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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHUBBUCK, IDAHO, GRANTING TO
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS COMPANY A THIRTY (30) YEAR EXTENSION TO ITS
FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE A GAS TRANSMISSION
AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; PROVIDING FOR THE USE OF STREETS AND ALLEYS,
AND RULES GOVERNING THE SAME, SUBJECTING THE GRANTEE TO ALL POWERS
OF THE CITY; SETTING FORTH THE RULES OF THE FRANCHISE AND GRANT;
PROVIDING FOR THE RIGHT OF INSPECTION BY THE CITY OF GRANTEE'S PLANS,
ACCOUNTS, AND BOOKS; REQUIRING GRANTEE TO FURNISH CERTAIN MAPS;
SETTING FORTH THE QUARTERLY PAYMENT TO THE CITY, AND THE FILING OF
QUARTERLY REPORTS WITH THE CITY; TO ADDITIONAL RIGHT PAYMENTS TO
CITY; REQUIRING GRANTEE TO INDEMNIFY CITY, AND FILE EVIDENCE OF
INSURANCE; REQUIRING COMPLIANCE WITH SAFETY REGULATIONS; SETTING
FORTH AN AGREEMENT NOT TO COMPETE, RESERVING POWER OF EMINENT
DOMAIN; PROVIDING FOR SURRENDER OF FRANCHISE; GRANTING RIGHT TO
SALVAGE; REQUIRING WRITTEN ACCEPTANCE; PROVIDING FOR CONSENT TO
SALE OR ASSIGNMENT; PROVIDING FOR PAYMENT OF PUBLICATION COSTS;
SETTING FORTH PENALTIES AND FORFEITURES, SEPARABILITY AND REPEAL.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CIIUBBUCK, IDAHO.
SECTION I — GRANT OF AUTHORITY
There is hereby granted to Intermountain Gas Company, a corporation, its successors and
assigns (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Grantee") a thirty (30) year extension to the right
and authority to construct, install, maintain and operate a gas transmission and distribution
system, including mains, pipes, conduits, services and other necessary structures and appliances
appertaining in, under, upon, over, across and along the streets, alleys, bridges and public places
within the present and future corporate limits of the City of Chubbuck, Idaho (hereinafter
referred to as "City") for the furnishing, transmission, distribution and sale of gas, whether
artificial, natural, mixed or otherwise, for heating, domestic, industrial and other purposes and
for transmitting gas into, through and beyond said City. The City represents that it has the sole
power and authority to make this grant of authority and agrees to notify Grantee in writing if the
City should cease to have this power.
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SECTION II — USE OF STREETS AND RULES GOVERNING SAME
Grantee shall secure a permit for any opening it shall make in the streets, alleys and
public places in the City and shall be subject to all applicable ordinances, but no fee shall be
required of Grantee for any such permit. The location or relocation of all facilities shall be made
under the supervision and with the approval of such representative as the governing body of the
City may designate for such purpose, but not so as unreasonably to interfere with the proper
operating of Grantee's facilities and service. Whenever the City shall pave or repave any street
or shall change the grade or line of any street or public place or shall construct or reconstruct any
conduit, water main, sewer or water connection or other City public works or City utility, it shall
be the duty of the Grantee when so ordered by the City to change its mains, services and other
property in the streets or public places at its own expense so as to conform to the established
grade or line of such street or public place and so as not to interfere with the conduits, sewers and
other mains of the City as constructed or reconstructed; however, the Grantee shall not be
required to relocate pipes, mains and appurtenances when the street, alley or public ground in
which they are located is vacated for the convenience of abutting property owners and not as an
incident to the public improvement, unless the reasonable cost of such relocation and the loss and
expenses resulting there from is first paid to Grantee. The City will avoid the need for such
moving or changing whenever possible. In the event Federal, State or other funds are available
in whole or in part for utility relocating purposes, the City shall apply for such funds and the
Grantee will be reimbursed to the extent any such funds are actually obtained. Whenever the
City grants a permit for an excavation in a street or alley or other public ground and the work
contemplated by the permit may expose gas pipes, mains and appurtenances of the Grantee, the
City shall furnish a copy of the permit to Grantee at least 48 hours prior to such work.
SECTION III — GRANTEE SUBJECT TO ALL POWERS OF CITY; RULES
GOVERNING REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION OF STREETS
The exercise of privileges herein granted shall be subject at all times to all of the powers
of the City and all regulatory ordinances adopted pursuant thereto. The Grantee shall not
unnecessarily or unreasonably obstruct the use of or damage any street or alley, and shall within
a reasonable time and as early as practicable upon completion of any construction or repair work,
restore all City streets and alleys to the same order and condition as they were before the
excavation was made insofar as reasonably possible. The Grantee shall maintain, repair and
keep in good condition for a period of three years from the date of acceptance by the City, all
portions of streets and alleys disturbed by it or its agents. The Grantee shall be responsible for
any obstruction in any street, alley or other public place caused by it in the operation and
maintenance of its properties occurring at anytime and shall promptly remove such obstruction.
Any such obstruction which, after proper notice to Grantee demanding removal is not promptly
removed by the Grantee may be taken care of by the City and the costs thereof shall be charged
against Grantee and may be enforced as a lien upon any of its properties or assets.
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SECTION IV - TERM OF FRANCHISE AND GRANT
The right, authority and grant herein and hereby made to said Grantee, its successor and
assigns, is granted for, and limited in time to, a period of thirty (30) years from September 1ST
2022 through and including August 315, 2052.
SECTION V — CITY RIGHT TO INSPECTION OF GRANTEE'S PLANS
ACCOUNTS AND BOOKS — GRANTEE TO FURNISH CERTAIN MAPS
The City shall have access at all reasonable hours to all of the Grantee's plans, contracts
and engineering, accounting, finance, statistical, customer and service records relating to the
property and operations of Grantee within the City. The Grantee shall furnish, upon request, the
City with a complete set of maps, including plans and profile of the distribution system of the
Grantee and any future extensions.
SECTION VI — PAYMENT TO CITY AND FILING OF QUARTERLY WRITTEN
REPORT WITH THE CITY
As consideration for this franchise and grant said Grantee, its successors and assigns,
during the franchise period, shall pay to the City three percent (3%) of the gross quarterly
receipts received from all sales of gas by Grantee within the corporate limits of the City through
use, operation or possession of this franchise and grant.
Such quarterly payments shall be in lieu of taxes, fees or charges (other than ad valorem
taxes) related to easements, franchises, rights-of-way, utility lines and equipment installation,
maintenance and removal during the term of the public service provider's franchise with the city,
which the City may impose for the rights and privileges herein granted or for the privilege of
doing business within the City.
The Grantee shall file 30 days after the end of each calendar quarter with the City a report
for the preceding calendar quarter, which report shall contain a statement of all the gross receipts
arising from all sales of gas by said Grantee within the City for the calendar quarter preceding
such report, and at the same time the Grantee shall pay to the City the stipulated percentage of
the gross quarterly receipts due for the calendar quarter which said report is made and filed.
SECTION VII — RIGHT TO ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS TO CITY
In the event that Grantee shall in conjunction with any other similar franchise agreement,
pay any other city within the State of Idaho any percentage greater than hereinbefore provided,
then and in such event, the City shall be entitled to collect from Grantee such higher percentage
of gross annual sales, based upon Grantee's gross annual sales within the city for the same period
of time for which such other city is entitled to receive such higher percentage.
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SECTION VIII— GRANTEE LIABILITY — INDEMNIFICATION
It is expressly understood and agreed by and between the Grantee and the City that the
Grantee shall save the City harmless from all loss sustained by the City on account of any suit,
judgment, execution, claim or demand whatsoever, resulting from negligence on the part of the
Grantee in the construction, operation or maintenance of its gas system in the City. The City
shall notify the grantee's representative in the City within ten (10) days after the presentation of
any claim or demand, either by suit or otherwise, made against the City on account of any
negligence as aforesaid on the part of the Grantee.
SECTION IX — INSURANCE
Upon acceptance of this franchise by Grantee and before Grantee shall have any rights
hereunder, Grantee shall file with the City Clerk a certificate evidencing the insurance of the
Grantee against property damage in an amount not less than $1,000,000.00 and bodily injury
with limits of not less than $1,000,000.00 per person and $2,000,000.00 total for each
occurrence. Provided, however, the minimum limits of insurance as set forth herein shall be
automatically increased at any time the liability limits of the City are increased pursuant to the
Idaho Tort Claims Act (Idaho Code Section 6-901 et. Seq.) or any similar legislation.
SECTION X — SAFETY REGULATION COMPLIANCE
Grantee shall comply with and conform to all safety regulations promulgated by the
United States, State of Idaho or City of Chubbuck, or any regulatory body having jurisdiction
thereof.
SECTION XI — AGREEMENT NOT TO COMPETE
RESERVE TO CITY POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN
In consideration if Grantee's undertaking hereunder as evidenced by its acceptance
hereof the City agrees not to engage in the business of distributing and selling gas during the life
of this franchise or any extension thereof in competition with the Grantee, its successor and
assigns; but nothing herein contained shall be construed or deemed to prevent the City from
exercising at any time any power of eminent domain granted to it under the laws of the State of
Idaho.
SECTION XII - SURRENDER OF FRANCHISE
In the event natural gas at any time shall cease to be available to Grantee for the
distribution and sale hereunder, Grantee reserves the right to surrender this franchise and in the
event of such surrender prior to any expiration or termination of this franchise, or in any of such
events, Grantee reserves the right to salvage all of its plant, works and facilities, and will restore
City's streets and alleys damaged by such salvage operation.
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SECTION XIII— WRITTEN ACCEPTANCE
The Grantee shall within thirty (30) days after the passage and publication of this
ordinance, file with the City Cleric its acceptance of this franchise in writing signed by its proper
officers and attested by its corporate seal.
SECTION XIV — SALE OR ASSIGNMENT OF FRANCHISE
No sale or assignment of this franchise shall be effective until it is approved by the City,
provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as to require consent or to
prevent the Grantee of this franchise and grant from including it in a mortgage or trust deed
executed for the purpose of obtaining money for corporate objects.
SECTION XV — PUBLICATION COSTS
The Grantee shall assume the cost of publication of this franchise as such publication is
required by law.
SECTION XVI — FORFEITURE
Any violation by the Grantee, its vendee, lessee or successors of the provisions of this
ordinance, franchise and grant or any material portions thereof or the failure promptly to perform
any of the provisions thereof shall be cause for the forfeiture of this franchise and grant and all
rights hereunder by the City after sixty (60) days written notice to the Grantee and the
continuance of such violation, failure or default; however, this provision shall not prevent the
Grantee from submitting such question of forfeiture to proper court determination.
SECTION XVII — SEPARABILITY
If any part or parts of this ordinance shall be adjudged by the courts to be unconstitutional
or invalid, the sante shall not affect the validity of any other part or parts hereof which can be
given effect without the part or parts adjudged to be unconstitutional or invalid. The City
declares that it would have passed the remaining parts of this ordinance if it had been known that
such other part of parts thereof would be declared unconstitutional or invalid.
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SECTION XVIII — REPEAL
All ordinances and parts of ordinances of the City in conflict herewith shall be, and the
same are hereby repealed.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHUBBUCK, IDAHO
AND APPROVED BY THE MAYOR THIS DAY OF 92022.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
ACCEPTANCE
Mayor
INTERMOUNTIAN GAS COMPANY, as the franchisee, accepts the franchise set forth
in the above Ordinance and agrees to abide by the terms and conditions thereof.
DATED this day of 2022
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS COMPANY
an
ATTEST:
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Its: Vice President — Operations
CITY OF CHUBBUCIC, IDAHO
ORDINANCE NO.
An ordinance of the City of Chubbuck, Idaho ("city"), granting to Intermountain gas
company a thirty (30) year extension to its Franchise to construct, maintain and operate a gas
transmission and distribution system; providing for the use of streets and alleys, and rules
governing the same; subjecting the grantee to all powers of the city; setting forth the term of the
franchise and grant; providing for the right of inspection by the city of grantee's plans, accounts,
and books; requiring grantee to furnish certain maps; setting forth the requirement of quarterly
payment to the city, and the filing of quarterly reports with the city; providing for the right to
additional payments to city; setting forth the grantee's liability and for indemnification to the city;
setting forth the grantee's requirement to file evidence of insurance; requiring compliance with
safety regulations; setting forth an agreement not to compete, but reserving the power of eminent
domain; providing for surrender of franchise and right to salvage; requiring written acceptance by
grantee to this Franchise extension; providing for consent to sale or assignment; providing for
payment of publication costs by grantee; setting forth penalty for violation by grantee and
forfeiture; providing for the severability of the provisions of this ordinance; providing for the
repeal of conflicting ordinances.
The full text of this ordinance is available at the City Clerk's Office, Chubbuck City
Offices, 290 East Linden, Chubbuck, ID 83202.
I have reviewed the foregoing summary and believe it provides a true and correct summary
of Ordinance No. and that the summary provides adequate notice to the public of the contents
of this ordinance
DATED this day of May, 2022
Ryan S. Lewis, City Attorney
Summary of Ordinance — Page 1
Chubbuck 2022-05-18 — Franchise Int Gas
City of Chubbuck
5160 Yellowstone Avenue
MAYOR P.O. Box 5604
John 0. cotant CHUBBUCK, IDAHO 83202-0006
(208) 237-2400
COUNCIL MEMBERS
Leroy S. Quick
CZD
Steven M. England
David A. Landon
W. Dean Wood
August 20, 1992
STEVEN E. RECTOR
P.O. BOX 7608
BOISE, IDAHO 83707
Dear Steve;
As per our phone conversation, here is the ordinance for your
signature.
�Ie r e, L
Ron Conlin
City Clerk/Treasurer
Enclosures
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHUBBUCK, IDAHO, GRANTING TO INTERMOUNTAIN GAS
COMPANY A THIRTY (30) YEAR EXTENSION TO ITS FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND
OPERATE A GAS TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; PROVIDING FOR THE USE OF
STREETS AND ALLEYS, AND RULES GOVERNING THE SAME, SUBJECTING THE GRANTEE TO ALL
POWERS OF THE CITY; SETTING FORTH THE RULES OF THE FRANCHISE AND GRANT; PROVIDING
FOR THE RIGHT OF INSPECTION BY THE CITY OF GRANTEE'S PLANS, ACCOUNTS, AND BOOKS;
REQUIRING GRANTEE TO FURNISH CERTAIN MAPS; SETTING FORTH THE ANNUAL PAYMENT TO
THE CITY, AND THE FILING OF ANNUAL REPORTS WITH THE CITY; REQUIRING GRANTEE TO
INDEMNIFY CITY, AND FILE EVIDENCE OF INSURANCE; REQUIRING COMPLIANCE WITH SAFETY
REGULATIONS; SETTING FORTH AN AGREEMENT NOT TO COMPETE, RESERVING POWER OF
EMINENT DOMAIN; PROVIDING FOR SURRENDER OF FRANCHISE; GRANTING RIGHT TO SALVAGE;
REQUIRING WRITTEN ACCEPTANCE; PROVIDING FOR CONSENT TO SALE, ASSIGNMENT OR LEASE;
PROVIDING FOR PAYMENT OF PUBLICATION COST; SETTING FORTH PENALTIES AND
FORFEITURES, SEPARABILITY AND REPEAL.
SECTION I
GRANT OF AUTHORITY
There is hereby granted to Intermountain Gas Company, a corporation, its
successors and assigns (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Grantee") a
thirty (30) year extension to the right and authority to construct, install,
maintain and operate a gas transmission and distribution system, including mains,
pipes, conduits, services and other necessary structures and appliances
appertaining in, under, upon, over, across and along the streets, alleys, bridges
and public places within the present and future corporate limits of the City of
Chubbuck, Idaho (hereinafter referred to as "City") for the furnishing,
transmission, distribution and sale of gas, whether artificial, natural, mixed
or otherwise, for heating, domestic, industrial and other purposes and for
transmitting gas into, through and beyond said City. The City represents that
it has the sole power and authority to make this grant of authority and agrees
to notify Grantee in writing if the City should cease to have this power.
SECTION II
USE OF STREETS AND RULES GOVERNING SAME
Grantee shall secure a permit for any opening it shall make in the streets,
alleys and public places in the City and shall be subject to all applicable
ordinances, but no fee shall be required of Grantee for any such permit.. The
location or relocation of all facilities shall. be made under .the supervision and
with the approval of such representatives as the governing body of the City may
designate for such purpose, but not so as unreasonably to interfere with the
proper operating of Grantee's facilities and service. Whenever the City shall
pave or repave any street or shall change the grade or line of any street or
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public place or shall construct or reconstruct any conduit, water main, sewer or
water connection or other city public works or city utility, it shall be the duty
of the Grantee when so ordered by the City to change its mains, services and
other property in the streets or public places at its own expense so as to
conform to the established grade or line of such street or public place and so
as not to interfere with the conduits, sewers and other mains of the City as
constructed or reconstructed; however, the Grantee shall not be required to
relocate pipes, mains and appurtenances when the street, alley or public ground
in which they are located is vacated for the convenience of abutting property
owners and not as an incident to the public improvement, unless the reasonable
cost of such relocation and the loss and expenses resulting therefrom is first
paid to Grantee. The City will avoid the need for such moving or changing
whenever possible. In the event Federal, State or other funds are available in
whole or in part for utility relocating purposes, the City shall apply for such
funds and the Grantee will be reimbursed to the extent any such funds are
actually obtained. Whenever the City grants a permit for an excavation in a
street, alley or other public ground and the work contemplated by the permit may
expose gas pipes, mains and appurtenances of the Grantee, the City shall furnish
a copy of the permit to Grantee at least 48 hours prior to such work.
SECTION III
GRANTEE SUBJECT TO ALL POWERS OF CITX
RULES GOVERNING REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTIONOFSTREETS
The exercise of privileges herein granted shall he subject at all times to
all of the powers of the City and all regulatory ordinances adopted pursuant
thereto. The Grantee shall not unnecessarily or unreasonably obstruct the use
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of or damage any street or alley, and shall within a reasonable time and as early
as practicable upon completion of any construction or repair work, restore all
City streets and alleys to the same order and condition as they were before the
excavation was made insofar as reasonably possible. The Grantee shall maintain,
repair and keep in good condition for a period of one year all portions of
streets and alleys disturbed by it or its agents. The Grantee shall be
responsible for any obstruction in any street, alley or other public place caused
by it in the operation and maintenance of its properties occurring at anytime and
shall promptly remove such obstruction. Any such obstruction which, after proper
notice to Grantee demanding removal is not promptly removed by the Grantee may
be taken care of by the City and the costs thereof shall be charged against
Grantee and may be enforced as a lien upon any of its properties or assets.
SECTION IV
TERM OF FRANCHISE AND GRANT
The right, authority and grant herein and hereby made to said Grantee, its
successor and assigns, is granted for, and limited in time to, a period of thirty
(30) years from Auaust , 1992 through and including August 2022
SECTION V
CITY RIGHT TO INSPECTION OF GRANTEE'S PLANS
ACCOUNTS AND BOOKS - GRANTEE TO FURNISH CERTAIN MAPS ..
The City shall have access at all reasonable hours to all of the Grantee's
plans, contracts and engineering, accounting, finance, statistical,customer and
service records relating to the property and operations of Grantee within the
City. The Grantee shall. furnish, upon request, the City with a.complete set of
maps, including plans and profile of the distribution system of the Grantee and
any future extensions.
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SECTION VI
PAYMENT TO CITY AND FILING OF ANNUAL
WRITTEN REPORT WITH THE CITY
As consideration for this franchise and grant said Grantee, its successors
and assigns, during the franchise period, shall pay to the City three percent
(3%) of the gross annual receipts received from all sales of gas by Grantee
within the corporate limits of the City through use, operation or possession of
this franchise and grant.
Such annual payments shall be in lieu of any and all other fees, charges,
licenses or taxes (other than ad valorem taxes) which the City may impose for the
rights and privileges herein granted or for the privilege of doing business
within the City.
The Grantee shall file by March 31 of each year with the City a report for
the preceding calendar year, verified by the affidavit of the general manager,
auditor, treasurer, or assistant treasurer of said Grantee, which report shall
contain a statement in such form and detail as shall from time to time be
prescribed by the City, of all the gross receipts arising from all sales of gas
by said Grantee within the City for the calendar year preceding such report, and
at the same time the Grantee shall pay to the City the stipulated percentage of
the gross annual receipts due for the year for which said report is made and
filed.
SECTION VII
GRANTEE LIABILITY - INDEMNIFICATION
It is expressly understood and agreed by and between the Grantee and the
City that the Grantee shall save the City harmless from all loss sustained by the
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City on account of any suit, judgment, execution, claim or demand whatsoever,
i
resulting from negligence on the part of the Grantee in the construction,
operation or maintenance of its gas system in the City. The City shall notify
the grantee's representative in the City within ten (10) days after the
presentation of any claim or demand, either by suit or otherwise, made against
the. City on account of any negligence as aforesaid on the part of the Grantee. -
SECTION VIII
INSURANCE
Upon acceptance of this franchise by Grantee and before Grantee shall have
any rights hereunder, Grantee shall file with the City Clerk a certificate
evidencing the insurance of the Grantee against property damage in an amount not
less than $500,000.00 and bodily injury with limits of not less than $500,000.00
per person and $1,000,000.00 total for each occurrence. Provided, however, the
minimum limits of insurance as set forth herein shall be automatically increased
at any time the liability limits of the City are increased pursuant to the Idaho
Tort Claims Act (Idaho Code Section 6-901 at. seq.) or any similar legislation. -
SECTION IX
SAFETY REGULATION COMPLIANCE
Grantee shall comply with and conform to all safety regulations promulgated
by the United States, State of Idaho or City of Chubbuck or any
regulatory body having jurisdiction thereof.
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SECTION X
AGREEMENT NOT TO COMPETE - RESERVE
TO CITY POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN
In consideration of Grantee's undertaking hereunder as evidenced by its
acceptance hereof the City agrees not to engage in the business of distributing
and selling gas during the life of this franchise or any extension thereof in
competition with the Grantee, its successor and assigns; but nothing herein
contained shall be construed or deemed to prevent the City from exercising at any
time any power of eminent domain granted to it under the laws of the State of
Idaho.
SECTION XI
SURRENDER OF FRANCHISE
In the event natural gas at any time shall cease to be available to Grantee
for the distribution and sale hereunder, Grantee reserves the right- to surrender
this franchise and in the event of such surrender prior to any expiration or
termination of this franchise, or in any of such events, Grantee reserves the
right to salvage all of its plant, works and facilities, and will restore. City's
streets and alleys damaged by such salvage operation.
SECTION XII
WRITTEN ACCEPTANCE
The Grantee shall within thirty (30 days after the passage and publication
of this ordinance, file with the City Clerk its acceptance of this franchise in
writing signed by its proper officers and attested by its corporate seal.
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SECTION XIII
SALE, ASSIGNMENT. OR LEASE OF FRANCHISE
No sale, assignment or lease of this franchise shall be effective until it
is approved by the City, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall
be construed as to require consent or to prevent the Grantee of this franchise
and grant from including it in a mortgage or trust deed executed for the purpose
of obtaining money for corporate objects,
SECTION XIV
PUBLICATION COSTS
The Grantee shall assume the cost of publication of this franchise as such
publication is required by law.
SECTION XV
FORFEITURE
Any violation by the Grantee, its vendee, lessee or successors of the
provisions of this ordinance, franchise and grant or any material portions
thereof or the failure promptly to perform any of the provisions thereof shall
be cause for the forfeiture of this franchise and grant and all rights hereunder
by the City after sixty (60) days written notice to the Grantee and the
continuance of such violation, failure or default; however, this provision shall
not prevent the Grantee from submitting such question of forfeiture to proper
court determination.
SECTION XVI
SEPARABILITY
If any part or parts of this ordinance shall be adjudged by the courts to
be unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not.affect the validity of any
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other part of parts hereof which can be given effect without the part or parts
adjudged to be unconstitutional or invalid. The City declares that it would have
passed the remaining parts of this ordinance if it•had been known that such other
part or parts thereof would be declared unconstitutional or invalid.
SECTION XVII
REPEAL
All ordinances and parts or ordinances of City in conflict herewith shall
be, and the same are hereby repealed.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AUGUST 11, 1 19 92
APPROVED BY THE MAYOR AUGUST, 11, 19. 92
sj
JOHN 0. COTANT, MAYOR
SEAL
ATTEST /
City Clerk
ACCEPTANCE
GAS COMPANY, as the franchisee, accepts the franchise set
forth in the above Ordinance and agrees to abide by the terms and conditions
thereof.
DATED this 24th day of August ; 19 92
By
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Its: Executive Vice President
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