Article 19.--GENERAL POWERS OF BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
13-1904.Control and regulation of railroads on streets.
The board of commissioners shall have power by ordinance to require all
street and other railway companies to keep the streets and alleys over
which they run properly drained, and to light the same wherever deemed
necessary, and to require all street and other railway companies to
construct and keep in repair, to their full width, all viaducts, and all
crossings over all ditches used by them, and to construct and maintain
drains and culverts where crossed by any line of said railways on all
streets and alleys over which they run, to direct and control the laying
and construction of railway tracks, turnouts, and switches, and to regulate
the grade of the same, and to require them to conform to the grade of the
streets and alleys of said city as they may be hereafter or are now
established; and the cost of such improvements shall be a lien upon the
property and franchises of any such company, and may be assessed and taxed
against the property in the same manner as other taxes are levied. Said
board shall have power by ordinance to require any railroad company or
street-railway company to pay the cost of grading, paving, repaving,
draining and repairing of streets and alleys used or occupied by such
railroad or railway company, and such cost shall be a lien upon the
property and franchises of the company, and shall be assessed and taxed
against the same like other taxes.
The portion of the street or alley so used or occupied by such railway
companies shall be deemed to be the space between their tracks and eighteen
inches on the outside of each of their rails, and all the space between two
or more tracks, turnouts, and switches. Any railroad company or
street-railway company occupying any street or alley already occupied by
any other such company, in addition to paying for paving or repaving as
provided for in the next preceding paragraph, shall pay one-half the cost
of paving or repaving between the tracks of said two roads.
History: L. 1907, ch. 114, § 74; May 27; R.S. 1923, § 13-1904.
Article 19.--GENERAL POWERS OF BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
13-1904.Control and regulation of railroads on streets.
The board of commissioners shall have power by ordinance to require all
street and other railway companies to keep the streets and alleys over
which they run properly drained, and to light the same wherever deemed
necessary, and to require all street and other railway companies to
construct and keep in repair, to their full width, all viaducts, and all
crossings over all ditches used by them, and to construct and maintain
drains and culverts where crossed by any line of said railways on all
streets and alleys over which they run, to direct and control the laying
and construction of railway tracks, turnouts, and switches, and to regulate
the grade of the same, and to require them to conform to the grade of the
streets and alleys of said city as they may be hereafter or are now
established; and the cost of such improvements shall be a lien upon the
property and franchises of any such company, and may be assessed and taxed
against the property in the same manner as other taxes are levied. Said
board shall have power by ordinance to require any railroad company or
street-railway company to pay the cost of grading, paving, repaving,
draining and repairing of streets and alleys used or occupied by such
railroad or railway company, and such cost shall be a lien upon the
property and franchises of the company, and shall be assessed and taxed
against the same like other taxes.
The portion of the street or alley so used or occupied by such railway
companies shall be deemed to be the space between their tracks and eighteen
inches on the outside of each of their rails, and all the space between two
or more tracks, turnouts, and switches. Any railroad company or
street-railway company occupying any street or alley already occupied by
any other such company, in addition to paying for paving or repaving as
provided for in the next preceding paragraph, shall pay one-half the cost
of paving or repaving between the tracks of said two roads.
History: L. 1907, ch. 114, § 74; May 27; R.S. 1923, § 13-1904.
Article 19.--GENERAL POWERS OF BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
13-1904.Control and regulation of railroads on streets.
The board of commissioners shall have power by ordinance to require all
street and other railway companies to keep the streets and alleys over
which they run properly drained, and to light the same wherever deemed
necessary, and to require all street and other railway companies to
construct and keep in repair, to their full width, all viaducts, and all
crossings over all ditches used by them, and to construct and maintain
drains and culverts where crossed by any line of said railways on all
streets and alleys over which they run, to direct and control the laying
and construction of railway tracks, turnouts, and switches, and to regulate
the grade of the same, and to require them to conform to the grade of the
streets and alleys of said city as they may be hereafter or are now
established; and the cost of such improvements shall be a lien upon the
property and franchises of any such company, and may be assessed and taxed
against the property in the same manner as other taxes are levied. Said
board shall have power by ordinance to require any railroad company or
street-railway company to pay the cost of grading, paving, repaving,
draining and repairing of streets and alleys used or occupied by such
railroad or railway company, and such cost shall be a lien upon the
property and franchises of the company, and shall be assessed and taxed
against the same like other taxes.
The portion of the street or alley so used or occupied by such railway
companies shall be deemed to be the space between their tracks and eighteen
inches on the outside of each of their rails, and all the space between two
or more tracks, turnouts, and switches. Any railroad company or
street-railway company occupying any street or alley already occupied by
any other such company, in addition to paying for paving or repaving as
provided for in the next preceding paragraph, shall pay one-half the cost
of paving or repaving between the tracks of said two roads.
History: L. 1907, ch. 114, § 74; May 27; R.S. 1923, § 13-1904.