Section 11.01. ACQUISITION AND OPERATION OF UTILITIES. The City may own and operate any water, gas, light, power, heat, telephone, transportation or other public utility for supplying its own needs for utility service or for supplying utility service to private consumers or other governmental agencies. It may construct all facilities reasonably needed for that purpose and may acquire any existing utility properties so needed. The City shall not acquire or construct any public utility unless the proposition to acquire or to construct it has been incorporated in an ordinance and adopted by the City Council. Such ordinance shall not be an emergency ordinance. No public utility now or hereafter at any time owned by the City, nor any part thereof, shall be sold, leased, or abandoned except by ordinance adopted by a vote of more than eighty (80) percent of the City Council; and no such ordinance shall become effective until it shall have been submitted to the legal voters of the City at a regular or special election and approved by two thirds (2/3rds) vote of the voters voting thereon at such election.
(Ord. 277, passed 11-17-14)