Section 7. PUBLICATION OF FRANCHISE ORDINANCE.
   Whenever any application is made to the Board of Commissioners of the City of Burkburnett for any such grant or franchise, lease or right to use the streets, public highways, thoroughfares or public property of the City of Burkburnett, as is provided for in the preceding section of this Charter, or whenever an ordinance is introduced before the Board of Commissioners proposing to make grant of any franchise, lease or right to use the public highways, streets, thoroughfares and public property of the city of Burkburnett, publication of said ordinance of such proposed grant or right to use the, streets, public thoroughfares and highways of said city, shall be made by publishing the ordinance as finally proposed to be passed, which shall not thereafter be changed unless again published, setting forth in detail all the rights, powers and privileges granted or proposed to be granted, in some newspaper published in the City of Burkburnett once a week, for three consecutive weeks, which publication shall be made at the expense of the applicant or person or persons desiring said grant, and no such grant shall be made, or ordinance passed, until after publication in the manner aforesaid, nor shall any such ordinance confirming or making any such grant, lease or right to use the streets, public highways and thoroughfares of the City of Burkburnett take effect or become a law or contract or vest any rights in the applicants therefor, until after the expiration of thirty days after said ordinance has been duly passed by the Board of Commissioners.
(Adopted May 8, 1923)