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ORDINANCE # 14: Consumer's Energy Franchise
ORDINANCE NO. 14
CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY ELECTRIC FRANCHISE
SECTION I.
GRANT, TERM: The Charter Township of Watertown, Clinton County, Michigan, hereby grants the right, power, and authority to the Consumers Power Company, a Michigan corporation, its successors and assigns, hereinafter called the “Grantee,” to construct, maintain, and commercially use electrical lines consisting of towers, masts, poles, crossarms, guys, braces, feeders, transmission, and distribution wires, transformers, and other electrical appliances, for the purpose of transmitting, transforming, and distributing electricity on, under, along, and across the highways, streets, alleys, bridges, and other public places, and to do a local electric business in the Charter Township of Watertown, Clinton County, Michigan, for a period of thirty years.
SECTION II.
CONSIDERATIONS: All of Grantee’s towers, masts, and poles shall be neat and sightly, and so placed on either side of the interfere with the use thereof for highway, street, and alley purposes. All of Grantee’s wires carrying electricity shall be securely fastened so as not to endanger or injure persons or property in said highways, streets, and alleys shall be done so as not to interfere with the use thereof, and when completed, the same shall be left in as good as condition as when work was commenced. The Grantee shall have the right to trim trees if necessary in the conducting of such business, subject, however, to the supervision of Watertown Charter Township.
SECTION III.
Liability and Indemnification: Said Grantee shall at all times keep and save the Township free and harmless from all loss, costs and expense to which it may be subject by reason of the negligent construction and maintenance of the structures hereby authorized. In case any action is commenced against the Township on account of the permission herein granted, said Grantee shall, upon notice, defend the Township and save it free and harmless from all loss, cost and damage arising out of such negligent construction and maintenance.
December 7, 1987 - Introduced
December 15, 1987 - Published
January 11, 1988 - 2nd Reading
January 19, 1988 - 2nd Publishing
February 4, 1988 - Filed with County Clerk