No.103 Granting Northwestern Bell Telephone Company Right-of-Way
TOWN OF NEWELL
Ordinance 103
Granting Northwestern Bell Telephone Company Right-of-way
Section 1. That Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, a corporation; its successors and assigns, are hereby granted the right to use and occupy the Streets, Alleys and other public places of the City of Newell, for a term of twenty (20) years from the effective date hereof, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a general telephone and telegraph system within said City.
Section 2. That the rights herein granted are subject to the exercise of the City Police power as the same now is or may hereinafter be conferred upon said City.
Section 3. That Northwestern Bell Telephone Company shall, upon demand, pay to the city of Newell, the Cost of publishing this Ordinance and of holding the election hereinafter referred to.
Section 4. That this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect and shall constitute a binding contact between the City of Newell and Northwestern Bell Telephone Company when the same shall have been approved by a majority of the electors of said City voting thereon at the election provided for herein, and when the provisions hereof shall have been accepted in writing by Northwestern Telephone Company and such acceptance filed with the City Auditor.
Section 5. That the proposition of granting a franchise to Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, in accordance with the term of this Ordinance shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of this City at a special election, to be held not sooner than thirty (30) days after the publication of this Ordinance, which special election shall be called for that purpose by a Resolution of this City Council adopted after the publication of this Ordinance.
Approved: June 13, 1949.