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r t TUESDAY AUGUST 11, 1959 - - (4) Whenever the City shall pave or repave any street or shall change the grade or line of any street or public place or shall construct or reconst- ruct any conduit, water main, sewer or water connection, or other municipal public works or utility, it shall be the duty of the Grantee, when so ordered by the City, to change its mains, services, and other property in the streets or public places at its own expense so as to conform to the established grade or line of such street or public place and so as not to interfere wi. th the conduits, sewers, and other mains as constructed or recorntructed. However, the Grantee shall not be required to relocate pipes, mains and appurtenances when the street, alley, or public ground, in which they are located, is vacated for the convenience of abutting property ovmers and not as an incident to a public improverrent, unless the reasonable cost of such relocation and the loss and expense resulting therefrom is first paid to the Grantee. (5) The City may at its discretion assign personnel for inspection or supervision of excavation and related work being performed by the Grantee. Subsection (c). Extension on non-public street. Where any gas line is presently or in the future laid anywhere in the corporate limits of the City, as now constituted or as hereafter extended, not in a public street and a street shall thereafter be opened or dedicated so as to include said line within the right-of-way of such street, said gas line shall be required to be operated ani maintained under the terms of this Ordinance. Section 8. Rates. The Grantee shall supply gas to consumers wi thin the City at reasonable -rates. It is recognized that under the statutes of the Commonwealth of Virginia the State Corporation Commission is vested with legal authority to supervise, fix or change rates and charges authorized to be charged by the Grantee to consumers of natural gas. It shall also be recognized by both the Grantee and the City that matters involving rate charges and changes are local in their application and effect and that the City through its City C oun::il, shall be within its privileges and municipal responsibilities in making inquiries, expressing interest or adopting position in matters of rate charges or changes of the Grantee. Simultaneously with the filing by the Grantee of arw application or petition or request in aIW form with the State Corporation Commission, or aIW other regulatory body invested by law with authority and jurisdiction to authorize change of rates and charges, for an increase in or authority to increase rates or charges, or for any revision or change which would have the effect of increasing the rates and prices to be paid to the Grantee by consumers of natural gas in the City, the Grantee shall file with the City Manager of the City a written notice stating that it intends to make such application for a rate increase. The notice to the City Mamger shall state in a clear and defin.i.te way the amount of such increase of rate to be requested as applied to each class of consumer use. Section 9. Reports. The Grantee shall each year file with the City Manager a true copy of the annual audit of the records of the Grantee as the records pertain to the operations or conduct of b'llsiness by the Grantee under this franchise. The audit may be the same as the Grantee shall have prepared by certified public accountants for such year in the ordinary course of the conduct of the business of the Grantee. Section 10. Acquisition by City. Subsection (a). The City shall have, and the Grantee by the acceptance of this Ordinance e),..-pressly grants to the City, the right, at the expiration of this franchise, to acquire the property, equipment, books and records of the