Ordinance No. 651ORDINANCE No. 651
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE RITES OF THE HOUSTON
NATURAL GAS CORPORATION IN THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS: PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION
AND EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN:
Section 1: The following rates and charges are hereby fixed as the maxi-
mum monthly net rates and charges, and are hereby authorized for distribution
and sale of natural gas in the City of Baytown, Texas, to be applied and used
by Houston Natural Gas Corporation (the "Company "), its successors or assigns.
Residential Use
First
400
Cubic
Feet
or less
Next
2,600
Cubic
Feet
@
Next
7,000
Cubic
Feet
@
Next
40,000
Cubic
Feet
@
All over
50,000
Cubic
Feet
@
Commercial Use
First
400
Cubic
Feet
or less
Next
2,600
Cubic
Feet
@
Next
7,000
Cubic
Feet
@
Next
40,000
Cubic
Feet
@
All over
50,000
Cubic
Feet
@
$2.00
8.7* per Ccf
8.4� per Ccf
7.4 per Ccf
6.14 per Ccf
$2.00
9.2t
per Ccf
8.74
per Ccf
8.14
per Ccf
6.1t
per Ccf
The above base rates are net rates and will apply to all bills paid with-
in ten (10) days of date of rendition. If bills are not paid within ten (10)
days, gross rates shall apply, which rates shall be the above net rates plus one
(1�) cent per Ccf of gas consumed per month. Ccf used herein means one hundred
(100) cubic feet of natural gas.
The Railroad Commission of Texas, after notice and hearing of its Docket
No. 246, by its order dated December 1, 1958, established and fixed the rate to
be paid at the City Gate for gas purchased for resale to the consumers affected
by this ordinance. If such City Gate Rate is hereafter decreased or increased
by subsequent order of the Railroad Commission (and from time to time as such or-
ders may issue) the rate herein fixed shall forthwith be likewise adjusted by
changing the price per Ccf of each step of the two schedules in an amount equival-
ent to the change in the Gate Rate, minus or plus, as may be appropriate.
The rates in effect hereunder shall also be adjusted by the Company:
(1) So as to accomplish a decrease or increase of such rates equivalent to
the change in the amount of taxes or other government imposition payable
solely by reason of any change in rates pursuant to the provisions of
the preceding paragraph; and
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(2) Upon the imposition of any new or increased rate of tax or similar charge
imposed by any governmental agency on the Company and determined or
measured by the volume, proceeds, or receipts of gas delivered to such
customers, to the extent necessary to pass the effect thereof on to such
consumers.
Such increase or decrease in rates, as appropriate, shall be passed along by
the Company to its consumers by an adjustment in the above net monthly rates after
the Company has filed with the City Clerk a sworn statement setting forth the changes
in the Gate Rate and /or the adjusted rates which result therefrom.
The rates hereinabove set out shall be effective and applicable to distribution
and sale of natural gas billed after the effective date of this ordinance, unless and
until such rates shall be changed hereafter in accordance with law.
Section 2: The Company shall establish and post in its office rate schedules
providing monthly billing rates complying with Section 1 of this ordinance and may,
in addition, establish special contract rate schedules for larger volume commercial
or industrial use providing other rates and charges.
Section 3: 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 4: If any provision, exception, section, subsection, paragraph, sent-
ence, 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 5: This ordinance shall take effect July 1, 1962. The City Clerk is
hereby directed to give notice hereof by causing the caption of this ordinance to be
published at least twice within ten (10) days after the passage of this ordinance.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of a majority of the City
Council of the City of Baytown, on this the 29th day of May, 1962.
ATTEST:
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Edna Oliver, City Clerk
Al Cla on, Mayor