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RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO GRANT GAS FRANCHISE
WHEREAS Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a California
utility corporation, has filed with the City Council of the
City of Saratoga 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 Council
intends to grant said franchise, that hearing of objections
to the granting thereof will be held at the time and place
specified 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 SARATOCA~WS , 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 Saratoga requesting said Council to grant
it a franchise for an indeterminate period, under the
Franchise Act of 1937, to install, maintain and use pipes
and appurtenances under, along, across and upon the public
streets and places within said City for transmitting and
distributing gas to the public for any and all purposes.
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 ~eceipts of said g~antee 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 ~eceipts derived by
grantee from the sale of gas within the limits of said
City.
Said percentage will be paid annually f~om the
date of the g~anting of the franchise applied for and
in the event such payment shall not be made said fran-
chise shall be forfeited. Said City Council proposes
to grant said franchise for an indeterminate period.
NOTICE IS HEREBY ~URTHER 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~9o~n~#
the ~Lday of
heard thereon; and
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that at any ~ime
not later than the hour so set fo~ 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 hereby made
to said application filed as aforesaid in the office of
said Council, and also to the resolution adopted on the
~day of ~ , 19~, declaring its inten-
tion to grant said franchise.
Dated: 19 '~
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By order of the Council of the City of Saratoga.
ACT ING Saratoga. "
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:
AYES: Councilmen_ Braz~l;~ep_sen,~angwil!~,R.es~see, W~lliams
NAYS: Councilmen ....
ABSENT: Councilmen
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