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e e ORDINANCE NO. :-',:1: 0 AN ORDnlANCE PRESCRIBING THE RATE AND DEPOSIT FEES AND conNECTION CHARGES TO BE CHARGED FOR NATURAL GAS TO DOMESTIC CONSIDliERS BY ALL PERSONS~ FmMS, COR- PORATIONS OR RECEIVF.RS FURIUSHING OR SELLING l~ATURAL GAS V'IITHIN THE CITY LDUTS OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS; AND DECLARDm AN Em:HGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE.' Seotion I. All persons, firms, oorporations or reoeivers furnishing or selling natural gas to domestic cOllsumera within the oity lindts of the city of La Porte, Harris County, Texas, shall charge such danestic consumers for domestic gas consumed the following rate for gas oonsumed, and the follollii.ng deposit fee for meter and re-conneotion charge, and no more. Seven and olle-half cents (7~t) per 100 oubic feet of natural gas aotually consumed; provided, h owe ve 10 , t.hat a disoount of one oent (It) per 100 cubic feet of natural gas so consumed shall be allowed eaoh oustorn.er who pays for said gas so oonsumed within ten days ai'ter the mailing by Campa~ of a statement showing correctly the amount of gas oonsumed, whioh sta.tement shall be properly addressed to the consumer at the address within the City of 1.4 Porte where said oonsumer' s meter 10 looRted. To eaoh monthly bill for gas so sent out by Comp~, there shall be added the sum of Fifty. Cents (50t> as a "ready to serve" charge. Five Dollars (05.00) init.ial .deposit fee for nleter. No feo shall be oharged for conneotion provided, hm~ver~ where service has been dis- oontinued'on account of non-pa~nent of bill #1.00 fee for re-conneotion may be oharged. Seotion 2. Domestio oonsumers as herein referred to shall inolude the follo'\\"ing, and none others I 1: All those oonsumers using natural gas for heating, lighting and cooking in private hames, boarding houses and aplU"tment houses, hospitals and oharitable institutions, and those consumers using natural gas for lighting, oooking and water heating only in hotels, restaurants and stores, and for heating in hotels ) and building where the separate roOMS are dependent on natural gas for heating purposes in grates and stoves. Seotion 3. The rates)' Qnd fee herein fixed shall take effeot and be in foroe on and ai'ter the date this ordirumoe is passed and approved aooording to law. Seot1.on. 4. All ordinanoes and franohises heretofore passed and granted vmich are in confliot herewith are hereby amended to oonform. with and to be oontrolled by t! this ordinanoe. Seotion 5: There being a public emergenoy requiring that this ordinanoe I . , t ~ be passed finaIq on the date of its introduotion, and the M~or having in writing deolared the existenoe of suoh emergenoy and requested Buoh passage, this ordinanoe