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- "",..-.'" ,".-.- 26 (6 ) until properly adjusted. SECT ION 7. USE OF STREETS. Subsection(a). G~neral Control and Location of Gas Mains and Pipes. The grantee, in any opening it shall make in the streets in the city, shall be subject to the provisions of this franchise, and to all applicable ordinancEfl and regulations. The city reserves the right by resolution or otherwise to designate the location of any gas mains or gas service lines, with reference to other municipal street facilities such as sewer and water mains, electric poles and lines and other services, in such a manner as to promote the public safety and to protect public property. The grantee shall not have the right to lay its gas mains or pipes in the same ditch in which water or sewer lines or pipes are laid unless it shall secure the written consent of the city in each specific instance. The grantee shall so construct and locate mains and pipes as not to interfere with the construction, location, and maintenance of sewer or water connections or sewer or water mains. Any designation of location authorized herein shall be accomplished by the city so as not unnecessarily to delay the grantee in any of its operations. The city also reserves the right to approve the locations, if within the city, of any new regulator station of the grantee and of any mains carrying a pressure of 25 pounds or more, but such approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. Subsection (b). Disturbance of Streets - Restoraticm.. (1) The City Council may require that written permits, in any or all cases, be obtained by the grantee from the director of public works of the city, whenever it becomes necessary to excavate in the public streets or public grounds of the city in order to install, construct, extend, or repair any of the grantee's gas mains or pipes or services now located, or to be in the future located, therein or - 6 -