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Home My WebLink About12210 ORD - 08/07/1974JRR:vmr : 7- 23 -74; is t • . AN ORDINANCE MAKING FINDINGS OF FACT: AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED, AND PARTICULARLY AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 11755, PASSED AND APPROVED OCTOBER 24, 1973, SO AS TO CHANGE THE SCHEDULE OF GAS RATES FOR ALL CUSTOMERS OR CONSUMERS OF THE CITY -OWNED GAS DIS- TRIBUTION SYSTEM BY AMENDING SECTION 38 -46 SO AS TO PROVIDE A NEW SCHEDULE OF RATES FOR ALL CUSTOMERS; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING A SEVERANCE CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION. WHEREAS, the cost of providing natural gas supply for the con- sumers of Corpus Christi, Texas has increased at least twenty -two per cent (22 %) because of increased prices charged by suppliers; and WHEREAS, shortages of natural gas have further added to increased costs in natural gas distribution; and WHEREAS the City Council finds that an increase in gas rates is necessary to make such service more self - supportive and thereby avoid a tax increase, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL 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, 11755, passed and approved October 24, 1973, be and the same is hereby amended so as to provide a new schedule of rates for all customers, as follows: "RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER RATE PRICE PER MCF Cycle 11 Cycle 10 Inside Outside In Nov. thru In April City Limits City Limits First 1 MCF Per Month $ 2.85 $ 3.85 Next 2 MCF " " 1.16 1.16 Next 7 MCF " " 1.10 1.10 Next 40 MCF " .99 .99 All over 50 MCF Per Month .72 .72 Min. Monthly Bill 2.85 3.85 Cycle 11 Cycle 10 Inside Outside In April thru In Nov. City Limits City Limits First 1 MCF Per Month $ 2.85 $ 3.85 Next 2 MCF " 1.16 1.16 Next 5 MCF " " 1.10 1.10 Next 30 MCF " " .55 .55 All over 38 MCF Per Month .50 .50 Min. Monthly Bill 2.85 3.85 1221.0 SEASONAL CUSTOMERS All customers who have requested a cutoff and a reconnection at the same location or for services to the same premises, including increases or reductions of the same premises, and which cutoff was not necessitated by reason of reconstruction of the building on the premises, shall be classified as seasonal customers, and in lieu of the rates applicable to all customers, there shall be charged and collected the following charges for gas furnished and delivered to the meters by the Department of Public Utilities of the City: SEASONAAL RATE PRICE PER MCF Outside Inside Inside Outside (Part Year Customers) City Limits City Limits First 1 MCF Per Month $ 3.60 $ 4.60 Next 2 MCF " " 2.56 2.56 Next 7 MCF " " 1.34 1.34 Next 30 MCF " " .99 ,99 All over 40 MCF .72 .72 Min. Monthly Bill 3.60 4.60 GENERAL CUSTOMER RATE PRICE PER MCF Tit COOLING-AND - IR_CONDITIONING RATE (Limited to customers using less than 15 million cubic feet per month annual average) All general rate customers that have installed total energy or have gas operated air cooling and air conditioning equipment or both and have an average volume used in MCF per month in the seven summer months that exceed the five winter months average use, when inspected and approved by the Gas Division, who request in writing to be billed in the summer months on the Summer Incentive Gas Rate Schedule starting with Cycle 11 in April and ending with the billing of Cycle 10 in November shall be billed on the following rate schedule: PRICE PER MCF Inside Outside Inside Outside City Limits First 1 MCF Per Month 2.85 City Limits City Limits First 1 MCF Per Month $ 2.85 $ 3.85 Next 2 MCF " " 1.16 1.16 Next 7 MCF " " 1.10 1.10 Next 40 MCF " " .99 .99 Next 50 MCF " " .72 .72 Next 100 MCF " " .59 .59 Next 100 MCF " " .54 .54 Next 700 MCF " " .51 .51 Next 1000 MCF " " .45 .45 Next 13000 MCF " " .41 .41 All Over 15000 MCF Per Month .39 .39 Min. Monthly Bill 2.85 3.85 Tit COOLING-AND - IR_CONDITIONING RATE (Limited to customers using less than 15 million cubic feet per month annual average) All general rate customers that have installed total energy or have gas operated air cooling and air conditioning equipment or both and have an average volume used in MCF per month in the seven summer months that exceed the five winter months average use, when inspected and approved by the Gas Division, who request in writing to be billed in the summer months on the Summer Incentive Gas Rate Schedule starting with Cycle 11 in April and ending with the billing of Cycle 10 in November shall be billed on the following rate schedule: PRICE PER MCF Inside Outside Cit Limits City Limits First 1 MCF Per Month 2.85 $ 3.85 Next 2 MCF " " 1.16 1.16 Next 7 MCF " " 1.10 1.10 Next 40 MCF " " .61 .61 Next 150 MCF " " .55 .55 Next 300 MCF " " .51 .51 Next 500 MCF " " .45 .45 Next 14000 MCF " " .41 .41 Min Monthly Bill 2.85 3.85 SECTION 2. The rates established by this ordinance shall become effective with Cycle 1 of the September, 1974 billing. SECTION 3. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. SECTION 4. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinances shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose. SECTION 5. Publication shall be made one time in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi, which publication shall contain the caption stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance. That the foregoing dinance was read for f rst time and passed to its second reading on Ltie day of 19_ 7 by the following vote: Jason Luby James T. Acuff Rev. Harold T. Branch Thomas V. Gonzales Ricardo Gonzalez Gabe Lozano, Sr. J. Howard Stark That the foregoing ordinance was to its third reading on this theday following vote: 16412 time and passed 1944 , by the Jason Luby James T. Acuff Rev. Harold T. Branch (� 111A� Thomas V. Gonzales Ricardo Gonzalez Gonzalez Gabe Lozano, Sr. J. Howard Stark_ That the foregoing ordinance read for the third time and passed finally on this the V day of 19 following the vote: Jason Luby James T. Acuff Rev. Harold T. Branch Thomas V. Gonzales Ricardo Gonzalez Gabe Lozano, Sr. J. Howard Stark PASSED AND APPROVED, this the d of 19 741. ATTEST: City Secr tary APPROVED: aDAY OF, 19L7-: E%EC. ASSTCity Attorney MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVTI' STATE OF TEXAS, lss: County of Nueces. 1 Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came.. ...................... who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the Class. Ad. Manager _ of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times, Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of ._.1P-9a l— Nn-tijae .... mt..Paasag& -9P Ordinance- -- #1?2?-M .-.-...------------------------------- of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in ..................... —M.t3._...__- ............ on the.. -13-- day of...... Auguat ................ - 19..7.1x. , -- ---- -_- tl9czodt=dm .- .............- - - -. - -. I .......... _ ............ Times. $..7.24 ...................... f ....H. -� ' -401-asi �- 1nIaiieiger- --- - -- Subscribed and sworn to before me this .----.. ......... day of- _-- --. A-WM,P. t.- . ........................ 19-_74 ------ Louise Vick - -- - - Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas f5HAl1