§ II. GRANT OF AUTHORITY.

The Company hereby is granted a franchise to erect, construct, equip, extend, alter, maintain, repair, replace, remove, and operate its equipment and facilities on, along, across, over, in, and under the streets, alleys, easements, and public ways of the City now in existence or as may be changed from time to time, and other public places, areas, and grounds. This grant includes all works, systems, plants, poles, pole lines, towers, distribution lines, transmission lines, wires, guys, cables, conduits, transformers, and other distribution and transmission instrumentalities, facilities and appurtenances necessary or proper for the transmission and distribution of telephone and other communication services into, in, within, from, across, and through the City. Consent of the City for the use by the Company of public grounds and places other than streets, alleys, boulevards, highways, sidewalks, bridges, easements, and public ways for its facilities installed after the effective date of this ordinance will be in the form of an easement, with the City as Grantor and the Company as Grantee.