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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0430_424424 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE GRANTING THE RIGHT, PRIVILEGE AND FRANCHISE TO THE.SOUTH. WESTERN STATES TELEPHONE COMPANY, GRANTEE, AND ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, TO CONSTRUCT, ERECT, BUILD, EQUIP, OWN MAINTAIN AND OPERATE IN,, ALONG, UNDER, OVER AND ACROSS THE STREETS, AVENUES, ALLEYS, BRIDGES, VIADUCTS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN �08T$, POLES, WIRES, CONDUITS AND OTHER APPLIANCES, FIXTURES NECESSARY OR CONVENIENT FOR RENDITION OF TELEPHONE AND OTHER COMNTCATION SERVICE AND FOR CONDUCTING A GENERAL LOCAL AND LONG-- DISTANCE TELEPHONE BUSINESS; REQUESTING AMID AUTHORIZING THE PROVIBIO1 OF PACIZITIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR AND THE FURNISHING OF CERTAIN EXTEND- ED AREA TR1EPHONE SERVICE; PROVIDING FOR THE gJY196 OF RATES, FOR THE ASSIGMTENT OF FRANCHISE, FOR CONSIDERATION, FOR REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES AND FOR PARTIAL INVALIDITY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY GEORGETOWN ,TMS; Section Io CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF TELEPHONE PLANT AND SERVICE That the right, privilege and franchise be, and the same is hereby, granted to the Southwestern States Telephone Company, herein- after referred to as the " Telephone Compan y", and its successors or assigns, subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter.set forth, to construct, erect, build, equip , own, maintain and operate in,along, under, over and across the streets, alley, avenues, bridges, viaducts and ;public grounds of the City, posts, poles, wires, conduits and other appliances, structures and fixtures necessary or convenient for rendering telephone and other communication service and for conducting a general _local and long-distance telephone business. The Telephone Company is hereby authorized to provide facilities and equipment for the furnishing of extended area service between the exchange service areas of the Georgetown telephone exchange and the telephone exchange(s) of Jarrell as sruch exchange(s) is (are) now or may hereafter be constituted. The Telephone Company is authorized to provide such extended area service in its Georgetown exchange in lieu of purely lacal exchangeservice, it being intended that the Telephone Company shall not be required to provide extended area service and purely local t. exchange service upon a selective basis. *Extended area service". as used 'herein, means the implementation of telephone service by the Telephone Company to its subscribers in the service area if its n_Ggox�own exchange whereby they may not only call and.be called by one another, without specific charge therefor,as under a purely local exchange service, but whereby they may also call VJ& called by subscribers of one, or more or all of the connecting exchanges hereinabove enumerated without specific chare therefor. C�