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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 212 03/07/1939 f "'1/ fY BE IT ORDAINED by the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Mount Prospect, Cook County, Illinois, that the President and Village Clerk of said Village be and they are hereby authorized and empowered on behalf of said Village of Mount Prospect to execute an agreement with the Illinois Bell Telephone Company in form and substance as follows, to wit: "THIS AGF~UF.NT made this day of ~ . A.D. 19--, by and between the Village of Mount Prospect, a municipal corporation in the County of Cook, State of Illinois, hereinafter referred to as the Village, and the Illinois Bell Telephone Company, an Illinois corporation hereinafter referred to as the Company, Witnesseth: "WHEREAS, the Village has no fire alarm system of its own in service in said Village and has requested permission of the Company to have the Company's operators doing the switching of subscribers lines in the exchange building of the Company in the Village of Arlington Heights, Illinois, perform the service hereinafter specified so that such informa- tion as is received by telephone as to the location of any fire in the Vil- lage may be furnished to the Fire Department of the Village, and "WHEREAS, the Company is willing to grant this permission and to have its operators perform such service for the Village without lia- bility to the Company in the manner and upon the terms and conditions here- inafter specified. "NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants and agree- ments hereinafter contained and of the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) in hand paid by each of the parties hereto to the other and for other good and valuable considerations, moving from each of said parties to the other, the receipt of all of which are hereby aCknowledged, it is mutually agreed as follows: "FIRST: In order that reports of fire may be given preferred attention, the Company agrees to assign, for the purpose of such fire re- ports only, the telephone number Mount Prospect 0 to the telephone which is located at the plant of the J. B. Crofoot Company and which is other- wise known as Mount Prospect 1060; to publish instructions in its tele- phone directory for the district in which the Village of Mount Prospect is located to the effect that Mount Prospect 0 is the number to call to report a fire; and to instruct its operators that whenever a call is made to Mount Prospect 0, or whenever a person calling in any other way indi- cates a desire to report a fire, to give continued supervision to such call. The Company further agrees to assign a special code call which shall not be made public by the Village, its employees or volunteer fire- men, to be furnished the Village and by it given to the Village firemen so that in case of alarms of fire the latter may make their identities as Village firemen known to the Company's operators at its said exchange building when such firemen call said exchange by telephone for informa- tion as to the location of the fire for which an alarm has been sounded, and be furnished such information as may be in the possession of said operators relative to the location of the fire; no information as to the location of the fire to be given to persons not giving such code call. "SECOND: The Village does hereby release said Company from, and will indemnify said Company against and save it harmless from any and all legal and other expenses, claims, costs, losses, suits, judgments or damages for or on account of injuries to or death of persons or injury to or destruction of property by reason of or claimed to be caused, directly or indirectly, by the performance or the failure to perform any act or acts by the Company , its agents, servants, or employees, in any manner or at any time in connection with such fire calls whether re- quired by the terms hereof or not. - 2 - "THIRD: This agreement shall continue in force until ter- minated by either of the parties hereto giving to the other thirty (50) days previous written notice of its intention to terminate the same, whereupon the service herein provided for sh811 cease upon ex- piration of said period of thirty (50) days. "FOURTH: It is further understood and agreed that this agreement is made subject to the right of the Illinois Commerce Com- mission to require the same to be abrogated and terminated whenever in its opinion the public interest or convenience requires it. "IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have caused this agreement to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized the day and year first above written." BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Village Clerk be and he is hereby in- structed to forward a certified copy of this ordinance to said Company. PASSED this 7 day of ?nJ- , A.D. 19~ $~~ Village Clerk ~ APPROVED this 7 ~ day of ~ ~ ,~. L , A.D. 19~ , ~pov~dv-.J President / I~J1 [v, ./~. ~