§ 186 Passage of Franchise Ordinances

   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)

§ 187 Certified Copies of Grants and Other Documents

   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)

§ 188 Grant Nonexclusive; Maximum Time Limit

   No right or rights to construct, maintain, or operate any public utility in the City of Cleveland shall be exclusive; nor shall such right or rights be granted for a longer period than twenty-five years.

(Effective November 9, 1931)

§ 189 Consents

   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)

§ 190 Control and Regulation by Council

   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)