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may hereafter be emended, governing the initiative, the referendum, end the recall of tho municipal officers shall apply to use thereof in the City insofar aa such previsions of the Electlons Code ere not in conflict with this Charter. ARTICLE XIII FRANCHISES Section 1300. FRANCHISES: IN GENERAL. The term "the streets of the City" as used In this Article shill include streets, .ways, alleys, avenues, highways, boulevards, concourses, driveways, br:dgec,'p&rks, parkways, end public grounds or waters within or belonging to the City. Subject to the provisions of this Charter, the City Council shell hive the power in behalf of the City to grant franchises or rights or make contracts providing for tho furnishing of the City and its Inhabitants with transportation, communication, terminal facilities, water, light,, heat, power, refrigeration and storage, or ~ny other public utility or service, or using the streets of the City for the operation of plants, works, or equip. meat for the furnishing thereof, or traversing any portion of the streets of the City for the transmitting ar conveying of any such service elsewhere. The City Council may grant a franchise to any person, firm, or cot- potation, whether operating under an existing franchise or nnt, and may prescribe the terms and conditions of any such great. The City Council may .also provide, by procedural ordinanc.e, the method of procedure end addihonal terms and conditions for makmg such grants, subject to the provisions of this Charter. No grant of any franchise may be transferred or assigned by the grantee except by consent in writing of the City Council and unless the transferee or ~essignee thereof shell covenant end agree to perform end bo bound by each and ell of the terms and conditions imposed in the grant or by procedure1 ordinance sad by this Charter. The City may issue permits for the construction of spur or side tracks in and over the streets of the City end the running of cars thereon for the purpose of connecting warehouses, factories, or other business industries and enterprises with soy line of railroad within tho City, upon such terms and subject to such regulations and conditions es shell be prescribed from time to time by ordinance. Such tracks shall be used for the transportation of freight only and shall not be used es a main line or part thereof. Such tracks must be laid end 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 permits shall be revocable at the pleasure of the City Council, Section 1301. FRANCHISES: TERMS OF FRANCHISES. Every franchise shall stat~ the term for which It is granted, which, unless it be indeterminate es provided for herein, shall not exceed twenty-five years. A franchise grant may be indeterminate, that Is to say, It may pro-