HomeMy WebLinkAbout01036ORDINAICE NO.
AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No. 893 of the City of Port
Townsend and the title of such ordinance, and repealing
all portions of such ordinance as are not reenacted by
this ordinance, which Ordinance No. 893 is an ordinance
granting to Washington Coast Utilities a franchise to erect
and maintain poles, crossarms and wires and to furnish elec-
tric current to the City of Port Townsend and its inhabitants
and to maintain and operate a system of gas works in the City
of Port Townsend.
The City Councilof the City of Port Townsend do ordain
as follows:
Section 1. That the title of Ordinance No. 893 of the
City of Port Townsend, granting an electric light and gas franchise
to Washington Coast Utilities, be and the same is hereby amended
so that such title shall read as follows:
"AN ORDINANCE granting unto Washington Coast
Utilities, a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Washington, its successors and
assigns, the right and authority to erect and maintain
poles, with crossarms thereon, within the City of Port
Townsend, to stretch wires on said poles and crossarms
for the transmission of electrical current;to furnish
electrical current to the said city and inhabitants
thereof for the production of light, heat and power, and
for any and all purposes and uses to which electrical
current can or may be put, and to lay pipes and conductors
through and under the streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks,
wharf landings, places and public grounds for supplying
said city and its inhabitants with such electrical current,
and to charge reasonable rates therefor."
Section 2. That Section 1 of said Ordinance No. 893 be
and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"Section 1. That there be and hereby is granted to
Washington Coast Utilities, its successors and assigns,
the right, privilege and authority for and during a period
of fifty (50) years from the 4th day of March, 1919, and
subject to all the conditions and provisions hereof, to
locate, erect, place, maintain and use in the avenues,
streets, lanes, alleys, highways, public parks and public
grounds within the City of Port Townsend, and the extensions
of all avenues, streets, lanes, alleys, highways, public parks
and public grounds which may hereafter be made and extended,
and all avenues, streets, lanes, alleys, highways, public
parks and public grounds which may hereafter be laid out
or dedicated to the public in said City of Port Townsend,
poles with crossarms, and thereon to fasten and stretch wires,
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