HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 1166 ORDINA CW. NO. 1 §6 NEw SER ES
ORDINANCE GRANTING TO PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, ITS
SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, THE FRANCHISE TO USE, FOR TRANSMITTING
AND DISTRIBUTING GAS WITHIN THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD FOR ANY
AND ALL PURPOSES OTHER THAN THOSE AUTHORIZED UNDER 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, ALL GAS PIPES AND APPURTENANCES WHICH ARE NOW OR MAY
HEREAFTER BE LAWFULLY PLACED IN THE PUBLIC STREETS, WAYS AND
PLACES WITHIN SAID CITY, AND TO CONSTRUCT AND USE IN SAID
PUBLIC STREETS, WAYS AND PLACES ALL PIPES AND APPURTENANCES
NECESSARY OR PROPER FOR SAID PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD,
as follows:
Section 1. Whenever in this ordinance the words or phrases
hereinafter in this section defined are used, they shall have the
respective meanings assigned to them in the following definitions
(unless, 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, and its lawful successors or assigns;
(b) The word "city" shall mean the City of ~kersfield, a
municipal corporation of the State of California, in its present
incorporated form or in any later reorganized, consolidated,
enlarged or reincorporated form;
(c) The word "streets" s~ll mean the public streets, ways,
alleys and places as ~he same now or may hereafter exist within
city, including state highways, now or hereafter established
within city, and freeways hereafter established within city;
(d) ~l~e word "gas" shall mean natural or artificial gas,
or a mixture of natural and artificial gas;
(e) ~1~e phrase "pipes and appurtenances" shall mean pipes,
pipelines, mains, services, traps, vents, vaults, manholes,
meters, gauges, regulators, valves, conduits, appliances, attach-
ments, appurtenances and any other property located or to be
located in, upon, along, across, under or over the streets of
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the city, and used or useful in the transmitting and/or dis-
tributing of gas;
(f) The phrase "lay and use" shall mean to lay, construct,
erect, install, operate, maintain, use, repair or replace.
(g) The phrase "constitutional franchise" shall mean the
right acquired through acceptance by said grantee or its prede-
cessor 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, lq11.
Section 2. The franchise (a) to use, for transmitting and
distributing gas within the City of Bakersfield for any and all pur-
poses other than those authorized under said constitutional franchise,
all gas pipes and appurtenances which now are or may hereafter be
lawfully placed in the streets within said city, and (b) to 1.ay and
use in said streets all pipes and appurtenances necessary or proper
for said purposes, is hereby granted to Pacific Gas and Electric
Company upon the terms, conditions, reservations, exceptions and
provisions set forth in the Charter of the City of Bakersfield, and
in that certain act of the Legislature of the State of California,
com~nonly knowu and designated as the "~anchise Act of 1937".
Section 3. The franchise hereby granted shall be inde-
terminate and shall continue in full force until, with the consent
of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, or
other lawful authority having Jurisdiction in the premises, it shall
be voluntarily surrendered or abandoned by the Grantee, or until the
City, by agreement, shall purchase, or, under eminent domain, shall
condemn and acquire all property actually used or useful in the exer-
cise of such franchise and situate within the territorial limits of
the City, 'or until it shall be forfeited for non-compliance with its
terms by the Grantee, but in no event shall said franchise exceed
the te~m of fifty (50) years from the effective date hereof.
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Section 4. The grantee of said franchise shall during the
life of such franchise pay to said city a sum annually which shall
be equivalent to two per cent of the gross annual receipts of said
grantee arising from the use, operation or possession of said fran-
chise; provided, however, that such payment shall in no event be less
than a sum which shall be equivalent to one per cent of the gross
annual receipts derived by grantee from the sale of gas within the
limits of such city under said franchise and said constitutional
franchise.
Section 5. The grantee shall file with the Clerk of said
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 calendar year thereafter, a duly verified statement showing
in detail the total gross receipts of such grantee during the pre-
ceding calendar year, or such fractional calendar year, from the
sale of gas within said city. Such grantee shall pay to said 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 said grantee to file' such verified statement, or to pay said per-
centage at the time and in the manner specified, shall be grounds
for the declaration of a forfeiture of this franchise and of all
rights of grantee hereunder.
Section 6. If the grantee shall fail, neglect or refuse
to comply with any of the provisions or conditions prescribed in
this ordinance, and shall not, within ten (10) days after written
demand for compliance, begin the work of compliance, or after such
beginning shall not prosecute the same with due diligence to com-
pletion, then the City of Bakersfield may, by action of the City
Council, declare this franchise forfeited. The City of Bakersfield
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may sue in its own name for the forfeiture of this franchise in the
event of non-compliance by grantee with any of the conditions hereof.
Section ?. City shall have the right at all reasonable
times to examine all books, vouchers, records and other papers of
grantee pertinent to the exercise of the franchise granted hereunder.
Refusal of grantee to produce such books, vouchers, records and other
papers at any reasonable time for examination by the City Clerk,
Accountant, or other agent appointed by the City Council shall work
a forfeiture of the franchise granted hereunder.
Section 8. The franchise hereby granted shall not in any
way or to any extent impair the right of the City of Bakersfield to
acquire the property of the grantee, either by purchase or through
the exercise of the right of eminent domain, and nothing herein con-
tained shall be construed to contract away or to modify or to abridge
the city's right to exercise the power of eminent domain. The fran-
chise granted hereby shall never be given any value before any Court
or other public authority in any proceeding of any character, in
excess of the cost to grantee of the necessary publication, and any
other sum paid by said grantee to said city therefor at the time of
the acquisition thereof.
Section 9. Grantee of this franchise shall relocate, without
expense to city, any pipes and appurtenances theretofore installed,
and then maintained or used under this franchise, if and when made
necessary by any lawful change of grade, alignment or width of any
streets by city, including the construction of any subway or viaduct,
provided, however, that this provision shall remain in effect only so
long as such street, subway or viaduct sb~ll remain under the Juris-
diction of city as a city street, but shall cease 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 70B of the Streets and Highways
Code of the State of California, or any corresponding provisions
of law.
Section 10. This ordinance shall become effective thirty
days after its passage, unless suspended by a referendum petition
filed as provided by law.
Section 11. The grantee of said franchise shall pay to the
city a sum of money sufficient to reimburse it for all publication
expenses incurred by it in connection with the granting thereof;
such payment to be made within thirty days after the city shall
have furnishe~ such grantee with a written statement of such ex-
penses.
Section 12. The franchise granted hereby shall not become
effective until written acceptance thereof shall have been filed by
the grantee with the City Clerk; however, the grantee shall accept
the franchise hereby granted within thirty (BO) days after this
ordinance becomes effective, and if the grante~ shall fail to file
its acceptance with the City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield within
the aforesaid time, the franchise hereby granted shall be ipso facto
void and no longer in effect.
Section lB. The City Clerk shall cause this ordinance
to be published once within fifteen (15) days after its passage in
The Bakersfield Californian , a newspaper of general circulation
pUblished and circulated in said city.
I HEBEBY CERTIFY that the foregoing O~dinance was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield, at a regular
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meeting thereof held on the 20th day of Jan. uary, , , 1958~_,
by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen.._ Balfanz~ Bentley, Carnakis,
Collins~ Croe. s~ Dewire~ D~olin
NAYS: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
City C~erk and EX-Officio Clerk of
~ '. .... ~ Council of the City of Bakersfield.
APP. ROVED?~By me.~t.~.~is 20th day of January , 195~.
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Affi avt! of los tng ( rhtnan es
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
County of Kern~ ss.
MARIAN S. IRVIN, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and that
on___t__h___e..__2__l_s...t....d...a.y..__o__f____J_a__n_u_..a.r.y.~ ......................... , 19.5...8____ she posted on the Bulletin Board at
the City Hall, a fu~l, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Counci.'] of said City at a
me~ting thereof duly held on__.t_h..e..._2..0..~..h.._~y....Q__/~._J.&l~tt~l~y., ............ ,19.5.8_., which ordinance
was numbered ........ _1._3._6.{~ .................. New Series, and entitled:
ORDINANCE GRANTING TO PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC O0]~lPANY, ITS
SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, T~/E FRANCHISE TO USE, FOR TRANSMITTING
AND DISTRIBUTING GAS WITHIN THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD FOR ANY
AND ALL PURPOSES OTHER THAN THOSE AUTHORIZED UNDER SECTION 19
OF ARTICLE XI OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
AS SAID SECTION EXISTED PRIDR TO ITS AMENDMENT ON OCTOBER
1911, ALL GAS PIPES AND APPURTENANCES WHICH ARE NOW OR MAY
HEREAFTER BE LAWFULLY PLACED IN THE PUBLIC STREETS, WAYS AND
PLACES WITHIN SAID CITY, AND TO CONSTRUCT AND USE IN SAID
PUBLIC STREETS, WAYS AND PLACES ALL PIPES AND APPURTENANCES
NECESSARY OR PROPER FOR SAID PURPOSES.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
22nd_..day of ......... ~Ianua~y_, ....... ;~ ........ , 19...5.8.
?~.' -~o~ary l~ublle in and for ~he County of Kern, S~ of California
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