Ordinance No. 216
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An Ordinance grccmting to Southern Pacific Railr08(j Company
the rig-ht. privilege ana permission to lay and construct a railroad
spux track in the oity of Vernon.
The Board of Trustees of the city of Vernon do ordain as
follows:-
Section 1.
Th~Jt the Tight) privilege sncl permission be,
and the same ls, hereby granted to the SoutherD Pacific ~-1Ailroad
Company, 8 aorporatioll, its successors aDu assigns, to laj-~, con-
struct, maintain and operate a railroaG spur track aorOss ~lameda
Street in the city of Vernon, county of Los Angeles, stRte of
C&lifornia, batvwsen the points hereinafter described, to wit:-
Commencing at a point in the easterly line of Al~,meda
Street, s~id point measured along said easterly line, being distant
100 feet more or less northerly from the interseotion of SSid
easterly line with the northerly line of Fifty-second Street; thence
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northwesterly or a e~ved line 80 ft. more or less to 8 point in
the westerly line of Alameda Street, said point measured along said
wester ly line, being distant 170 feet northerly from interseotion
of sl"id i\esterly line with the northerly line 0 f ~'ifty-seoond
Street projected.
Section 2.
That the spur track which rosy be 1a10 and
oonstructed under the privilege hereby granted shall correspond
to the 0 fficial grade ot. the street Rcross or along which it may be
plaoed, as now established by said oity of Vernon; the tops 01' the
rails to be flush with the surrounding suxfeee of the street, and
in the event such street shall be graded, paved or otherwise improved
under the authority of said city of Vernon, then such spur tracl!:
over or upon such street and the ground for a distance of two (2)
feet on each side thereOf, shall be by grantee, or its assigns,
made to conform to said grads, and shall be so maintained by said
grantee, its successors or assigns. with the tops of said rails
flush with the surface of said street.
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section 3. The right, privilege and permission hereby granted shell
be exeroieed and enjoyed eubject to the following oondit1one:-
lst:- That no oars or locomotives ehell be permitted at any time
to stand upon the streets oocupied by said spur track except during the
time actually employed in a_itching, loading or unloading car. placed
thereon, and that said spur track shall at all times be used eo as to
obstruct the use of said streets and alleY8 by vehicles or passengers as
little as possible oonsistent with the uses for whioh said spur traok
is to be constructed;
2nd:- That said grantee, 1ts sueO.Beors and a.Bslgna, shall con-
~truct all necessary flumes and culverts for the passage of water under
said track whenever or wherever necessary; and that all such flumes or
culverts shall be constructed in aocordance with the plana and specifica-
tions therefor, approved by the Oity Engineer of the Oity of Vernon;
3rd:- That said grantee, its successors and assigns, will plank
and replant, gravel and regravel, pave and repave all portions of the
street occupied by said spur track, and for a distance of two (2) ~eet
on each side thereat with the same material and under the same epecif1c~
tlone and in the Same manner as said streets and alleys are naw, or may
b.reaft~r be planked or replanked, graveled or regravel ed, paved or re-
paved, and that all such work shall be done under the instructions of,
and to the satis~aotion of the Board of Trustees of the oity o~ Vernon;
4th:- That any neglect, failure or refusal on the part of the
grantee, its 8ucoeSBora and assigns, to obBerve or complY with any ot the
terms or conditions in this Ordinance contained ehall effect & forfeiture
of the right, privilege and permissiom hereby granted, and the laid city,
by its Eoard of Trustees, may thereupon declare SUCh rights and privileges
forfeited, and may exclude sald grante., its successOrs and a8signs, from
any ~urther use of the etreets and all eye oooupied by said epur track,
and the grant hereby made shall thereupon become and remain null, void
and of nO effect.
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5th:-
That the City of Vernon expressly reBerves the right to pave,
macadamize, sewer, or repav.. remacadamlze or reeewer said street aerose
which the right to construct said railroad spur track is hereby granted,
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and to lay gas. water Qnd other pipe. therein, such work to be done eO
.. to 1aJur. ..1d r.l1ro.d .. little .. po.Bible,
SecUon 4.
That said railroad company .hall at the t1m. .aid .pur
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track 1s constructed, construct a croBsing aeroBs, 1n and along said
Alameda Street at the place of croBBing extending two feet from the rail..
the same class of pavement &e the rest .t the street, 80 a8 to make a
good and sufficient crossing for tea.me and wagons, a.nd. 1 t &ad 1 ts suee.se-
ors and &ssigoe shall at all times while B aid spur track 1s maintained,
maintain said crossing in like gOod mann.r and failing therein the said
City of vernon B.1l1 have the right to oonstruct .aid crossing and main-
tain the same. and 8ald railroad compaDT, ita auccessors or &Bsign., shall
pay to the City whatever amount it shall have expended to .uch construction
and maintenance.
section 5.
The City Clerk shall certify to the p....age of this
Ordinance, and .hall oau.. the same to be printsd and posted ae requir.d
by law_
A!'lBST
I hereby c.rti~y that the foregoing ordinanc. was adopted by tho Board
of Truste.s of the city of V.rnon at a regular meeting thereo~. held On
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AYe.: Truste..
Noes: Trustee.
Absent Truste.s
APproved this
day of