It is the policy of the City that all electric public utilities heretofore or hereafter franchised shall exclusively serve such area within the City as shall be determined by the City Council, to be consistent with the health, safety and welfare of the public in the elimination of duplicate electrical installations, attendant hazards and burden upon the City’s various real property.
(Ord. 353 § 1, 1962)
Those electric public utilities now franchised shall be, and by Ordinance No. 353 are, granted exclusive service areas consisting of such areas within the City limits as they exclusively served on January 1, 1962.
(Ord. 353 § 2, 1962)
Every electric public utility shall, within 60 days of the first publication of Ordinance No. 353, file with the City Clerk a map showing the boundary of all areas within the City in which such utility actually exclusively served consumers on January 1, 1962. Unless controverted by an interested citizen or another such utility within 30 days of filing, such map shall conclusively determine the established service area of the filing utility.
(Ord. 353 § 3, 1962)
Any area actually served by any two or more franchised electric public utilities on January 1, 1962, shall be and remain the common service area of both unless or until such service shall be discontinued by any such utility for 30 days or more, in which case such discontinuing utility shall thereafter be deemed to be excluded from servicing such area.
(Ord. 353 § 5, 1962)
The boundaries of service areas shall in every instance follow the exterior property line of the consumer actually served. In the event of any dispute among utilities, the location and boundary of service areas shall be investigated by the City supervisor and reported to the City Council. The Council shall hear the supervisor’s report together with any evidence submitted to the supervisor by any interested person and shall, by ordinance, determine and locate such boundary.
(Ord. 353 § 6, 1962)
Should any common service area of two or more electric public utilities exist wherein any such utility shall be excluded as provided in TMC Section 2.60.080, then such excluded utility shall, within 30 days of such exclusion, abate and remove any electrical equipment or facilities which serve only the area from which it was thereby excluded, it being the purpose of this provision that hazards arising from the continuation of such facilities be abated as soon as is reasonable.
(Ord. 353 § 7, 1962)