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CATV Page 7 The City may issue permits for the construction of spur or side tracks in and over'the- streets of the City and the running of cars thereon for the purpose of connectinc warehouses, factories, or other business industries and enterprises with any line of railroad within the City, upon such ter,--is and subject to such regulations and con- ditions as shall be prescribed frar, t.ir-�.e to time by ordinance. Such tracks shall be used for the transportation of freight only and shall not be used as a main line or part thereof. Such tracks must be laid and operated in such manner and under such restrictions as not to interfere with the use of the streets of the City by the public. All such pen-?its shall be revocable at the pleasure of the City Council_. Section 1301. Franchises: Terms of Franchises. Every franchise shall state the ter:? for which it is granted, which, unless it be indeterminate as provided for herein, shall not exceed twenty -five years. A franchise grant may be indete.nhi_r_ate, that is to say, it may provide that it shall endure in full force and effect until the same, with the consent of the Public Utilities Co,rlission or its succes- sors of th.e State of California, or the Inter -State Canmerce Com- mission as the case may be, shall be voluntarily surrendered or abandoned by its possessors, or until the State of California, or some municipal or public corporation, thereunto duly authorised by law, shall purchase by voluntary agreement or shall Condemn and take, under the power of eminent domain, all property actually used and useful in the exercise of such franchise and situate within the territorial limits of the State, municipal, or public corporation pur- chasing or condemning such property, or until the franchise s?-hall. be forfeited for noncompliance with its terms by the possessor thereof. Section 13002. Franchises: Grants to be in Lieu of all Other. Franchises. Any franchise granted by the City with respect to any given utility service shall be in lieu of all other franchises, rights, or privileges o-;rned by the grantee, or by any successor of the grantee to any right under such franchise, for the rendering of such utility service within the limits of the City as they may now or hereafter exist, except any franchises derived under Section 19 of Article XI of the Constitution of the State of California as said section existed prior to amendment thereof adopted October 10, 1911. The acceptance of any franchise hereunder, shall operate as an abandon-lent- of all such franchise, rights, and privileges within the limits of the City as such limits shall at any time exist, in lieu of which such franchise shall be granted.