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RESOLUTION No. 288. +�
Resolution of Declaring Franchise of West Coast
Gas Light andrF'uel Company Forfeited, and that the Title
to Certain Property is Vested in the City of Huntington
Beach.
The Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach
do hereby resolve, as follows:
That , on September 16th. , 1912, Ordinance No. 99, of
said City of Huntington Beach entitled, "An Ordinance Grant-
ing a Franchise to the West Coast Gas, Light and Fuel Co-
mpany, a corporation, Granting the Right to Lay, Place, Con-
struct, Maintain, and Operate gas pipes and Gas Mains, and
other Appliances, for carrying Gas for Hear, Light and Power,
and to lay said Gas Pipes and Mains under Ground in, upon
and over the Streets, Alleys, Avenues, Thoroughfares and
Public Highrays of the City of Huntington Beach, California,
and to Exercise its Privilege of Operating said Gas Business
within said City" , was passed and adopted by the Board of .
Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, California.
That by said Ordinance said Franchise was granted upon
the condition that the grantee would lay and maintain pipes
and pipe lines in said City of good material and workman-
ship, and of sufficient size to supply all persons residing
along the lines bf said pipes and pipe lines, who desire to
use the same, an adequate supply of gas for domestic and
porter purposes; that the gas furnished and distributed thro-
ugh said pipes and pipe lines shall be of good quality, free
from all injurious ingredients and of sufficient purity to
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be suitable for domestic uses ; that all utLderground con-
duits, mains and gas pipes should not be less than eight-
een inches below the surface of the Street , Alley, or Thoro-
fare, and all conduits, mains and gas pipes laid and kept
air and gas tight at all times during the life of said fran-
chise; that should the grantee, or its assigns , for sixty
days during any six month' s of the life of said franchise
fail , neglect or refuse to supply constant or adequate gars
servise for light, heat and fuel , said franchise shall be
forfeited; that said grantee of said franchise should fur-
nish to the said City a bond in the sum of $1000.00, with
good and sufficient sureties, conditioned that the grantee,
or its assigns, shall well and truly observe, fulfill and
perform each and every term and condition of said franchise,
and that in case said bond shall not be so filed, the award
of said franchise shall be set aside; that said grantee shall
file a duly authenticated map or plat in the office of the
Clerk of s^id City of all its gas mains, pipes, lines or other
structures; that may be placed or proposed to be placed in
said City showing the location of all such structures, or
pipe lines; that any neglect, failure or refusal of the
grantee, or its assigns, to comply with any of the conditions
of the said franchise shall immediately IPSO FACT effect a.
forfeiture thereof, and the said City by its Board of Trust-
ees may thereupon declare said franchise forfeited and ex-
clude said grantee, or its assigns, from the further use, or
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occupation of the Streets, Alleys, or Thoroljghfares of said
City under said franchise, and thereupon said franchise shall
be deemed. and shall remain, null , void and of no effect, and
that the title to the said conduits, gas pipes, mains, traps
and manholes laid in Streets, Alleys, or thoroughfares shall
thereupon and thereafter be, and remain in the said City of
Huntington Beach.
That after the passage and adoption of the aforesaid
Ordinance No. 99, said West Coast Gass, Light and Fuel Co-
mpany claimed and pretended to carry out the terms of the
said franchise and to opefia.te under the said franchise,
and do now pretent and claim to own and operate under the
terms of said franchise in the said City, but that sid
West Coast Gas, Light and _Fuel Company has violated each
and all of the aforesaid terms and conditions of the said
franchise and has failed, neglected and refused, and does
now fail , neglect and refuse, to comply wit-r, 6r carry out
any of the aforesaid terms or conditions.
That said Board of Trustees hereby declares that the
afore said franchise had been and is forfeited, and directs
and orders that said Nest Coast Gas, Light and Fuel Comp-
any, or its assigns, be excluded from the further use or
occupation of the Streets, Alleys, or Thoroughfares of said
City, under said franchise, and shall immediately surrender
all right in and to the same; end that said franchise shall
be deemed, and shall remain, null, void and of no effect,
and that the title to all conduits, gas pipes, mains, traps
and manholes laid in the Streets, Alleys and Thoroughfares
of said City by said West Coast Gas, Light and Fuel Company
shall be and remain in the said City of Huntington Beach.
M. E. Helme nro Tem.
President of the Board of Trustees
of the City of Huntington Beach,
California.
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Attest: Chas. R. Nutt
City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk
of the Board of Trustees of the
City of Huntington Beach, California.
State of California )
County of Orange ) ss
City of Huntington Beach)
I, Chas. R. Nutt, City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk_ of
the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, Calif-
ornia, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was
duly introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of said
Board of Trustees held on the 3rd. day of January 1916, by
the following stated Grote:
Ayes Trustees:Rosenberger Tarbox Huston Helme
Noes Trustees:None
Absent Trustees:French
Chas. R. Nutt
City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board
of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach,
California.
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