A. License. The City hereby grants Northern States Power Company, its successors and assigns, a nonexclusive right and license for a period of twenty (20) years from and after August 18, 1989, to erect, construct, maintain and operate within the below-described Service Area a gas distributing system together with all appurtenances, pipes, machinery, tanks and appliances necessary or useful thereto, for the distribution of gas for the purpose of selling, distributing and supplying gas to the Service Area and the inhabitants thereof, and others, together with the right and franchise to use and occupy the roads, streets, avenues, alleys, bridges and other public places of said City, as now or hereafter laid out and hereafter extended with its gas mains, pipes, Pipelines, distributing lines, conduits and other appliances and appurtenances necessary or useful for the purpose of maintaining and operating such gas distributing system within the Service Area, and the right and franchise of selling, distributing and supplying the Service Area and its inhabitants thereof, with such gas for light, heat, fuel, power, cooking and other purposes, subject to the terms and conditions of this Ordinance, as herein set forth.
B. Service Area Described. The Service Area licensed hereunder is described as follows:
All those portions of the City of Columbus, Anoka County, Minnesota, described as follows: All of Sections 30 and 31, Township 33 North, Range 22 West; and,
All those portions of the City of Columbus, Anoka County, Minnesota, lying within the following described boundary: Beginning at the Southeast corner of Section 33, Township 32 North, Range 22 West, thence North along the East line of said Section 33 to the Northeast corner of the Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter; thence East along the North line of the South Half of the Northwest Quarter of Section 34, Township 32, Range 22, to the Northeast corner of said South Half; thence North to the Northeast corner of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 27, Township 32, Range 22; thence East to the Southeast corner of the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 27; thence North to the Northeast corner of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of said Section 27; thence West to the Northwest corner of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of said Section 27; thence North to the Northeast corner of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 22, Township 32, Range 22; thence West along the North line of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 22, a distance of 885 feet; thence Northeasterly and parallel with the Easterly right-of-way line of Anoka County Highway Right-of-Way Plat No. 3 to the centerline of Crossways Lake Drive; thence Northwesterly along the centerline of Crossways Lake Drive to intersect the centerline of Anoka County Highway Right-of-Way Plat No. 3; thence Northeasterly along the centerline of Anoka County Highway Right-of-Way Plat No. 3, to its intersection with the Northeast corner of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 22, Township 32, Range 22; thence Westerly along said section line a distance of 660 feet; thence North to a point on the North line of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 15, Township 32, Range 22, lying 660 feet Westerly, as measured along said North line, from the Northeast corner of said Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter; thence Easterly along said quarter-quarter line to the Northwest corner of the South Half of the Southwest Quarter of Section 14, Township 32, Range 22; thence continuing Easterly along the North line of said South Half of said Southwest Quarter, continuing Easterly along the North line of the South Half of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 14; thence continuing Easterly along the North line of the South Half of the Southwest Quarter of Section 13, and continuing Easterly along the North line of the South Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 13 to the Township line, being the East line of Section 13, Township 32, Range 22 West; thence South along the Columbus Town line to the Southeast corner of Section 36, Township 32, Range 22; thence West along the section line to the Southeast corner of Section 33, Township 32, Range 22, and there terminating.
C. Specific Conditions of This License.
1. The licensee shall construct its Distribution System in accord with the designs, specifications, and schedules contained within its application on file and of record in the office of the City Clerk.
2. The licensee shall operate its Utility in accord with the provisions of this Chapter and of the City Code.
3. The licensing fees to be paid under this license are:
Public hearing fee (§ 18-408) $ 250.00
Basic license fee (§ 18-410) 1,000.00
Formula license fee (§ 18-410),
based on 212 improved parcels
within Service Area
(at $2.10 each) 445.20
based on 212 improved parcels
within Service Area
(at $2.10 each) 445.20
TOTAL $1,695.20
4. On or before September 1, 1990, the licensee shall submit plans and schedules to the Town Manager, depicting and describing the licensee’s plans and schedule for completion of a Distribution System within the licensed Service Area. Such plans and schedules are subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Commission.
[§ 18-520 amended by Ord. No. 07-02, effective March 1, 2007.]