§ 10-2. Gas franchise granted to waterworks board.

(a)

The word "gas as used herein includes natural gas, coke-oven gas, manufactured gas, and any type of gas suitable for domestic, commercial, or industrial consumption. The words "the city" as used herein mean the City of Tuscumbia, Alabama, as it is now constituted and as it may hereafter be extended or enlarged. The words "the board" as used herein mean the waterworks board of the city, a public corporation organized under the provisions of Title 37, Sections 394 to 402, inclusive, of the Code of Alabama of 1940.

(b)

There is hereby granted to the board the right, privilege, authority and franchise to acquire, own, maintain, construct, enlarge, and operate in the city a system for the distribution of gas, together with the right, privilege, authority and franchise to lay, construct, and maintain gas pipes and other conductors, fixtures, and related appurtenances in, along, across, and under the streets, avenues, alleys, and other public places in the city, for the purpose of conveying and distributing gas in and through the city, and to repair, renew, relay, and extend such pipes, conductors, fixtures, and related appurtenances, and to make all necessary excavations.

(c)

The board shall, and by accepting this franchise agrees, that it will upon making any excavations of the streets, avenues, alleys, public ways and public places of the city, restore the surface or paving at the point of such excavations in substantially the same condition as before such work was done, all as promptly as may be practicable and within a reasonable length of time thereafter.

(d)

The rights, privileges, franchise and authority hereby granted may be exercised by the board or any successors and assigns of the board, all subject nevertheless to the conditions and obligations herein contained.

(e)

The rights, privileges, consent and franchise herein granted shall begin at the effective date hereof.

(Ord. of 7-11-50, §§ 1—5)

Editor's note

Now operated by municipal utilities board, see App. E, § 19.