The Consumers' Gas Company, its successors and assigns, is hereby
granted the right and privilege of laying, placing and maintaining
gas mains, pipes, services, and their appurtenances in the streets,
lanes, alleys, highways and bridges of said Borough, from and after
the date when this ordinance becomes operative, upon the terms and
conditions hereinafter stated, provided, however, that said gas mains,
pipes and appurtenances shall not be placed under the sidewalks longitudinally
with the streets or alleys thereof.
Said company shall restore all streets and alleys which shall
be opened by it, its agents or employees, for the purpose of laying
or repairing mains, pipes or their appurtenances, to the same order
and condition in which the same were before opened by it, and the
company agrees, upon the acceptance by it of this ordinance, that
it will maintain, repair and keep in good and proper condition for
a period of six months that portion of all streets, alleys, lanes,
highways and bridges disturbed by it in the laying of its aforesaid
pipes, etc., therein or thereon, the six-month period to be computed
from the time of the closing of the ditch.
Whenever said company shall make an excavation in the public
highways of said Borough, it shall by signal or otherwise do all things
necessary to protect the public from injury and shall hold said Borough
harmless from all or any damage that may occur thereby.
The granting of the rights herein to said company, its successors
and assigns, shall in no way impair or abridge the rights of the Borough
under present ordinances, or under such ordinances as may be passed,
in regard to the exercise of its powers as to the control of its streets,
sidewalks and alleys, or as to the imposition of license taxes, or
as to any other lawful exercise of its municipal powers, except only
as rights are expressly granted herein to said company, its successors
and assigns.
Said Consumers' Gas Company shall indemnify and save harmless
said Borough from any liability through the opening of the streets
and alleys while said company is laying its gas mains.
Said privilege is granted on condition that the cost of gas
to consumers within the Borough of West Reading shall not exceed the
sum of $1.20 per 1,000 cubic feet, with the discount of $0.10 per
1,000 cubic feet, provided all bills are paid by the 10th of the month
following that in which the gas is used; provided, however, that in
the event that, after the passage of this ordinance, the price of
gas in the City of Reading shall be raised above $1.20 per 1,000 cubic
feet with discount of $0.10 per 1,000 cubic feet, said Consumers'
Gas Company is authorized to raise the price of gas in the Borough
of West Reading to an amount equal thereto, the amount to be equal
thereafter to that charged in the City of Reading, but the company
not be compelled to furnish gas in West Reading for less than the
price of $1.20 per 1,000 cubic feet, with discount.
The Consumers' Gas Company, its successors and assigns shall
lay main pipe in the following streets:
Name of Street
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Location
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Penn Avenue
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From the east to the west Borough line
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Second Avenue
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From Penn Avenue to Howard Street
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Chestnut Street
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From River Road to Sixth Avenue
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Sixth Avenue
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From Chestnut Street to Reading Avenue
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Franklin Street
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From River Road to Sixth Avenue
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Fourth Avenue
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From Franklin Street to Penn Avenue
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Reading Avenue
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From Sixth Avenue to 200 feet west
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Cherry Street
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West of Third Avenue
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Cherry Street
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East of Second Avenue
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Howard Street
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From Third Avenue to Fourth Avenue
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Third Avenue
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From Penn Avenue to Howard Street
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Obold Street
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From Franklin Street south
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Fifth Avenue
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From Penn Avenue south
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Yarnell Street
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From Chestnut Street to Franklin Street
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Seventh Avenue
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From Penn Avenue south
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Fourth Avenue
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From Penn Avenue to Summit Street
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Third Avenue
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From Penn Avenue to Summit Street
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Reading Avenue
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From Third Avenue to Valley Street
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