HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 2136 ORDINANCE NO.
IN ORDINANCE REGULATING AVD PRESCRIBING TEE RATES
TO BE CHARGED BY LONE STAR CAI COMPANY, ITS SUC-
CESSORS AND ASSIGNS. TO TEE PUBLIC FOR GAS SOLD TO
DOMESTIC AND COEhEXIAL CONSUMERB; FROVIDINGTHANT
ITE RATE SO PRESCRIBED Sll/�.11 BE ITIL AND FINAL
SETT IEMENT OF ALL RATE CONTROVERSIES AND LITIGA-
TION BETAMERN THE LONE STAR GAL COMPANY AND TIS
CI'PI OF FORT WORTH AND A FUIL DISC ARC" OF Ali"
LIA,BILITY TNDER AIA-Y !ZCISTING RAT.' ORDINANCE OR
ORDER; PROVIDING 1WOR TF EFFECTIVE DXiL OF THIS
ORDINANCE.
WEEREASP by ordinance adopted August 8, 1935, and numbered 1838, the
City of Fort Worth prescribed a schedule of rates to be charged by all persons,
firms, corporations or association of persons engaged in the business of furnish-
ing, distributing or delivering natural gas to consumers for domestic purposes
in the City of Fort 'North, Texas; and
'vffiEREAS, Lone Star Gas Company dul®y appealed said ordinance to the
Railroad Commission of Texas, which was docketed as Gas 'Utilities Ek)cket No. 108P
and on the 24th day of August, 1937, said Ca, Fission adopted its order prescrib-
ing a schedule of rates to be charged by lone Star Gas Company for gas supplied
for domestic purposes in the City of Fort Worth; and
WEEREAS, on the 24th day of August, 1937, the State of Texas, the Rail-
road Commission of Texas, the Attorney General of Texas, and the City of Fort
Worth filed a suit in the 53rd District Court of Travis County, Texas, and
niunbered 58,951 on the docket of said court, wherein Lone Star Gas Company was
made defendant and plaintiffs sought e: for of said rate order of the
Railroad Commission of Texas against said defendant. Plaintiffs further sought,
and on the 25th day of August, 1937, obteined from said court an order staying
all proceedings by the Railroad Commission of Texas and the City of Fort Worth
to put into effect or enforce the aforesaid rate order; and
WHEREAS, said suit No. 58,951 is now pending on the docket of the 53rd
District 0ourt of Travis County, Texas, for trial; and
NEEREAS, as a result of a prehearing conference on May 4, 1942, the
Federal Power Commission did enter, on May 4, 1942, an order which had the
effect of reducing the gas rate charged by Lone Star Gas Company from 40 to
30 cents per M.C.F., and which said order further required that such reduction
be given effect in the burner tip rates charged domestic and commercial con-
sumers of gas, effective May 15, 1942, to which order of the Federal Power
Commission the Lone Star Gas Company has in all things consented and agreed;
and
"Iff-MREAS, the Railroad Commission of Texas did, on the 4th day of May,
1942, accept in writing the said reductions in the gate rate and burner tip
rates charged by Lone Star Gas Company in full settlement and final disposi-
tion of all litigation, controversies, orders, proceedings and court judgments
relating to the rates of Lone Star Gas Company and its associated companies
now pending in any court or before the Railroad Commission of Texas, and as
a full release from all liability in connection therewith; NDW, allORhFORZ,
BE IT ORDAIRED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH:
SECTION 1,
That effective May 15, 1942, the rates which lone Star Gas Company,
its successors and assigns, shall be authorized to charge for gas delivered
to domestic and commercial consumers within the City of Fort Worth shall be
as follows, to wit:
For the first 700 cubic feet of monthly con-
sumption registered on one meter, 15,556 cents
per each 100 cubic feet;
For the next 19,300 cubic feet of monthly
consumption registered on one meter, 6.389 cents
per each 100 cubic feet;
For the next 10,000 cubic feet of monthly
constunption registered on one meter, 6.112 cents
per each 1007 cubic feet;
For the next 20,000 cubic feet of monthly con-
sumpticn regstered on one 1,,oater, 5.556 cc--rits
per each 100 cubic feet; and
For all gas in excess of 50,000 cap is feet of
monthly consumption registered on one meter,
4.445 cents for each 100 cubic feet.
Discount - Prompt Payment: A deduction of ten per cent (10%) will be
allowed for payment of bill within ten (10) days from the date of monthly
billing,
A minimum charge of fifty (50) cents net per meter per month. will be
made, even though the consumer shall not have nsed sufficient gas in such
month to make the amount of the bill equal to such charge of fifty (50) cents-
The foregoing schedule of rates shall become effective and made appli-
cable to meter readings made on and after lay 15, 1942-
SEC TIOD 2,
The o stab lis hnnent of the rate schedule set forth in Section 1 hereof,
effective with meter readings on and after May 15, 1942, shall constitute full
settlement and final disposition of that certain suit styled "The State of
Texas at al v. one Star Gas Company," numbered 58,951 on the docket of the
53rd District Court of Travis County, Tax-as, and of the rate order of the Rail-
road Commission of Texas, whicb is the subject matter of said suit, and of the
rate ordinance, A. 1838, heretofore passed by the Oity of Fort North on the
8th day of August, 1935, and any and all liabilities of Lone Star Gas Company
to the City of Fort Wbrth or its inhabitants, arising out of, resulting from,
or based upon the aforesaid rate ordinance, rate order on suit.
SECTION 3-
The City Attorney of the City of Fort Tbrth is authorized, empowered and
directed to take all action necessary to effectuate the provisions of Section 2
hereof,
SECTION 4,
The gas furnished under the terms of this ordinance shall not have less
then 1,000 B.T.U. content.
SECTION 5.
P11 ordinances in conflict herewith shall be and the same are hereby
repealed.
,SECTION 6.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect
from and after the date of its passage, and it is so ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FOal:
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City Attorney. `�