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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #3117 ORDINANCE NO. ---- AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH GRANTING TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY, A CORPORATION, THE RIGHT, PRIVILEGE AND FRANCHISE TO LAY .AND USE PIPES AND APPURTENANCES FOR TRANSMITTING, DISTRIBUTING AND MEASURING GAS FOR ANY AND ALL PURPOSES UNDER, ALONG, ACROSS OR UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS, WAYS, ALLEYS AND PLACES, AS THE SAME NOW OR MAY HEREAFTER EXIST_ WITHIN SAID MUNICIPALITY. The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does ordain as follows: SECTTON ONE Whenever in this ordinance the words or phrases hereinafter in this section defined are used, they shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the following definitions (unless, in the given instance, the context wherein they are used shall clearly import .a different. ineaning) (a) The word "Grantee" shall mean Southern California Gas Company, and its lawful successors or assigns; (b) The word "City" shall mean the City of Huntington Beach, a municipal corporation of the State of California, in its present incorporated form or in any later reorganized, consolidated or reincorporated form; (c) The word "streets" shall mean the public streets, ways, alleys and places as the same now or may hereafter exist within said City; (d) The word "Engineer" shall mean the Director of Public Works of the City; (e) The word "Franchise" shall mean and include any authorization granted hereunder in terms of a franchise, privilege, permit, license or otherwise to lay and use pipes and appurtenances for transmitting, distributing and measuring gas for any and all purposes under, along, across or upon the public streets, ways, alleys and places ::n the City, and shall, include and be in lieu of any existing or future City requirement to obtain a license or permit for the privilege of transacting and carrying on a business within the City. (f) The word "gas" shall mean natural or artificial gas, or a mixture of natural and artificial gas, and shall include industrial gas as defined in Public Utilities Code 56201. 3 ; Page 2 (g) The phrase "pipes and appurtenances" shall mean pipe, pipeline, main, service, trap, vent, vault, manhole, meter, gauge, regulator, valve, conduit, appliance, attachment, appurtenance and any other property located or to be located in, upon, along, across, under or over the streets of the City, and used or useful in transmitting, distributing or measuring gas. (h) The phrase "lay and use" shall mean to lay, construct, erect, install, operate, maintain, use, repair, replace, or remove. SECTION TWO (a) That the right, privilege and franchise, subject to each and all of the terms and conditions contained in this ordinance, and pursuant to the provisions of Division 3 , Chapter 2 of the Public Utilities Code of the State of California, known as the Franchise Act of 1937 , and Article VI, Section 615 of the City Charter of the City of Huntington Beach, be and the same is hereby granted to Southern California Gas Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of California, herein referred to as the "Grantee, " to lay and use pipes and appurtenances for transmitting, distributing and measuring gas for any and all purposes, under, along, across or upon the streets of the City for a twenty (20) year term from and after the effective date hereof (January 1, 1990) . SECTION THREE (a) The Grantee shall pay to the City at the times hereinafter specified, in lawful money of the United States, a Franchise Fee annually which shall be equal to: i) two percent (2%) of the gross annual receipts of the Grantee derived from the sale of gas within the limits of the City under this Franchise, plus (ii) the "In Lieu Fee" of Section THREE (c) . (b) The Franchise Fee shall be paid in four installments, each installment being equal to two percent (2%) of the total gross revenues of the preceding calendar quarter employing the gross receipts formula, plus the amount of the In Lieu Fee for the preceding calendar quarter. Each installment shall be paid to the City on or prior to the twenty-fifth (25th) day of the second month following the respective quarter for which payment is made, except for the final quarterly payment for the year, which shall be paid on or prior to March 25th. For example, the installment for the first quarter of the year (January through March } shall be paid to the City on May 25th. 3117 Page 3 Upon notice by City that payments shall be made in accordance with subdivision (d) of this SECTION THREE, Grantee shall pay the franchise fee calculated under SECTION THREE (d) in installments as provided in the preceding paragraph, provided that for the first year under SECTION THREE (d) the amount of each of the first three installments shall be one-fourth of the amount of the total annual fee due for the year under subdivision (d) as estimated in good faith by Grantee, and the final yearly payment shall be the actual balance due as provided by SECTION THREE (d) . Any overpayment shall be recovered by Grantee by setoff against future installments, or, if the franchise has been terminated, such overpayment, or the balance thereof, shall be _ payable by City to Grantee upon written demand. (c) The "In Lieu Fee" shall be equal to one and five-- tenths percent (1. 5%) of the "imputed value" of "non-proprietary gas" conducted, conveyed, transported, supplied and distributed to the City and/or its inhabitants within the City per calendar year, or fractional calendar year, during the term of this franchise. As used. herein, "non--proprietary gas" means gas that is conducted, conveyed, transported, supplied and distributed, but not sold, to the City and/or its inhabitants within the City by Grantee; "imputed value" means the product of the actual volumes of such non-proprietary gas conducted, conveyed, transported, supplied and distributed, but not sold, to the City and/or its inhabitants within the City by Grantee during the period of calculation times: (1) _ until August 1, 1991, the average weighted cost of "non-core gas" for such period; (2) after August, 1991, the average weighted cost (WACOG) of gas under SoCalGas ' procurement portfolio for all gas customers shall apply; "non-core gas" means that gas which, in accordance with rules and directives adopted from time to time by the Commission, is purchased by the Grantee to serve its non-core classified commercial, industrial, utility electrical generating and wholesale customers (including, but not limited to, the category of customers for which it also transports and delivers non-proprietary gas within the City) , and currently includes short-term discretionary gas purchased by Grantee for such customers. 3117 1 Page 4 (d) In the event the legislature amends the Franchise Act of 1937 (Public Utilities Code 56201 - 6302) or enacts any other state law which increases the franchise payment to general law cities to a level greater than that provided in Section THREE (a) above, then the City shall have the option of prospectively employing the legislative formula, which shall apply for the remaining term of this agreement. If the City exercises said option, the legislative formula shall be prospectively applied hereto on the later of: a) the effective date of the legislation, or b) January 1 of the calendar year in which the City exercised said option. (e) In the event that the "imputed value" cannot be determined using the methodologies identified in Section THREE (c) because such methodologies are no longer in use or no longer reasonably reflect the imputed value of non-proprietary gas, the City and Grantee shall agree upon a methodology that reasonably reflects the value of such non-proprietary gas. (f) In the event that the UEG plants within the City have a combined annual "plant factor" of 50% or less or are not operational in any calendar year, the City may elect to receive, as its Franchise Fee for such year in lieu of the Franchise Fee calculated in accordance with Sections THREE (a) and (c) , payments equal to four percent (4%) of the gross annual receipts of Grantee arising from the use, operation or possession of said Franchisee. Notice of this election shall be provided to Grantee no later than thirty (30) days prior to the date the final payment is due for the calendar year in question (e.g. February 23 or 24 in a Leap Year) . The final yearly payment shall be the actual balance due in accordance with this method. (g) Any notices under this SECTION THREE shall be in writing and be delivered by courier service or by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the other party at the address shown below or at such other address as the party may designate by written notice delivered in the manner provided for herein: City of Huntington Beach P.O. Box 2740 2000 Main Street Huntington Beach, California 92647 Attn: City Manager and City Attorney Southern California Gas Company 810 South Flower Street P.O. Box 3249 Los Angeles, CA 90051-1249 Attn: Tax and Ad Valorem Tax Manager 3117 I Page 5 SECTION FOUR (a) On or before the fifteenth day of March of each calendar year during the term of this franchise and forty-five (45) days after the expiration of the term of this franchise, the j Grantee shall file with the City Clerk of the City, the original, and with the Director of Finance of the City, one copy of a statement showing the following: (1) The total gross revenue under SECTION THREE received by the Grantee from the operation of its business in the City during the preceding calendar year, or fractional calendar year. (2) The method (and supporting calculations) used to calculate the franchise fees which are payable to the City in accordance with this franchise [i.e. , Franchise Fee, In Lieu Fee, or fees of SECTION THREE (d) ] . (3) The total amount of all quarterly installments made by Grantee during the preceding calendar year or fractional calendar year. (4) Such other data or information as City may reasonably need to calculate or determine the amounts which Grantee is obligated to pay City pursuant to SECTION THREE, provided that the City shall request such data and information from Grantee in writing and shall deliver said request no less than 60 days prior to the due date of the above-described statement. (b) Said statement shall be verified by the General Manager or authorized officer of the Grantee, and shall be in such form and detail as from time to time shall be reasonably prescribed by the Director of Finance. (c) Within ten (10) days after the filing of said statement, the Grantee shall pay to City, at the office of the City Treasurer, in lawful money of the United States, the sums of money required to be paid by Grantee to City under SECTION THREE for the calendar year, or fractional calendar year, covered by the statement, minus the sum of the quarterly installment amounts paid for such calendar or fractional calendar year. (d) Any neglect, omission or refusal by Grantee to file the verified statement required under subsection (a) above, or to pay any required payments under SECTION THREE at the time and in the manner specified shall be grounds for the declaration of a forfeiture of this franchise and of all rights and privileges of Grantee hereunder, provided that Grantee shall not have cured said neglect, omission, or refusal to file or pay within twenty (20) days following written notice from the City of 3117 Page 6 such failure to file or pay, or, if such neglect, omission or refusal is not reasonably subject to cure within such twenty (20) day period, Grantee has not commenced to cure such neglect, omission or refusal within such twenty (20) day period and has not continued to prosecute such cure to completion. The prevailing party in any action to collect or enforce SECTION THREE and/or FOUR, shall be entitled to reasonable attorney's fees. SECTION FIVE This grant is made in lieu of all other franchises owned by the Grantee, or by any successor of the Grantee to any rights under this Franchise, for transmitting, distributing and measuring gas within the limits of the City, as said limits now or may hereafter exist, and the acceptance of the Franchise hereby granted shall operate as an abandonment of all such franchises within the limits of this City, as such limits now or may hereafter exist, in lieu of which this Franchise is granted. SECTION SIX The Franchise granted hereunder shall not become effective until written acceptance thereof shall have been filed ` by the Grantee with the Clerk of the City. When so filed, such acceptance shall constitute a continuing agreement of the Grantee that if and when the City shall thereafter annex or consolidate with additional territory, any and all franchise rights and privileges owned by Grantee therein shall likewise be deemed to be abandoned within the limits of such territory. i i SECTION SEVEN The Franchise granted hereunder shall not in any way or to any extent impair or affect the right of the City to acquire the property of the Grantee hereof either by purchase or through the exercise of the right of eminent domain, and nothing herein contained shall be construed to contract away or to modify or to abridge, either for a term or in perpetuity, the City' s right of eminent domain in respect to the Grantee; nor shall this Franchise ever be given any value before any court or other public authority in any proceeding of any character in excess of the cost to the Grantee of the necessary publication and any other sum paid by it to the City therefor at the time of the acquisition thereof. I 3117 ................................... .......... i Page 7 SECTION EIGHT i (a) Grantee shall construct, install and maintain all pipes and appurtenances in accordance with all of the ordinances, rules and regulations theretofore, or hereafter adopted by the legislative body of this City in the exercise of its police powers and not in conflict with the paramount authority of the j State of California, and, as to state highways, subject to the provisions of general laws relating to the location and maintenance of such facilities; (b) Grantee shall pay to the City, on demand, the cost of all repairs to public property made necessary by any operations of the Grantee under this Franchise; (c) Grantee shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the City and its officers from any and all liability for damages proximately resulting from any operations under this Franchise; and be liable to the City for all damages proximately resulting from the failure of said Grantee well and faithfully to observe and perform each and every provision of this Franchise and each and every provision of Division 3 , Chapter 2 of the California Public Utilities Code and Article VI, SECTION 615 of the City Charter of Huntington Beach. I (d) Upon abandonment of any of Grantee' s facilities or equipment located above or below the surface of any street, Grantee shall notify the Engineer in writing of such abandonment within ninety (90) days thereafter. I (e) City shall have the right to change the grade, width or location of any street, or improve any street in any manner, including but not limited to the laying of any sewer, storm drain, conduit, water or other pipe, or construct and install any pedestrian tunnel, traffic signal, street lighting facility or other public improvement. If, in the opinion of the Engineer, such work shall require a change in the position or location of any of Grantee' s facilities or equipment, Grantee, at its sole expense, within ninety (90) days after written notice from the Engineer, shall commence the work of doing any and all things to effect such change in position or location in conformity with the Engineers ' written instructions; provided, however, that Grantee shall not be required to bear the expense of such work done at the request of the City if and to the extent that such request is on behalf, or for the benefit, of any private developer or other non--governmental entity so long as no expense, direct or indirect, results to the City. Nothing herein, however, is intended to modify or limit the provisions of Public Utilities Code §6297 (and as amended in the future) or the judicial appellate decisions of the State of California interpreting Public Utilities Code §6297 (and as amended in the future) . i 3117 I Page 8 (f) This franchise may not be transferred (voluntarily, involuntarily, or by operation of law) , leased or assigned by the grantee except by consent in writing of the City Council, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or conditioned, and unless the transferee or assignees thereof shall covenant and agree to perform and be bound by each and all of the terms hereof. The grantee shall file with the City Clerk and City Administrator of the City within thirty (30) days after any sale, transfer, assignment of lease of this Franchise, or any part hereof, or of any of the rights or privileges granted hereby, written evidence of the same, certified thereto by the Grantee or its duly authorized officers. SECTION NINE (a) The City Treasurer, or any certified public accountant, or qualified person designated by the City, at any reasonable time during business hours, may make examination at the Grantee' s offices of its books, accounts, and records, germane to and for the purpose of verifying the data set forth in the statement required by SECTION FOUR hereof and to and for any other purpose relating to the rendition of gas service by the Grantee within the City, or the charges to be made therefor. ..... SECTION TEN (a) The Engineer shall have the right to give the Grantee such directions for the location of any pipes and appurtenances as may be reasonably necessary to avoid sewers, water pipes, conduits or other structures lawfully in or under the streets; and before the work of constructing any pipes and appurtenances is commenced by Grantee, the Grantee shall file with said Engineer plans showing the location thereof, which shall be subject to the approval of such Engineer (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld) ; and all such construction shall be subject to the inspection of said Engineer and done to his or her reasonable satisfaction. All street coverings or openings of traps, vaults, and manholes shall at all times be kept flush with the surface of the streets; provided, however, that vents for underground traps, vaults and manholes may extend above the surface of the streets when said vents are located in parkways, between the curb and the property line, and are not, in the reasonable opinion of the Engineer, hazardous to the public. (b) Where it is necessary to lay any underground pipes through, under or across any portion of a paved or macadamized street, the same, where practicable and economically reasonable j shall be done by a tunnel or bore, so as not to disturb the foundation of such paved or macadamized street; and in the event that the same cannot be so done, such work shall be done under a 3117 Page 9 permit to be granted by the Engineer upon application therefor, and grantee shall restore such street, or portion of street, to as good a condition as existed before such work was done and such restoration shall be completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the Engineer. SECTION ELEVEN If any portion of any street shall be damaged by reason of defects in any of the pipes and appurtenances maintained or constructed under this grant, or by reason of any other cause arising from the operation or existence of any pipes and appurtenances constructed or maintained under this grant, said Grantee shall, at its own cost and expense, immediately repair any such damage and restore such portion of street, to as good condition as existed before such defect or other cause of damage occurred, such work to be done under the direction of the Engineer, and to his or her reasonable satisfaction. SECTION TWELVE (a) If the Grantee shall fail, neglect or refuse to comply with any of the provisions or conditions hereof, and shall not, within ten (10) days after written demand for compliance, begin the work of compliance, or after such beginning shall not prosecute the same with due diligence to completion, then the City, by its legislative body, may declare this Franchise forfeited. (b) The City may sue in its own name for the forfeiture of this Franchise, in the event of noncompliance by the Grantee, its successors or assigns, with any of the conditions hereof. SECTION THIRTEEN 1 The Grantee shall pay to the City a sum of money sufficient to reimburse it for all publication expenses incurred by it in connection with the granting of this Franchise; such payment to be made within thirty (30) days after the City shall furnish Grantee with a written statement of such expenses. 1 1 3117 Page 10 SECTION FOURTEEN Not later than thirty (30) days after the publication of this ordinance, the Grantee shall file with the City Clerk a written acceptance of the Franchise hereby granted, and an agreement to comply with the terms and conditions hereof. SECTION FIFTEEN This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its adoption, and shall be deemed effective as of January 1, r 1990. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and shall cause a synopsis of the same to be published once in the Daily Pilot newspaper. Attest: City Clerk Mayor APPROVED TO FORM: �h INIT " DD iAiN A' R ED: Cit Attorne ' Clt A min' strator Y Y Y Y _ S- Y-11 Y EWED AND APPROVED: 1- i�ty rni Cs or 3117 I' Ord. No. 3117 STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BE ) I, CONNIE BROCKWAY, the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the said City, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven; that the foregoing ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular - meeting therof held on the 20th day of May 19 91 and was again read to said City Council at a regular meeting therof held on the 3rd day of June 19 91 and was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the members of said City Council . AYES: Councilmembers: MacAllister, Winchell , Silva, Green, Kelly, Robitaille, Moulton-Patterson - NOES: Councilmembers: None ABSENT: Councilmembers: None O _ 1, Connie 8rockviay Ci7Y CLERK of the City of Hunlirol.^n ONch and BX•Of 60 Clork fif the City Council, ftnt-)y certify that a synopsis of ft3 City Clerk and ex-offi ci o Clerk ordinarc.,,a �.;gin pt..Vishe~7 Daaly P ylon of the City Council of the City �� of Huntington Beach, California City Clerk. "�City Clerk