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Home My WebLink About026369 ORD - 07/26/2005 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 55-63 AND 55-70, CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, REGARDING FEES FOR SERVICING GAS APPLIANCES AND GAS TAP FEES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, THAT: SECTION 1. Section 55-63, Code of Ordinances, is revised to read as follows: "Sec, 55-63, Charges for lighting, etc., of natural gas appliances. "(a) Customers at a residential, apartment. or mobile home address shall be charoed a service fee for liohtino, adiustino, or turnino off one or more natural oas appliances, or the conversion of burner orifices to burn natural oas, The service fee includes service to all oas appliances at the address for which service is reouested. The service fee for each appliance service order is twenty five dollars ($25.00) for each service order between April 1 and October 31 and forty dollars ($40,00) for each service order between November 1 and March 31. There shall be:3 ten dollar ($10.00) ch:3rge per 3ppliance service order request for lighting, adjusting, or turning off one or more natural ~ :3ppliances, or the conversion of burner,.orifices to burn natural gas, at a residential, 3partment, or mobile-home 3ddress. Such ten dollar ($10.00) charge includes all gas Jppliancm:; for which service is requested. 'l.Qj All other customers shall be charged lefl-twentv five dollars ($10.00) ($25.00) for each appliance lighted, adjusted, or turned off between April 1 and October 31 and forty dollars ($40,00) for each appliance lighted, adiusted, or turned off between November 1 and March 31. "Lg) Maintenance of appliances is not included in the lighting and adjusting of any gas appliance except for gaslight mantles and glasses, which will be billed to the customer requesting service at a retail price over and above the charge set forth above. "fill However, in the event the head of a household is sixty-five (65) years of age or above, or the recipient of Social Security disability payments and resides at a reSidential. apartment, or mobile home address, then no charge shall be made by the city for Stlffi-the first service call made within any calendar Year, Proof of eligibility for the exemptions shall be provided herein shall be on in..a form to be prescribed by the [;lirector, Gas Operations director-ef-.public utilities." SECTION 2. Section 55-70, Code of Ordinances, is revised to read as follows: "Sec. 55-70. Adoption of rules, regulations and water and gas fees, "The rules and regulations concerning the control, operation and administration of utility taps or service connections of water. gas and sewer utilities owned by the city and the ~53304A3DOC 0263S9 2 regulations prescribing fees for utility taps or service connections are hereby adopted and approved as follows: (5) Fee schedule, gas: (a) Inside city limits: Gas- Residential, 1 and 2-family dwelling Commercial; c_ 1" 49-+-+14" di3m.-+8it '2"~~ -,- -~-- I * * * * * ...----..-----..------.'1 Street Fee ! Easement Fee i ___n,._ ~ I Nooe $100.00 I -- Nooe $100.00 $300.00 ,- ----------~-----_.. $12.50 i . -~--------i ~: $300.00 $12,50 ~ Over 2" diam. ~ ------l-- -- - -- - --- I Special LOOpS -- - f -~+- - --- ----------- Meter moves 'b) Outside city limits: Gas- __~_n____ t. Residential, 1 and 2-family , dwelling Commercial; l"--te-+ 1/1" diam. Tap 2" diam. Tap Over 2" diam. ~ ------+--- Loops -- - i- Meter moves ---+ __I R53304A3.DOC i - Special r--- I --~-~-j--- $10.00, I -$50.00i'-'-- I ______ ____ i_____ -- Street Fee -~NOOe $100.00 I Easement Fee Nooe $100.00 , I $300.00 ! i $12.50 I , ------ i ~: $300.00 $12.50 ~ . - ------1----------- Special I , Special $10.00 $50.00 ___1 3 The director of public utilities upon approval of director of engineering and physical development may specify a reduction of fees based on circumstances provided only, that #ley~net-be less than the cost thereof, and provided further that cuch chall awy only where the distribution line in new subdivisions is as shown on tho plat thereof H)cated within tho area betwoon tho property Iino and the curbline, tho chargo may be reduced so as to chargo the feo provided, in instances '""here tho Iino is in tho easement, for all taps for property abutting that side of the stroet or portion of street and ~ the f-ce provided for street taps for all other property on the streot. * * * * * SECTION 3. 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 of this ordinance be given full force and effect for its purpose. SECTION 4, Publication shall be made in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi as required by the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi. R53304A3 DOC 4 rhat the foregoing ordi,nance was rea for tt},e first time and passed to its second 'eading on this the ~ ~ay of ' , 2005, by the following vote: Henry Garrett Brent Chesney Melody Cooper 'lc (LL~f \...-U.( i -.(,Li -- \- tLr- / Jerry Garcia Mark Scott CU-j>2 -gf- + John Marez Jesse Noyola Bill Kelly fhat the foregoing ordi~e ~s read for the second time and passed finally on this the ~~'f!'day of -qG-l<.. r' 2005 by the following vote: Henry Garrett / :: ~ ;.\l Rex A. Kinnison l~r^ Brent Chesney ~ John Marez ~ ::~:d~,~:pec '~}~, ~::es:" ~ Bill Kelly . . r ),1'" PASSED/~ND APPROVED, this th~ ~ibay of 4~ ,2005, ~~TE7:~dLo Armando Chapa City Secretary APPROVED: 15th day of June, 2005: ~' "'~ f EFFECTIVE DATE S II ) DC; R53304A3 DOC 02R1r9 fiNM~t.t. OEPAR'it-\Di1 Sta&SJtUPek~s ~~ 9t 3& l'ountv of Nueces PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT ss: CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI Ad # 5267786 PO # Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came Diana Hll::!Qiosa, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that she is SENIOR COLLECTOR of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, a daily newspaper published at Corpus Christi in said City and State, generally circulated in Aransas, Bee, Brooks. Duval, ,Jim Hogg, cJim Wells, Karnes, Kenedy, Kleberg, LIve Oak, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria and Webb Counties, and that the publication of, NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. which the ,H1nexed is a true copy, was inserted in the Corpus Christi Caller-TImes and on The World Wide Web on the Caller-Times Interactive on the 1ST day(s) of AUGUST,2005. ~65.Lt &~ (fj~.s~ SENIOR COLLECTOR TWO (2 I Time(s) f " Subscribed and sworn to me on the date of AUGUST 02, 2005. ~~;,,~<'; .,-,"-~..:... Ii" ._ ",: " . ) . ..... ~. .\ ,1, _ )L) (1, ;r~){L 2J."t1~1lOfUA.~ Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas ROSA MARIA FLORES Print or Type Name of Notary Public \1' ..\.7. "L ','~~CJ n; 2:' 2',)0 ,. /,-. My commission expires on 04/23/09. 1l'10TICE OF PASSAGE ; OF ORDINANCE NO. , 026369 ,!,\menctlng Section 55- rl. 63 and 55-70, Code of Ordinances, Clly of II Corpus Chrlsli, .' regarding fees for II servicing ges ,. appliances and gas tap I fe8s. This ordinance Ii was passed and .., approved by the City " Council of the City of Corpus Christi on Its second reading on July 26, 2005, 10/ Armando Chapa City Secretary City ~~~,!,,:,~~risti. r~ ., '. ~, ,'.". ~ "