§ 6-4. Scope of obligations.

In all cases where rights or privileges may be hereafter granted to any street railway to use or occupy the streets of Baltimore, the railroad company or companies so using the street shall be obliged in every case and shall assume the obligation, whether the same be provided for in the ordinance granting such rights or franchise or not, to keep the portion of the street over which their rails are laid in repair between the tracks so laid and 2 feet on either side, and they shall pay the cost of paving and repaving that portion of said street or streets in every case where the street or streets may be paved or repaved by public authority.