HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 610ENERGENCY ORDINANCE N0.~/O NEW SERIES
AN ENERGENCY ORDINANCE FIXING AND DEFINING THE
OBLIGATIONS OF THE BAKERSFIELD AND KERN IELECTRIC
RAILWAY COMPANY UPON ABANDONNLENT OF ITS STREET
RAILWAY LINE UPON BAKER STREET, 19TH STREET AND
F STREET, IN THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA.
WHEREAS, the City Council hereby declares that an emergency
exists for the immediate preservation of the public property, safety
and welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Bakersfield~
AND WHEREAS, the Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway'
Company has applied to the City of. Bakersfield for permission to
abandon its remaining street car service now in use on the follow-
ing described streets, to-wit: Baker Street, 19th Street and F
Street,
AND WHEREAS, it is the intention of said street car company
to apply to the Railroad Commission of the State of California, for
permission to abandon said street car service and to substitute there-
for bus service on said streets in the City of Bakersfield,
ANDWH~EREAS, it is believed to be advantageousto the City
of Bakersfield that'said bus service be established in lieu of the
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present street car service~
AND V~]EREAS, the Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway Company
may leave their rails in the streets to be resurfaced and covered over,
or it may remove same.within six months from the time of discontinuance
of the street car service,
AND WHEREAS, it has been determined by the City Engineer
that the cost to the City of Bakersfield of materials and labor in
connection with the work of resurfacing those~ portions of said streets
used by the Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway Company as its right-
of-waY~is the-sum-o~-six-thousa-nd~ one-hundnred .and~ t~o-dolla~s-and._~ ....
fifty-nine cents ($6,102.~9),
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT 0RDAI~D BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD, as follows:
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SECTION 1.
That the Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway Company shall,
upon the~abandonment of that certain line'of railway on Baker Street
from the Southern Pacific Railway Tracks to 19th Street, on 19th
Street'from Baker Street'~to F Street, and on F Street from 19th
Street to 15th Street, at its own cost and expense, but without
paYment~by said railway company to the City, remove from the streets
of the City of Bakersfield all poles, wires and overhead trolleyl
system used in connection with. the operation of said railway system
to be abandoned; provided, however, that said railway company shall
not remove any pole of such overhead trolley system to which any
portion of the city fire alarm system or any police call box, or any
other city-owned property or service is attached, nor shall said
railway company remove any pole which is in use by any public utility.
SECTION 2.
If said Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway'Company so
elects it may remove all or part of the rails of said railway
from the aforementioned streets of said City, and in that event
said Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway Company, within six
months from the abandonment of said street car service, shall pay
to the City Treasurer of the City of Bakersfield the estimated cost
of resurfacing those portions of the said streets which have been
used by the Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway Company as its
right,of-way, with the materials and to the extent required by
the City Engineer of the City of Bakersfield, which cost has been
found to be and has been fixed at six thousand, one hundred and two
dollars and fifty-nine cents ('$6,102.~9), for the entire street
railway line as above described.
SECTIO~ ~.. -
This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure
within the meaning of Section 24 of the Charter of the City of
Bakersfield, State of California, and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public property, safety and welfare of the
inhabitants of the City of Bakersfield, and shall take effect
immediately upon its passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Emergency Ordinance
was passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield,
at a regular meetingsthereof held on the/~day of January,
1942, by the following vote:
City C erk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield-.
APPROVED by me t ' / . y of January, 1942.
r ker sf i el d.
, ffthauit of ]o ting (Orhinanre
V. VAN RIPER, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That he is th uly appointed, acting and qualified Clerk of the City of Bakersfield;
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AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE FIXING AND DEFINING THE
OBLIGATIONS OF THE BAKERSFIELD AND KERN ELECTRIC
RAILWAY COMPANY UPON ABANDONMENT OF ITS STREET
R , LINE UPON BAKER STREET, 19TH STREET AND
AILWAY
F STREET, IN THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA.