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energy, which rates, fees and charges may be graduated or
determined in accordance with volume of consumption or
otherwise, and shall be fixed or determined on such a basis
as to produce sufficient revenue after payment of costs of
operation and maintenance to defray over a period of years
any indebtedness incurred in the cost of acquisition or in the
cost of construction, and to produce a reasonable return to
the City;

(f) To delegate the duties of operation and maintenance of
any project to a commission appointed in the manner herein-
after prescribed;

(g) To authorize the Commission hereinafter provided for,
its agents or employees, to enter upon any private property in
the City for the purpose of installing, servicing or repairing
any equipment of the City or of a private person used to con-
duct and supply the energy distributed by and through a pro-
ject and, also, for the purpose of periodic meter reading
necessary to the determination of the amount of energy con-
sumed ;

(h) To do and perform any other acts and things which
may be reasonably necessary, convenient or appropriate to the
acquisition by purchase or construction of a project or its
efficient operation, maintenance and repair.

Provided, however, that the powers granted by Sections
114A to 114Q, inclusive, of this Article, shall be exercised at all
times by the City subject to the full jurisdiction, power and
authority of the Public Service Commission of this State and
only with the consent and approval of said Public Service
Commission first had and obtained; and provided further
that none of said powers (except the right to employ and pay
out of the City's general funds the engineering, scientific and
legal assistance authorized in Section 114C hereof) shall be
exercised by the City unless and until the acquisition, con-
struction, maintenance and operation of the project referred
to in said Sections 114A to 114Q, inclusive, and the issuance of
the general bonds or revenue bonds, or both, likewise referred
to therein, have been consented to and authorized and ap-
proved by said Public Service Commission.

114C. (Technical Assistance and Construction Contracts.)
In connection with the acquisition by purchase or construc-
tion, or partial acquisition by purchase and partial con-
struction of a project, the City may employ a competent
consulting engineer to make a study of a proposed project,
to report on the feasibility thereof or upon the feasibility
of a substitute plan for the acquisition by purchase or con-