CHAPTER 112
FRANCHISE REQUIREMENTS

 

112.01 Purpose	112.04 Granting of Franchise
112.02 Franchise Required	112.05 Utility Systems Prohibited
112.03 User Fee	112.06 Violation

 

112.01 PURPOSE.

The purpose of the ordinance codified in this chapter is to regulate utility services delivered within the City and, to that end, franchise agreements are required.† 6

 

Notes

6	† EDITOR’S NOTE: Ordinance No. 714, adopting franchise requirements for the City, was passed and adopted on September 9, 2002.

112.02 FRANCHISE REQUIRED.

No person or other entity shall erect, maintain, and operate plants and systems for electric light and power, heating, telegraph, cable television, district telegraph and alarm, communication systems of any type, public transit systems, waterworks, or gasworks within the City without a franchise from the City.

112.03 USER FEE.

Any person or other entity operating under a franchise or without a franchise shall pay to the City a user fee of five percent of the gross revenues derived from any sales through the distribution system within the City. Said payment is a form of rent and grants no rights to any person or other entity. Any person or entity (whether paying a user fee or not) may be ejected from public property if operating without a franchise, and in addition, the City reserves all rights and remedies it may have at law, in equity, or otherwise against such persons or other entities.