The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-08-28
AN ORDINANCE
ATTEST:
c. A. Glover,

Granting a Gas Franchise to
Mississippi Power & Light Com
pany, its Successors and Assigns.
in the City of Lexington, Missis-
sippi. Fixing the Terms Thereof,
Prescribing the Obligations
Thereasto, and for Other Pur-
poses.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen of the City
of Lexington, Mississippi, lawfully
assembled:
SECTION /. In consideration of
the benefits that will accrue to the
municipality and the inhabitants
thereof, Mississippi Power & Light
Company, a corporation, thereafter
called Grantee) is hereby vested
with full right, authority, easements,
privileges and franchise to use and
occupy, for its gas works, the streets,
avenues, highways. bridges. lanes,
alleys, and public grounds and places
within said municipality for the pur-
pose of laying, erecting, constructing,
owning, leasing or otherwise acquir-
ing. maintaining and operating gas
pipes, {including mains, supply and
service pipes, laterals and distribut-
ing systems and accessories), to be
used in furnishing Or supplying said
municipality and its inhabitants or
any person or corporation, both
within and beyond the limits there
of, with gas, whether natural gas
andfor artificial gas, andlor gas con-
tanning a mixture of natural and
artificial gas, for fuel, power or light
or any other lawful purpose, and for
the pupose of extending its sys-
tenn beyond the limits of the NUM-
cipality as they now may or may
hereafter exist, for a term OF twenty
five years from date of passage.
SECTION 2. The furnishing and
supplying at any time or from time
to time by the Grantee of one or
more of said kinds of gas shall not
operate as a waiver. abandonment or
forfeiture of the right of the Gran
tee to furnish or supply a different
kind of gas, or any time and from
| time to time to furnish or supply
natural gas and or artificial gas
and or gas containing a mixture OF
natural and artificial gas. and no
change from time to time of the
kind of gas furnished or supplied
| shall be deemed to constitute a wal
yer, abandonment or forfeiture OF
the right of the Grantee to after
wards furnish or supply a different
kind of gas.
SECTION 3. Grantees rates for
gas service hereunder shall be just
and reasonable. Should conditions
warrant Grantee supplementing the
natural gas supply with or furnish
ing artificial gas in whole or in part,
the rates and charges fixed by Gran
tee, in such event, and from time
10 time thereafter shall be just and
reasonable maximum rates and
charges as the Mayor and Board OF
Aldermen of said municipality law
fully may prescribe.
SECTION 4. Whenever the Gran
tee shall cause any opening or alte-
ration whatever to be made for any
purpose. the work shall be complet-
ed, within a reasonable time and
the Grantee shall. upon the compile
ton of such work, restore the pro-
perty disturbed to as good conditions
as it was before such opening or al
iteration.
SECTION s.. Grantee may, from
time to time. declare, make and en-
force reasonable rules and regula-
tons as a condition for the sale or
distribution of gas by it to the mu-
Municipality, or any consumer therein
or Whereabouts during the life of
franchise.
SECTION 6. The Grantee shall
hold the municipality free and
harmless from all damages and
claims for actions arising by reason
of the negligent laying, erection
construction, maintenance or opera
ton of said gas works and pipes, VIII
ether mains, supply service pipes
laterals or distributing system or
accessories.
SECTION Z. The grant is made
with the full knowledge and under
standing on the part of the munich
palitv that the natural gas to be
furnished or supplied by the Gran
tee is not to be secured from wells
owned by the Grantee but is to be
furnished the Grantee by others
through pipe lines; that, therefore,
the Grantees supply of gas may be
interrupted or entirety discontinued
bv causes beyond the control of the
Grantee, and that in the event OF
such interruption or discontinuance
there shall be no liability on the
part of or against the Grantee there
for. this grant requiring that so Ions
%. during the period thereof, the
Grantee has gas available. it shall
furnish or supply such gas to sale
municipality and its inhabitants ane
any person or corporation in accor'
dance with the terms and conditions
hereing contained.