Residence Service With Coin-Collecting Attachment. The following maximum charges shall be made for residence measured service with coin or token-collecting attachment: For a two-party line residence telephone, including two exchange switches per day, 72 cents per day, and for all exchange switches in excess of the number included in this rate, a sum not to exceed 5 cents each. For a four-party line residence telephone, including one exchange switch per day, 5 cents per day, and for all exchange switches in excess of the num ber included in this rate, a sum not to exceed 5 cents each. Extension Telephones. For each extension telephone on a residence telephone line the maximum charge shall be a sum not to exceed 50 cents per month. Names in Telephone Directory. Any person, company or corporation supplying telephonic service in this City or County shall at least three times a year furnish free of charge to each subscriber a complete directory of all subscribers in San Francisco, and an additional copy of said directory for each extension telephone: provided, however that for every name listed in said directory under the telephone number of a subscriber, in excess of the number of main and extension telephones installed on the premises of the subscriber, a sum not to exceed 25 cents per month for each such name shall be charged. Private Lines. The following maximum charges shall be made for private telephones and lines not connected with a telephone exchange: For private-line telephones, a sum not to exceed 50 cents per month each. Quality of Service. Section 2. The term "Telephone" as used in this Ordinance is hereby defined to mean both a transmitter and a receiver. It shall be optional with the person demanding telephonic service to elect to take or use either portable or stationary telephonic apparatus and it shall be the duty of the person, company or corporation supplying telephonic service in the City and County to furcish such apparatus without additional cost, except as in this Ordinance provided The term Exchange Switch, as used in this Ordinance, is hereby defined to mean an availing call, that is to say, a call whereby an outgoing conversation message is transmitted from one telephone station within the City and County and received at another telephone station within the City and County. or No switching charge shall be made for an unavailing call, and when a nickel or token is deposited in the coin-collecting attachment for an unavailing "all the same shall be returned to the person by whom it was deposited. Single conversations on party lines shall not exceed five minutes. Upon the application in writing of the owner or occupant of any building or premises distant not more than 300 feet from any underground conduit or pole line of the person, company or corporation furnishing telephonic service, and payment by the applicant of all money due from him, the person. company or corporation must within thirty days supply telephonic service as required for such building or premises and cannot refuse on the ground of any indebtedness of any former owner or occupant thereof, unless the applicant has undertaken to pay the same. No restriction shall be placed by any company, person or corporation supplying telephonic service upon their right of subscribers to employ operators, provided that any operator or substitute operator to be employed and paid by the subscriber shall conform to the reasonable rules and regulations pertaining to the service of such person, company or corporation. No contract shall be exacted, made or enforced that will exclude or in any manner prohibit or restrict any patron or subscriber from receiving telephonic service from any other person or corporation engaged in such business, or from installing and using in any manner that may be desired the telephones or instruments of two or more different telephone systems; nor shall telephonic service be refused for the reason that the person requesting same is a patron of another person or corporation, or using another or different telephone system. It shall be the duty of the telephone company to advise their subscribers by written notice if it is found that for three consecutive months the schedule charged is higher than the number of contract switches shown. Said notice to 4. Advice as to average number monthly switches. 5. Advice as to what proper schedule subscriber should be under. The telephone company shall print on the reverse side of their billheads their schedules, showing the various grades of monthly rental, contract switching and excess switching, so the same can easily be understood by their subscribers, and on the front of such billheads shall appear in large type the words, See Schedule of Rates on Other Side.'' Upon demand of any person, company or corporation using business or professional measured telephonic service (excepting prepayment service) every person, company or corporation supplying telephonic service within the City and County shall install and maintain in connection with each such measured service line, a meter which shall prove effective in actual use for accurately and correctly recording the number of outgoing messages and conversations over said line, and said meter shall be subject to inspection at all reasonable times by the subscriber upon whose line the same is installed. Section 3. Any person, company or corporation, or any officer or agent of any person, company or corporation, violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred ($500) Dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and such person, company or corporation, or officer or agent of any such person, company or corporation, shall be guilty of a separate offense for every day that such violation shall continue, and shall be subject to the penalty imposed by this section for each and every separate offense. Section 4. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1911. In Board of Supervisors, San Francisco, June 19, 1911. After having been published five successive days according to law, taken up and finally passed by the following vote: Ayes-Supervisors Bancroft, Cutten, Deasy, Hayden, Healy, Herget, Hocks, Kelly, Knowles, Loughery, Minehan, Murdock, Nelson, Nolan, O'Dowd, Pugh, Walsh. Absent-Supervisor Harris. Approved, San Francisco, June 21, 1911. W. R. HAGERTY, Clerk. P. H. McCARTHY, Mayor and ex-officio President of the Board of Supervisors. Parnassus Avenue Franchise On April 16, 1910, Thomas W. Forsyth petitioned the Board of Supervisors to grant a franchise for a street railroad commencing at the intersection of Parnassus and Third Avenues, running thence along Parnassus Avenue to Judah Street; thence along Judah Street to Ninth Avenue; thence, along Ninth Avenue to Pacheco Street. The petition was supplemented by petitions of property owners and various civic organizations in the district continguous to the proposed line of railway. The petition received the favorable report of the Public Utilities Committee of the Board and thereafter on August 8, 1910, Resolution No. 6385 (New Series), was adopted reciting that it was the intention of the Board of Supervisors to grant the franchise applied for subject to all the conditions imposed by the charter and directing the clerk to advertise the franchise for sale as required by said charter. Notice was accordingly given that sealed bids for the purchase of such franchise would be received by the Board on September 3, 1910. On said date Thomas W. Forsyth submitted a bid in accordance with the terms and conditions of the notice and agreed to pay therefor three per cent of the gross earnings of the proposed railway for the first five years of the term thereof, four per cent during the next ten years and five per cent during the remaining ten years. The bid was accepted and the ordinance granting the franchise was passed to print on October 3, 1910. On January 23, 1911, the ordinance was finally passed and is as follows: BILL NO. 1491. ORDINANCE NO. 1460. (New Series.) Granting to Thomas W. Forsyth a franchise for a right of way, and the right of way, and the right to construct, maintain and operate a double track, standard-gauge street railroad, for the term of twenty-five years, over and upon the following described route, to wit: Commencing at the intersection of Parnassus and Third Avenues, running thence along Parnassus Avenue to Judah Street, thence along Judah Street to Ninth Avenue, thence along Ninth Avenue to Pacheco Street. Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows: Section 1. The right of way is hereby granted unto Thomas W. Forsyth, his successors or assigns, for the term of twenty-five (25) years, to use portions of the streets hereinafter named and described for street railroad purposes, as hereinafter set forth, and to that end the said Thomas W. Forsyth, his successors or assigns, is hereby granted the right to construct, erect, maintain and operate, by means of electricity or such other improved motive power as science has now or may hereafter discover and the laws sanction, a double track, standard-gauge railroad along the following described route, to wit: Commencing at the intersection of Parnassus and Third Avenues, running thence along Parnassus Avenue to Judah Street, thence along Judah Street to Ninth Avenue, thence along Ninth Avenue to Pacheco Street. Section 2. It shall be lawful, and said Thomas W. Forsyth, his successors or assigns, shall have the right to build, construct, erect and maintain all neces sary poles, feed, trolley, guy, stay and sustaining wires, overhead construction, connecting tracks, Y tracks, side tracks, turnouts, curves, switches, crossings, and to connect any or all of said tracks with the existing tracks on Parnassus and Third Avenues. Section 3. The foregoing grants are made upon the following express conditions, to be strictly complied with by the said grantee, his successors assigns, viz: or First-The grantee, his successors or assigns, shall pay to the City and County of San Francisco, in lawful money of the United States, a percentage upon the gross annual receipts of said grantee, his successors or assigns, arising from the use, operation, possession or enjoyment of such franchise, as follows: Three per centum thereof during the first five years of the period for which said franchise is granted; four per centum thereof during the next succeeding ten years of said period and five per centum thereof during the next succeeding ten years of such period. All such percentum of said gross receipts shall be paid into the treasury of the City and County of San Francisco on or before the tenth day of the next ensuing month after such gross receipts shall have been earned. Second-The grantee, his successors or assigns, shall continuously operate the whole of the railway hereby authorized, and at the end of the term of this franchise the road, track and bed of said railway and all its stationary fixtures upon the public streets shall become the property of the City and County. The grantee, his successors or assigns, shall within one hundred days after the date of the grant hereby made, commence the construction of the railway hereby authorized, and continuously thereafter in each and every month until the completion thereof expend in such construction at least the sum of three thousand dollars. A failure to comply with any of the conditions in the foregoing paragraphs shall work an immediate forfeiture of such franchise and the road or track constructed thereunder, and there shall be no power in the Board of Supervisors to relieve from such forfeiture or from any of said conditions. On or before the tenth day of each month, after said receipts shall have been earned, the president and secretary of said railway company shall make and file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors a sworn statement of the gross receipts of such railway for the preceding month. Third-The franchise hereby granted shall not, upon expiration of the term thereof, be renewed or regranted, and the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco shall at all times have power to regulate the rates of fare to be charged by those using, operating, possessing or enjoying this franchise, and the Finance Committee of said Board shall at all times be permitted to examine and inspect their books as to their gross receipts. Fourth-The grantee, his successors or assigns, shall be required to pave the space between the rails and for two feet each side thereof, and between the tracks if there be more than one, upon the streets whereon said tracks are to be laid, and to keep the same in good condition and repair under the supervision and to the satisfaction of the Board of Public Works of the City and County. Fifth-The grantee, his successors or assigns, shall pay to the City and County as a license upon each car such sum as the Board of Supervisors may fix, provided, however, that such sum shall not exceed fifty ($50.00) dollars per annum, nor be less than fifteen ($15.00) dollars per annum. Sixth-Said street railroad franchise is hereby granted, subject to the conditions and restrictions provided in the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco, with particular reference to the following subdivisions and sections of Chapter 2, Article II of said Charter, relating to the powers of the Board of Supervisors, to wit: Subdivision 2 and Subdivision 27, as amended February 5, 1903, of Section 1 thereof, and Section 6 thereof. Section 4. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. In Board of Supervisors, San Francisco, January 23, 1911. After having been published five successive days, according to law, taken up and finally passed by the following vote: Ayes-Supervisors Cutten, Deasy, Harris, Hayden, Healy, Herget, Hocks, Kelly, Knowles, Loughery, McLaughlin, Minehan, Murdock, Nelson, O'Dowd, Walsh. Absent-Supervisors Bancroft, Pugh. Approved, San Francisco, January 23, 1911. W. R. HAGERTY, Clerk. J. A. KELLY, Acting Mayor and ex-officio President of the Board of Supervisors. |