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Home My WebLink About17761 ORD - 08/03/1983AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 55, UTILITIES, ARTICLE IV, GAS RATES AND CHARGES, SECTION 55-61, CLASSIFICATION OF CUSTOMERS AND SCHEDULES OF RATES, AS SET FORTH IN ORDINANCE NO. 17155, AS AMENDED, SO AS TO CHANGE THE SCHEDULE OF GAS RATES FOR ALL CUSTOMERS TO THE CITY -OWNED GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BY PROVIDING A NEW SCHEDULE OF RATES FOR ALL GAS CUSTOMERS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION. WHEREAS, the cost of operating and maintaining the City's gas distribution system has increased since the last service rate increase in September, 1982; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that an increase in gas rates is necessary to keep such service self-supporting. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Section 55-61 of the Code of Ordinances, 1976, as amended, and particularly as amended by Ordinance No. 17155, passed, approved, and effective with reading and billing of cycle 1 of the August 1982 billing, be and the same is hereby amended so as to provide a new schedule of rates to all customers. RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER RATE COST OF SERVICE PER MCF Inside Outside Cycle 11 in Nov. thru 10 in April City Limits City Limits First 1 MCF Per month or less $ 4.23 $ 5.22 Next 2 MCF per month 2.37 2.67 Next 7 MCF Per month 1.37 1.52 Next 40 MCF per month 1.29 1.43 All over 50 MCF .92 1.00 Minimum monthly bill 4.23 5.22 Cycle 11 in April thru 10 in<Nov. First 1 MCF per month or less $ 4.23 $ 5.22 Next 2 MCF per month 2.37 2.67 Next 5 MCF per month 1.37 1.52 Next 30 MCF per month .70 .75 All over 38 MCF .62 .66 Minimum monthly bill 4.23 5.22 SEASONAL CUSTOMERS All customers who have requested a cutoff and 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 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: 17761 SEP 2 81984 MICROFILMED SEASONAL RATES COST OF SERVICE PER MCF Inside Outside Part Year Customers City Limits City Limits First 1 MCF per month of less $ 7.03 $ 8.44 Next 2 MCF per month 6.35 7.25 Next 7 MCF per month 3.02 3.42 Next 30 MCF per month 1.29 1.43 All over 40 MCF .92 1.00 Minimum monthly bill 7.03 8.44 GENERAL CUSTOMER RATES First 1 MCF per month or less Next 2 MCF per month Next 7 MCF per month Next 40 MCF per month Next 50 MCF per month Next 100 MCF per month Next 100 MCF per month Next 700 MCF per month Next 1000 MCF per month Next 13000 MCF per month All over 15000 MCF Minimum monthly bill COST OF SERVICE PER MCF Inside Outside City Limits City Limits $ 4.23 $ 5.22 2.37 2.67 2.22 2.50 2.14 2.40 .92 1.00 .76 .82 .68 .73 .65 .69 .56 .56 .50 .50 .48 .48 4.23 5.22 INCENTIVE AIR COOLING & 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: COST OF SERVICE PER MCF Inside Outside City Limits City Limits First 1 MCF per month or less $ 4.23 $ 5.22 Next 2 MCF per month 2.37 2.67 Next 7 MCF per month 2.22 2.50 Next 40 MCF per month 1.63 1.82 Next 150 MCF per month .70 .75 Next 300 MCF per month .65 .69 Next 500 MCF per month .56 .59 Next 14000 MCF per month .50 .52 Minimum monthly bill 4.23 5.22 SECTION 2. PURCHASED GAS ADJUSTMENT. These rates are subject to gas cost adjustments as follows: Rates will be adjusted monthly by the City following the receipt of notice of cost of gas from the supplier to pass on to the consumer the full amount of such cost adjusted for pressure base and gas lost and unaccounted for factors. All general customers who consume over 15,000 MCF in one month and who receive gas from the City's distribution system at the same pressure which the City receives the gas from its supplier (14.65 psi) shall be billed 2.05% less per MCF for purchased gas adjustment than the general customer rate schedule. SECTION 3. The rates established by this ordinance shall be applied against all gas consumed beginning with Cycle 1 on or around August 1, 1983, and which shall be billed to customers beginning with Cycle 1 on or around September 1, 1983. SECTION 4. Interruptions. Deliveries of gas to commercial or industrial customers may be interrupted or curtailed in case of shortage or threatened shortage of gas supply from any cause whatsoever, to conserve gas for residential and other human need customers served hereunder, according to all mandatory orders of governmental agencies having jurisdiction. SECTION 5. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. SECTION 6. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance 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 7. This ordinance shall be effective upon final passage and publication thereof. SECTION 8. Publication shall be made one time in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi by publishing the caption of this ordinance stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance. That the foregoing ordinance waVread for tiefirst time and p ed to its second reading on this the aflr^day of , 19 i , by the following vote: Luther Jones Betty N. Turner Jack K. Dumphy Bob Gulley Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr. Dr. Charles W. Kennedy Cliff Zarsky That the foregoing ordinance wa,5 read for 4'• s;cond time and assedgAto its third reading on this the o-27 ay of � l9b S by the following vote: Luther Jones Betty N. Turner Jack K. Dumphy Bob Gulley Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr. Dr. Charles W. Kennedy Cliff Zarsky That the for of g ordinanc on this the e' j day of s Luther Jones Betty N. Turner Jack K. Dumphy Bob Gulley Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr. Dr. Charles W. Kennedy Cliff Zarsky / PASSED AND APPROVED, this theQ day of ATTEST: read or the Oj,rd time and passed finally , 19 , by the following vote: 1 �. , 19 3. ecretary AY OF _5) , 19 : J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CI ATTORNEY MAYOR THE C' Y OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 1.7'761 PU$LISHER'S AFFIDAVIT STATE OF TEXAS, t„,County of Nueces. AD#5988 City of C.C. Before me, the undersigned. a Notary Public, this day personally came_ ...... _._._._.__.._.... GRACIE DE LUNA , who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the ADM. ASST. SECRETARY 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 NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. 17761... of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in __ CALLER -TIMES PUBLISHING CO. on the 8th day of Aug??St. — --.19..83., and once each !lay! .._.......thereafter consecutive day One Times. A 36.63 GRACIE DE LUNA etVair AL. ADM. ASST. SECRETARY Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th .... „fay of EUGENIA S. CORTEZ August NotaryGPublic, Nueces County, T • NOTICEOFPASSAGE :OF ORDINANCE NO 17761 AMENDING CHAPTER 55, UTILITIES, ARTICLE IV, GAS RATF,S AND CHAR- GES. SEOTION 55.61, CLASSIFICATION OF CUSTOMERS AND SCHED. ULES OF RATES, AS SET W ORDINANCE NO. 17155, AS AMENDED, SO AS TO CHANGE THE SCHEDULE OF GAS RATES FOR ALL CUSTOMERS TO THE CITY-OWNED GAS DIS- TRIBUTION SYSTEM BY PROVIDING A NEW SCHEDULE OF RATES FOR ALL GAS CUSTOM- ERS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE; PROVID- ING AN EFFECTIVE DATE UPON FINAL PAS- SAGE AND PUBLICATION THEREOF; AND PROVID- TNG FOR PUBLICATION. Was passed and approved by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Tex- as on the 3rd day of August, 1j83. The full text o1 said ordinance Is available to the public in the Office of the City Secretary. -s-Bill G. Read City Secretary tCorpus Christi, Texas