Ordinance No. 1,206-A0
ORDINANCE NO. 1206-A
AN ORDINANCE FIXING AND DETERMINING THE RATES AND CHARGES FOR
LOCAL EXCHANGE TELEPHONE SERVICE AND MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES OF
THE GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF THE SOUTHWEST IPJ THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN, TEXAS; REPEALING ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT HEREWITH;
CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE FOR
THE RATES HEREIN ESTABLISHED; AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLI-
CATION THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF.THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
Section 1: That the Code of Ordinances of the City of Baytown, Texas,
• is hereby amended by the amendment of Chapter 13, Utilities, Article IV,
Telephone, which shall read as follows:
Section 31-35. Rates.
General Telephone Company of the Southwest shall be authorized to
charge within the corporate limits of the City of Baytown, Texas, the following
schedules of principal rates for local exchange service and such other charges
and rates for miscellaneous services not inconsistent with this ordinance as are
included in the Telephone Company's Texas General Exchange Tariff and it shall
be unlawful for the Telephone Company to charge any higher rate or rates for
service of the types and classes set forth:
SEE SCHEDULES A, B, C, & D
• Section 31-36. Services charges.
General Telephone Company of the Southwest shall be authorized to
charge within the corporate limits of the City of Baytown, Texas, the following
schedule of service charges and such other charges and rates for miscellaneous
service charges not inconsistent with this ordinance as are included in the
Telephone Company's Texas General Exchange Tariff, and it shall be unlawful
for the Telephone Company to charge any higher rate or rates for service
charges of the types set forth:
SEE SCHEDULE' E
Section 31-37. Color phones.
No additional charge shall be made for colored telephones.
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Section 31-38. Four party service.
After the passage of this ordinance, no new four party service will
be installed and no existing four party service will be moved to a new location.
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Only four party service that was in effect on December 31, 1965, shall be provided
by the Telephone Company.
Section 31-39. Article establishes maximum rates.
The rates and charges provided in this article shall be the maximum
charges applicable within the corporate limits of the city.
Section 2: Repealing Clause. All ordinances or parts of ordinances
inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided
however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of such inconsistency and
in all other respects this ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances
regulating and governing the subject matter covered.by this ordinance..
Section 3: Savings Clause: If any provision, section, exception,
subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or the
application of same to any person or set of circumstances, shall for any reason
be held unconstitutional, void or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the
validity of the remaining provisions of this ordinance or their application to
other persons or sets of circumstances and to this end all provisions of this
ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 4: Penalty: Any person who shall violate any provision of
this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdeameanor and upon conviction
shall. be punished by a fine of not less than Ten ($10.00) Dollars, nor more than
Two Hundred.($200.00) Dollars. Each day of the continuance of such violations
shall be considered a separate offense and each and every day shall constitute
a separate violation.
Section 5: Effective Date: This ordinance shall take effect from and
after ten (10) Days from its passage by the City Council. The City Clerk is here-
by directed to give notice hereof by causing the capiton of this ordinance to be
published in the official newspaper of the City of Baytown at least twice within
ten (10) days after the passage of this ordinance.
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INTRODUCED; READ and PASSED by the affirmative of the City Council
of the_City.of Baytown, Texas, on this 2nd day of May 1972.
C. GLEN WALKER, Mayor.
ATTEST:.
EDNA OLIVER; City Clerk
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