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INTRODUCED BY: Councilmember Jennings DATE: April 25, 2016
<br /> BILL NO. 9285 ORDINANCE NO. 7011
<br /> AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO LACLEDE GAS COMPANY, A MISSOURI
<br /> CORPORATION, OPERATING A GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IN THE CITY OF
<br /> UNIVERSITY CITY, MISSOURI, ITS SUCCESSORS OR ASSIGNS, A FRANCHISE TO
<br /> OPERATE A NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IN SAID CITY AND RELATING
<br /> THERETO.
<br /> BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
<br /> UNIVERSITY CITY, MISSOURI.
<br /> Section 1. The right, permission and authority for a period of twenty (20)
<br /> years is hereby granted to, and vested in Laclede Gas Company, a corporation of the
<br /> State of Missouri (hereinafter sometimes called "Laclede"), its successors and assigns, to
<br /> construct, reconstruct, excavate for, place, replace, extend and maintain all necessary or
<br /> appropriate mains, service pipes, conduits, conductors, vaults, vaporizers, regulators and
<br /> other equipment with all necessary or appropriate appurtenances and appliances in
<br /> connection therewith, in, along, across, over and under the streets, roads, alleys,
<br /> sidewalks, squares, bridges and other public places within the corporate limits of the City
<br /> of University City, as now fixed and within any future extensions of its limits as
<br /> hereafter extended, and areas dedicated to the City for public utility use, for the purpose
<br /> of transmitting, furnishing, transporting and distributing gas for light, heat, power and
<br /> other purposes within the City of University City, and in territory adjacent to said City
<br /> and for the purpose of transporting and transmitting gas through said City; all such
<br /> equipment, appliances and apparatus to be installed and maintained with due regard to the
<br /> rightful use by other persons with vehicles or otherwise, of the streets, roads, alleys,
<br /> sidewalks, squares, bridges and other public places and areas dedicated to the City for
<br /> public utility use; and exercise of the rights, permission and authority hereby granted
<br /> shall at all times be subject to proper regulation by the City in the exercise of its police
<br /> powers.
<br /> Section 2. Extensions of, and additions to, the distribution system maintained
<br /> by Laclede, its successors or assigns, in the City of University City, shall be made in
<br /> accordance with the rules and regulations governing such extensions and additions by
<br /> Laclede now on file with the Public Service Commission of Missouri or in accordance
<br /> with such amended rules and regulations governing such extensions and additions by
<br /> Laclede, its successors or assigns, as may hereafter become effective in the manner
<br /> provided by law. The financial responsibility for relocations of the Company's
<br /> facilities within the City's rights-of-way shall be determined by State law as shall
<br /> be specified by Statute or common law at the time of the relocation, and nothing
<br /> herein shall be construed to confer upon the Company or the City any rights
<br /> inconsistent therewith. The City will not vacate any public right-of-way containing
<br /> any Company facilities without first advising the Company of its intention to vacate
<br /> the right-of-way and cooperating with the Company in reasonable attempts to obtain
<br /> the necessary property rights to maintain its facilities in the right-of-way.
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