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ORDINANCE NO. 72-28
An ordinance renewing the existing franchise of Gulf States Utilities Company and
granting unto Gulf States Utilities Company, a corporation organized under the laws
of the State of Texas, domiciled in the City of Beaumont, Texas, but authorized to
do and doing business in the State of Louisiana, and to its successors and assigns,
for a period of 60 years from October 1, 1972, the right, privilege and franchise
to conduct within the Town of Carencro, Louisiana, an electrical lighting and power
business under the jurisdiction of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, and to
enter upon, erect, construct, maintain, operate, use, extend, repair, replace and
remove in, under, upon, over, above, across and along any and all the present and
future public roads, highways, parks, streets, lanes, and alleys and any other public
areas of the Town of Carencro and over, under, above, along and across any and all
streams, canals, bayous, embankments and bridges now or hereafter owned and controlled
by it, a system of works, underground conduits, poles, pole lines, towers, distribution
lines, transmission lines, wires, guys, cables, conduits, transformers and other distribution
and transmission instrumentalities, facilities and appurtenances (including telephone
and telegraph poles and wires for said company's own use), necessary or proper for
the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity into, in, within, from,
across, and through the Town of Carencro, as now existing or as said town limits may
hereafter be extended; and granting Gulf States Utilities Company the authority to
use such for the purpose of generation, transmission, distribution, delivery and sale
of electricity to the municipality and to the inhabitants of the Town of Carencro,
and to any other governmental agency, governmental subdivision, person, firm or corporation,
wherever located within or without the town limits of Carencro to be used by such
purchaser or purchasers, for lighting, cooling, heating, power or any other purpose
or purposes for which electricity may be used; granting to company the right to adopt
reasonable rules and regulations, demand deposits, charge for installation and to
prevent the resale of electricity by company's customers; providing for the payment
by company to said Town of Carencro of an amount equal to: (1) 4½ percent from October
1, 1972, to September 30, 1982; and (2) five percent from October 1, 1982, to September
30, 2032, of the gross receipts of company from the sale of electricity for residential
and commercial purposes in the Town of Carencro except: (1) those receipts from the
sale of electric energy in the Town of Carencro for municipal water and sewage pumping,
and street lighting revenues; (2) those receipts of revenues from any other special
rates to municipal or governmental units; (3) those receipts from revenues derived
from the State of Louisiana or state agencies; (4) those receipts from revenues derived
from sales to wholesale customers for resale; and, (5) those receipts from revenues
derived from customers classified as "industrial" who contract for 600 kw or more
within the limits of the Town of Carencro as the same may now or hereafter lawfully
exist; providing for the repeal of Ordinance No. 68-22, enacted on April 1, 1968,
on the effective date of this ordinance; providing a severability clause; giving town's
consent to the cutting and trimming by company of conflicting trees; providing an
effective date; and providing for the acceptance of this franchise ordinance by the
company.
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