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"- .. --..... e e '.....-..... .e '. .. o. ~ . " ORDINAnCE lifO. 419 AN OHDINANCE l:1HEREBY THE CITY OF LA PORTE , TEXAS, Al'ID . THE SOUTH'.J:~ST:2RN BELL T:8LEPHONE COf1P,ANY AGREZ THAT THE TELE- PHO~TE CO~1PANY SHALL CONTnmE TO ERECT AND r1AINTAIN ITS POLES, l'II~ES, ANCHORS, CABLES, HANHOLES, CONDUITS, l\l',m O'.I'HJ:R PLANT CONST1UCTION AND APPU1TENAUCES ALONG, ACROSS, ON, OVER, THROUGH, ABOVE AND UNDJ:R ALL PUBLIC STTIE::TS, AVENUE!3, ALLEYS, PUBLIC G~OUNDS AND PLACES IN SAID CITY, UNDER REGULATIONS ArTD 1EST~ICTIONS AND THAT THE CITY SHALL ~ECEIVE AN ANNUAL PJ'_YlnNT AND THE RIGI-IT TO USE CE-~TAIN FACILITIES OF '1:'HE TELE- PHO~ COHPANY, ALL AS HEREIN P~OVIDED: Jt HHE1EAS, the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, hereinafter referred to as the "Telephone Company", is now and has been enga~ed in the telephone business in the State of Texas, and in furtherance thereof, has erected and main- tained certain items of its plant construction in the City of La Porte , Texas, hereinafter referred to as the "City", for many years pursuant to such rights as have been 0ranted it by and under the la,l""s of the State of Texas, and subject to the exercise of such reasonable rights of regula- tion under the police power as have been also lawfully grant- ed by and und~r said laws to said City; and ;... HHEREl\.S, it is to the mutual ad'Tontage of both the City and the Telephone Company that an agreement should be entered into between the Telephone Company and the City estab- liShing the conditions under which the Telephone Company shall opera,te in the City. Nm.!, THE':1EFOl1E, BE IT O~DAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS, THAT: SECTION 1- CONST'IDCTION 'AND MAI~ITENANCE OF T::O:LEPHOl'TE PLANT f'.ND S~'RVI CE The poteet; wires~-ancE.ors; ..cables manholes; conduits and other plant construction and appurtenances, used in or in- cident to the gi'7ing of telephone service and to the main- tenance of a telephone business and system by the Telephone Company in the City, shall remain as now constructed, sub- ject to such chanGes as under the limitation and conditions herein prescribed may be considered necessary by the City in the exercise of its lawful pOi-lerS and by the Telephone Company in the exercise of its business of furnishin3 tele- phone ser,Tice; and the Telephone Company shall continue to exercise its l"i~"ht to place, remove, construct and recon- structl extend and maintain its said ~lant and appurtenances. as the business and purposes for which it is or TIlay be in- corporated may from time to time require alonr" across, on, ...