§ 16.40.010. Rights granted by earlier ordinances inoperative when.
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If the franchise granted grants all or any of the rights and privileges owned by the
grantee by reason of any existing franchises owned in whole or in part by the grantee,
from and after the effective date of the ordinance granting the new franchise, such
existing franchises, to the extent that the new franchise grants the same rights,
and to the extent of the grantee's interest therein, shall become inoperative as to
all unincorporated territory within the county, except as to highways which, upon
the effective date of the ordinance granting the franchise, are included within the
highway system of the state of California as state highways, saving, however, to the
county the right to recover from the grantee any and all sums due under the terms
of such superseded franchises arising prior to the effective date of the ordinance
granting the franchise.
