HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 551 (Gas Distribution to PG&E)ORDINANCE NO. . 2 "5'1
ORDINANCE GRANTING TO PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, ITS
SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, THE FRANCHISE (1) TO USE, FOR TRANS-
MITTING AND DISTRIBUTING ELECTRICITY, SUITED FOR LIGHTING,
FOR USE BY CONSUMERS FOR ANY AND ALL LAWFUL PURPOSES OTHER
THAN LIGHTING, ALL POLES, WIRES, CONDUITS AND APPURTENANCES
WHICH ARE NOW OR MAY HEREAFTER BE LAWFULLY PLACED AND MAIN-
TAINED IN THE PUBLIC STREETS AND PLACES WITHIN THE CITY
OF SAN RAFAEL UNDER THAT CERTAIN FRANCHISE OF GRANTEE
ACQUIRED PURSUANT TO SECTION 19 OF ARTICLE XI OF THE CONSTI-
TUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS SAID SECTION EXISTED
PRIOR TO ITS AMENDMENT ON OCTOBER. 10, 1911, AND (2) TO CON-
STRUCT, MAINTAIN AND USE IN SAID PUBLIC STREETS AND PLACES
ALL POLES, WIRES, CONDUITS AND APPURTENANCES, INCLUDING
COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS, WHENEVER AND WHEREVER SAID CONSTITU-
TIONAL FRANCHISE SHALL NOT BE AVAILABLE THEREFOR, NECESSARY
TO TRANSMIT AND DI STR IBUTE ELECTRICITY SUITED FOR, AND FOR
USE BY CONSUMERS FOR, ANY OR ALL LAWFUL PURPOSES.
The City Council of the City of San Rafael does
ordain as follows:
Section 1. Whenever in this ordinance the words or phrases
hereinafter in this section defined are used, they shall have the re-
spective meanings assigned to them in the following definitions (un-
less, in the given instance, the context wherein they are used shall
clearly import a different meaning):
(a) The word "grantee" shall mean Pacific Gas and Electric Company,
its lawful successors or assigns;
(b) The word "city" shall mean the City of San Rafael , a
municipal corporation of the State of California, in its present
incorporated form or in any later reorganized, consolidated, en-
larged or reincorporated form;
(c) The word "streets" shall mean the public streets, ways, alleys
and places as the same now or may hereafter exist within said
city, including state highways, now or hereafter established
within said city, and freeways hereafter established within said
city;
(d) The phrase "poles, wires, conduits and appurtenances" shall mean
poles, towers, supports, wires, conductors, cables, guys, stubs,
platforms, crossarms, braces, transformers, insulators, conduits,
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ducts, vaults, manholes, meters, cut-outs, switches, communica-
tion circuits, appliances, attachments, appurtenances and any
other property located or to be located in, upon, along, across,
under or over the streets of the city, and used or useful in the
transmitting and/or distributing of electricity;
(e) The phrase "construct, maintain and use" shall mean to construct,
erect, install, operate, maintain, use, repair or replace.
(f) The phrase "constitutional franchise" shall mean the right ac-
quired through acceptance by said grantee or its predecessor in
estate of the offer contained in the provisions of Section 19 of
Article XI of the Constitution of the State of California, as
said section existed prior to its amendment on October 10, 1911.
Section 2. The franchise (1) to use, for transmitting and
distributing electricity, suited for lighting, for use by consumers
for any and all lawful purposes other than lighting, all poles, wires,
conduits and appurtenances which are now or may hereafter be lawfully
placed and maintained in the public streets and places within said
city under that certain franchise of grantee acquired pursuant to
Section 19 of Article XI of the Constitution of the State of Califor-
nia, as said section existed prior to its amendment on October 10,
1911, and (2) to construct, maintain and use in said public streets
and places all poles, wires, conduits and appurtenances, including
communication circuits, whenever and wherever said constitutional fran-
chise shall not be available therefor, necessary to transmit and dis-
tribute electricity suited for, and for -use by consumers for, any or all
lawful purposes, is hereby granted to Pacific Gas and Electric Company,
its successors and assigns.
Section 3. Said franchise shall be indeterminate, that is
to say, said franchise shall endure in full force and effect until the
same shall, with the consent of the Public Utilities Commission of the
State of California, be voluntarily surrendered or abandoned by the
grantee, or until the state or some municipal or public corporation
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thereunto duly authorized by law shall purchase by voluntary agree-
ment or shall condemn and take under the power of eminent domain, all
property acti.ially used and useful in the exercise of said franchise
and situate in the te.i?torial linir_,s of the state, municipal or pub-
lic corporation purchasing or condemning such property, or until said
franchise shall be forfeited for noncompliance with its terms by the
grantee.
Section 4. The grantee of this franchise shall;
(a) Construct, maintain and use all poles, wires, conduits,
and appurtenances in accordance with and in confor.n.Aty with all of
the ordinances, .rules and regulations heretofore or hereafter adopted
by the legislative body of City in the exercise of its police -Powers
and not in conflict with the paramount authority of the State of
California, and, as to state highways within City, subject to the
provisions of general laws or local ordinances relating to the loca-
tion and raintenance of such facilities;
(b) Pay to City, on demand, the cost of all repairs to
public property made necessary by any operations of grantee under
this franchise;
(c) Indemnify and hold harr.,-�less City and its officers from
ary and all liability for damages -proximately resulting from any
operations ,_ander this franchise;
(d) He11ove or relocate, without expense to City any facili-
ties constructed, maintained and used under this franchise if and when
made necessary by any lawful change of grade, alignment or width of
any streets, including the construction of any subway or viaduct, pro-
vided that this provision shall remain in effect only so long as such
S4 subway or viaduct shall retrain under the jurisdiction of the
City as a city street, but shallcease to be applicable to any such
street if and when the same shall become a state freeway, nor shall it
constitute a contractual obligation in respect to such freeway within the
purview of Section 703 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State
of California;
(e) File with the legislative body of City within thirty
(30) days after any sale, transfer, assignment or lease of this.
franchise, or any part thereof, or of any of the rights or privileges
granted hereby, written evidence of the same, certified thereto by
grantee or its duly authorized officers.
Section 5. All streets disturbed or excavated by grantee
shall at its own cost and expense immediately be placed in as good
order and condition as same were in before being so disturbed or
excavated.
Section. 6. Upon_ the expiration of the period for which
this franchise shall endure, City, at its election and upon: the pay-
ment of a fair valuation therefor, as determined in a legal proceed-
ing before the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California
or in a condemnation proceeding in a court of proper jurisdiction,
may purchase and take over to itself the property and plant of grantee
in its entirety; but in no case shall the value of this franchise be
considered or taken into consideration in fixing such valuation.
Upon the payment by City of said valuation, said plant and property
of grantee shall become the property of City by virtue of the grant
and payment hereunder, and without the execution of any instrument
or conveyance.
Secti.on 7. City shall have the right to make all regula-
tions which shall be necessary to secure in the most ample manner
the safety, welfare and accommodation of the public, including among
other things the right to pass and enforce ordinances to protect the
public from danger or inconvenience in the operation of any work or
business authorized by the grant of this franchise and to make and
enforce all such regulations as shall be reasonably necessary to
secure adequate, sufficient and proper service and accommodations
for the people and insure their comfort and convenience, provided
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such regulations shall not conflict with the regulations of the
Public Utilities Commission of the State of California or of any
other state agency to whom particular police powers have been dele-
gated applicable to grantee.
Section8. Grantee of said franchise shall during the term
thereof pay to City a sum annually which shall be equivalent to two
per cent of the gross annual receipts of said franchise; provided,
however, that such payment shall in no event be less than a sum which
shall be equivalent to one -calf per cent of the gross annual receipts
derived by grantee from the sale of electricity within the limits of
City under said franchise and said constitutional franchise.
Section 9. Grantee shall file with the clerk of City,
within three months after the expiration of the calendar year, or
fractional calendar year, following the date of the granting hereof,
and within three months after the expiration of each and every calen-
dar year thereafter, a duly verified statement showing in detail the
total gross receipts of grantee during the preceding calendar year,
or such fractional calendar year, from the sale of electricity within
City. Grantee shall pay to City within fifteen days after the time
for filing such statement, in lawful money of the United States, the
aforesaid percentage of its gross receipts for such calendar year,
or such fractional calendar year, covered by such statement. Any
neglect, omission or refusal by grantee to file such verified state-
ment, or to pay said percentage at the time and in the manner speci-
fied, shall be grounds for the declaration of a forfeiture of this
franchise and of all rights of grantee hereunder.
Section. 10. This franchise is granted pursuant to the
charter provisions of the City of Sara Rafael, and particularly
Article XIV thereof, and subject to the provisions thereof.
Section. 11. Grantee of said franchise shall pay to City a
sum of money sufficient to reimburse it for all publication expenses
incurred by it in connection with the granting thereof; such payment
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to be made within thirty days after City shall have furnished grantee
with a written statement of such expenses.
Section. 12. The franchise granted hereby shall not become
effective until written acceptance thereof shall have been filed by
grantee with the City Clerk.
Section. 13. Subject to the provisions of Section 12, here-
of, this ordinance shall become effective sixty days after its final
passage unless within said period there shall be filed with the City
Clerk a referendum petition signed by qualified electors equal in
number to ten per cent of the entire vote cast at the last preceding
general municipal election requesting that such ordinance be submitted
to the electors at the next occurring general or special municipal
election as provided by the Charter of said City. In case such refer--
endurr petition is duly filed such ordinance shall not go into effect
until approved by a majority of the voters voting at such referendum
election but when so approved it shall go into effect immediately
thereafter.
The above and foregoing Charter Ordinance No.
was read and introduced at a'4 _PV1UAXL meeting of the City
Council of the City of Sari Rafael, held on the
da of 19,5 3 and ordered passed to rine b the
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following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmen
NOES: Councilmen' .
ABSENT: Councilmen_
and will come up for adoption as an ordinance of the City of San
Rafael at a e-`; LL.A_ Meeting of the Council to be held on
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