5355ORDINANCE NO. 5
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION ONE (1) OF ORDINANCE NO. 280,0
PASSED APRIL 113, 1921; SECTION THREE (3) OF ORDINANCE NO.
2594 PASSED AUGUST 11, 1911; SECTION THREE (3) OF ORDINANCE^
`NO. 1157 PASSED DECEMBER 19, 1904; REPEALING SECTION TWEtvE
12) OF ORDINANCE NO. 1157, PASSED DECEMBER 19, 1904; AND FOR
col PURPOSES:
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ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK,
ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2800 be
and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
` "Section 1. That Section x#83 ofOrdinance
No. 712, passedDecember 6, 1897, being Section 1030
of -dales Digest of the City Ordinances, be., and the
same is hereby amended to read as follows:-
'Each telegraph, electric light,or
power company shall pay annually a sum equalto seventy-
five (.75¢) cents for each pole used by them or set up,
and a license tax on all conduits constructed to an
amount equal to four poles to each block, whether such
poles are leased, rented or awned by them.'"
SECTION 2. That Section 3 of Ordinance ho. 2594
be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows; by strik-
ing out all reference to telephone companies and the rates there-
,_ .,_ _. . of and insertingin place and stead thereof the following:
"TELEPHONE COMPANIES: Each person, firm or
corporation operating a telephone exchange or exchanges
in the City (it not being the purpose thereof to tax
interstate or foreign messages or any United States
business) per year #250000v .
SECTION 3. That Section 3 of Ordinance No. 1157 be
and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
"In consideration of the rights and privi-
leges herein granted and as a condition upon which the
same are granted the said Southwestern Telegraph &
Telephone ,Company shall, during the life of this oidi-
` tae; furnish to said Cit�and -maintain free of- a !!
to said City such wires through its oven underground
cables, now or hereafter laid, as may be necessary for
the present and future police, wid,fire alarm service of
said City, and in addition thereto shall connect said
underground and overhead police and fire alarm wires with-
- out charge to the City, but no other City wires except
those provided herein shall be allowed in said'co nduits."
SECTION 4. That Section 12 of said Ordinanee 1157
be and the same is hereby repealed.
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SECTION 5. That the license fee for the operation of
telephone companies herein provided for in Section 2 hereof
shall be paid in the sum of $$5,000 for the year 1936 promptly
upon the passage and approval of this ordinance and for each suc-
ceeding year thereafter shall be paid as provided in Section 2 of
Ordinance No. 2594.
SECTION 6. It is the intention of this ordinance to
provide and levy a license fee for the operation of telephone com-
panies in the pity of Little Rock of $25,000 for each calendar
year, or part thereof, that said companies are operated in the
City of Little Rock beginning with the year 1936 instead and in
lieu of any further license, charge, fee or imposition levied by
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the City (except as now provided for/fire alarms and free police
telegraph wires) other than the usual general or special ad valorem
taxes now or hereafter levied.
SECTION 7. All ordinances and parts.of_ordinanees in, y'
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conflict herewith are hereby repealed insofar as they conflict
herewith and this ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage. j
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PASSED: JulY _133; 1936- ED:
ATTEST: _ Mayor
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City lerk.