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 April 23, 1993, 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 Section 25, Township 33 North, Range 22 West; The Northeast Quarter of Section 26, Township 33 North, Range 22 West; The Southeast Quarter of Section 26, Township 33 North, Range 22 West; The South Half of the Southwest Quarter of Section 26, Township 33 North, Range 22 West; The North Half of the Northwest Quarter of Section 35, Township 33 North, Range 22 West; The North Half of the Northeast Quarter of Section 35, Township 33 North, Range 22 West; The North Half of the Northwest Quarter of Section 36, Township 33 North, Range 22 West; and, The North Half of the Northeast Quarter of Section 36, Township 33 North, Range 22 West.
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) 0.00
Formula license fee (§ 18-410),
based on 27 improved parcels
within Service Area
(at $2.10 each) _56.70
within Service Area
(at $2.10 each) _56.70
TOTAL $306.70
4. On or before May 1, 1994, 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.
[Section 18-501 added by Ord. No. 93-4, effective April 23, 1993, amended by Ord. No. 07-02, effective March 1, 2007.]