Ordinance No. 363212
ORDINANCE NO 363
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
GRANTING TO TEXACO INC , ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, A
FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, LAY, OPERATE, MAINTAIN, USE,
RENEW REPAIR, REPLACE, MOVE, CHANGE THE SIZE AND NUMBER
OF AND REMOVE OR ABANDON IN PLACE A SYSTEM OF PIPELINES
AND APPURTENANCES FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONDUCTING TRANS-
PORTING, CONVEYING AND CARRYING OIL OR OTHER PRODUCTS
THEREOF, ON, ALONG, IN, UNDER AND ACROSS THE PUBLIC STREETS,
WAYS, ALLEYS AND PLACES WITHIN THE CITY OF CYPRESS, TOGETHER
WITH THE RIGHT TO CONSTRUCT OPERATE, MAINTAIN AND USE A
PRIVATE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH
THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SAID SYSTEM OF PIPELINES
AND APPURTENANCES AS AFORESAID
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Whenever in this ordinance the words or phrases
hereinafter in this section defined are used it is intended that 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 meaning)
(a) The word "Grantee" shall mean the corporation to
which the franchise contemplated in this ordinance is
granted and its lawful successors or assigns,
(b) The word "City" shall mean the City of Cypress, a
municipal corporation of the State of California in
its present incorporated form or in any later reorganized
consolidated, enlarged, or reincorporated form,
(c) The word "streets" shall mean the public streets ways
alleys and places except state freeways as the same now
or may hereafter exist within said City,
(d) The phrase "pipes and appurtenances" shall mean pipes
pipelines and distribution and transmission systems con-
sisting of mains, distribution and transmission pipes and
other properties and facilities, together with services,
traps, manholes and other necessary or appropriate
appurtenances for the purpose of transmitting and distri-
buting oil or other products thereof,
(e)
The phrase "lay and use" shall mean to lay, construct, erect,
install operate maintain use repair replace relocate
or remove
Section 2. The right, privilege and franchise, subject to each and
all of the terms and conditions contained in this ordinance and pursuant
to and upon the terms and conditions of Division 3 Chapter 2 of the
Public Utilities Code of the State of California, be and the same is
hereby granted to TEXACO INC , a corporation qualified to do business
in the State of California to lay and use pipe and appurtenances for
transmitting and distributing oil or other products thereof for any and
all purposes, under, along, across, or upon the public streets ways
alleys, or other public places within the City
Section 3. The term of this franchise shall be indeterminate from
and after its effective date that is to say this franchise shall endure
in full force and effect until with the consent of the Public Utilities
Commission of the State of California, if otherwise required it is
voluntarily surrendered or abandoned by the Grantee, or until the State
or some numicipal or public corporation thereunto duly authorized by law
shall purchase by voluntary agreement or shall condemn and take under
the power of eminent domain, all property actually used and useful in the
exercise of this franchise and situate within the territorial limits of
the State municipal or public corporation purchasing or condemning such
property, or until this franchise is forfeited for noncompliance with
its terms by the Grantee
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Section 4: For each full or fractional calendar year of the life
of this franchise the Grantee shall pay to the City at the times here-
inafter specified, in lawful money of the United States a sum annually
which shall be equivalent to two percent of the gross annual receipts
received or actually earned by TEXACO INC , its successors or assigns
from the use, operation or possession of said franchise If the pipe-
lines laid under the terms of this franchise shall be a part only of
an entire system of pipelines, part of which is not laid under the
terms of this franchise, such gross receipts shall be deemed to be
that portion of the total gross receipts of the entire system which
the number of miles of pipeline laid under the terms of this franchise
shall bear to the number of miles of pipe laid in the entire system
Section 5 The Grantee shall file with the Clerk of the City,
within three (3) months after the expiration of the calendar year, or
fractional calendar year, following the date of the granting of this
franchise and within three (3) months after the expiration of each
subsequent calendar year or fraction thereof during which this franchise
is in effect, a verified statement showing in detail for the term of the
franchise in such calendar or fractional year, as the case mey be, the
total gross receipts of the Grantee arising from the use, operation, or
possession of this franchise and the total gross receipts received or
actually earned by TEXACO INC , its successors or assigns from the
use operation or possession of said franchise The Grantee shall
pay to the City within fifteen (15) days after the time for filing
said statement in lawful money of the United States the above re-
quired percentage of its gross receipts for the calendar year or
fractional calendar year covered by said statement Any neglect,
omission or refusal by said Grantee to file said verified statement,
or to pay said percentage at the time or in the manner hereinbefore
provided, shall constitute grounds for the declaration of a forfeiture
of this franchise and of all rights of Grantee hereunder
Section 6: This grant is made in lieu of all other franchises,
rights or privileges owned by the Grantee to lay and use pipes and
appurtenances in the streets of the City for transmitting and dis-
tributing oil or products thereof and the acceptance of the franchise
hereby granted shall operate as (i) an abandonment within the limits
of the City of all such other franchises, rights and privileges in lieu
of which this franchise is granted and (ii) an agreement to comply with
the terms and conditions hereof
Section 7: The franchise granted hereunder shall not become
effective until written acceptance thereof shall have been filed by
the Grantee thereof 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, addi-
tional territory any and all franchises, rights and privileges owned
by the Grantee therein shall likewise be deemed to be abandoned as to
all streets within the limits of such territory
Section 8: 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 to eminent domain, and nothing herein contained
shall be construed to contract away or to modify or abridge, either
for a term or in perpetuity the City's right of eminent domain in
respect to the Grantee or any public utility Nor shall this fran-
chise 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
Section 9• The City reserves the right to improve any street or
portion thereof over and within the area for which said franchise is
granted, including the change of grade, relocation of right-of-way,
realignment of right-of-way change in width construction or recon-
struction of any such street, or any portion thereof Within thirty
(30) days after receipt by Grantee of a notice in writing from the
City of the fact that work is to be done pursuant to any such reserved
right and specifying the general nature of the work and the area in
which the same is to be performed, the Grantee shall do all things
necessary to protect its franchise property during the progress of
such work, and if ordered by the City Council, the Grantee shall dis-
connect, remove, or relocate its pipes and appurtenances within the
street to such extent in such manner and for such period as shall be
necessary to permit the performance of such work in an economical manner
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and in accordance with the general recognized engineering and construction
methods and to permit the maintenance, operation and use of such public
improvement of the street as so improved All of such things shall be
done and the work shall be performed by the Grantee at its sole cost
and expense In the event that the City shall hereafter construct
install, reconstruct or repair any bridge or artificial support in or
underlying any street in which any pipes or appurtenances of the Grantee
are located and in the event that the cost thereof be increased in order
to provide for the installation, maintenance or operation of any such
pipes or appurtenances in or on the street area which said bridge or
other artificial support covers or underlies then the Grantee shall
pay to the City the full amount of such increase of cost, upon comple-
tion of such construction, installation or repair Any damage done
directly or indirectly to any such public improvement by the Grantee
in exercising directly or indirectly any right power or privilege
under this franchise or in performing any duty under or pursuant to
the provisions of this franchise, shall be promptly repaired by said
Grantee, at its sole cost and expense
Section 10 The Grantee of this franchise shall*
(a) Construct, install and maintain all pipes and appurtenances
in accordance and in conformity with all of the applicable
ordinances, rules and regulations heretofore or hereafter
adopted by the City Council in the exercise of its police
powers, and not in conflict with the paramount authority
of the State of California. and as to State highways sub-
ject to the provisions of general laws relating to the
location and maintenance of such facilities therein in
constructing, installing and maintaining the pipes and
appurtenances the Grantee shall make and backfill all
excavations in such manner and way as to leave the surface
of the public street alley, highway or public place in a
good condition as it was prior to said excavation, as well
as to conform to the statutes of the State of California and
the ordinances of the City of Cypress as they now exist or
may hereafter be ammended with respect to the securing of
permits for excavations, filling and obstructions of city
and state highways,
(b) 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) Indemnify and hold harmless the City and its officers from
any and all liability for damage 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
applicable provision of Division 3, Chapter 2, of the Public
Utilities Code of the State of California,
(d) Remove or relocate, without expense to the City, any
facilities installed, used and maintained under this fran-
chise if and when made necessary by any lawful change or
grade, alignment or width of any street, or the construction
therein or thereunder of any subway, viaduct, sewer, storm
drain pipeline or other improvement made by the City This
franchise shall not constitute an agreement or undertaking by
the City, nor impose upon the City any obligation to pay any
part of the costs of removal or relocation of any of the pipes
and appurtenances when required in order to accommodate
construction of any state freeway*
(e) File with the City Council within thirty (30) days after
any sale transfer assignment or lease of this franchise,
or any part thereof, or of any of the rights or privileges
granted thereby written evidence of the same, certified
thereto by the Grantee or its duly authorized officers* and
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(f) Promptly repair at the sole cost and expense of the Grantee
and to the complete satisfaction of the City any damage to
any street or public improvement caused directly or indirectly
by the Grantee in exercising, directly or indirectly, any right,
power or privilege under this franchise or in performing any
duty under or pursuant to any of the provisions of this
franchise
Section 11
(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 demend for compliance, begin the
work of compliance, or after such beginning shall not prosecute
the same with due diligence to completion then the City Council
may declare this franchise forfeited*
(b) The City may sue in its own name for the forfeiture of this
franchise, in the event of non-compliance by the Grantee, its
successors or assigns with any of the conditions thereof
Section 12. The Grantee shall pay to the City, a sum of money
sufficient to reimburse it for all publication posting, legal and other
expenses of whatever nature 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 such Grantee with a written statement of
such expenses
Section 13 The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
ordinance and shall cause the same to be posted in three public places
within the City of Cypress as now established by ordinance at least
once within fifteen (15) days of its final passage The City Council
however, further directs that for the purpose of giving added notice
of the adoption of this ordinance the same shall be published at least
onece within fifteen (15) days of its final passage in a newspaper of
general circulation within the City of Cypress Failure however, to
make such publication shall not invalidate this ordinance This
ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its adoption
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Cypress at a regular meeting held on the 26th day of December, 1967
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CYPRES
ATTEST.
CITY CLERK OF THE C
OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) SS
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
I DARRELL ESSEX City Clerk of the City of Cypress DO HEREBY
CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting
of the said City Council held on the 26th day of December, 1967, by the
following vote.
AYES* 5 COUNCILMEN* Bowen Kanel McCarney Noe and Harvey
NOES 0 COUNCILMEN None
ABSENT 0 COUNCILMEN None
CI CLERK OF TH CITY OF CYPRESS
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