Appendix C
Franchises and Services
Ord./Res
Date
Subject
Ord./Res
Date
Subject
Ord. 49
8/29/1891
Franchise to Blossburg Water Company. The said Blossburg Water Company is hereby granted the right to occupy and use the streets and alleys of said Borough to construct, maintain and operate its works for the supplying of water to its customers.
Ord. 58
11/9/1898
Authorizing a 5-year street lighting contract with the Blossburg Electric Light and Power Company.
Ord. 76
9/9/1912
Erecting poles, suspending wires, attaching converters, and or all other purposes necessary for the conducting and carrying on of the business of supplying light, heat and power to the public by means of electricity, within the said Borough, and for the purpose of altering, inspecting or repairing the system of distribution of light, heat and power.
Ord. 96
10/27/1930
Installing its pipe lines only in a careful and workmanlike manner and according to the best practices of the business as is consistent with the proper installing and maintaining of its said pipe lines, and shall in every case promptly restore the streets to as good condition as they were before said Company shall begin work thereon, and shall keep said streets so restored as against any disturbance thereof as the result of the work of said company.
Ord. 97
6/24/1931
Installing, operating and maintaining conduits, mains and pipes for the transportation of gas long, through and under, the public roads, streets and highways and other public ways of the Borough of Blossburg, including such other appliances and appurtenances as may be from time to time necessary for the proper and convenient transaction of the business of transporting gas.
Ord. 119
11/1/1948
Providing for the furnishing of electric street lighting service to be Borough of Blossburg, County of Tioga, and State of Pennsylvania.
Ord. 144
12/2/1957
Providing for the furnishing of electric street lighting service to the Borough of Blossburg, County of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania.
Ord. 162
6/21/1965
Providing for the furnishing of electric street lighting service to he Borough of Blossburg, County of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania.
Ord. 184A
4/25/1968
Franchising to Blossburg Municipal Authority. This Borough does grant to the Authority, its successors and assigns, all easements, rights-of-way and other rights and privileges necessary and desirable in, long, over and under roads, streets, lanes, courts, public squares, alleys and other properties of this Borough, together with free ingress, egress and regress therein and thereto, along with other persons having interests or rights therein, for use in connection with constructing, replacing, repairing, altering, maintaining and operating the Authority’s sewer system, as the same shall exist, from time to time.
Ord. 245
4/7/1975
Providing for the furnishing of electric street lighting to the Borough of Blossburg, County of Tioga, and State of Pennsylvania.
Ord. 252
9/13/1976
Granting the grantee, the continued right and privilege to construction, erect, operate and maintain, in, upon, along, across, above, over and under the streets, alleys, public ways and public places now laid out or dedicated, and extensions thereof, and additions thereto, in the Borough, poles, wires, cable, underground conduits; manholes, and other television conductors and fixtures necessary for the maintenance and operation in the Borough, a cable television system for the interception, sale and distribution of television and radio signals.
Ord. 322
1/4/1988
The maximum rates charged by the grantee to the subscribers shall be subjected to the approval of the Council. All subsequent changes in said rates shall be subject to prior approval of the Council who must approve the same by resolution after an appropriate public hearing is held thereon affording proper notice and due process to all interested parties.
Ord. 420
7/13/2009
Defining and granting, by franchise, nonexclusive rights and privileges to Blue Ridge Cable Technologies, Inc.