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ORDINANCE NO. _[.ap
AN ORDINANCE GRANTING A LICENSE TO TELET RONICS -PORT
TOWNSEND,INC.,A WASHINGTON CORPORATION, FOR THE
INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE, AND SALE OF USE OF
TELEVISION COAXIAL CABLE, PROVIDING REGULATIONS
THEREOF AND LICENSE FEES THEREFOR.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND, in regular
session asse-mbled, do ordain as follows:
Section 1. Rights and Privileges of Grantee. The City grants
to Teletronics- Port Townsend,Inc., a Washington Corporation, herein-
after called licensee, and to its successors and assigns, the non-
exclusive right, privilege and authority to install, lay down, main-
tain and operate a coaxial cable subscriber system for television,
radio and other audio-visual electrical signal distribution in, over,
on and under the streets, alleys and public highways of the city,
with the necessary manholes and other apputenances therefor, and to
erect poles, with or without crossarms, and to stretch wires and
cables on, across and under all streets; to maintain and use the same
for the purpose of constructing and operating a coaxial cable dis-
tribution to subscribers; and whenever it is practicable and with
written consent or permission of the owner to make use of poles
already erected in the streets, licensee shall make use of such poles,
except that in any district which has been or hereafter shall be by
this code or any ordinance designated as a district in which telephone,
telegraph and electric wires and cables shall be laid underground,
licensee's coaxial cable must be in said areas or districts likewise
run underground, and licensee shall likewise place underground its
existing cables in those districts whenever designated by this code
or any ordinance as a district requiring other utilities to place
their wires and cables underground.
Section 2. Duties of Licensee. (a) all poles, cables, wires,
antennas, conduits or appurtenances shall be constructed and erected
in a neat, workmanlike manner. The city shall not be held liable for
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