04-14-12 Special Meeting of La Porte City Council (council retreat)

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PARTI-CHARTER CHARTER COMPARATIVE TABLE as before. If a majority of the votes at such an election be for the recall of the officer named on the ballot, he shall, regardless of any technical defects in the recall petition, be deemed removed from office and the vacancy shall be filled as in other vacancies. 6.10. - District judge may order election. Should city council fail or refuse to order any of the elections as provided for in this article, when all the requirements for such election have been complied with by the petitioning electors in conformity with this article of the Charter, then it shall be the duty of any one of the district judges of Harris County, Texas, upon proper application being made therefor, to order such elections and to enforce the carrying into effect of the provisions of this article of the Charter. ARTICLE VII. - FRANCHISES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES [5] (5) State Law reference— Franchises, Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. art. 1175; franchise to use streets, V.T.C.A., Transportation Code § 311.071 et seq. 7.01. - Enfranchisement. 7.02. - Regulation. 7.03. - Franchise records. 7.04. - Accounts of municipality -owned utilities. 7.05. - Franchise value disallowed. 7.06. - Consent of property owners. 7.01. - Enfranchisement. a. Power of council. City council shall have power by ordinance to grant, amend, renew and extend all franchises of all public utilities of every character operating within the city. All ordinances granting, amending, renewing or extending franchises for public utilities shall not be finally passed until thirty (30) days after the first reading; and no such ordinance shall take effect until sixty (60) days after its final passage; and pending such time, the notice and caption of such ordinance, noting the place where the full text may be examined by the public, shall be published once each week for four (4) consecutive weeks in the official newspaper of the city, and the expense of such publication [is] to be borne by the proponent of the franchise. No public utility franchise shall be transferable except with the approval of council expressed by ordinance. b. Extensions. All extensions of public utilities within the city limits shall become a part of the aggregate property of the public utilities, shall be operated as such, and shall be subject to all the obligations and reserved rights contained in this Charter and in any original grant hereafter made. The right to use and maintain any extension shall terminate with the original grant and shall be terminable as provided in section 7.02a. In case of an extension of a public utility operated under a franchise hereafter granted, such right shall be terminable at the same time and under the same conditions as the original grant. C. Other conditions. All franchises heretofore granted are recognized as contracts between the city Page 25 of 32 La Porte, Texas, Code of Ordinances