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HomeMy WebLinkAbout007 - 03/13/1926 - AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 007, 1921, RELATING TO LOCAL PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS BY ADDING THERETO SECTION 33 Y ORDINANC^ NO. 1926, BEIT?G AN ENERGEATCY OPDI?dAN'L :A?,"k"TDIuG ORD ANC NO. 7, 1921, R^LATI*7G 'TO LOCAL PUBLIC IP:MOV71STNTS, PAS-:D AND ADOPTED APRIL 2, 1921, BY ADDING TR.M,TTO STCTION 33, COVERING TF' '.It"7 P OF ARTIFICIAL LIG?.7TyG SYSTITE!S. BE IT ORDAINW BY THQ CITY COUNCIL OF TM, CITY OF FORT COLLINS: Section 1. That Ordinance No. 7, 1921, being an ordinance relating to loc94 public improvements and covering all forms of local public improvements, assessments for the cost tbereof, and the issuance of bonds in payment of the cost of the said improvements, axc3pt the construction of artificial lighting @$stems, andproviding for the payment tlareof, be and the some is hereby amended by adding thereto a section to be known as Section 3 3 to read as follows. "Section 33. It shall be lawP.:l for the City Council, on petition of the owners of one-third of the frontage of real estate to be assessed, to order the construction and appliances for the installation of a system of artificial lighting, and regulate th3 use thereof and assess the cost thereof upon the property within the limits of the artificial lighting districts created for the purpose of constructing said lighting systems, in proportion to the frontage of said lot or lots or lands within said lighting districts, or as may be equitable and just, as may be determinsd by the City Council in ordoring the installation of said lights and appliances after the creation of the said district, provided that in cresting the said artificial lighting districts the assessment and payment for the sacra, the sa:.d procedure shall be observed as required in said Ordinance No. 7, 1921. If the ownsre of one-third of the frontage of real estate to be assessed shall petition for artificial lighting system and name soma kind of substantial light pole units, be the sm-no --tal, concr3t3, tile or other substantial light poles, then such improvement shall be ordered in accordance light pole with the petition, and the/units so designated stall be used, provided the City Council shall deem such proposed improvements and the kind of light poles good and sufficient for the particular locality, and uniform throughout the entire district. If, however, the units so petitioned for are such that they do not encourage competition, than it stall be the right of the light pole p3titioners to state in the petition the maximum price per/unit at which the improvemant is desired, and no contract shall be let for any such improvet4tent at a price sxcssd.ing the maxiTmm price fixed in, said petition, e3cluding the cost o£ engineering, collection, insAecticn, wiring, incidentals and interest. The selection of all materials and the detail work for the contraction and installation of such artificial lighting system for any district so created shall be within the discretion and under the direction of the City Council, except as Tray be otherwise specified in the petition." Section 2. In the opinion of the City Council an emergency alists for the precarvation of th3 public health, peace and safety and this ordinance shall take effect upon its passage- and publication, under and by virtue of the authority contained in Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter. Introduced, read at length and adopted by the unanim:us vote of all the Trar,.bsrs of the City Connci.l this 13th day of March, A. D. 1926. i C issioner of Safety Ex-Of fie i0 or A43�ST:N City C13rk. STATE OF COLORp.ID ) ) SS. COILNTY OF IA RI4ER ) I, A. J. ROSEIIow, City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins do hereby certify and declare that the foregoing ordinance consisting of two (2) sections was duly proposed and read at length at a r3galar meeting of the City Council held on the 13th day of March, A. D. 1926, and waa duly a dopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins Express-Cmirier, a daily newspaper and the official newspaper of the City of Fort Collins, by the unanimous vote of all the r.embars of the City ^o -rcil; as an emergency ordinance in accordance with the provisions of Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the Cit artsr; of the City of Fort Collins, and thereafter and on to-wit: the day of March, A. D. 1926, said Ordinance No. -- X! _ was duly published in the Fort TLollin%AExpress-Co rier, a daily newspaper published in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado. IN WITNESS t , I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said City this day of M D. 1926. City Clark.