Ordinance No. 550550
ORDINANCE NO,
AN ORDINANCE' ESTABLISHIRG RATES TO BE CHARGED FOR THE
TYPES AMID CLASSES OF SERVICE SPECIFIED BY ALL PERSONS,
F IRi6 AND CORPORATIONS FURNISHING ELECTRIC SERVICE UITH-
IN THE CITY OF BAYTOI'!N; ESTABLISHING A SCHEDULE OF RATES
TO BE KNOWN AS SCHEDULE RS2 FOR RESIDENTIAL SERVICE; ES-
TABLISHING A SCHEDULE OF RATES TO BE KNOWN AS SCHEDULE
t.IGS2 FOR i+LISCELLANEOUS GENERAL SERVICE; PROVIDING A METHOD
FOR DETERi4INING THE KVA APPLICABLE TO SCHEDULE isIGS2; PRO-
VIDING THAT SCHEDULES RS2 AND MS2 SHALL BE SUBJECT TO
CERTAIN ADJUM ENTS FOR INCREASED FUEL COSTS AND INCREASED
TAXES; PROVIDING 111HEN BILLS SHALL BE DUE AND KAKING PROVI-
SIONS CONCERNING PAYMENT; PROVIDING THAT PERSONS, FIRi.s
AND CORPORATIONS FURNISHING ELECTRIC SERVICE SHALL, PIAIWAIN
COPIES OF ALL RATE SCHEDULES ON FILE AM AVAILABLE AT THEIR
PRINCIPAL OFFICE IN THE CITY; REPEALING ORDINANCES INCONSIS-
TENT HEREVITH; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PRESCRIBING A
hiAXIHUrl PENALTY OF T11f0 HUNDRED ($200,00) DOLLARS; PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE RATES HEREIN ESTABLISHED; AND PRO-
VIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL. OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN:
Section 1: That the following rates are established, subject to the terms
and conditions hereof, as the rates which shall be charged by every person, €irm
or corporation engaged in the business of furnishing and supplying electric ser-
vice, of the type and class hereinafter specified, to consumers thereof, for
consumption within the City of Baytown, until such rates are changed by order
of the City Council, or as hereinafter provided, and it shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation to charge any higher rate or rates for service
tof the types and classes hereinafter set forth.
Section 2: Schedule RS2 - Residential Service:
(A) Application.: This Schedule shall be applicable as follows:
(1) To a11'Electric Service required for residential purposes
in individual private dwellings and in individually metered apart-
ments when such service is supplied at one Point of Delivery and
measured through one Meter.
(2) r1here two family or housekeeping units are served through
one meter, it will be optional with the Customer whether the kilowatt -
hour steps in the rate and the minimum bill provisions will be doubled
for billing purposes or whether all the service will be furnished under
® the General Service Schedule, Schedule P.G52, hereinafter established.
Where more than two family units or apartments are served through one
Heter, billing will be under the said General Service Schedule.
(3) 11here a portion of such Electric Service is used for non -
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residential purposes General Service Schedule il;S2 shall be applicable
to all the Electric Service supplied. However, if the Customer's wir-
ing is so arranged that the Electric Service for residential purposes
and for non - residential purposes can be metered separately, this Sche-
dule RS2 shall be applicable to the portion used for residential pur-
poses.
(4) Schedule RS2 shall not be applicable to temporary, breakdown
stand -by, supplementary or resale service.
(B) Net Monthly Bill -- The net monthly bill shall be:
1. For the billing months of lHay through October:
• $1.10 whi
2.9� per
2.0t per
1.5t per
Hinimum:
ch includes the use of 17 ktvh;
kwh for the next 63 kWh;
ktvh for the next 120 kwh;
kwh for all additional kwh.
$1.10.
2. For the billing months of November through April:
$1.10 which includes
the use of 17 kwh;
2.9�
per
kwh
for
the
next 63 kwh;
2.0�
per
ktvh
for
the
next 120 kwh;
1.5�
per
kwh
for
the
next 700 kwh;
1.0t
per
kwh
for
all
additional ktvh.
Ninimum: $1.10
3. By the term "billing month" as hereinabove used is meant the
month within which the bill for service is scheduled to be mailed
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or otherwise delivered
to the
customer. The use of cycle billing
is authorized, provided
bills
for electric service will normally
be based on a monthly period of approximately 30 days and not more
than 12 bills for electric service shall be rendered to one custom-
er covering service to one residence during any calendar year.
Section 3: Schedule i.�S2 - Miscellaneous General Service:
(a) Application - This Schedule shall be applicable as follows:
(1) This Schedule shall be available to any customer for all
Electric Service supplied at one premise through one Point of Delivery
and measured through one deter.
(2) This Schedule shall not be available for loads in excess
® of 50 kva, temporary, breakdown, stand -by, supplementary or resale ser-
vice, except upon special contract.
V Net Monthly Bill - The net monthly bill shall be:
® 65�
including the use of 12 kwh;
2.9�
per kwh
for
the next 238 kwh
(subject
to
adjustment stated below);
2.0�
per kwh
for
the next 350 kwh
(subject
to
adjustment stated below);
1.5�
per kwh
for
the next 2,000 kwh;
0.9�
per kwh
for
the next 6,000 kwh;
0.7�
per kwh
for
the next75,000 kwh;
0.6�
per kwh
for
the excess kwh.
Adjustment: The above rate shall be applicable to loads
up to 3 kva and when in excess thereof the kwh to be charged
for at the above stated 2.9� and 2.N steps of the rate shall
be increased as follows:
1. First 2 kva over.3, add 100 kwh per kva;
2. Next 15 kva over 5, add 75 kwh per kva;
3. Next 80 kva over 20,add 40 kwh per kva; and
4. Excess kva over 100,add 31 kwh per kva.
i.?inimum: If upon expiration of any 24 consecutive monthly
billings, subsequent to the date service is first supplied under
this Rate Schedule, a customer's total payments are not equal to
or more than $12.00 per Kva for each Kva in excess of 5 1(va of
the maximum Kva supplied during such period Company may remove
its facilities unless the customer agrees to pay a rlinimum bill-
ing equivalent to X$12.00 per Kva for each Kva in excess of 5 Kva
of the maximum Kva required to satisfy customers service require-
meets for the next 24 consecutive monthly billings or any fraction
thereof.
Section 4: The KVA (kilovolt amperes) applicable to Schedule ir1GS2 shall
be the average kva supplied during the 15 minute period of maximum use during
the month then being billed, as determined from meter readings.
Section 5: The Schedules hereinabove established in Sections 2 and 3
(Schedules E52 and MGS2) shall be subject to the following adjustments: First,
plus or minus an amount calculated at the rate of .025 mill per kwh for each
0.2� change in the average cost to the person, firm or corporation supplying
electric service of fuel burned, during the second month preceding the billing
month, above or below 13.6 per 1,000,000 Btu under Schedule RS2 and 7.0 per
1,000,000 Btu under Schedule i,LS2; and Second, plus or minus the proportionate
is part of the increase or decrease in operating expense caused by any new tax, or
the revision or, abolition of any existing tax, or increased or decreased rate
of tax or governmental imposition, properly chargeable as an operating expense
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and based upon dollar or kwh volume of business done - EXCEPT: (a) ad valorem
40 taxes assessed or levied by any state, county, special district or the City;
(b) income taxes; and (c) gross receipts payments to the City, regardless of
how designated, of not to exceed 9% of gross receipts within the City limits -
levied or assessed against the person, firm or corporation furnishing electric
service, or upon such electric business, as the result of any new or amended
laws or ordinances enacted, or the repeal of any such law or ordinance after
June 1, 1959. No adjustment hereunder shall, however, at any time be in excess
of the adjustment then being collected in the City of Houston, Texas, by the
person, firm or corporation there supplying electric service.
Section 6: Payment of Sills - Net bills shall be due when rendered and
• shall be payable within ten (10) days thereafter. Bills not so paid shall be
the net bill as rendered plus 10% of the first $50.00 of such net bill.
Section 7: Every person, fire, or corporation furnishing electric service
within the City shall maintain on file at its principal office in this City in
printed form copies of all established schedules of rates charged for electric-
ity, and the same shall be made available to any citizen of the City who shall
apply therefor.
Section 6: All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the
terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however, that such re-
peal 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
0 the subject matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 9: Any person who shall violate any provision of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished
by a fine of not more than Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars. Cach day of the con-
tinuance of such violation shall be considered a separate offense; and any such
violation shall on conviction be so punished therefor.
Section 10: If any provision, exception, section, 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.
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Section 11: The rates and charges prescribed in this ordinance shall apply
• to all electricity used by each consuner to whom such rates are applicable after
such consumer's next regular meter reading date subsequent to the 29th day of
June, 1959.
Section 12: This ordinance shall take affect immediately upon its passage
by the City Council. The City Clerk is hereby directed to give notice hereof
causing the caption 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.
INMODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of a r.iajority of the
City Council of the City of Baytown on the __Lag�day of July, 1959.
ATTEST:
n
Edna Olivet, City Clerk
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