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ORDINANCE NO. 19-05 � AN ORDINANCE IMPLEMENTING A GAS SERVICE FRANCHISE FEE ON NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY, A MINNESOTA CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, FOR PROVIDING GAS SERVICE WITHIN THE CITY OF PEQUOT LAKES. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEQUOT LAKES DOES ORDAIN THAT: SECTION 1. The City of Pequot Lakes Municipal Code is hereby amended to include reference to the following Special Ordinance. Subd. 1. P ose. The Pequot Lakes City Council has determined that it is in the best interest of the City of Pequot Lakes (the"City") to itnpose a franchise fee on those public utility companies that provide natural gas services within the City. (a) Pursuant to City Ordinance 19-04, a Franchise Agreement (the "Franchise Agreement") between the City and Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporarion,its successors and assigns, (the "Company"), the City has the right to impose a franchise fee on the Company, in an amount and fee design as set forth in Secrion 9 of the above-referenced Franchise Agreement and in the fee schedule attached hereto as Schedule A. Subd. 2. Franchise Fee Statement. r, franchise fee is hereby imposed on the Company under its gas franchise in accordance with the schedule attached hereto and made a part of this Ordinance as Schedule A, commencing with the Company's July 1, 2019 billing month. � This fee is an account-based fee on each premise and not a meter-based fee. In the event that an enriry covered by this Ordinance has more than one meter at a single premise,but only one account,only one fee shall be assessed to that account. If a premise has two or more meters being billed at different rates, the Company may have an account for each rate classificarion, which will result in more than one fxanchise fee assessment for gas service to that premise. If the Company combines the rate classificarions into a single account, the franchise fee assessed to the account will be the largest franchise fee applicable to a single rate classificarion for energy delivered to that premise. In the event any enriries covered by this Ordinance have more than one premise,each premise (address) shall be subject to the appropriate fee. In the event a quesrion arises as to the proper fee amount for any premise, the Company's manner of billing for enetgy used at all similar premises in the City will control. Subd. 3. Payment. The said franchise fee shall be payable to the City in accordance with the terms set forth in Section 9 of the Franchise Agreement. The Company shall make each payment when due. Subd. 4. Surchar�e. The City recognizes that the Minnesota Public Utiliries Commission may allow the Company to add a surcharge to customer rates of City residents to reimburse the Company for the cost of the fee. Subd. 5. Enforcement. Any dispute,including enforcement of a default regarding this Ordinance will be resolved in accordance with Section 2.5 of the Franchise Agreement. � Subd. 6. Effective Date of Franchise Fee. The effective date of this Ordinance shall be after its publicarion and ninery (90) days after the sending of written norice enclosing a copy of this adopted Ordinance to the Company by cerrified mail. Collecrion of the fee shall commence as provided above. 1