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Any franchise granted by the City with respect to any given utility service shall be in lieu of all other franchises, rights, or privileges owned by the grantee, or by any successor of the grantee to any rights under such franchise, for the rendering of such utility service within the limits of the City as they now or may hereafter exist, except any franchise derived under Section 19 of Article XI of the Constitution of California as said section existed prior to the amendment thereof adopted October 10, 1911. The acceptance of any franchise hereunder shall operate as an abandonment of all such franchises, rights, and privileges within the limits of the City as such limits shall at any time exist, in lieu of which such franchise shall be granted. Any franchise granted hereunder shall not become effective until written acceptance thereof shall have been filed by the grantee thereof with the City Clerk. Such acceptance shall be filed within ten (10) days after the adoption of the ordinance granting the franchise and when so filed, such acceptance shall constitute a continuing agreement of such grantee that if and when the City shall thereafter annex, or consolidate with, additional territory, any and all franchises, rights, and privileges owned by the grantee therein, except a franchise derived under said constitutional provision, shall likewise be deemed to be abandoned within the limits of such territory.