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Ordinance-Municipal-Electric Service

The following Ordinance was offered by Iley Barr, who moved its adoption.

ORDINANCE NO. 25

AN ORDINANCE

Authorizing the Mayor of the TOWN OF CHOUDRANT , Louisiana, hereinafter called “Municipality”, to enter into an Agreement with Louisiana Power & Light Company for the supply of electric service for the operation of street lighting, water pumping, sewerage pumping, and other municipal services of said Municipality for the term provided therein, and to provide for the payment of the amount due under said Agreement.

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Town Council of the TOWN OF CHOUDRANT, Louisiana, in lawful session convened, that the Mayor, Lynn Sanderson, be and he is authorized, empowered and directed to enter into an Agreement with Louisiana Power & Light Company, its successors and assigns, for supplying the TOWN OF CHOUDRANT with electric power and energy for the operation of street lighting, water pumping, sewerage pumping, and other municipal services in the words and figures as set out in the attached agreement, copy of which Agreement is made part hereof and considered as incorporated herein.

SECTION 2. BE IF FURTHER ORDAINED, etc., that the Mayor and/or such other officers or persons for and on behalf of the Municipality be and they are hereby authorized and directed to make all payments to become due under said Agreement in accordance with the conditions thereof during the entire term of said Agreement without further action by the Mayor and Town Council.

SECTION 3. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, etc., that this Ordinance being necessary to the public health and safety and public welfare and convenience requiring it, shall take effect from and after the date of its adoption.

SECTION 4. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, etc., that all ordinances, actions or parts thereof, in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed, it being the intent of the Mayor and Town Council that this Ordinance and Agreement made part hereof supersede all existing agreements and contracts now in effect which in any way conflict with the matters herein agreed upon.

WHEREUPON, in open session said Ordinance and Agreement were read and considered section by section and as a whole.

Mr. W.G. Kelly seconded the motion to adopt the Ordinance. The Mayor then ordered a vote of the yeas and nays on its final passage, and upon roll call such votes were as follows:

For the adoption of the Ordinance: Yeas:

Iley Barr Yea

W. G. Kelly Yea

Against the adoption of the Ordinance: Nays:

NONE

Present but not voting:

None

Absent:

Ragan Aswell

Whereupon, the Mayor declared such legally passed and adopted on this, the 3 rd day of June, 1974.

Approved: -S-

Lynn Sanderson, Mayor

-S-

W.G. Kelly, Clerk

I, Lynn Sanderson, certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original Ordinance adopted by the Mayor and Town Council of the TOWN OF CHOUDRANT, Louisiana, at a lawful meeting held on the 3 rd day of June, 1974, with a quorum present, and that the same is now in full force and effect.

-S- Lynn Sanderson Mayor/Clerk

Mayor of Choudrant, Louisiana

This 3 rd day of June, 1974