Los Angeles County Municipal Code Ch. 16.40 Existing Franchises

If the franchise granted grants all or any of the rights and privileges owned by the grantee by reason of any existing franchises owned in whole or in part by the grantee, from and after the effective date of the ordinance granting the new franchise, such existing franchises, to the extent that the new franchise grants the same rights, and to the extent of the grantee's interest therein, shall become inoperative as to all unincorporated territory within the county, except as to highways which, upon the effective date of the ordinance granting the franchise, are included within the highway system of the state of California as state highways, saving, however, to the county the right to recover from the grantee any and all sums due under the terms of such superseded franchises arising prior to the effective date of the ordinance granting the franchise.

(Ord. 10915 § 1 (part), 1974: Ord. 7468 Art. 20 § 2001, 1959.)

Notwithstanding the provisions of such superseded or partially superseded franchises, the respective amounts of the payments to be made to the county thereunder, as to such state highways on and after the effective date of the ordinance granting the new franchise, shall be determined in the same manner as payments are determined under such new franchise.

(Ord. 10915 § 1 (part), 1974: Ord. 7468 Art. 20 § 2002, 1959.)

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all facilities maintained by the grantee in highways under the terms of such superseded or partially superseded franchises, to the extent that such superseded or partially superseded franchises apply to the unincorporated territory of the county, upon the effective date of the ordinance granting the new franchise, shall be maintained under and pursuant to the terms of such new franchise.

(Ord. 10915 § 1 (part), 1974: Ord. 7468 Art. 20 § 2003, 1959.)