In addition to the authority to grant franchises contained elsewhere in this Charter, the City Council may grant a franchise to any person, firm or corporation, whether operating under an existing franchise or not, to use, or to construct and use, poles, wires, conduits, and appurtenances for transmitting and distributing electricity for all purposes, or to use, or to lay and use, pipes and appurtenances for transmitting and distributing gas for any and all purposes, or to lay and use pipes, ditches, flumes, conduits and appurtenances for transmitting and distributing water for any and all purposes, under, along, across, or upon the public streets, ways, alleys, and places within the municipality, upon such terms and conditions as are provided in an act of the Legislature of the State of California, designated therein and commonly known as the “Franchise Act of 1937” and as the said act may hereafter be amended.

The enumeration of a particular act of the State of California shall not be held to be a limitation on the authority of the City Council to grant franchises pursuant to any other law of the State of California as they now exist or may hereafter exist. (Amended November 3, 1964)