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A franchise to operate a public utility shall NOT be granted for a period longer than:

  1. Twenty-five years
  2. Seventy-five years
  3. Twenty-five years renewable for another twenty-five
  4. Fifty years

Answer

D. Fifty years

Solution

Art. XII, Sec. 11: no franchise shall be for a longer period than fifty years.

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