149 of 1912 - Franchise, amending Sections 2 and 4, viaduct R.G.W.R.R. Company. ROLL CALL
Salt Lake City, Utah,_.__ Oet 8th,___.191__2.
VOTING vea No I move that the attached ordinance be passed.
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AN ORDINANCE .
An ordinance amending and re-enacting Sections 2 and 4 of an
ordinance passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City
April 17, 1912, requiring the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company
to construct viaducts across its railroad tracks at the intersections
of Fourth South and Seventh South Streets with Fifth West Street in
Salt Lake City, and adding to said ordinance a new section to be
known as Section 4a, providing for vacating Fourth South Street from
the center of Fifth West Street to the center of Sixth West Street.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake
City, Utah:
SECTION 1. That Section 2 of an ordinance passed by the Board
of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, April 17, 1912, requiring the
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company to construct viaducts across
its railroad tracks at the intersections of Fourth South and Seventh
South Streets with Fifth West Street in Salt Lake City, be, and the
same is hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
SECTION 2. That the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company,
a Corporation, be, and it is hereby directed and required to
construct, at its on expense, a viaduct on Fourth South Street
in Salt Lake City, east and west on said street across said
Company's railroad tracks situated between the east side of
Fifth West Street and the west side of Sixth West Street in
said city of a height sufficient to permit safety clearance for
all railroad purposes and surface traffic; said viaduct shall
be wide enough to permit a roadway twenty-eight (28) feet wide
between the curbs, and shall have a sidewalk six (6) feet wide
on the outside of each curb; the grades of the approaches of the
roadway end sidewalks on each side shall not exceed five and
one-half (5>) per cent; at each street intersection there shall
be one flight of steps on each side leading to the street, but
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the sidewalk approaches from each end shall be la incline cyr-
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forming to the grade of the roadway; the structure shall be
constructed of either steel skeleton with creosoted wooden
floor joists and creosoted wooden sub-base, or of re-inforoed
concrete throughout, and either type of construction adopted by
the railroad company must conform to the standard specifications
for the material employed, and no wooden railings shall be used;
the said viaduct shall be designed and constructed only for the
ordinary road traffic, including a fifteen-ton road roller or
motor truck; it shall be designed and constructed to provide
for proper drainage, and shall have a concrete curb on each
side of the roadway; the surface of the roadway on the main
portion of the viaduct, or wherever the grade permits, shall be
of creosoted wooden blocks, and on the approaches or in any
place where the grade may be five and one-half (5i) per cent
and too steep for the proper use of such blocks, stone blocks
shall be laid, and all surfaces where stone blocks are to be
laid shall be of concrete six (6) inches in thickness. The
wooden blocks may be laid on creosoted sub-timbers four (4)
inches thick, paid wooden sub-timbers to be laid upon five (5)'‘‘.")
by sixteen (16)r creosoted wooden floor joists; all wooden sub-
timbers and floor joists shall receive a twelve (12) pound
creosote treatment; all wooden blocks used shall in treatment
absorb at least sixteen (16) pounds of creosote per cubic foot,
and they shall be thoroughly dried and free from sap before
they are treated. Provision shall be made in the construction
of the hand rails on each side of said viaduct for the instal-
, lation on the north side thereof of five (5) lighting poles,
and on the south side of four (4) lighting poles, and for the
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wiring necessary for the installation of lights on each of said'
poles. The roadway shall meet the requirements of standard
specifications for such construction.
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SECTION 2. That Section 4 of said ordinance be, and the same
is hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
SECTION 4. That within thirty days after the service of
a Dopy of this ordinance upon it, said Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad Company shall commence the construction of said via-
duct, and shall within sixty days from such time furnish to the
Board of Commissioners and City Engineer of this city full and
complete plans and specifications for the construction of said
viaduct, for their approval. When plans and specifications are
approved by said Board and Engineer, the said railroad company
shall continue the work of construction of said viaduct and
complete the same in such time as may be reasonably necessary,
but in any event finish the entire work within fourteen months
from the date of the service of this ordinance. Upon the con-
struction of said viaduct in accordance herewith, and its ac-
ceptance by the Board of Commissioners and Engineer of Salt
Lake City, said city will thereafter care for and maintain the
surface thereof, but the said railroad company and its succes-
sors shall thereafter care for and maintain the structural or
supporting portion of said viaduct. The portion of said via-
duct which the city shall care for and maintain is the actual
wearing surface of the roadway pavement and sidewalk, such as
the wooden or stone blocks and the concrete surface of the
sidewalks, but not the wooden floor joists or sub-timbers,
which, together with all other portions of the structural or
supporting portion of said viaduct shall be oared for and
maintained by said railroad company, sad at its own expense.
That in case that portion of said viaduct to be cared for
and maintained by Salt Lake City shall be injured or destroyed
by fire caused by Vae-va said railroad
companyX or in case that portion of
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said viaduct which is to be cared for and maintained by said
railroad company shall get out of repair or become unsightly
from any cause, then said railroad company shall within thirty
days after notice from the Supervisor of Streets of said city,
at its own expense, repair or restore the portion of said via-
4uat4ot-be cared for and maintained by said city, so injured or
z; l esi'vxoye ; and upon•, like notice, shall, at its own expense,
1r4air, and render a.ghtly that portion of said;viaduct to be
y� cared�(for and maint#i d by said railroad pomp, ,".,
6E6017 3. That a e _:section of said ordinance44 ereby
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j ' eCao ed 'to be known as,c' e tion 4a, to read as follow
gECTION 4a TTiat from and after the completion of said
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4 tiSad t; eke City, t1.4 part of Fourth South Street bet
ween the
' center of Fifth West': Street and the center of Sixth West Street
shall be vacated and withdrawn from use by the public.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon its first
publication.
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,
Utah,October 18 , 1912.
ayo City ecorder.
Due service of certified copy of the within and foregoing
ordinance hereb;T admitted this �-�- day of October, 1912.
DENVER & RIO GRANDE RAILROAD COMPANY,
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