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1 <br />CITY OF LITTLE CANADA <br />RAMSEY COUNTY <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> <br />ORDINANCE NO. 887 <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE IMPLEMENTING A GAS SERVICE FRANCHISE FEE ON <br />NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY, A MINNESOTA CORPORATION, ITS <br />SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, FOR PROVIDING GAS SERVICE WITHIN THE <br />CITY OF LITTLE CANADA, RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA. <br /> <br /> <br />THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CITY OF LITTLE CANADA, RAMSEY COUNTY, <br />MINNESOTA DOES ORDAIN: <br /> <br />SECTION 1. The City of Little Canada Municipal Code is hereby amended to include reference to the <br />following Special Ordinance. <br /> <br /> Subd. 1. Purpose. The City of Little Canada City Council has determined that it is in the best <br />interest of the City to impose a franchise fee on those public utility companies that provide natural gas <br />services within the City of City of Little Canada. <br /> <br />(a) Pursuant to City Ordinance 886, a Franchise Agreement between the City of Little Canada <br />and Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation, its successors and assigns, <br />the City has the right to impose a franchise fee on Northern States Power Company, a <br />Minnesota corporation, its successors and assigns, in an amount and fee design as set forth in <br />Section 9 of the Northern States Power Company Franchise and in the fee schedule attached <br />hereto as Schedule A. <br /> <br />Subd. 2. Franchise Fee Statement. A franchise fee is hereby imposed on Northern <br />States Power Company, a Minnesota Corporation, its successors and assigns, under its gas franchise in <br />accordance with the schedule attached here to and made a part of this Ordinance, commencing with the <br />NSPM _____________________, 20____ billing month. <br /> <br />This fee is an account-based fee on each premise and not a meter-based fee. In the event that an <br />entity covered by this ordinance has more than one meter at a single premise, but only one account, only <br />one fee shall be assessed to that account. If a premise has two or more meters being billed at different <br />rates, the Company may have an account for each rate classification, which will result in more than one <br />franchise fee assessment for gas service to that premise. If the Company combines the rate <br />classifications into a single account, the franchise fee assessed to the account will be the largest franchise <br />fee applicable to a single rate classification for energy delivered to that premise. In the event any entities <br />covered by this ordinance have more than one premise, each premise (address) shall be subject to the <br />appropriate fee. In the event a question arises as to the proper fee amount for any premise, the <br />Company’s manner of billing for energy used at all similar premises in the city will control. <br /> <br />Subd. 3. Payment. The said franchise fee shall be payable to the City in accordance <br />with the terms set forth in Section 9 of the Franchise.