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Home » US Law » 2022 California Code » Public Utilities Code - PUC » DIVISION 3 - PUBLIC UTILITY FRANCHISES BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS » CHAPTER 3 - Resettlement of Street, Suburban, and Interurban Railroad Franchises

Section 6451.

6451. The governing or legislative body of any city or city and county having on July 27, 1917, a freeholders’ charter adopted under Section 8 of Article XI of the State Constitution, which charter provides for the resettlement of and the granting of a resettlement franchise to any person, firm, or corporation engaged in operating […]

Section 6452.

6452. The resettlement franchise shall be granted after such publication and upon such notice as the governing or legislative body shall by resolution determine, or failing such determination, after such publication and upon such notice as is prescribed by law for the enactment of ordinances by the governing or legislative body. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, […]

Section 6453.

6453. After the final passage of a resettlement franchise, it shall be referred and submitted to the vote of the electors of the city or city and county at the general or special election next ensuing not less than 20 days after the final passage of the ordinance, or if no general or special election […]

Section 6454.

6454. No resettlement franchise shall go into effect until it has received the approval of a majority of the electors voting thereon and until it has been accepted in writing by the grantee. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

Section 6455.

6455. Every resettlement franchise, permit, or privilege shall confer upon the grantee the right to occupy the roads, streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, lanes, alleys, courts, places, and pathways of the city or city and county, particularly set out in the terms and conditions of the franchise, permit, or privilege, for the purpose of conducting, operating […]

Section 6456.

6456. The grantee shall pay to the city or city and county such a percentage of the net revenue annually collected from any and all sources under and by virtue of the franchise, permit, or privilege as is fixed in the franchise. What constitutes such annual net revenue shall be provided in the franchise. (Enacted […]

Section 6457.

6457. The legislative or governing body may in a resettlement franchise provide that any new franchise granted to the holder of the resettlement franchise shall be considered as part of the resettlement franchise. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

Section 6458.

6458. The legislative or governing body may in the resettlement franchise provide that in case of consolidation or annexation to the city or city and county of any territory after the date the resettlement franchise is granted, any franchise to operate the street, suburban, or interurban railroad, or any part thereof, held or claimed by […]

Section 6459.

6459. Every resettlement franchise shall provide that the grantee shall surrender the franchises or rights, owned or claimed by the grantee, to occupy such portion of the roads, streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, lanes, alleys, courts, places, and pathways as it is proposed that the street, suburban, or interurban railroad shall thereafter occupy under the provisions […]

Section 6460.

6460. The resettlement franchise, permit, or privilege shall be granted for an indeterminate period, subject always to the right of the city or city and county to acquire and possess the property of the grantee. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

Section 6466.

6466. The power of the State, in the exercise of its police power or otherwise through the instrumentality of the Public Utilities Commission or other agency, to provide at any and all times for the supervision and regulation of public utilities is not affected by any franchise, permit, or privilege granted under this chapter. (Enacted […]

Section 6467.

6467. Nothing in this chapter, nor any provision of any franchise granted under this chapter, shall prevent a city or city and county from acquiring at any time the property of any public utility through the exercise of the right of eminent domain, and no city or county shall contract away, either for a term […]