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_ _ .~ • l~ u ORDINANCE N0. 1066 AN ORDINANCE RECITING THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE EN^lEX, INC. STATEi~NT OF INTENT TO CHANGE GAS RATES ; FINDIidG THE TRUE AND ACTUAL EFFECTIVE DATE OF SAID STATEr2ENT OF INTENT AND SCHEDULE OF RATES; SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED RATE INCREASE OF ENTEX, INC.; PROVIDING FOR THE GIVING OF NOTICE THEREOF; SUSPENDING THE SCHEDULE OF RATES OF ENTEX, INC. FOR A PERIOD OF ONE HUNDRED TWENTY (120) DAYS FROM THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE DELIVERY OF A CERTIFIED COPY OF THIS ORDINANCE TO SAID UTILITY; AND P ROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THIS ORDINANCE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COIvSMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: Section 1. Entex, Inc., a private corporation, is a public utility supplying gas within the corporate limits of the City of La Porte . Section 2. On the 27th day of December, 1976, pursuant to the requirements of P aragraph (a), Section 43, Public • Utility Regulatory Act of the State of Texas, codified as Article 1446c, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas (1925), said utility filed a Statement of Intent with said City as the regulatory authority having original jurisdiction over rate increases within its corporate limits. Section 3. Paragraph (d) of Section 43 of said Act authorizes said City, after delivery to the affected utility of a statement in writing of its reasons therefor and pending such hearing and a decision thereon, to suspend the operation of the schedule set forth in said Statement of Intent for a period not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) days beyond the date on which the schedule of rates would otherwise go into effect. _ Section 4. The City Council of said City has determined • and here now find that such rates should be suspended for such one hundred twenty (120) day period for the reason that the complexity of the case will in all probability not permit such public hearing to be entered upon and concluded prior to the May 1, 1977 effective date of such schedule and for the further • reason that said Statement of Intent is ambiguous, vague and indefinite regarding whether it is a "major change" or not in