[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of
Soldiers Grove 9-2-1993. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Utility services — See Ch. 201.
The Village of Soldiers Grove does hereby grant to Madison Gas
and Electric Company, a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the State of Wisconsin, its successors and assigns, upon the
conditions hereinafter set forth, the right, authority, and permission
to construct, maintain, operate, enlarge, and repair in the Village
of Soldiers Grove a system for the furnishing and distribution of
gas and gaseous fuels, and to use the streets, alleys, parks, lanes,
boulevards, public ways, public grounds, and bridges in said Village
of Soldiers Grove for constructing, maintaining, operating, enlarging,
and repairing its transmission and distribution pipelines with all
the necessary, usual, or convenient manholes, valves, passageways,
and appurtenances for the purpose of supplying and selling gases and
gaseous fuels to said Village of Soldiers Grove and its residents
and to any building, structure, factory, processing plant, industry,
or public or private house or any gas user therein.
Provided, however, that this franchise and permit is granted
subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the Village Board
of said Village of Soldiers Grove may by ordinances from time to time
prescribe, and it is further subject to all general provisions of
statutory laws in force and applicable thereto and to the general
orders, rules, and regulations of the Public Service Commission of
Wisconsin and to such reasonable rules and regulations restricting
the use of said streets, highways, public ways, alleys, and bridges
and to construction, maintenance, and operation of such natural gas
transmission system as the public bodies of the State of Wisconsin
having authority under the law may from time to time enact.
This franchise and permit shall be void if facilities are not
constructed and gas is not ready for distribution in the Village within
one year from an order of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin
which grants permission to construct said facilities.
This franchise and permit shall be an indeterminate within the
meaning of § 196.54, Wisconsin statutes.
