The Cooperative is further granted the right, privilege and authority to excavate in, occupy and use any and all streets, alleys, viaducts, bridges, roads, lanes and other public ways and places under the supervision of properly constituted authority, including the ordinances, rules and regulations of the City, for the purpose of bringing electrical energy to the City and the inhabitants thereof and in the territory adjacent thereto; provided, however that the Cooperative shall so locate its plants, substations, works, transmission and distribution structures, lines, equipment and conduits within the City as to cause minimum interference with the proper use of streets, alleys and other public ways and places and to cause minimum interference with rights or reasonable convenience of property owners whose property adjoins any of said streets, alleys or other public ways and places. Should it become necessary for the Cooperative, in exercising its rights and performing its duties hereunder, to interfere with any sidewalk, pavement or any other public or private improvement, the Cooperative shall repair in a workmanlike manner such sidewalk, graveled or paved street, road, alley or other public improvement after the installation of its poles, conduits or other structures. The Cooperative shall use due care not to interfere with or damage any water mains, sewers or other structures now or which may hereafter be placed in said streets, alleys or other public places, and will set no poles or other structures in the paved portions of the streets now traversed by U.S. Highway No. 149.
(Ord. 276 Art. II §2, 1990)