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Whenever application shall be made to the City Council of the City of Flint for permission to move any building or other structure, it shall be the duty of said City Council, before granting such permission to require the person, firm or corporation so applying to enter into a bond or other obligation running to the City of Flint in such penal sum as said City Council shall prescribe and with one or more sureties to be approved by the City Clerk or Mayor of said city, conditioned that the streets, lanes and alleys and other public places shall not be obstructed thereby for a greater length of time than shall be absolutely necessary to move the said building or other structure; that all streets, lanes and alleys and other public places shall without delay be restored to the same condition as before the passage and moving of any building or other structure; and that he, they or it will fully and fairly compensate the City of Flint for any and all damage done directly or indirectly to the pavements, streets, sidewalks, crosswalks and approaches; and any person, firm or corporation, for any and all damages done directly or indirectly to the tracks, wires, poles, lawns, shade trees or other property of any such person, firm or corporation; and for any and all costs and expenses occasioned to any person, firm or corporation by reason of any of the provisions of this ordinance.
(Ord. 43, passed 8-6-1904)
It shall also be the duty of the City Council before granting such permission to require the Street Committee thereof to designate the route by or over which any building or other structure shall be moved, and to make such other orders and regulations as in its judgment the safety and the public welfare may require.
(Ord. 43, passed 8-6-1904)
Every person, company or corporation maintaining, owning, controlling or operating any electric line, wires, cables or appliances of any kind for electric lights, power, telephone, telegraph or any purpose whatsoever in the City of Flint, its public streets, alleys and grounds, shall, when ordered by the City Council and notified of such order by the Chief of Police, cause its wires and other appliances to be raised or so arranged as to permit the passage on any such street, lane, alley or public place, of any building or other structure that is being moved from one part of the City to the other, when said removal is authorized by the City Council; provided, however, that in the removal of such buildings, the streets, lanes, alleys or public places shall not be obstructed thereby or the wires or other appliances raised or otherwise arranged to permit the passage of the building shall not be interfered with for any greater length of time than is absolutely necessary to move said building over and across the said streets, lanes or alleys or public places or under said wires so raised or arranged for the passage of the building or other structure.
(Ord. 43, passed 8-6-1904)
Cross-reference:
Poles and Wires, see Ch. 37
In case the cables or large telephone wires shall not be of the height from the ground required by the ordinance of the City of Flint, the said cable or large wire shall be raised to a sufficient height, the whole of the expense and cost incurred in raising the same shall be borne by the telephone company; provided, that if the cable or larger wires are of the height from the ground provided by the ordinance, and it shall be necessary to raise the same higher in order that buildings may be moved thereunder, it shall be the duty of the telephone company to raise the cables or large wires, when ordered by the City Council, and notified of such order by the Chief of Police, to a sufficient height temporarily to permit a building to be moved thereunder. The cost and expense incurred thereby to be paid by the person owning or moving said building, the amount to be paid therefor by the owner of mover of said building to be fixed and determined by the Street Committee of the City Council in case the telephone company and the owner or mover of said building cannot agree as to said cost and expenses.
In case of any ordinary telephone wire or guy wire is not sufficient height from the ground to admit the moving of a building thereunder, the said telephone company shall, when ordered, by the City Council, and notified of s order by the Chief of Police, raise said telephone wire or guy wire at its own cost and expense, to a sufficient height to allow said building to be moved thereunder.
(Ord. 43, passed 8-6-1904)
ARTICLE III. NUMBERING OF BUILDINGS AND PREMISES
The numbering of houses and places shall be in accordance with the system and plan known as the “Philadelphia plan,” and for that purpose the City shall be divided into north and south by the Flint River and east and west by Detroit Street and Saginaw Street South.
(Ord. 162, passed 8-31-1931)
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