Charter of the City of Dallas Page: 21
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ce with shall see fit to impose. All franchises shall be exercised in accordance with
)rder to the terms of the ordinance granting the same and of this charter. If such
should franchises shall not be exercised in substantial accordance with the terms
ill lhve hereof, and of the ordinance granting the same, then after notice to and
as pro- reasonable hearing of the holders thereof, such franchises may be can-
d in calledd or annulled and the Board of Coin missioners shall, by ordinance,
produce ada >t reasonable rules and regulations for such notice and hearing.
11. It shall be the duty of the Board of commissioners, as soon as
practicable after taking office, to hive true copies of all franchises permits,
it Shall ordinances, orders, resolutions, or any other proceedings by which any
use for rights, privileges or franchise are granted to any company, corporation
or individual owning, or operating any gas, oil, street railway, steam rail-
better
nantity W ,a. interurban, electric light and power, telephone or any other public
iniinate utility, which said franchises, etc., shall be codified, indexed and printed
D~allas. and offered for sale at cost price; and all future franchises shall like-
seing~ ~ wise be printed and offered for sale at cost price.
and if 12. Any franchise or right which may hereafter be granted to any per-
he ini- son or corpniration to operate a street railway within the city or its
Boid- suburbs shall be subject to the condition that the Board of Conmnissioners
orpora- shall have the right to grant to any other person or corporation desiring
imnaice, to build or operate a street railway or interurban railway within or into
Lcee au- the city of Dallas, the right to operate its cars over the tracks of said
street railway in so far as may be necessary to enter said city and to
limits reach the section thereof used for business purposes; provided that the
n other person or corporation desiring to operate its cars over the lines of said
of the street railway shall first agree in writing with the owner thereof to pay
it reasonable compensation for the use of its tracks and facilities. And
n that if the person or corporation desiring to use the same cannot agree with
om the said o\vner of said street railway as to said compensation within sixty
anchise days from offering in writing to do so, and as to terms and com-
t there- ditions of the use of said track and facilities, then the Board of Con-
of the missioners shall by resolution. after a fair hearing to the piities concerned,
the pe- fix the terms and conditions of such use and compensation to Ime paid there-
ommis- for, which award of the board, when so made, shall be binding on and ob-
nitted served by the parties concerned.
ualitied 13. Interurban railways are defined to be, in the meaning of this
hle next charter, railways operating their cars by electricity for the carriage of
thereof freight and passengers for hire, not wholly within the city and its suburbs,
blished but whose lines extend from the city of Dallas and its suburbs to other
y shall towns, cities or villages.
hysical 14. The Board of Commissioners shall have power, subject to the terms
,f three and conditions contained in this charter, to grant to any person or cor-
physi- poration, desiring to extend an interurban railway into the city, the
'd. But right to lay tracks and operate cars over the streets or other property of
avs to the city and over the tracks of other street railways for a term not ex-
xeb by feeding twenty years.
15. The right mentioned in the preceding section shall be granted by
Li take ordinance only, which ordinance shall not be finally passed until after three
grant- separate readings, the last of which shall take place not less than thirty
days from the first. The granting or refusing of the right or franchise
hereof, herein mentioned shall be subject to the terms and provisions of this
sioners charter concerning the submission of general franchises to a vote of the
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Texas. Legislature. Charter of the City of Dallas, legislative document, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth610709/m1/27/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.