CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF MERIDIAN LEGAL NOTICE OF ADOPTION Ordinance #2025-05 (Lansing Board of Water and Light Electric Franchise Ordinance)

The Township Board at its regular meeting on November 18, 2025, adopted Ordinance 2025-05 to grant the City of Lansing by its LANSING BOARD OF WATER AND LIGHT, its successors and assigns, the rights, privileges, and franchise to construct, maintain and commercially use electric lines and power facilities consisting of towers, masts, poles, crossarms, guys, braces, feeders, transmission and distribution wires, transformers, switchgear, substations, and other electrical appliances on, over, under, along and across the highways, streets, alleys, bridges and other public places, and to conduct a local electric utilitybusiness in the CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF MERIDIAN, INGHAM COUNTY, MICHIGAN, for a period of thirty years.

 

The Ordinance has the following sections and catch lines: SECTION 1, GRANT, TERM; SECTION 2, CONSIDERATION; SECTION 3, CONDITIONS; SECTION 4, INDEMNIFICATION; SECTION 5, EXTENSIONS; SECTION 6, SERVICE AREA; SECTION 7, REPEAL; SECTION 8, RATES; SECTION 9, FRANCHISE FEE; SECTION 10, GRANTEE RULES; SECTION 11, EFFECTIVE DATE, which is the day following the publication and posting after final adoption by the Township Board; SECTION 12, PUBLICATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS; SECTION 13, FOOTE ACT FRANCHISE; SECTION 14, INTEGRATION; SECTION 15, SEVERABILITY.

 

A complete copy of the ordinance may be examined at the Department of Public Works & Engineering, 5151 Marsh Road, Okemos, Michigan 48864-1198, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday (excluding Township holidays) and on the Township’s website at http://bit.ly/3J3zWDE.

 

Angela Demas

Township Clerk

 

CP#25-385