Iowa Telecom Company, its successors and assigns (hereinafter referred to as “Grantee”) are hereby granted a franchise for a period of twenty-five (25) years from the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter to acquire, construct, reconstruct, maintain, extend and operate such telephone plant or system and such facilities thereof, including lines, poles, wires, stubs, anchors, cables, vaults, laterals, conduits and other fixtures and equipment in, upon, through, over, under, along and across the public streets, alleys, highways and other passageways or public grounds of or in the corporate limits of the City as now or hereafter established, as may be necessary and/or convenient for supplying to the citizens of the City, to adjacent rural areas and to the public at large telephone and telecommunications service, local and long distance, and telecommunication by telephone or other electric signals and for the conduct of a general telephone and telecommunications business therein.
Grantee’s rights and privileges in the public ways and grounds of the City shall be exercised as follows:
1. Locations of its existing system are hereby approved; changes of location, additions or extensions thereto affecting public grounds or ways shall be under the supervision of the City’s street committee or such other officer or officers as may be designated by the Mayor and Council for that purpose.
2. The installations of the Grantee shall be so placed and the servicing and operation thereof so performed as not to interfere unreasonably with ordinary travel on the public ways or the ingress to or egress from public or private property.
3. Grantee may make excavations in public grounds or ways and may take up such portions of pavement or sidewalk as it deems necessary for the installation, maintenance, replacement or removal of its facilities. Excavations so made shall be refilled and surfacing thus disturbed shall be restored to as reasonably good condition as before.
4. Grantee shall permit the City to attach to its poles its fire and/or police wires and apparatus incident thereto – such attachments to be made under the direction and supervision of the Grantee and so made and maintained as not to interfere with the Grantee’s use of said poles.
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