ORD CC 10/04/1927 - Gulf States FranchiseFRANCHISE
An ordinance granting the Gulf States
Utilities Company, heirs and successors and assigns, the
right to erect, maintain, extend and operate a system of
works, poles, wires, underground conduits, cables, and all
necessary apparatus and appurtenances in the streets, alleys,
and other public areas in the City of Huntsville, State of
Texas, for the purpose of generating electricity and for the
sale and distribution of same to said City and to the pub-
lic generally, and declaring an emergency. Be it ordain-
ed by the City. Council of the City of Huntsville, Texas.
SECTION I
The the word "Grantee" herein shall de-
note Gulf States Utilities Company, a corporation, its
successors and assigns; that the word "Grantor" shall de-
note the City of Huntsville.
SECTION II
That for and during the period of fifty
years from and after the passage of the franchise contained
in this ordinance by the City Council of the City of Huntsville
Texas, there is hereby granted to the said grantee the right,
power, and authority to erect, maintain, extend and operate
a system of works, poles, wires, underground conduits, cables,
and all necessary apparatus and appurtenances within the cor-
porate limits of the City of Huntsville and State of Texas
as now existing and as hereafter may be extended for the
purpose of generating electricity and for the sale and dis-
tribution of the same to said City and to public generally
for light, heating, and power and other purposes to which
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electricity may be put and for said purpose to enter on
or below areas under the control or jurisdiction of said
City, subject to the temms and conditions hereinafter pro-
vided.
SECTION III
Nothing herein contained shall ever be
held or conbtruetildto confer upon the grantee herein any
exclusive rights an privileges of any nature whatsoever.
And it is understood and agreed that the City of Huntsville
does not waive any of its rights to regulate the placing
of poles, wires, lights, lamp posts and lamp districts as
provided by the revised statutes of the State of Texas.
SECTION IV
This ordinance shall be in force and
effect from and after its passage and upon the filing of a
written acceptance with the City Secretary by said grantee
within sixty days after the passage of this ordinance and
same shall then become a binding conpact and shall exist
for the said period of fifty years.
Passed and duly enacted as an ordinance
of the City of Huntsville in accordance with the laws of
the State of Texas and the charter of the said City of Huntsville
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on this the dgy of October 1927.
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Referred to the Committee on Ordinances
in open Council the ' day of October 1927.
We, the Committee on Ordinances, to who
the foregoing ordinance has been referred, having duly
considered the same, do hereby recommend that said ordinance
be adopted.
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Adopted and approved in open Council this
day of October 1927.
CITY SECRETARY