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. e ORDINANCE NO. 1030 . AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THAT CERTAIN ORDINANCE (ORDINANCE NO. 797), PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE ON AUGUST 26, 1968, DETERMINING AND FIXING THE SCHEDULES OF DOMESTIC RATES TO BE CHARGED BY HOUSTON NATURAL GAS CORPORATION IN THE CITY OF LA PORTE BY PRESCRIBING THE MANNER OF FIXING RATES FOR LARGE VOLUME CONSUMERS; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: Section 1. That certain ordinance (Ordinance No. 797) passed and adopted by the City Commission on August 26, 1968, determining and fixing the schedules of domestic rates to be charged by Houston Natural Gas Corporation (the "Company") in the City of La Porte (the "City") is hereby amended by deleting in its entirety Section 2 thereof and adding as a new Section 2 the following paragraph, to-wit: . "Section '2.' The Company shall establish and post in its office rate schedules providing monthly billing rates complying with Section 1 of this Ordinance. The rates specified in Section 1 of this Ordinance shall be applicable to all consumers using 150,000 cubic feet or less of gas per month. Notwithstanding any other pro- vision of this ordinance, the rates for consumers using more than 150,000 cubic feet or more in any month (hereinafter called 'large volume consumers') shall be the rates for large volume consumers established by the Company. Such rates shall be open to inspection by the City. It,is understood th~t the City Commission does not hereby waive or relinquish any legal right or authority which the City has or may have to fix and regulate gas rates in the future; and all revenues received by the Company from its large volume consumers served from the Company's distribution system shall be taken into account in consideration by the City Commis- sion of any" al terations in domestic rates fixed by an ordinance of the 'City." Section 2. The amendment to Ordinance No. 797 prescribed . above shall be effective on and after the passage and approval of this ordinance as provided by law. Section 3. If any provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance, or the applica- tion of same to any person or set of circumstances, is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, void or invalid (or for any reason unenforceable), the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance or their application to other persons or sets or circumstances shall not be affected thereby, it being the intent of the City Commi~sion of the City of ,