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Ordinance No. 14.
Ordinance regulating the moving of housss and buildings,
providing for permits and licenses therefor, and for the
raising or removal of wires, etc.
Be it ordained by the President and Board of Tru~
tees of the Village of Mount Prospect;-
Sectien I - No person sha.ll engll.g'p in or carry en
the business of moving houses or building~~in the Village
of Mount Prospect, or remove or at.tempt to remove any house
or building from one place to another in the said Village
unless he b~ licensed to do so in accordance with the pr~
visions of tbis ordinance.
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Section 2_- Any person may procure a license as
a house mover in 9.:l.id village authorizing him to engage
in or carryon the business of moving houses or build-
ings from place to place in the said Village of Mount
Prospect from the Vill~ge Clerk of said Village upon the
payment by him of the license fee of one Dollar (~l.OO) .
. and upon the execution and filling with the Clerk of a
bond in the penal sum of Two Hundred Dollars (~200.),
with sureties to be approved by the president of t.he
Village of Mount Prospect conditioned for the faithful
observance and perforMance of the ordinances of the
said Village concerning the moving of houses or buildings
from place to place within theVillage, and conditioned
futher to pay all damages whi~h may occur to any pave-
ment, street, sidewalk or any pole, wire, cable, electric-
al appliances, and to pay all damages which may occur to
the property of any person in t.he said Village caused by
or arising out of any act or thing done by such house
mover in and about the Toving of any house or tuilding
in the said Village, or which shall be done by the Baid
house mover under or by virt.ue of the authority given
in this ordinance.
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Section) - No house ~over shall remove any
house or building from one p1a8e to another v.'i thin tt.e
said Village without a permit issued for that purpose
.c b-y the Vill-&.F:e Cler~o. 2resident upon due applicat.ion
made by the said house mover design~ting in such appli-
cation the discript.ion of the house or building, its
location, the place to which it is desired to remove the
same, and the route over which it is intended to.take
such building , together with the consent in writing of
the owners of the property located within a distance of
150 feet from the place to which it is desired to re-
move said building.
Provided,-however , that. if it is sought to re-
move a house or building from one part of a lot to another
part of the same lot , or from one lot to another lot
where both lots are owned by the same person without
crossing or going upon or along any street or-public way
or across or along the property of any person other than
the owner of the lot from which said house or building
should be moved , then in that case no permit as provided
for in Section? shall be necessary.
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Section. - When it shall appear to the said Vill age
Clerk that the removal so applied for as hereinbefore de-
signated will necessitate the interfering with, disturbing
or coming into contact with any telephone, telegraph or
other electrical wire, cable or conductor, no permit
shall be issued by said Village Clerk and President until
the applicant therefor shall have made a deposit with the
Village Clerk of a sufficient Bum to cover the cost of
cutting, raising or making such other disposition of
said wires , cables or electrical conductors as may be
necessary to enable 'such building to pass along its route
and also cover the cost and expence of replacing and re-
pairing any such wire, cable or conductor so necessary to
cut, raise or otherwise disturb.
In the event that the deposit so made be more t~an
sufficient to pay the expence necessary therefor, any
amount remaining unexpended shall be forthwith returned
to the person who has made such deposit. .
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Section 5 - In any 'case v/here the issuance of
such permit shall make necessary the interfering with, "
disturbing or coming into contact with any te1ephcne,'tele-
graph o~ any other elentrica1 wire, cable, or conductor the
saId Village Clerk shall thereupon notify any private
company maintaing or operating any wires or apparatus along
or over any street so necessary to be interfered with or
disturbed or touched, to raise or remove any said wire
or conductors or apparatus so as to allow or permit build-
ings to be moved a.long or acroee any street or highway,
which said notice shall be in writing and mailed to said
private company, and in the event that the said removal
or raising is not done by the said private company with-
in ten days after the mailing of said notice then the
said Village Clerk shall authorize the same to be done
and at the expence of the said company so refusing to
comply with the said request.
No licensed house mover shall cut, remove or other-
wise interfere with any wire, cable or other electrical
conductor strung upon, across or along any street or public
way.
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Section 6 - Any person violating any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall be fined not less than
Twenty Five Dollars (t25.00) nor more than One Hundred
Dollars(t100.00) ror each of~ence.
Section 7 - Thia ordinance shall be in force
from and after the date of its passage, approval and
publication.
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Passed Dec. 4th. 1917.
Approved Dec. 4t9. 1917. .
'Published Dec. bth. to Dee
Attest:
17. 1917
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Village President. I
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Pested a.t the following places to-wit = Post Office. Depot.
Busse's Hardware .Store.