Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Leesville, Louisiana, that, whereas
CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp., d/b/a CenterPoint Energy Louisiana Gas, a Delaware
corporation with its principal office in the City of Houston, Harris County, Texas,
authorized to do business and doing business in the State of Louisiana, appearing
herein through Steven C. Greenley, its duly authorized division vice-president (hereinafter
sometimes referred to as "CenterPoint" or "grantee"), is engaged in the sale, transporting,
distributing, and supplying of gas in and through the City of Leesville, Louisiana,
(hereinafter sometimes referred to as "grantor"), under the jurisdiction of the Louisiana
Public Service Commission;
Now therefore, be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Leesville, Louisiana,
in consideration of the obligations of CenterPoint, its successors and assigns, as
hereinafter set forth, that grantee be and it is hereby granted, for a period of 15
years beginning September 22, 2011, the date of the expiration of existing franchise
agreement, all necessary rights to sell, transport, distribute, and supply gas (natural
and/or artificial and/or mixed), in, through and beyond the limits of grantor as the
same may now or hereafter lawfully exist, including the right to construct a system
of pipes, pipe lines, gas mains, laterals, conduits, feeders, regulators, meters,
fixtures, connections and attachments and other desirable instrumentalities and appurtenances
in, over, under and through any and all of the streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks,
bridges, public grounds and public places of grantor for said purposes; provided,
however, that grantee shall be liable for all damages or injuries to persons or property
that may be caused by grantee's negligence, and shall repair, at its expense, any
damage that may be done by grantee to the streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, bridges,
public grounds and public places of grantor so as to restore same to their former
state or condition insofar as is reasonably possible to do so.
