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ORDINANCE NO.
1030
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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:
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"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
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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
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La Porte in adopting this ordinance, that no portion thereof
or provisions or regulation contained herein shall become
inoperative or fail by reason of any unconstitutionality
or invalidity of any other portion,' provision or regulation,
and to this end, all provisions of this ordinance are
declared to be severable.
Section 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in
conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of the
conflict only.
Section 5. This Ordinance shall be in full force and
effect from and after its passage and approval.
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the 1st day of
March
1976.
CITY OF LA PORTE
By
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MayoJ;' Pro-Tem
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