Danville Municipal Code § 16-3 Gas Franchise

As used in this section, the following words or phrases shall have the following meanings:

Construct, install, maintain and use shall mean to lay, construct, erect, install, operate, maintain, use, repair or replace.

Gas shall mean natural or artificial gas, or a mixture of natural and artificial gas.

Grantee shall mean Pacific Gas and Electric Company and its lawful successors or assigns.

Pipes and appurtenances shall mean pipes, pipelines, mains, services, traps, vents, vaults, manholes, meters, gauges, regulators, valves, conduits, appliances, attachments, appurtenances, and, without limitation to the foregoing, any other property located or to be located, in, upon, along, across, under or over the streets of Town, and used or useful in transmitting and/or distributing gas.

Streets shall mean the public streets, ways, alleys and places as the same now or may hereafter exist within Town, including State highways, now or hereafter established within Town.

Town shall mean the Town of Danville, a municipal corporation of the State of California, in its present incorporated form or in any later reorganized, consolidated, enlarged or reincorporated form.

(Ord. 08-02, § 2)

The franchise to construct, install, maintain and use in the streets of Town all pipes and appurtenances, including communication circuits, necessary or proper for transmitting and distributing gas to the public for any and all purposes is hereby granted to Grantee.

(Ord. 08-02, § 2)