Commerce Municipal Code Art. VI Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems

Every franchise hereafter granted by the city for the period covered by the franchise, to erect, construct, operate, alter, maintain and use any electrical distribution and transmission systems consisting of poles, towers, crossarms, conduits, manholes, vaults, cables, wires, transformers, switches and other equipment, appliances and appurtenances including communication circuits, for the purpose of conducting, transmitting and distributing electricity and electrical energy for light, heat and power and for any and all other purposes for which electricity can be used on, along, upon, over, in, under and across the streets within the city, except as otherwise provided in the ordinance granting the franchise, shall be granted subject to the following terms and conditions in addition to such of the general terms and conditions of Article I hereof as are incorporated by reference in the ordinance granting the franchise and in addition to the terms and conditions set forth in the ordinance granting the franchise.

(Ord. 177 §1(part), 1972).

The grantee, during the life of the franchise, shall prepare and file with the city finance director a franchise report as provided in §5.08.160.

(Ord. 177 §1(part), 1972).

Within ninety days after the expiration of each franchise report period, the grantee shall file with the director of public works an annual report in triplicate, showing the permit number of each permit obtained for the installation of any and all new underground conduits, cables or other facilities during the immediately preceding franchise report period, together with the length and size of such new underground conduits, cables or facilities installed. On this report the grantee shall show any change in the franchise footage since the last franchise report period, segregating such footage as to new facilities installed, old facilities removed, old facilities abandoned in place and the footage of facilities installed in territory annexed. In addition to the annual payment required by §5.08.110, the grantee shall pay an initial construction charge calculated at the rate of one hundred dollars per mile, or fraction thereof, for all new underground conduits, cables or facilities installed during the franchise report period. With the report required by §5.08.160, the grantee shall file the report required by this section accompanied by both the annual payment, if any, and the initial construction charge, if any.

(Ord. 177 §1(part), 1972).

The grantee, during the life of the franchise, shall make annual payments to the city as provided in §5.08.110.

(Ord. 177 §1(part), 1972).

The grantee shall have the right, during the term of the franchise and subject to the terms and conditions thereof, to make service connections with all property adjoining the streets or any of them and to furnish and distribute electricity for any purpose through such facilities to all the territory adjacent thereto.

(Ord. 177 §1(part), 1972).