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Home My WebLink About09685 ORD - 03/25/1970mv1:3 -24 -70 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED, SO AS TO CHANGE THE SCHEDULE OF GAS RATES FOR CUSTOMERS OR CONSUMERS OF THE CITY OWNED GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BY AMENDING SECTION 38 -46 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT IN ALL INSTANCES WHERE THE CONSECUTIVE MONTHS APRIL 1ST THROUGH NOVEMBER 30TH, DECEMBER 1ST THROUGH MARCH 31ST APPEARS, SAID CON- SECUTIVE MONTHS SHALL HEREAFTER READ BEGINNING WITH THE READING AND BILLING OF CYCLE 11 IN APRIL AND ENDING WITH THE READING AND BILLING OF CYCLE 10 IN NOVEMBER, AND BEGINNING WITH THE READING AND BILLING OF CYCLE 11 IN NOVEMBER THROUGH THE READING AND BILLING OF CYCLE 10 IN APRIL RESPECTIVELY; LIMITING ALL PRESENT EXISTING GAS RATE SCHEDULES TO AN ANNUAL AVERAGE OF 1 MILLION CUBIC FEET PER DAY; PROVIDING FOR LARGE VOLUME CUSTOMERS NATURAL GAS SERVICE BY SPECIAL CONTRACT; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING A SEVERANCE CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, it is deemed appropriate to change the Summer Incentive Gas Air Conditioning Rate Schedules to begin with the reading and billing of cycle 11 in April and ending with the reading and billing of cycle 10 in November: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT OMkI ED BY TFE CITY COUN -CIL. OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Section 38 -46 of the Corpus Christi City Code, 1958, as amended, and particularly as amended by Ordinance No, 7303 adopted July 29, 1964, Ordinance No. 7773 adopted October 27, 1965, and Ordinance No. 8552 adopted August 12, 1967, be, and the same is hereby amended as follows: Whenever the consecutive calendar months "April 1st through November 30th" appears it shall hereafter read as follows: "April through November, beginning with the reading and billing of cycle 11 in April and ending with the reading and billing of cycle 10 in November." Whenever the consecutive calendar months "December lst through March 31st appears it shall hereafte ead as follows: "December through April, b ginning with the reading and billing of cycle 11 in November and ending with the reading and billing of cycle 10 in April." ti s; v. SECTION 2. That all present existing gas rate schedules shall be limited to customers using an annual average of one (1) million cubic feet per day or three hundred and sixty -five (365) million cubic feet per year or less. Provided, however, all large volume customers using an annual average of one (1) million cubic feet per day or three hundred and sixty -five (365) million cubic feet per year, or more, shall be billed for natural gas service at the General.Customer Rate excluding the air condi- tioning incentive unless a special contract has been executed by the City and such customer. SECTION 3. That the consecutive calendar months beginning with the reading and billing of cycle 11 in April and ending with the reading and billing of cycle 10 in November, set forth in Section 1 for 'One and Two Family Residential Customers "; "General Rate Customers "; "Church, School, Hospital and Governmental Agency Customers ", limiting the volume used in each of these classifications and providing natural gas service by special contract for all large volume customers; shall be effective from and after March 27, 1970. SECTION 4. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid, it shall not affect any valid provisions of this or any other ordinance of the City of Corpus Christi, to which these rules and regulations relate. SECTION 5. No charges accruing prior to March 27, 1970, shall be altered, released, relinquished or revoked by this ordinance. All other provisions relating to rates and charges for gas services furnished by the Gas Division of the Department of Public Utilities of the City of Corpus Christi shall not be affected other than as herein provided. SECTION 6. Publication shall be made one time in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi, after final passage, which publication shall contain the caption stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance. SECTION 7. The necessity for immediately revising the gas rates of the City -owned Gas Distribution System of the City of Corpus Christi -2- creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such emergency and necessity exist, and having requested that such Charter Rule be suspended, and that this ordi- nance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publicJa(tion, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the�day ofv , 1970. ATTEST: R THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS City Secreta AFFROVED: _DAY OF , 1970: City Attorney Corpus Christi, Texas .4&:O&y o 1970 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen- sion of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordi- nance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, YOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Jack R. Blackmon Gabe Lozano, Sr. V. A. "Dick'Bradley, Jr. atLl Eduardo E. de Ases Ken McDaniel . W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts Ronnie Sizemore The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Jack R. Blackmon Gabe Lozano, Sr. V. A. "Dick" Bradley, Jr. Eduardo E. de Ases Ken McDaniel W. J. ','Wrangler" Roberts Ronnie Sizemore STATE of TEXAS, CO�tY of Nueces. Iss: PUBLISFIER"S AFFIDAVIT .�, PASSAG Before me, the and • �� en'g°.4 a Notary Pabli ...._ _ F 4 this day person who being first duly �3' came.......__. �aSSiPjgd..IIRj2ag y sworn, a _.... --- ._..... according -__.. Daily News _.......•. -...._ g to law, says at PePera published at °f the Cons C�,y� � he is the __L3&a l_ bIoti C - IL--m. Copus Christi, Tesas, 1n said Caller and The Corpus Christi � - Natice...Af p P --.of. County and Stat , Of which the annexed is �. c. and that the publication of on the—R.O. day of._._. a true °pPR was published in C$ iUge`Q� . larch...._........._ 19_� _.._.:g,�y,...��3raes._ _ _. _ __ - ''- - - -•-_ ... _ ........�_ _Times. •_ ._.. - ,., ..�� ---• -- «__ --._.. f $ -- ---- - - -• -- C 4Q 10 Subscribed and sworn to before me Louise Vick Jf.