Ordinance No. 569BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
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, firm
or corporation engaged in the business of furnishing and supplying electric service,
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 Coun-
cil, or as hereinafter provided, and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to charge any higher rate or rates for service of the types and classes
is hereinafter set forth
Section 2: Schedule RS -1 - Residential Service:
(A) Application: This Schedule shall be applicable as
follows:
(1) To all Electric Service required for residential
purposes in individual private dwellings and in individually
metered apartments when such service is supplied at one Point
of Delivery and measured through one deter.
(2) 11 ere 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
ORDINANCE NO 569
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING RATES TO BE CHARGED FOR THE
AND CLASSES OF SERVICE SPECIFIED BY ALL PERSONS,
.TYPES
FIRC,iS AND CORPORATIONS FURNISHING ELECTRIC SERVICE WITH-
IN THE CITY OF BAYTO1gN; ESTABLISHING A SCHEDULE OF PATES
TO BE KNOWN AS SCHEDULE RS -1, FOP, RESIDENTIAL SERVICE; ES-
TABLISHING A SCHEDULE OF RATES TO BE KNOWN AS SCHEDULE
NGS -1 FOR rv]ISCELLANEOUS GENERAL SERVICE; PROVIDING A WTHOD
FOR DETERL]INIING THE KVA APPLICABLE TO SCHEDULE MS -1; PRO-
VIDING THAT SCHEDULES RS -1 AND 11;S -1 SHALL BE SUBJECT TO
CERTAIN ADJUSTNENTS FOG INCREASED FUEL COSTS AND INCREASED
TAXES; PROVIDING WHEN BILLS SHALL BE DUE AND MAKING PROVI-
SIONS CONCERNING PAWIENT; pROVIDING THAT PERSONS, FIRUS AND
CORPORATIONS FURNISHING ELECTRIC SMVICE SHALL NAINTTAIN
COPIES OF ALL RATE SCHEDULES ON FILE AND AVAILABLE AT THEIR
PRINCIPAL OFFICE IN THE CITY; REPEALING ORDINANCES INCONSIS-
TENT HEREWITEI; GIONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PRESCRIBING A
N.IAXINffJM PENALTY OF TWO HUNDRED ($200.00) DOLLARS; PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE FOg THE RATES HEREIN ESTABLISHED; AND PRO-
VIDING FOR TEL PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE HEP.EOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
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, firm
or corporation engaged in the business of furnishing and supplying electric service,
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 Coun-
cil, or as hereinafter provided, and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to charge any higher rate or rates for service of the types and classes
is hereinafter set forth
Section 2: Schedule RS -1 - Residential Service:
(A) Application: This Schedule shall be applicable as
follows:
(1) To all Electric Service required for residential
purposes in individual private dwellings and in individually
metered apartments when such service is supplied at one Point
of Delivery and measured through one deter.
(2) 11 ere 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
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Service Schedule, Schedule hGS -1, hereinafter
established. Cohere more than two family units or
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apartments are served through one Meter, billing
will be under the said General Service Schedule.
(3) 111here a portion of such Electric Service
is used for non - residential purposes General Service
Schedule GGS -1 shall be applicable to all the Electric
Service supplied. However, if the Customer's wiring is
so arranged that the Electtic..Service for residential
purposes and for non - residential purposes can be metered
separately, this Schedule RS -1 shall be applicable to the
portion used for residential purposes.
(4) Schedule RS -1 shall not be applicable to tem-
porary breakdown, stand -by, supplementary or resale ser-
vice.
(B) Net hbnthl Bill:
The net monthly bill shall be:
1. For the billing months of Llay through October:
75� which includes the use of 17 kwh;
::2,94 per kwh for the next 63 krrh;
2.0� per kwh for the next 120 kn t;
1.5c per kwh for all additional kwh.
Uinimum: 75t
2. For the billing months of November through April:
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75� which includes the use of 17 kwh;
2.9� per kwh for the next 63 kwh;
2.0� per kwh for the next 120 kwh;
1.5� per kwh for the next 700 krrh;
1.0� per kwh for all additional ktvh.
Minimum: 75t
3. By the term "billing month" as hereinabove used
is meant the month within which the bill for service
is scheduled to be mailed or otherwise delivered to
the customer. The use of cycle billing is authorized.
prdvided .banks for .electric service will.-ndrmally be
based on a monthly period of approximately 30 days
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and not more than 12 bills for electric service shall
be rendered to one customer covering service to one
residence during any calendar year.
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Section 3: Schedule GGS -1 - 1liscellaneous 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 Meter.
(2) This Schedule shall not be available for loads in
excess of 50 kva, temporary breakdorm, stand -by, supplemen-
tary or resale service, except upon special contract.
{>;) Net Monthly Bill:
The net monthly bill shall be:
50� including the use of 12 ktvh;
2.9� per kwh for the next 236 Iavh
• (subject to adjustment stated below);
2.0� per kwh for the next 350 rwh
(subject to adjustment'stat&d below);
1.5Q per kwh for the next .�,�,000 kwh;
0'.% per kwh for the next 6'000 kwh;
0.7{- per kwh for the next 75,000 kwh;
.0'.6� per kwh for the excess 1avh.
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 2.0¢ steps of the rate shall
be increased as follotis:
1.
First 2 kva over 3, add
100
lavh
per
kva;
2.
Next 15 kva over 5 add
75
ktvh
per
kva;
3.
Next 00 kva over 20,add
40
kwh
per
kva; and
4.
Excess kva over 100,ad'd
31
kwh
per
kva.
0 Minimum: 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 I(va for each Kva in excess of 5 Kva of
the maximum I(va supplied during such period Company may remove
its facilities unless the customer agrees to pay a minimum bill-
ing equivalent to $12.00 per Kva for each Kva in excess of 5 Kva
of the maximum Kva required to satisfy customer's service re-
quirements for the next 24 consecutive monthly billings or any
fraction thereof.
• Section 4; The KVA (kiloxolt amperes) applicable to Schedule MGS -i shall
be the average I(va supplied during the 15 minute period of maximum, use during the
month then being billed, as determined from meter readings.
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Section 5: The Schedules hereinabove established in Sections 2 and 3
(Schedules RS-1 and MS-1) shall be subject to the following adjustments:
• First, plus or minus an amount calculated at the rate of .025 mill per kWh
for each 0.4 change in the average cost to the person, firm or corporation supply-
ing 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 RS -1 and 7.0 per
1,000,000 Btu under Schedule MS-1; and Second, plus or minus the proportionate
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 and
based upon dollar or kwh volume of business done / except (a) Ad valorem 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 4% 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 here-
under shall, however, at any time be in excess of the adjustment then being collec-
ted in the City of Houston, Texas, by the person, firm or corporation there supply-
ing electric service.
Section 6: Payment of_Bills: 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, firm 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 electricity,
and the same shall be made available to any citizen of the City who shall apply
therefor.
Section 0: 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
0 shall be cumulative of other ordinances regulating and governing 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
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a fine of not more than Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars. Each day of the continuance
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 per-
son 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 11: The rates and charges prescribed in this ordinance shall become
effective so as to be applied on all regular bills for current consumption mailed
• to customers on and after the first day of February, 1960.
Section 12: This ordinance shall take effect as provided in the next preced-
ing section. The City Clerk is hereby directed to dive notice hereof by 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.
iIVMODUCCD, DEAD and PASSED by the affirmative vote of a najority of the City
Council of the City of Baytown on the 16th day of December, 1959.
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ATTEST:
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Edna Oliver, City Clerk
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Pr a t, Mayor