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. . . . . . MINIMUM BILL No monthly bill shall be rendered under this schedule for an amount less than $2.25 net. PAYMENT Each monthly commercial bill shall be increased by the lesser of (a) 10% of the net monthly bill or (b) $5.00, to arrive at the gross monthly bill. The difference between the gross bill and the net bill, representing a discount, shall be allowed for payment of bills within ten (10) days after the date of the bill. If a gas bill is not paid within ten (10) days after its date, the gross bill shall apply. ADJUSTMENT PROVISION The above monthly rates shall be and are hereby increased by twenty-five hundredths of one cent (.25t) for each 100 cubic feet of gas consumed. Section Four: The foregoing rates are established to be uniform with the rates established for United in the City of Hous- ton, Texas, by City of Houston Ordinance No. 72-2372, because said rates established by City of Houston Ordinance No. 72-2372 were based upon United's cost of service in its Houston Integrated Dis- tribution System and the value of all facilities therein used by United in serving the City of Houston, the City of La Porte and the other cities, towns and villages, as well as the environs thereof, served by said distribution system. In order to keep United's domestic gas rates to consumers in the City of La Porte uniform with united's domestic gas rates to consumers in the City of Houston, the rates fixed by this ordinance shall be subject to adjustment hereafter whenever an adjustment is made in the rates fixed by City of Houston Ordinance No. 72-2372 pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 of that ordinance. Whenever any filing is made by United with the City of Houston pursuant to the pro- visions of Section 3 of City of Houston Ordinance No. 72-2372 for an adjustment of rates, united shall file with this City Commis- sion a statement of such tentative adjustment of its rate schedules as it may desire to put into effect in the case of an increase, or as may be necessary in the case of a decrease, to make its rates in the City of La Porte uniform with rates in the City of Houston established as a result of any adjustment of rates pursuant to Section 3 of City of Houston Ordinance No. 72-2372. Each such tentative adjustment in rates of United shall become effective for bills rendered on or after the first day of the second full billing month after the filing of such statement unless, within thirty (30) days after the filing of such statement, the City Commission shall have disapproved such tentative adjust- ment by motion, resolution or ordinance. If any such tentative adjustment shall be disapproved by the City Commission, such rate schedules shall continue to be adjusted by the total increments established by all preceding adjustments not disapproved, until another adjustment shall have taken effect hereunder. Within the thirty (30) day period provided for its approval or disapproval of any such tentative adjustment, the City Commission may order the filing of any additional or supplemental information or state- ments deemed by it to be necessary in the public interest, or the City Commission may order a public hearing to be held within said thirty (30) day period or within the suspension period hereinafter -3-