The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-01-21
ORDINANCE NO. So

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ORDINANCE NO. So
An Ordinance pertaining to the granting
Of Franchise for the construction of an
Electric Light Plant.
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Board of Alder
men of the City of Scotland, South Dakota.
SECTION I-That there is hereby given to
the Dakota Gas, Electric Light Power Co.,,
a South Dakota corporation, of Wagner. South
Dakota, its successors and assigns, perp1is-
sion and right to furnish light, heat, electric
iy and motive power to the City of Scotland,
South Dakota, and to the residents thereof,
and to any and all companies and corpora
lions thereinlfor-and all purposes and for the
purpose of so doing. /.
SECTION II-Said Dakota Gas, Electric
Light & Power Co, has the right to construct,
operate and maintain a gas plant, an electric
light plant and heating plant, either one or
more singly or Jointly for the purpose of using
natural gas, manufacturing and producing
gas, heat and electricity, either one, singly or
Jointly or all three combined, and if more than
one plant shall be necessary, they mag be run
and operated Jointly or separately in different
SECTION HI-Said Dakota Gas, Electric
Light & Power Co. shall have the right to lay
pipes, tubes, and erect poles. wires or cables
in the streets and alleys of Scotland, South
Dakota, to an extent that may be necessary
for operating any of the aforesaid business.
SECTION IV--Said Dakota Gas, Electric
Light & Power Co. shall have the right to con-
duct, transmit and bring into the City of Scot
land any of the above named gas. heat, light
and electricity which it may manufacture and
produce outside of the City of Scotland. to
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of Scotland, gas, light, heat and electricity
which it may rent, lease or buy outside of said
City of Scotland.
SECTION What the said Dakota Gas,
Electric Light & Power Co. shall have the
right to conduct, transmit, and take from their
aforesaid plants in the City of Scotland, gas,
light, heat and electricity. either one or all to
be used outside of Scotland, South Dakota.
SECTION VIAL tubes, wires. pipes, ca
bles and poles shall be placed so as not to in
terfere with the travel in the city, nor with
any of the water mains or pipes or any estab-
lished business in the said city of Scotland,
and same shall be placed and erected under the
direction of the Board of Aldermen of the
said city,
SECTION VII That the rates charged by
the said Dakota Gas, Electric Light & Power
Co. its successors or assigns, to the city Of
Scotland and to it's inhabitants for incandes-
cent lights shi II not, during the period this
ordin an ce is in force, ever exceed fifteen cents
per one thousand watts, provided, however,
that the said Dakota Gas, Electric Light &
Power Co., it's successors or assigns. shall be
permitted to charge at least S100 per month to
each consumer of electric current, who has
not consumed sufficient electric current to
amount to the sum of 81. 90 per month under
the above rate.
SECTION VIIl--That at any time after ten
years from the granting of this franchise, the
said City of Scotland shall have the right to
purchase such plant or plants as shall then be
installed by said Dakota Gas, Electric Light
g. Power Co., it's successors or assigns. for the
then actA al value thereof; such valuation to
be established by three appraisers, one to be
chosen by said Dakota Gas, Electric Light &
Power Co; its successors or assigns and one
by said City of Scotland. those two to select a
third, the city reserving the right to cecline to
take said plant or plants at such appraised
valuation within thirty days after the same is
made. In making said appraisal no valuation
shall be given or attached to this franchise.
SECTION IX-That said Dakota Gas, Elec-
trio Light & Power Co., its successors aud as
signs shall at all times maintain said electric
light plant in a first class manner and salts
factory to the patrons thereof and for the
purpose of determining whether said plant is
operated in a satisfactory manner or not, the
city, by it's proper officers, may at any time
test and examine the voltage of said plant and
if it shall be found that the voltage of said
plant at any point of the system varies either
S volts above or 5 volts below the established
voltage of said plant. then the same shall BIT
deemed to be unsatisfactory, and the said Da
kota Gas, Electric Light g. Power Co., its sue
c%essors, assigns or employees in charge Of
said plant eha1l be given notice thereof II
writing and if the said Dakota Gas, Electri,
Light & Power Co., its successors, assigns o
employees shall fail to properly repair an,
regulate said plant within 80 days from TIL
date of the service of such written notice, the
this franchise to be null and void and of no Ell
feet.
SECTION Kali of the before mentione
rights, grants and privileges shall last an
continue in full force for a term of twenty-fiv
years from and after the passage and appro,
al of this ordinance.
SECTION XI-Provided that the said d.
kota Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. shal
have constructed and in operation an electri
light plant of fifteen hundred sixteen candl
power capacity on or before September Is
1909, otherwise this ordinance shall be void.
SECTION XII-This franchise to be in flu
force and effect upon the acceptance theree
by said Dakota Gas, Electric Light g. Powe
Co., on the passage and approval hereof an
upon said Dakota Gas, Electric Light Il Pow
err Co. fling with the City Auditor of the Cit
Of Scotland a bond in the penal sum of S5oo.t
duly approved by the mayor of said city, cor
ditioned that the Dakota Gas, Electric Ligl
q Power Co, it's successors and assigns, sha
fully reimburse said city for any and all e!
pense and damages the said city may ha,
sustained by the failure of said Dakota Ga
Electric Light & Power Co.. its successors {
assigns, to establish said electric light p,ai
within the time specified.
Approved this 18th day Of, J~anpaty. 1919.
Attest: A. E rARMENTER,
Ut. SMITH. MAKO