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Ordinance 276• ORDINANCE NO.276 . CITY OF CHANHASSEN CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY, A MINNESOTA CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT, OPERATE, REPAIR AND MAINTAIN IN THE CITY OF CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA, AN ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND TRANSMISSION LINES, INCLUDING NECESSARY POLES, LINES, FIXTURES AND APPURTENANCES, FOR THE FURNISHING OF ELECTRIC ENERGY TO THE CITY, ITS INHABITANTS, AND OTHERS, AND TO USE THE PUBLIC WAYS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS OF THE CITY FOR SUCH PURPOSES. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHANHASSEN, CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA, ORDAINS: SECTION 1. pEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Ordinance, the following capitalized terms listed in alphabetical order shall have the following meanings: 1.1 City. The City of Chanhassen, Counties of Carver and Hennepin, State of Minnesota. 1.2 City Utility System. Facilities used for providing non -energy related public utility service owned or operated by City or agency thereof including sewer and water service, but excluding facilities for providing heating, lighting or other forms of energy. 1.3 Commission. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, or any successor agency or agencies, including an agency of the federal government which preempts all or part of the authority to regulate electric retail rates now vested in the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. n U • 1.4 Company. Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation, its successors and assigns. 1.5 Electric Facilities. Electric transmission and distribution towers, poles, lines, guys, anchors, conduits, fixtures, and necessary appurtenances owned or operated by Company for the purpose of providing electric energy for public use. 1.6 Non -Betterment Costs. Costs incurred by Company from relocation, removal or rearrangement of Electric Facilities that do not result in an improvement to the Electric Facilities. 1.7 Notice. A writing served by any party or parties on any other party or parties. Notice to Company shall be mailed to the General Counsel, Law Department, 414 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55401. Notice to City shall be mailed to the City Manager/Clerk at 690 Coulter Drive, Chanhassen, MN 55317. Either party may change its respective address for the purpose of this Ordinance by written notice to the other party. • 1.8 Public Ground. Land owned by the City for park, open space or similar purpose, which is held for use in common by the public. 1.9 Public Way. Any street, alley, walkway or other public right-of-way within the City. 1.10 Total Cost. Cost to Company for removing overhead Electric Facilities and replacing its function by installing underground Electric Facilities, including but not limited to, engineering, materials and labor, including overheads, less the depreciated value on Company's books of the overhead Electric Facilities removed and replaced by said underground Electric Facilities. SECTION 2. ADOPTION OF FRANCHISE. 2.1 Grant of Franchise. City hereby grants Company, for a period of 20 years, the right to transmit and furnish electric energy for light, heat, power and other purposes for public and private use within and through the limits of the City as its boundaries now exist or as they may be extended in the future. For these purposes, 0 2 • Company may construct, operate, repair and maintain Electric Facilities in, on, over, under and across the Public Ways and Public Grounds of City, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance. Company may do all reasonable things necessary or customary to accomplish these purposes, subject, however, to such reasonable regulations as may be imposed by the City pursuant to ordinance and to the further provisions of this franchise agreement. 2.2 Effective Date; Written Acceptance. This franchise shall be in force and effect from and after its passage and its acceptance by Company, and its publication as required by law. An acceptance by Company must be filed with the City Manager/Clerk within 90 days after publication. 2.3. Service, Rates and Area. The service to be provided and the rates to be charged by Company for electric service in City are subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission. The area within the City in which Company may provide electric service is subject to the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Section 216B.40. However, during the term of this franchise, Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 216B, may be amended or repealed in a manner to: (1) allow City by franchise agreement or otherwise to • directly establish service area boundaries between electric suppliers providing electric service within the municipal limits of City, or (2) permit City by franchise agreement or otherwise to establish service area boundaries which must be followed by the Commission in an application to it to revise service area boundaries previously established by the Commission, unless the Commission finds the requested revision would create an unreasonable duplication of facilities or such revision is for another reason not in the best interest of the public. If this occurs, City may by resolution direct Company to negotiate an amendment to this franchise agreement establishing such service area boundaries. If no amendment to this franchise occurs within 90 days after the date a written copy of such resolution is served upon Company, City may, upon 30 days prior written notice to Company, terminate this franchise by ordinance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, City shall not take any action which deprives Company of the right to provide service to any customer of Company existing at the time of City's action to terminate for the entire term of this franchise set forth in Section 2.1 unless Company, for its investment in Electric Facilities reasonably necessary to serve such customer, is duly compensated in accordance with the provisions of an applicable statute, or regulation thereunder, of the State of Minnesota for its investment and loss of revenue. 0 3 • 2.4. Publication Expense. The expense of publication of this Ordinance shall be paid by Company. 2.5. Dispute Resolution. If either party asserts that the other party is in default in the performance of any obligation hereunder, the complaining party shall notify the other party of the default and the desired remedy. The notification shall be written. Representatives of the parties must promptly meet and attempt in good faith to negotiate a resolution of the dispute. If the dispute is not resolved within 30 days of the written notice, the parties may jointly select a mediator to facilitate further discussion. The parties will equally share the fees and expenses of this mediator. If a mediator is not used or if the parties are unable to resolve the dispute within 30 days after first meeting with the selected mediator, either party may commence an action in District Court to interpret and enforce this franchise or for such other relief as may be permitted by law or equity for breach of contract, or either party may take any other action permitted by law. 3.1 Location of Facilities. Electric Facilities shall be located and constructed so as not to interfere with the safety and convenience of ordinary travel along and over Public Ways and so as not to disrupt normal operation of any City Utility System previously installed therein. Electric Facilities shall be located on Public Grounds as determined by the City. Company's construction, reconstruction, operation, repair, maintenance and location of Electric Facilities shall be subject to other reasonable regulations of the City. Under this franchise agreement the City does not relinquish its police power regulatory authority and Company does not relinquish its eminent domain authority. Company may abandon underground Electric Facilities in place provided at City's request Company removes abandoned concrete enclosed conduit interfering with a City improvement project if such conduit is uncovered as part of the City improvement project. 3.2 Field Locations. Company shall provide field locations for any of its underground Electric Facilities consistent with the requirements of Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 216D. • 4 3.3 Street O enp ings. Company shall not open or disturb the paved surface of any Public Way or Public Ground for any purpose without first having obtained permission from the City, for which the City may impose a reasonable fee. Permit conditions imposed on Company shall not be more burdensome than those imposed on other utilities for similar facilities or work. Company may, however, open and disturb the paved surface of any Public Way or Public Ground without permission from the City where an emergency exists requiring the immediate repair of Electric Facilities. In such event Company shall notify the City by telephone to the office designated by the City as soon as practicable. Not later than the second working day thereafter, Company shall obtain any required permits and pay any required fees. 3.4 Restoration. After undertaking any work requiring the opening of any Public Way or Public Ground, Company shall restore the same, including paving and its foundation, to as good a condition as formerly existed, and shall maintain any paved surface in good condition for two years thereafter. The work shall be completed as promptly as weather permits, and if Company shall not promptly perform and complete the work, remove all dirt, rubbish, equipment and material, and put the Public Way or Public Ground in the said condition, the City shall have, • after demand to Company to cure and the passage of a reasonable period of time following the demand, but not to exceed five days, the right to make the restoration at the expense of Company. Company shall pay to the City the cost of such work done for or performed by the City, including its administrative expense and overhead, plus ten percent additional as liquidated damages. This remedy shall be in addition to any other remedy available to the City for noncompliance with this Section 3.4. 3.5 Shared Use of Poles. Company shall make space available on its poles or towers for City fire, water utility, police or other City facilities whenever such use will not interfere with the use of such poles or towers by Company, by another electric utility, by a telephone utility, or by any cable television company or other form of communication company. In addition, the City shall pay for any added cost incurred by Company because of such use by City. 3.6 Building and Relocations. Company, at the request of any person holding a building moving permit, shall temporarily remove, raise, or lower its overhead wires. The expense of such temporary removal, raising, or lowering of 0 5 • overhead wires shall be paid by person(s) requesting the same, and Company shall have the authority to require such payment in advance. 3.7 Avoid Damage to Electric Facilities. Nothing in this Ordinance relieves any person from liability arising out of the failure to exercise reasonable care to avoid damaging Electric Facilities while performing any activity. 3.8 Notice of Improvements. The City must give Company reasonable notice of plans for improvements to Public Ways or Public Ground where the City has reason to believe that Electric Facilities may affect or be affected by the improvement. The notice must contain: (i) the nature and character of the improvements, (ii) the Public Ways and Public Grounds upon which the improvements are to be made, (iii) the extent of the improvements, (iv) the time when the City will start the work, and (v) if more than one Public Way or Public Ground is involved, the order in which the work is to proceed. The notice must be given to Company a sufficient length of time in advance of the actual commencement of the work to permit Company to make any necessary additions, alterations or repairs to its Electric Facilities. SECTION 4. RELOCATIONS. 4.1 Relocation of Electric Facilities in Public Was. Except as provided in Section 4.3, if the City determines to vacate a Public Way for a City improvement project, or grade, regrade, or change the line of any Public Way at public cost, or construct or reconstruct any City Utility System in any Public Way, it may order Company to relocate its Electric Facilities located therein if relocation is reasonably necessary to accomplish the City's proposed public improvement. Company shall relocate its Electric Facilities at its own expense. Company need not relocate at its own expense for an improvement in the Public Way performed to accommodate an adjoining landowner which improvement is conditioned upon such adjoining landowner paying the cost of making the improvement. The City shall give Company reasonable notice of plans to vacate for a City improvement project, or to grade, regrade, or change the line of any Public Way or to construct or reconstruct any City Utility System. If a relocation is ordered within five years of a prior relocation of the same Electric Facilities, which was made at Company expense, the City shall reimburse Company for Non -Betterment Costs on a time and material basis, provided 0 6 • that if a subsequent relocation is required because of the extension of a City Utility System to a previously unserved area, Company may be required to make the subsequent relocation at its expense. Nothing in this Ordinance requires Company to relocate, remove, replace or reconstruct at its own expense its Electric Facilities where such relocation, removal, replacement or reconstruction is solely for the convenience of the City and is not reasonably necessary for the construction or reconstruction of a Public Way or City Utility System or other City improvement. 4.2 Relocation of Electric Facilities in Public Ground. Except as may be provided in Section 4.3, City may require Company to relocate or remove its Electric Facilities from Public Ground upon a finding by City that the Electric Facilities have become or will become a substantial impairment of the public use to which the Public Ground is or will be put. The relocation or removal shall be at Company's expense. 4.3 Projects with Federal Funding. Relocation, removal, or rearrangement of any Company Electric Facilities made necessary because of the extension into or through City of a federally -aided highway project shall be governed by the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Section 161.46 as supplemented or amended. It is understood that the right herein granted to Company is a valuable right. City shall not order 10 Company to remove or relocate its Electric Facilities when a Public Way is vacated, improved or realigned because of a renewal or a redevelopment plan which is financially subsidized in whole or in part by the Federal Government or any agency thereof, unless the reasonable Non -Betterment Costs of such relocation and the loss and expense resulting therefrom are first paid to Company, but the City need not pay those portions of such for which reimbursement to it is not available. 4.4 No Waiver. The provisions of Section 4 apply only to Electric Facilities constructed in reliance on a franchise and Company does not waive its rights under an easement or prescriptive right, or State or County permit. . 4.5 Change to Underground. If required by the City, Company shall change from overhead to underground, at City expense based on Company's Total Cost, in any area where: (1) the City requests underground lines and all other lines thereafter are changed from overhead to underground, or (2) any overhead line is changed to underground by the open trench with telephone and/or cable television, and Company can share trench at a cost not to exceed Company's pro rata share of the cost of the 9 7 • trenching. Prior to commencement of construction by Company of any particular project, the City shall deliver a written commitment to pay the Total Cost for the project as estimated by Company. SECTION 5. TREE TRIMMING. Company may trim all trees and shrubs in the Public Ways and Public Grounds of City interfering with the proper construction, operation, repair and maintenance of any Electric Facilities installed hereunder, provided that Company shall save the City harmless from any liability arising therefrom, and subject to permit or other reasonable regulation by the City. SECTION 6. INDEMNIFICATION. 6.1 Indemnity of City. Company shall indemnify, keep and hold the City free and harmless from any and all liability on account of injury to persons or damage to property occasioned by the construction, maintenance, repair, inspection, the issuance of permits, or the operation of the Electric Facilities located in the Public • Ways and Public Grounds. The City shall not be indemnified for losses or claims occasioned through its own negligence except for losses or claims arising out of or alleging the City's negligence as to the issuance of permits for, or inspection of, Company's plans or work. The City shall not be indemnified if the injury or damage results from the performance in a proper manner of acts reasonably deemed hazardous by Company, and such performance is nevertheless ordered or directed by City after notice of Company's determination. 6.2 Defense of City. In the event a suit is brought against the City under circumstances where this agreement to indemnify applies, Company at its sole cost and expense shall defend the City in such suit if written notice thereof is promptly given to Company within a period wherein Company is not prejudiced by lack of such notice. If Company is required to indemnify and defend, it will thereafter have control of such litigation, but Company may not settle such litigation without the consent of the City, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. This section is not, as to third parties, a waiver of any defense or immunity otherwise available to the City; and Company, in defending any action on behalf of the City shall be entitled 8 • to assert in any action every defense or immunity that the City could assert in its own behalf. SECTION 7. VACATION OF PUBLIC WAYS. The City shall give Company at least two weeks prior written notice of a proposed vacation of a Public Way. Except where required for a City improvement project, the vacation of any Public Way, after the installation of Electric Facilities, shall not operate to deprive Company of its rights to operate and maintain such Electric Facilities, until the reasonable cost of relocating the same and the loss and expense resulting from such relocation are first paid to CompanyCompany. In no case, however, shall City be liable to Company for failure to specifically preserve a right-of-way under Minnesota Statutes, Section 160.29. SECTION 8. CHANGE IN FORM OF GOVERNMENT. Any change in the form of government of the City shall not affect the validity of this Ordinance. Any governmental unit succeeding the City shall, without the consent of Company, succeed to all of the rights and obligations of the City provided in this Ordinance. SECTION 9. FRANCHISE FEE. 9.1. Separate Ordinance. During the term of the franchise hereby granted, and in lieu of any permit or other fees being imposed on Company, the City may impose on Company a franchise fee of not more than five percent of CompanyCompany's Gross Revenues as hereinafter defined. The franchise fee shall be imposed by a separate ordinance duly adopted by the City Council, which ordinance shall not be adopted until at least 60 days after written notice enclosing such proposed ordinance has been served upon Company by certified mail. The fee shall not become effective until at least 60 days after written notice enclosing such adopted ordinance has been served upon Company by certified mail. Section 2.5 shall constitute the sole remedy for solving disputes between Company and the City in regard to the interpretation of, or enforcement of, the separate ordinance. No action by the City to implement a separate ordinance will commence until this Ordinance is effective. A separate ordinance which imposes a lesser franchise fee on the 0 9 • residential class of customers then on other classifications of customers shall not be effective against Company. 9.2 Terms Defined. For the purpose of this Section 9, the following definitions apply: 9.2.1 "Delivery Component" of electric service means the portion of the retail rate paid by the customer to compensate Company for the use of transmission and distribution facilities, including investment costs and all expenses of constructing, operating and maintaining such facilities. 9.2.2 "Discount Rate" means a reduced electric retail rate for a customer or class of customers approved by the Commission for service to a customer of Company located within City to respond to competition from the threat of (i) self - generation or (ii) the conversion of customer -equipment to use a form of energy other than electricity. 9.2.3 "Gross Revenues" means all sums received by Company from the sale or delivery of electricity to its retail customers within the corporate limits of the City, excluding any surcharge, sales tax, miscellaneous tariff charges or any similar addition to Company's charges to customers for the purpose of reimbursing Company for the franchise fee, sales tax, or similar charge. The term "Gross Revenues" shall also exclude all revenues received by Company from the sale of electric service provided under a Discount Rate. 9.2.4 "Supply Component" of electric service means the portion of the retail rate paid by the consumer to compensate the supplier for electric capacity and/or energy delivered to the consumer, including investment costs and all expenses of producing or purchasing such capacity and/or energy. 9.3 Discount Rate Adjustment. If the City adopts a separate ordinance as described in Section 9.1, thereafter Company shall give City written notice of any Commission proceedings relating to implementation of a Discount Rate for a specifically identified customer within the City. In addition, if both a separate ordinance and a Discount Rate are in effect, Company and City may mutually agree by letter agreement that Company will collect a franchise fee on the Discount Rate 9 10 • equal to, or the equivalent of, the fee or tax the City would have received if the customer had elected to purchase the competing form of energy instead of electric service from Company. 9.4 Exclusive Electric Service. Company has agreed to collect and pay any franchise fee imposed pursuant to this Section 9 only so long as the law allows Company to be the exclusive provider of both the Supply Component and the Delivery Component of retail electric service to its defined service area within the City. Company's exclusive service status is currently provided under Minnesota Statutes, Section 21613.37 et seq. If Company is no longer the exclusive provider of both the Supply Component and the Delivery Component of retail service within City, Company's obligation to collect and pay a franchise fee on such retail electric service shall terminate upon 20 days Notice to City. However, Company agrees to collect and pay any applicable franchise fee imposed by the City on the revenues from the Delivery Component of electric service provided by Company to retail customers located within the City under the applicable Commission -approved Delivery Component of Company's retail electric service rates. This franchise fee on the Commission -approved Delivery Component of electric retail service shall apply • whether Company or another entity provides the Supply Component of the retail electric service to such customer. 9.5 Collection of the Fee. The franchise fee shall be payable quarterly and shall be based on the Gross Revenues of Company during complete billing months during the period for which payment is to be made. The payment shall be due the last business day of the month following the period for which the payment is made. The percent fee may be changed by ordinance from time to time; however, each change shall meet the same notice requirements and the percentage may not be changed more often than annually. Such fee shall not exceed any amount which Company may legally charge to its customers prior to payment to the City by imposing a surcharge equivalent to such fee in its rates for electric service. Company may pay the City the fee based upon the surcharge billed subject to subsequent reductions to account for uncollectibles, refunds and correction of erroneous billings. The time and manner of collecting the franchise fee is subject to the approval of the Commission, which Company agrees to use best efforts to obtain. Company agrees to make its Gross Revenues records available for inspection by the City at reasonable times. 9 11 9.6 Conditions on the Fee. The separate ordinance imposing the fee shall not be effective against Company unless it lawfully imposes and the City quarterly or more often collects a fee or tax of the same or greater percentage on the receipts from sales of energy within the City by any other energy supplier, provided that, as to such a supplier, the City has the authority to require a franchise fee or to impose a tax. The franchise fee or tax shall be applicable to energy sales for any energy use related to heating, cooling, or lighting, as well as to the supply of energy needed to run machinery and appliances on premises located within or adjacent to the City, but shall not apply to energy sales for the purpose of providing fuel for vehicles. 9.7 Exception to Equal Fee Requirement. The requirement in Section 9.6 to impose an equal fee on any other energy supplier will not apply if the franchise fee is dedicated to paying the cost of undergrounding Electric Facilities belonging to Company provided that: (1) the City shall maintain such an undergrounding franchise fee in a separate account and shall not use it for any other purpose other than reimbursing Company for the cost of undergrounding its Electric Facilities; and (2) provided that collection of the franchise fee will terminate when the balance in the account exceeds the amount Company estimates is necessary to reimburse it for the cost of undergrounding projects, which the City has given notice of under Section 4.5 or which Company and City have otherwise agreed Company should perform on a reimbursement basis. Company will not terminate the collection of such a franchise fee without providing the City with at least 30 days prior written notice. After completion of all scheduled projects at the time of termination of the franchise fee, the City may use any remaining balance in the account for its general purposes. Any franchise fee imposed on Company as authorized by this Section 9.7 shall be the exclusive fee payable by Company under this franchise until the City, by ordinance, repeals the separate ordinance imposing the fee under this Section 9.7. SECTION 10. FRANCHISE REOPENER. . After this franchise agreement has been in effect for ten years, the City may give Company Notice that City desires to amend this franchise agreement to incorporate specific provisions which Company has agreed to in the electric franchise agreement for two or more other cities of the second, third or fourth class in the seven -county metropolitan area, based on a franchise ordinance adopted by such cities after the date of this franchise agreement, which cities are identified in the Notice. If 0 12 Company refuses to do so within 90 days after receiving said Notice from the City, the City may terminate this franchise agreement upon 30 days prior written Notice unless Company gives Notice to the City within said 30-day period that it will immediately agree to accept an amendment to this Ordinance incorporating the desired franchise provisions existing in two or more other cities as referenced in the City's Notice. The termination will not be effective until after completion of any dispute resolution proceedings under Section 2.5 commenced by Company within said 30-day period, which proceeding confirms the City's action to be in compliance with this Section 10. SECTION 11. PROVISIONS OF ORDINANCE. 11.1 Severability. Every section, provision, or part of this Ordinance is declared separate from every other section, provision, or part; and if any section, provision, or part shall be held invalid, it shall not affect any other section, provision, or part. Where a provision of any other City ordinance conflicts with the provisions of this Ordinance, the provisions of this Ordinance shall prevail. • 11.2 Limitation on Applicability. This Ordinance constitutes a franchise agreement between the City and Company as the only parties and no provision of this franchise shall in any way inure to the benefit of any third person (including the public at large) so as to constitute any such person as a third party beneficiary of the agreement or of any one or more of the terms hereof, or otherwise give rise to any cause of action in any person not a party hereto. SECTION 12. AMENDMENT. This Ordinance may be amended at any time by the City passing a subsequent ordinance declaring the provisions of the amendment, which amendatory ordinance shall become effective upon the filing of Company's written consent thereto with the City Manager/Clerk within 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory ordinance. 0 13 • PASSED AND APPROVED this 12th day of January, 1998. BY:IAAAW-. OtAM Nancy M6cino Mayor of the City of Chanhassen, MN ATTEST: a aDDL Don Ashworth, anager/Clerk of the City of Chanhassen, MN 14 Affidavit of Publication Southwest Suburban Publishing State of Minnesota) )SS. County of Carver ) Stan Rolfsrud, being duly sworn, on oath says that he is the publisher or the authorized agent of the publisher of the newspapers known as the Chaska Herald and the Chanhassen Villager and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: CITY OF CHANHASSEN CARVER AND HENNEPIN (A) These newspapers have complied with the requirements constituting qualification as a legal COUNTIES, MINNESOTA newspaper, as provided by Minnesota Statute 331A.02, 331A.07, and other applicable laws, as SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 276 amended. AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO NORTHERN STATES POWER (B) The printed public notice that is attached to this Affidavit and identified as No. 3(�2 COMPANY was published on the date or dates and in the newspaper stated in the attached Notice and said A FRANCHISE AGREEMENT Notice is hereby incorporated as part of this Affidavit. Said notice was cut from the columns of The City of Chanhassen has the newspaper specified. Printed below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both adopted an ordinance granting Northern inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the kind and size of type used in the composition States Power Company permission to and publication of the Notice: construct, operate, repair and maintain in the City of Chanhassen an electric distri- abcdefghijklmnopgrstuvw z button system and transmission lines, in- cluding necessarypoles, lines, fixtures and appurtenances, for,the furnishing of elec- By: tric energy to the city and to use the public Stan Rolfsrud, Genera-r<anager ways and public grounds of the city for such purposes. Ior his designated agent This ordinance is in full force com- mencing on the date of publication of this Subscribed and sworn before me on summary. Don Ashworth City Manager ' (Published in the Chanhassen Villager on g thisIday of , 1998 January 29, 1998; No. 3068) GWEN M. RADUENZ t ' NOTARY PUBLIC--MINNESOTA MY COMMISSION EXPIRES 1-31-00 Notary Public RATE INFORMATION Lowest classified rate paid by commercial users for comparable space.... $11.50 per column inch Maximum rate allowed by law for the above matter ................................. $11.50 per column inch Rate actually charged for the above matter ................................................. $8.37 per column inch