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ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTIONS 55-61 AND 55-63, CODE OF ORDINANCES,
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, REGARDING GAS RATES; 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 55-61, Code of Ordinances is revised to read as follows:
"Sec. 55-61. Classification of customers and schedules of rates.
"(a) Residential customers.
"(1) Inside city limits:
"a. Winter rates (from November Cycle 11 through April Cycle 10).
Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
Meter Charge
August 1, 2010 --July 31, 2011
First 1 MCF (minimum bill)
Next 2 MCF
Next 3 MCF
Next 4 MCF
$ 1.00
9.47
5.30
3.06
Next 20 MCF
Next 20 MCF
2.98
2.89
All over 50 MCF
2.47
2.05
Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
"b. Summer rates (from April Cycle 11 through November Cycle 10).
Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
Meter Charge
August 1, 2010 --July 31, 2011
First 1 MCF (Minimum Bill)
Next 2 MCF
$ 1.00
9.47
5.30
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Next 3 MCF
Next 4 MCF
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3.06
Next 20 MCF
Next 20 MCF
2.30
1.54
All over 50 MCF
1.50
1.37
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
"(2) Outside city limits:
"a. Winter rates (from November Cycle 11 through April Cycle 10).
Monthly Consumption
Meter Charge
Rate per MCF
August 1, 2010 --July 31, 2011
First 1 MCF (minimum bill)
Next 2 MCF
Next 3 MCF
Next 4 MCF
$ 1.25
11.68
5.94
Next 20 MCF
Next 20 MCF
3.43
3.34
3.24
All over 50 MCF
2.77
2.30
Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
"b. Summer rates (from April Cycle 11 through November Cycle 10).
Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
Meter Charge
First 1 MCF (minimum bill)
Next 2 MCF
Next 3 MCF
Next 4 MCF
Next 20 MCF
Next 20 MCF
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August 1, 2010 --July 31, 2011
$ 1.25
11.68
5.94
3.43
2.58
1.72
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All over 50 MCF
1.53
Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
"(b) General rate customers (commercial, industrial, and institutional rates):
"(1) Inside city limits:
Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
"(2) Outside city limits:
Rate per MCF
Monthly ConsumptionAugust-12009-411111-3420-1-0
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August 1, 2010 --July 31, 2011
August 1, 2010 --July 31, 2011
Meter Charge
$ 12.02
First 1 MCF (minimum bill)
9.69
Next 2 MCF
5.30
Next 3 MCF
4.95
Next 4 MCF
4.86
Next 40 MCF
4.76
Next 50 MCF
2.05
Next 100 MCF
1.71
Next 100 MCF
1.50
Next 700 MCF
1.43
Next 1,000 MCF
1.24
Next 13,000 MCF
1.11
All over 15,000 MCF
1.06
Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
"(2) Outside city limits:
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Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
august 1, 2009__ July, 31, 2010
August 1, 2010 --July 31, 2011
Meter Charge
$ 15.02
First 1 MCF (minimum bill)
11.95
Next 2 MCF
5.94
Next 3 MCF
5.54
Next 4 MCF
5.44
Next 40 MCF
5.33
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Next 100 MCF
Next 100 MCF
Next 700 MCF
2.30
1.92
1.68
Next 1,000 MCF
1.60
Next 13,000 MCF
1.39
All over 15,000 MCF
1.24
1.19
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
"(c) Seasonal customers (partial year service) rates. (Ail customers who have
requested a cutoff and re -connection 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 residential
customers, shall be charged and collected the following charge for gas furnished and
delivered to the meters by the gas department of the city):
"(1) Inside city limits:
Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
Meter Charge
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August 1, 2010 --July 31, 2011
First 1 MCF (minimum bill)
Next 2 MCF
Next 3 MCF
Next 4 MCF
$ 1.00
15.71
14.19
10.46
Next 30 MCF
Next 20 MCF
6.74
2.89
All over 50 MCF
2.47
2.05
Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
"(2) Outside city limits:
Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
Meter Charge
August 1, 2010. -July 31, 2011
$ 1.25
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First 1 MCF (minimum bill)
Next 2 MCF
Next 3 MCF
Next 4 MCF
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18.87
15.89
11.72
Next 20 MCF
Next 20 MCF
7.55
3.24
All over 50 MCF
2.77
2.30
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
"(d) Incentive air cooling and conditioning rate customers rates. (Limited to customers
using less than fifteen thousand (15,000) MCF 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 used in MCF per month in the
seven (7) summer months that exceeds the five (5) winter months in average use, when
inspected and approved by the gas department, 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 Cycle 10 in November shall be billed on the following
rate schedule):
"(1) Inside city limits:
Monthly Consumption
Meter Charge
First 1 MCF (minimum bill)
Next 2 MCF
Next 3 MCF
Next 4 MCF
Next 40 MCF
Next 150 MCF
Next 100 MCF
Next 700 MCF
Next 1,000 MCF
Next 13,000 MCF
All over 15,000 MCF
Rate per MCF
Au3l, 2040
August 1, 2010 --July 31, 2011
$ 12.02
9.69
5.30
4.95
4.29
3.62
1.54
1.43
1.24
1.11
1.06
1.01
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
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"(2) Outside city limits:
Monthly Consumption
Meter Charge
Rate per MCF
August 1, 2010 --July 31, 2011
First 1 MCF (minimum bill)
Next 2 MCF
Next 3 MCF
Next 4 MCF
$ 15.02
11.95
5.94
5.54
Next 40 MCF
4.80
Next 150 MCF
Next 100 MCF
Next 700 MCF
4.05
1.72
1.60
Next 1,000 MCF
1.39
Next 13,000 MCF
1.24
All over 15,000 MCF
1.19
1.13
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
"(e) Purchased gas adjustment. The rates in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) of this
section are subject to gas cost adjustments as follows: Rates will be adjusted monthly
by the city following the receipt of notice of the cost of gas from the supplier to pass on
to the consumer the full amount of such cost adjusted for pressure base and gas Toss
and unaccounted-for factors. Additional fees and charges paid to the supplier, which
are necessary for the city to receive the gas, shall be included in the cost of gas. All
general rate customers, who consume over fifteen thousand (15,000) MCF in one (1)
month, and who receive gas from the city's distribution system at the same pressure
base at which the city receives the gas from its supplier (14.65 psi), shall be billed 2.05
per cent Tess per MCF for purchased gas adjustment than the general customer rate
schedule.
"(f) 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.
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Section 2. 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 charged a
service fee for lighting, adjusting, or turning off one (1) or more natural gas appliances,
or the conversion of burner orifices to burn natural gas. The service fee includes
service to all gas appliances at the address for which service is requested. Thc-Uniess
otherwise noted, the service fees are as follows:
"(1) Twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each appliance service order is -twenty-five
- 9- - - - - - - between April 1 and October 31.
"(2) and forty Forty dollars ($40.00) for each appliance service order between
November 1 and March 31.
"(3) Twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each service order associated with qas lamp
light ups, adjustments, and turn offs.
"(4) Twenty dollars ($20.00) per hour for maintenance or repairs to gas lamps.
"(b) All other customers shall be charged twenty-five dollars ($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, adjusted, or turned off between November 1 and March 31.
"(c) 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.
"(d) 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 the first service call made within any calendar year. Proof of eligibility for the
exemptions shall be provided in a form to be prescribed by the director, gas operations."
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.
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That the foregoing ordiirqa,ce was read for the first time and passed to its second
reading on this the day of , 2010, by the following vote:
Joe Adame AdA.
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Chris N. Adler
Brent Chesney
Larry R. Elizondo, Sr.
Kevin Kieschnick/41:VA-1—
That the fpegoing ord' an e was read for the second time and passed finally on this
the Q day of , 2010, by the following vote:
Priscilla Leal
John E. Marez
Nelda Martinez
Mark Scott
Joe Adame
Chris N. Adler
Brent Chesney
Larry R. Elizondo, Sr. M0
Kevin Kieschnick/417),(__
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the
ATTEST:
Armando Chapa
City Secretary
APPROVED: 8TH day of July, 2010:
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As ' tant City Attorney
For City Attorney
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Priscilla Leal
John E. Marez
Nelda Martinez
Mark Scott
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Joe Ad2
Mayor
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