2286 ORD GRANTING LAMAR COUNTY HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL INC FRANCHISE TO USE PUBLIC STREETS ETC OF COP

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Section 3. That the buses operated or maintained under said franchise shall be used for the purpose of transportation of passen- gers as heretofore described and the items of personality of such passengers. Section 4. That all buses or vehicles used in connection with this bus service shall be operated in accordance with the mandates of the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation who retains clear title to all transportation equipment and establishes guidelines for this transportation program, laws of the State of Texas, and ordinances of the City of Paris, and such future amend- ments thereof, or any of them relating to or regulating the opera- tion of motor vehicles upon streets or highways. Section 5. The City of Paris, in granting this franchise, fully retains and reserves all the rights, privileges and immunities that it now has under the law to fully patrol and police the streets, alleys and public ways within the City, and the granting of this franchise shall in no way interfere with the right of the City of Paris to fully use said streets, alleys and public ways for any other public utility, nor shall this franchise in any way interfere with the im - provement or maintenance of any other streets, alleys and public ways, and the rights of the Grantee herein to use said streets shall at all times be subservient to the right of the governing body of the City of Paris to fully exercise its rights or control over said streets, alleys and public ways. Section 6. The Grantee shall, during the life of this fran- chise, pay to the City of Paris at the Office of the City Clerk in lawful money of the United States a sum equal to $50. 00 per vehicle used in the operation of said bus service, which remittance shall be made annually on or before the lOth day of July each year. The pay - ments stipulated and provided in this section shall be in lieu of any other tax or assessment or charge by the City of Paris which may now or may hereafter be in force during the term of this franchise, excluding only ad valorem taxes. Any neglect, omission or refusal by the Grantee herein to pay such tax when due and as specified, shall ipso facto work a forfeiture of this franchise and of all rights hereunder. Section 7. The City of Paris expressly reserves the right to modify, amend, alter, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this franchise, during the life of the same, for the following pur- poses, to-wit: (1) To eliminate or delete from the same such condi- tions as then prove obsolete or impractical; (2) To impose such additional conditions upon the Grantee as may be just and reasonable, such conditions to be those as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of insuring service to the passenger.