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CITY OF BAXTER,IVLINNESOTA ORDINANCE 2016-027 AN ORDINANCE IlVIPLEMENTING A GAS SERVICE FRANCffiSE FEE ON NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY,A NIINNESOTA CORPORATION,ITS SUCCES50RS AND ASSIGNS,DBA XCEL ENERGY FOR PROVIDING GAS SERVICE WITHIN THE CITY OF BAXTER � T`I�CITY COUNCIL OF TI�CITY OF BAXTER DOES ORDAIN: SECTION 1. The City of Baxter Municipal Code is hereby amended to include reference to the following Special Ordinance. Snbd. 1. p�n Qosg. The Baxter City Council has determined tha.t it is in the best interest of the City to impose a franchise fee on those public utiliTy companies that provide natural gas services within the City of Baxter to fund pavement management related and street and traffic lighting relatedactivities. (a)Pursuant to City Ordinance 56, a Franchise Agreement beiween the City of Baxter ("City'� and Northezn Sta.tes Power Company, its successors and assigns ("Company"), the City has the right to impose a franchise fee on Company, its successors and assigns, in an amount and fee design as set forth the fee schedule attached hereto as Schedule A. � 5nbd.2.Franchise Fee Statement.A franchise fee is hereby imposed on Company,its successors and assigns,under its gas fianchise in accordance with the schedule attached here to a and made a part of this Ordinance,commencing with the September 1,2016 billing month. � 3 This fee is aa account-based fee on each premise and not a meter-based fee. In the event there � is more than one meter at a single premise,but only one account, only one fee shall be assessed to that accoun� If a premise has two or more meters being billed at different rates, the Company may have an account for each rate classifica.tion, wluch will result in more than one franchise fee assessment for gas service to that premise. If the Company combines the rate � classifications into a single account,the franchise fee assessed to the account will be the largest franchise fee applicable to a single rate classification for energy delivered to that premise. In the event Company serves an entity with more than one premise, ea.ch premise (address) shall be subject to the appropriate fee.In the event a question arises as to the proper fee amount for any ' premise, the Company's manner of billing for energy used at all siitn�ilar premises in the City will control. Subd. 3. �. The sa.id franchise fee shall be payable to the City in accorda.nce with the terms set forth in Section 13,subd.3 of the Franchise Agreement � � �