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All such grants and renewals thereof shall reserve to the City the right to terminate the same and to purchase all the property of the utility in the streets and highways in the City and elsewhere, as may be provided in the ordinance making the grant or renewal, used in or useful for the operation of the utility, at a price either fixed in the ordinance, or to be fixed in the manner provided by the ordinance making the grant or renewal of the grant. Nothing in such ordinance shall prevent the City from acquiring the property of any such utility by condemnation proceedings or in any other lawful mode; but all such methods of acquisition shall be alternative to the power to purchase, reserved in the grant or renewal as hereinbefore provided. Upon the acquisition by the City of the property of any utility, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, all grants or renewals shall at once terminate.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
No ordinance making such grant or renewal shall be valid unless it shall expressly provide therein that the price to be paid by the City for the property that may be acquired by it from such utility, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, shall exclude all value of such grant or renewal.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
The Council may, by ordinance, grant to any individual, company or corporation operating a public utility, the right to extend the appliances and service of such utility. All such extensions shall become a part of the aggregate property of the utility, and shall be subject to all the obligations and reserved rights in favor of the City applicable to the property of the utility by virtue of the ordinance providing for its construction and operation. The right to use and maintain any such extension shall expire with the original grant of the utility to which the extension was made or any renewal thereof.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
No ordinance making, amending or renewing a grant to construct or operate a public utility or to extend the appliances or service thereof, shall be adopted by the Council until adequate public hearings shall have been held on such ordinance, and until at least one week after its publication in the City Record in final form.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
Every public utility, and every owner of a public utility grant, shall file with the City certified copies of all such grants owned or claimed, or under which any such utility is operated within the City. Certified copies of all public utility grants, and of all amendments, renewals and extensions thereof, made subsequent to the taking effect of this section shall be filed with the City by the grantee within ten days after acceptance thereof. No grant to construct or operate a public utility shall be transferable except with the approval of the Council expressed by ordinance; and certified copies of all transfers, mortgages, and other documents affecting the title or use of public utilities shall be filed with the City within ten days after their execution. The certified copies of grants and other documents required by this section to be filed with the City shall be filed and preserved as a public record in such office thereof as the Council may by ordinance provide.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
No consent of the owner of property abutting on any highway or public ground shall be required for the construction, extension, maintenance, or operation of any public utility by original grant or renewal, unless such public utility is of such a character that its construction or operation is an additional burden upon the rights of the property owners in such highways or public ground.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
The Council shall at all times control the distribution of space in, over, under or across all streets or public grounds and occupied by public utility fixtures. All rights granted for the construction and operation of public utilities shall be subject to the continuing right of the Council to require such reconstruction, relocation, change or discontinuance of the appliances used by the utility in the streets, alleys, avenues, and highways, of the City, as shall in the opinion of the Council be necessary in the public interest.
(Effective November 9, 1931)