06-12-19 CenterPoint Energy Schedule of Rates Notice

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CENTERPOINT ENERGY RESOURCES CORP. D/B/A CENTERPOINT ENERGY ENTEX AND CENTERPOINT ENERGY TEXAS GAS GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO NATURAL GAS SERVICE IN TEXAS 14. ESCAPING GAS Immediate notice must be given to Company by Consumer of any escaping gas on Consumer's premises. No flame shall be taken near the point where gas is escaping and as an added precaution,the gas should immediately be shut off at the meter by Consumer. Company shall not be liable for any damage or loss caused by the escape of gas from Consumer's housepiping or Consumer's appliances. 15. DAMAGE AND REPAIR TO AND TAMPERING WITH COMPANY'S FACILITIES Consumer shall immediately notify Company in the event of damage to company's property on Consumer's premises. Consumer shall not permit anyone other than authorized employee of Company to adjust, repair, connect, or disconnect, or in any way tamper with the meter, lines or any other equipment of Company used in serving Consumer's premises. 16. ACCESS TO PREMISES The Company's representatives shall have the right at all reasonable hours to enter upon the premises and property of Consumer to read the meter; and to remove, to inspect, or to make necessary repairs and adjustments to, or replacements of, service lines, meter loop, and any property of the Company located thereon, and for any other purpose connected with Company's operation. The Company's representatives shall have the right at all times to enter upon the premises and property of Consumer in emergencies pertaining to Company's service. All dogs and other animals which might hinder the performance of such operations on the Consumer's property shall be kept away from such operations by the Consumer upon notice by the Company representatives of their intention to enter upon the Consumer's premises. 17. NON-LIABILITY (a) The Company shall not be liable for any loss or damage caused by variation in gas pressure, defects in pipes, connections and appliances, escape or leakage of gas, sticking of valves or regulators, or for any other loss or damage not caused by the Company's negligence arising out of or incident to the furnishing of gas to any Consumer. (b) Company shall not be liable for any damage or injury resulting from gas or its use after such gas leaves the point of delivery other than damage caused by the fault of the Company in the manner of installation of the service lines, in the manner in which such service lines are repaired by the Company, and in the negligence of the Company in maintaining its meter loop. All other risks after the gas left the point of delivery shall be assumed by the Consumer,his agents,servants,employees,or other persons. (c) The Company agrees to use reasonable diligence in rendering continuous gas service to all Consumers, but the Company does not guarantee such service and shall not be liable for damages resulting from any interruption to such service. (d) Company shall not be liable for any damage or loss caused by stoppage or curtailment of the gas supply pursuant to order of a governmental agency having jurisdiction over Company or Company's suppliers,or caused by an event of force majeure. The term "force majeure" as employed herein means acts of God; strikes, lockouts, or other industrial disturbances; acts of the public enemy; wars; blockades; insurrections; riots; epidemics; landslides; lightning; earthquakes; fires; storms; floods;washouts; arrests and restraints of the government, either federal or state, civil or military; civil disturbances; explosions; breakage or accident to machinery or lines of pipe; freezing of wells or lines of pipe; shortage of gas