its successors and assigns showing the total gross receipts
and gross earnings collected or received by said grantee or its successors
or assigns during the preceding twelve months, from all traffic over any
part of the line for the construction and operation of which said
franchise is granted or over any part of the system of street railroad
of which it may be an extension, and from all other sources, and within
ten days after the time for filing aforesaid statement, it shall be
the duty of said grantee and its successors and assigns to pay to the
CLty Treasurer of the City of Vernon the aggregate sum of the said
percentage upon the amount of the gross annual receipts arising from the
use, operation or possession of said franchise. determined and computed
in the manner hereinbefore provided
And any neglect) omission or refusal by said grantee or its
successors or assigns to file &aid verified statement, or to pay the said
percentage of the said gross annual receipts, at the times or in the
manner hereinbefore provided, shall ipso facto work a forfeiture of said
franchise and of all rights thereunder to the City of Vernon
Section 7. That the work of constructing said road shall be commenced in
good faith within not more that four months from the date of the granting
of said franchise, and shall be continuously prosecuted thereafter in
good faith and without unnecessary or avoidable intermission or delay;
that said work of construction shall be completed within not more than
three years thereafter; that said work of construction shall be commenced
and continuously prosecuted so that at least one third of the work of
construction said road shall be completed within one year from the time
of commencement; and that if said work be not so commenced, prosecuted or
completed within the times or in the manner specified, said franchise
shall be forfeited
Section 8 That any neglect, failure or refusal to comply with any
of the conditions of said franchise, shall thereupon immediately ipso
facto effect a forfeiture thereof, and the said city, by its Board of
Trustees, may thereupon declare said franchise forfeited and may exclude
said grantee or its successors and assigns from further use of the streets
of said city under said franchise, and said grantee and its successors
and assigns shall thereupon and immediately surrender all rights in and
to the same, and said franchise shall be deemed and shall remain null
void and of no effect
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the foregoing Ordinance No
sign
I hereby approve and
13th day of August 1912
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I hereby certify that I am the Marshall of the City of Vernon,
California, and that I did on the l31h day of August 1912, post a printed
copy of the foregoing ordinance at the front door of the regular meeting
place of the Board of Trustees of said city, and at the N.W. corner of
38th or Jefferson Street and Santa Fe Avenue, and at the N.W. corner of
Vernon and Santa Fe Avenues,
and that said places are the most public places in said
copies remained so posted for more than three days
next succeeding said posting, and there was not at the
ordinance was adopted, nor has there been at any time
published or printed in the said city
said
said
a newspaper
and
city
time
since
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Subscribed and sworn to before
this 13th day of August 1912
,
Vernon
I hereby certify that I am clerk of the City of
Californial and that the foregoing is a true and correct copy
ordinance No. 91 of said city, entitled an ordinance granting the
City Railway Company of Los Angeles, a corporation, and its successors
and assigns, the right to construct and for a period of fifty (50)
years to operate and maintain a double tract electric street railroad
upon certain public streets of the City of Vernon and that it has been
published and posted according to law
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