Any such district shall be required at all times to have a valid and subsisting franchise, either running to it as original grantee from such city or village, or assigned to it by or through a grantee of the city or village, if such district proposes to generate, distribute and sell, or to distribute and sell, electrical energy to such city or village or to its inhabitants, as a condition precedent to the operation of such district’s electric utility or utilities within such city or village, in every case and to the same extent as where a private corporation is required to have such valid and subsisting franchise to operate its electric utility or utilities within such city or village.

Source

  • Laws 1939, c. 89, § 1, p. 388;
  • C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-713;
  • R.S.1943, § 70-659.

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 70-659

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Grantee: shall include every person to whom any estate or interest passes in or by any conveyance. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.