§ 7-1. Mississippi River Fuel Corporation.

(1)

There is hereby granted to the Mississippi River Fuel Corporation, a corporation organized and created under the laws of the State of Delaware, its successors and assigns, a non-exclusive franchise, right and privilege to construct, operate and maintain in, over, along and under the public highways of the Parish of Ouachita, Louisiana, not within the limits of any incorporated city, town or village, a pipe line, or pipe lines, telephone, telegraph or other communication transmission lines and also lines for the transmission of electrical energy for the cathodic protection of the steel pipes against corrosion.

(2)

This ordinance [section] is issued under and by virtue of the various acts of the Legislature of the State of Louisiana, authorizing the police juries of the parishes of said state to grant franchises for the crossing of the roads and highways of the various parishes, and where said pipe lines, communication lines and lines for the transmission of electrical energy for the cathodic protection of the steel pipes against corrosion cross state highways they shall be governed by the provisions of the state highway acts applicable thereto.

(3)

As to any parish roads crossed by said pipe lines, communication lines and lines for the transmission of electrical energy for the cathodic protection of the steel pipes against corrosion, the parish, through its parish engineer, before said crossings are installed, may require that same be constructed in accordance with the requirements adopted by the director of highways of the State of Louisiana with respect to state highways.

(4)

The grantee herein named, in accepting this franchise, agrees and guarantees to hold harmless the Police Jury of the Parish of Ouachita, Louisiana, and its individual members from any and all loss, damages or expense which they may suffer on account of the grant of this franchise and privilege and operations thereunder arising from any cause whatsoever in favor of any person, persons, partnership or corporation.

(5)

This franchise shall continue in full force and effect for a period of ninety-nine (99) years from and after the date of the adoption of this ordinance [section].

(Ord. No. 6052, §§ 1—5, 6-14-50)