Ordinance 1964-08 (E-1B)
ORDINANCE NUMBER
AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO THE ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, ITS LESSEES,
SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, CERTAIN RIGHTS IN THE
UNITED CITY OF THE VILIAGE OF YORKVILLE, KENDALL COUNTY, ILLINOIS
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE
UdITED CITY OF THE VILIAGE Or YORKVILLE, KENDALL COUNTY, ILLINOIS
as follows:
SECTION 1. That the ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, (hereinafter called the Com-
pany) , its lessees, successors and assigns, are hereby granted the right to construct,
erect, renew, maintain and operate in, upon, along, across, under and over the streets,
alleys and public ways of theUNITED CITY OF THE VILIAGE OF YOaKVIIjkereinafter called
the Municipality) , lines of poles, anchors, wires, cables, conduits, vaults, laterals and
other fixtures and equipment, and to use the same for the transmission of sounds and
signals by means of electricity, and especially for the conduct of a general telephone
business.
SECTION 2. The location and height above or the depth below the public thorough-
fares of the existing lines of .poles, anchors, wires, cables, conduits, vaults, laterals
and other fixtures and equipment of the Company within the Municipality are hereby
approved, and the same shall be maintained and operated under and subject to the provi-
sions of this ordinance. Any change in or extension of any of said poles, anchors,
wires, cables, conduits, vaults, laterals or other fixtures and equipment (herein refer-
red to as "structures") , or the construction of any additional structures, in, upon,
along, across, under or over the streets, alleys and public ways of the Municipality
shall be made under the direction of the Chairman of the Committee on Streets and Alleys
of the Municipality, or such officer as may be designated from time to time by the gov-
erning body of the Municipality for that purpose, who shall, if the proposed change,
extension or construction conforms to the provisions hereof, issue written permits
therefor. The height above public thoroughfares of all aerial wires and cables here-
after constructed shall conform to the requirements of the Illinois Commerce Commission
or other regulatory body having jurisdiction thereof. All structures hereafter installed
shall be so placed, and all work in connection with such installation shall be so per-
formed as not to interfere unreasonably with ordinary travel on the highways of the
Municipality or with any municipal water or sewer pipes then in place, and in case of
bringing to grade or change of grade, or change of width of any street or alley, the
Company, provided it is notified thereof in writing at least thirty (30) days prior to
the commencement thereof, shall change its structures so as to conform thereto, except
where such change of grade or the width of any street or alley is made in connection
with the rearrangement, separation or alteration of railroad crossings or is incident
to any such rearrangement, separation or alteration. The tops of all vaults constructed
by the Company within the Municipality shall present an even surface with the pavement
at the point where laid, and, subject to the exception contained in the last preceding
sentence, shall be lowered or raised by the Company to conform to the top of paving or
improvement as required by the governing body of the Municipality whenever the grade of
the street or alley in which any such vault is located may be at any time hereafter
lowered or raised.
SECTION 3. The Company, after doing any excavating, shall leave the surface of the
ground in a neatly graded condition. All sidewalks, parkways or pavements disturbed by
the Company shall be restored by it to as good condition as before said sidewalk, park-
way or pavement was disturbed by it, and in the event that any such sidewalk, parkway or
pavement shall become uneven, unsettled, or otherwise requires repairing, because of
such disturbance by the Company, then the Company, as soon as climatic conditions will
permit, shall, promptly, upon receipt of notice from the Municipality so to do, cause
such sidewalk, parkway or pavement to be repaired or restored to as good condition as
before said sidewalk, parkway or pavement was disturbed by the Company. The Company
shall keep all structures which it shall construct by virtue of this ordinance, in a
reasonably safe condition at all times, and shall maintain such barriers and danger
signals during the construction, repair or renewal work performed hereunder as will
reasonably avoid damage to life, limb and property.
SECTION 4. The Company shall, at its own expense, defend all suits that may be
brought against the Municipality on account of or in connection with the violation by
the Company of any of the obligations hereby imposed upon or assumed by it, or by reason
of or in connection with any damage to life, limb or property as a result of any of the
structures constructed by it under or by virtue of this ordinance, and shall save and
keep harmless the Municipality from any and all damages, judgments, costs and expenses
of every kind, that may arise by reason thereof; provided, that notice in writing shall
be immediately given to the Company of any claim or suit against the Municipality which,
by the terms hereof, the Company shall be obligated to defend, or against which the Com-
pany has hereby agreed to save and keep harmless the Municipality and provided further
that the Municipality shall furnish to the Company all information in its possession
relating to said claim or suit, and cooperate with the Company in the defense of said
claim or suit. The governing body of the Municipality may, if it so desires, assist in
defending any such claim or suit, but solely under the direction of the Company or its
attorneys, and the Company shall not be required to reimburse the Municipality for
expenses incurred by it in case of the election so to assist.
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SECTION 5. In consideration of the foregoing grant, while the Company is using any
pole or poles erected or maintained hereunder, it will permit the Municipality the use
of sufficient space for carrying the Municipality's police and fire alarm signal wires
by means of one crossarm to be placed, in accordance with the Company's specifications,
by the Municipality at its expense, at the top of the space available for the use of the
Company on any of said poles, it being understood that the poles upon which space is
permitted the Municipality shall be considered, for the purpose of this agreement, as
personal property; provided that such wires shall be so placed and maintained by the
Municipality that the use of the same will not interfere with the operation and main-
tenance of the Company's equipment or its use of said poles, and provided further that a
thirty (30) inch climbing space shall be maintained between the pole pins on poles
jointly used with another public utility. All such police and fire alarm signal wires
shall be attached and maintained under the direction and supervision of the Company's
authorized representatives and only in compliance with any rules for construction and
maintenance of electric power and communication lines as may be ordered by the Illinois
Commerce Commission. The Municipality shall, at its own expense, defend all claims, de-
mands or suits on account of any injury to life, limb or property that may result by
reason of or in connection with the presence, use, maintenance, erection or removal of
the Municipality's police and fire alarm signal wires and their appurtenances pursuant
hereto, and hereby agrees to save and keep harmless the Company from any and all damages,
judgments, costs and expenses of any kind which may arise by reason thereof.
SECTION 6. So long as the Company exercises and enjoys the rights granted to it
hereunder, it will furnish to the Municipality, free of charge, eleven (11)
individual line business telephones for business of the Municipality only.
Said telephones shall be installed in such places within the Municipality as the govern-
ing body thereof shall from time to time direct by resolution. Application therefor
shall be made by the Municipality on the Company's usual form. The Company, without
charge and when directed by resolution of the governing body of the Municipality, shall
change the location of any of said telephones, provided that not more than one such
change of location in any one year of any telephone furnished hereunder shall be made by
the Company without expense to the Municipality. In lieu of all or some of said indi-
vidual line business telephones, the governing body of the Municipality may elect, by
resolution, to have any other local flat rate business exchange service or facilities
from time to time offered by the Company to its subscribers in the telephone exchange in
which the Municipality is located, to the extent that the aggregate value of all tele-
phone service and facilities so furnished hereunder, based upon the Company's lawful
charges from time to time in effect therefor to said subscribers, does not exceed the
value, on the same basis, of said individual line business telephones, "Local flat rate
exchange service," as used in this section, shall not be construed toinclude any extend-
ed area service available to subscribers under an optional schedule. No liability shall
attach to the Company with respect to the furnishing of said service or facilities, or
on account of any failure or interruption of said service or facilities, except that the
Company will restore such service and facilities promptly upon receipt of notice of such
interruption or failure.
SECTION 7. The Company after five (5) days' written notice from the governing body
of the Municipality to do so, shall remove or raise or lower its structures temporarily
to permit the moving of a building or any other object along a highway, provided the
benefited party or parties shall agree to pay the Company an amount equal to the actual
cost of effecting such temporary changes in its structures; and provided further that,
pending the determination of such actual cost, the benefited party or parties shall have
deposited with the Company an amount equal to the cost as estimated by the Company.
Should any amount of such deposit remain unexpended, after deducting the actual cost
involved, said amount shall be returned to the party making the deposit.
SECTION 8. In case the Company shall fail or neglect to comply with any or all of
the provisions of this ordinance (unless by order of the Illinois Commerce Commission or
of any other body, board, commission or court of competent jurisdiction, the Company is
otherwise directed, or unless compliance by the Company with such provision is prohibited
or adjudged unlawful by an order of the Illinois Commerce Commission or by' an order of
any other body, board, commission or court of competent jurisdiction) , the Municipality
reserves the right to repeal this ordinance or rescind this contract, and forfeit the
rights hereby created or sought to be created, provided that no such repeal, rescission
or forfeiture shall exist or be claimed because of such failure or neglect, until writ-
ten notice of such failure or neglect so claimed shall have been given to the Company,
and a reasonable opportunity afforded it to comply with the provisions hereof or to prove
that such compliance already exists. In the event that the Illinois Commerce Commission
or any other body, board, commission or court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge any
provision or provisions hereof invalid or illegal, or direct a change by the Company in
any matter or thing herein contained, such invalidity or illegality or change shall in
no way affect the remaining provisions of this ordinance, or their validity or legality,
and this ordinance in all other respects shall continue in full force and affect, as if
said provision or provisions had not been so adjudged invalid or illegal or such change
directed.
SECTION 9. So long as the Company exercises the rights granted to it hereunder and
so long as the Municipality shall receive the considerations therefor as recited in Sec-
tions 5 and 6 hereof, the Municipality will not, by ordinance or otherwise, vacate any
street, alley or public way in which the Company has its structures installed without
reserving the easement rights of the Company in and to the street, alley or public way
to be vacated.
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SECTION 10. All grants, franchises, rights,licenses and privileges heretofore made
or granted by the Municipality by ordinance or otherwise to the Company and all rights
of the Company under grants, franchises, rights, licenses and privileges made by the
Municipality to others from which the Company may have purchased any part of its poles,
lines, equipment or plant, are hereby revoked and repealed, it being the intention that
this ordinance shall contain all grants, franchises, rights, permits, licenses and
privileges of the Company, and all obligations of the Company in connection therewith.
SECTION 11. Whenever the word "Company" or the words "Illinois Bell Telephone
Company" are used in this ordinance, they shall be construed to mean the Illinois Bell
Telephone Company, its lessees, successors and assigns, and this ordinance shall be bind-
ing upon and inure to the benefit of the Company, its lessees, successors and assigns.
SECTION 12. This ordinance shall be in full force upon receipt, by the Clerk of
the Municipality, of the Company's written and unconditional acceptance of all of the
provisions of this ordinance executed by its proper officers thereunto duly authorized,
under the corporate seal of the Company, and attested by its Secretary or Assistant
Secretary.
PASSED this Z_�day of /".��- A. D. 19_x.
City Clerk
APPROVED this day of A. D. 19&""4f-_.
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STATE OF ILLINOIS )
COUNTY OF KENDALL ) SS
CITY OF THE T1TTt TFn CITY OF )
THE VILLAGE OF YORINILLE )
I, 1,layne C. Larson City Clerk of the City
of the-United City of a County, Illinois, do hereby
certify that I am the keeper of t e ordinances o sai Municipality; and that the above
and foregoing is a trge, correct and complete copy of Ordinance Number
passed by the Council of said Municipality on the
day of e ruary A. D. 19 and approved by the Mayor
thereof on the 13tb day of February A. D. 19-64-, as appears from
the records of said Municipality.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand as City Clerk of
said Municipality and have hereunto affixed the seal thereof this 1'2i. .h.__day of
A. D. 19 64
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City Clerk