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RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO GRANT ELECTRIC FRANCHISE
WEEAS Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a California
utility corporation, has filed with the City Council of the
City of an application requesting that a fran-
chise be granted to it of the character and for the purposes
mentioned in the form of notice hereinafter set forth; and
WHEREAS in the opinion of said Council the public good
requires that said franchise be granted;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that said City Council
intends to grant said franchise, that hearing of objections to
the granting thereof will be held at the time and place speci-
fied in the form of notice hereinafter set forth which the
Clerk of said City is hereby directed to publish at least once
within fifteen days after the passage of this resolution in
S.~iT~' ~E~ =- .,a newspaper
of general circulation within said City, and that said notice
shall be in the following words and figures:
"NOTICE OF INTENTION TO GRANT FRANCHISE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Pacific Gas and
Electric Company, a California utility corporation, has
filed its application with the Council of the City of
requesting said Council to grant it a
franchise for an indeterminate period, under the Franchise
Act of 1937, to construct, maintain and use poles, wires,
conduits and appurtenances, including communication cir-
cuits, in, along, across, upon and under the public
streets and places within said City for transmitting and
distributing electricity to the public for any and all
purpose s.
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If said franchise shall be granted to it, said
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, its successors and
assigns, hereinafter designated grantee, shall during the
life thereof pay to said City two per cent of the gross
annual receipts of said grantee arising from the use,
operation or possession of said franchise; provided,
however, that such payment shall in no event be less than
one per cent of the gross annual receipts derived by
grantee from the sale of electricity within the limits
of said City.
Said percentage will be paid annually from the
date of the granting of the franchise applied for and in
the event such payment shall not be made said franchise
shall be forfeited. Said City Council proposes to grant
said franchise for an indeterminate period.
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that any and all
persons having any objections to the granting of said
franchise may appear before said Council at the City Hall
of said City at the hour of 8 p.m. on ~. ,
thereon; and
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that at any
time not later than the hour so set for hearing objections
any person interested may make written protest stating
objections against the granting of said franchise which
protest must be signed by the protestant and delivered to
the City Clerk of said City, and the Council shall at the
time set for hearing said objections proceed to hear and
pass upon all protests so made.
For further particulars reference is hePeby made
to said application filed as aforesaid in the office of
said Council, and also to the resslution adopted on the
~day of 19~_~_, declaring its inten-
tion to gPant said fPanchise.
Dated: , .
By o~de~ o~ the Council of the City o~ S~atoga.
A~TING
The foregoing resolution was duly passed and adopted
by the Council of the City of Saratoga at a regular
meeting of the said Council held on the/~day of
19/~_, by the following vote:
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AT~ST:
A~TING
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