[Adopted 3-13-1923 by Ord. No. 45]
Permission be and is hereby granted to the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore City, its successors and
assigns, to construct, maintain and operate its posts, poles, cables,
wires and all other necessary overhead apparatus on, over and along;
and its conduits, ducts, mains, pipes, cables, wires, manholes, distributing
poles and all other necessary underground appliances on, in, under
and through the streets, alleys and highways within the limits of
the Town of St. Michaels, in the County of Talbot and State of Maryland;
and to use the property of other companies and to permit other companies
to use its property upon such arrangements as the two companies may
agree.
Whenever the said company shall desire to erect,
lay down or construct any poles, conduits or manholes, it shall present
a plan or plans, showing the location, number and size thereof, to
the Chairperson of the Street Committee, who is hereby authorized
to approve or disapprove as to location, which plan or plans or copy
thereof with approval endorsed thereon shall be filed forthwith with
the Town Clerk. In case the said Chairperson of the said Committee
disapproves any plan or plans as to the location of any poles, conduits
or manholes, he or she shall designate some other suitable location
therefor; that all work done under the provisions of this ordinance
in said Town shall be subject to the supervision of the Chairperson
of the Street Committee, and said company shall replace and properly
re-lay any sidewalk or street pavement which may have been displaced
or damaged by it in the construction and maintenance of its system
in said Town.
All poles erected by said company shall be neat
and symmetrical, and shall be so located as in no way to interfere
with the safety or convenience of persons traveling on or over the
said streets, alleys and highways; and in the work of installing and
maintaining its underground system, said company shall not open or
encumber more of any street, alley or highway than will be necessary
to enable it to perform same with proper economy and efficiency, nor
shall it permit such opening or encumbrance to remain for a longer
period than shall be necessary to do the work for which said opening
shall have been made.
Space on one crossarm of the poles erected or
in one duct of the conduits laid under the provisions of this ordinance
shall be reserved, free of charge, for the purpose of carrying wires
of any fire alarm or police telegraph system now in use or which may
hereafter be adopted by said Town; in no case, however, shall said
wires carry electric light or high-tension currents.
The said company shall maintain all poles, cables,
wires, conduits, ducts, mains, pipes, manholes, distributing poles
and all other apparatus erected or constructed under the provisions
of this ordinance in good and safe order and save harmless the said
Town from and against all actions, claims, suits, damages and charges
and against all loss and necessary expenditures arising from the erection,
construction and maintenance of its system in said Town; or from its
neglect or failure to maintain the said apparatus in good and safe
order and condition.
Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed
to grant unto the said Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of
Baltimore City any exclusive right or to prevent a grant of similar
privileges to other companies.
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
of Baltimore City shall, under its seal and by its proper officers
within 60 days from the date of the passage of this ordinance, signify
in writing its acceptance of all the terms, conditions, regulations
and restrictions in this ordinance contained, in default of which
this ordinance shall become null and void and of no effect.
