HomeMy WebLinkAbout54ORDINANCE NO. 54
AN ORDINANCE GRANTING PERMISSION TO THE CITY
OF PALO AI:TO TO CONSTRUCT AND MAINTAIN WATER
MAINS AND APPURTENANCES IN PAGE MILL ROAD A5D
ARASTRADERO ROAD IN THE T07M OF LOS ALTOS HILLS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILTS
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. Permission is hereby granted to the City of Palo
Alto to construct and maintain water mains and appurtenant
facilities in Page Mill Road and Arastradero Road for their
entire lengths in the City Limits of the Town of Los Altos
Hills.
SECTION II. The granting of such permission is hereby made
condititional upon the submission, prior to commencement of any
work pursuant hereto, by the City of Palo Alto of a covenant
whereby said City indemnifies and agrees to hold the Town of
Los Altos Hills, its officials, employees, and agents harmless
from any liability arising from the installation, maintenance,
use or removal of utilities or appurtenant facilities pursuant
to the grant of permission contained in this Ordinance. Said
grant of permission is further made conditional upon agreement
by the City of Palo Alto to pay to the Town of Los Altos Hills
all reasonable engineering fees necessarily incurred by said
Town for inspections and other engineering services in connect-
ion with construction accomplished pursuant to the grant of
permission contained in this Ordinance.
SECTION III. All work pertaining to said project shall be done
under the direction of the Engineer of the City of Palo Alto
and to the satisfaction of the City Engineer of this Town and
in conformity with good engineering practice. Said City En-
gineer shall require of the contractor that all of the provi-
sions of the specifications are complied with to the end that
no greater amount of ditches are open at any time than is
necessary, that they shall be adequately lighted and barricaded,
that they shall be backfilled and surfaced in accordance with
existing Town of Los Altos Hills Engineering Specifications.
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SECTION IV. Within fifteen (15) days after its passage, the
City Clerk shall cause this Ordinance to be posted in three
(3) public places in the Town.
SECTION V. This Ordinance is an urgency measure necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and
safety, and shall go into immediate effect. A. declaration of
the facts constituting the urgency is as follows:
The City of Palo Alto contemplates the early con-
struction of water facilities in the above-named streets in
order to provide service to property in said City in urgent need
of such service. In order that such construction may commence
as soon as possible, it is necessary that this Ordinance grant-
ing permission be effective immediately.
The foregoing Ordinance was introduced, read and
passed at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the Town
of Los Altos Hills duly held on the 4mh day of Ma_, 1959,
by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Bledsoe, Clayton, Henley, Sherlock,
Mayor Fowle
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
City C1 rk
APPROVED:
TAMayor of the
OF IOS ALTOS HILLS