The City Council shall have power and it is their duty to install, establish, complete, maintain, and control all necessary buildings, machinery, apparatus, and material necessary to run and operate an electric light plant and water works system within the City of Wells, and to furnish and supply water and electric light for public and private use, and to that end shall maintain, preserve, and operate the electric light plant and water works system now owned by and being installed within the city, and shall furnish water from the water works system and light from the electric light plant to the citizens of the city upon their complying in all things with all the terms and conditions of this and all other ordinances hereafter enacted or adopted by the city and upon the citizen filing with the recorder an application as hereinafter provided and paying to the city the amount charged for the light or water as the case may be.
(Ord. 24, passed 4-4-1895)