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The Grantee shall furnish reasonable, adequate and efficient telephone service to the residents of the City and shall maintain its system in reasonable repair and working order and provide equal facilities to the public and to all connecting lines for the transmission of communications in accordance with the laws of the State of Iowa and the Rules and Regulations of the Iowa Utilities Board.
The Grantee’s plant and equipment, including all transmission lines, whether overhead or underground, and other distribution facilities shall be installed in accordance with good engineering practices and shall be located, erected, constructed, reconstructed, replaced, removed, repaired, maintained and operated so as not to endanger or interfere with the lives of persons, or to unnecessarily hinder or obstruct pedestrian or vehicular traffic to public ways, places and structures. The erection, installation, construction, replacement, removal, repair, maintenance, and operation of the transmission system shall be in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, and codes of the State and applicable ordinances, regulations and codes of the City. The Grantee shall restore all property of the City and of the inhabitants thereof to its original condition after the installation of either overhead or underground transmission lines.
All transmission and distribution structures, lines and equipment erected by the Grantee within the City shall be located as to cause minimum interference with the proper use of streets, alleys and other public ways and places, and to cause minimum interference with the rights or reasonable convenience of property owners who adjoin any of the said streets, alleys or other public ways and places. Grantee shall, upon 90 days’ written notice, remove or relocate said lines if the right-of-way upon which said lines are located is altered or changed for any reason. Such removal or relocation shall be undertaken at the sole expense of Grantee.
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