HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 3085 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE RATES OF SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELE-
PHONE COMPANY IN THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS; MAKING CER-
TAIN FINDINGS OF FACT; DETERMINING AND FIXING A SCHEDULE OF
RATES TO BE CHARGED FOR LOCAL EXCHANGE SERVICES; MAKING IT
UNLAWFUL FOR THE OPERATING COMPANY OR ANY OTHER PERSON, FIRM,
CORPORATION, RECEIVER OR LESSEE OPERATING A LOCAL TELEPHONE
EXCHANGE, OR FOR ANY OFFICER, AGENT, REPRESENTATIVE OR EM-
PLOYEE THEREOF, TO DEMAND, EXACT OR COLLECT FROM ANY SUB-
SCRIBER ANY CHARGE FOR SERVICE ENUMERATED IN EXCESS OF SUCH
RATES AND CHARGES; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF
THIS ORDINANCE OF NOT OVER ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) FOR
EACH OFFENSE; AND PRESCRIBING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, on the 14th day of February, 1951, after a hearing duly
held before the City Council and an investigation by the administrative of-
ficers of the City, the rates for local telephone service rendered by the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in the Fort Worth Exchange were in-
creased by the provisions of Ordinance No. 2849,and the basic rates for
that service were increased in accordance with the following chart.
Class of Service Existing Rates Authorized Rates
One Party Business Service,
Flat Rate $ 8.25 $11.75
Business Extension, Flat Rate 1.00 1.5Q
One Party Business Service,
Measured Rate 4.00 6.00
Business Extension, Measured Rate .75 1.00
One Party Residence Service,
Flat Rate 3.50 4.65
Two Party Residence Service,
Flat Rate 2.75 3.90
Four Party Residence Service,
Flat Rate 2.25 3.20
Residence Extension, Flat Rate .50 .90
Two Party Residence Service,
Measured Rate 2.00 2.75
Residence Extension,
Measured Rate .50 .75
Commercial P. B. X. Trunks,
Flat Rate 8.25 17.625
Commercial Stations, Flat"Rate 2.00 1.50
Residence P. B. X. Trunks, Flat Rate 3.50 6.975
Residence Stations, Flat Rate 1.00 .90
Hotel P. t. X. Trunks, Measured Rate 8.25 11.75
Hotel Station, Measured Rate .65 •75
Semi-Public Coin Station Service,
Daily Guarantee .15 .25
and,
WHEREAS, on the 6th day of August, 1952, the Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone Company filed an application with the City Council of the City of
Fort Worth for an increase in local rates in the Fort Worth Exchange. In
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this application, the petitioner set forth the rates, it was seeking to have
the City Council put into effect, and furnished certain data with respect
to the value of the petitioner's property used and useful in rendering
telephone service and its expenses and revenues for the year ending June 30,
1952. The City Council referred the application to the administrative of-
ficials of the City for examination. From time to time during the course
of the investigation, additional information and records, at the request of
the City, were furnished by the petitioner; and,
WHEREAS, on the 29th day of January, 1953, a public hearing was be-
gun before the City Council, and this hearing continued at reasonable in-
tervals until the loth day of March, 1953, and after the testimony was trans-
cribed, the record, which consisted of almost twenty-five hundred typewritten
pages, together with numerous exhibits, was taken under advisement; NOW,
THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
The City Council, in the light of the record before it, finds that '
the schedule of rates hereinafter set forth will produce an income, which,
together with other income from the local exchange, will provide the South-
western Bell Telephone Company an annual income that will be more than suf-
ficient to meet its requirements for expenses and pay a reasonable return
on the fair value of the local exchange plant and property.
SECTION 2.
The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company is hereby authorized to place
in effect the following schedule of rates:
Class of Service Monthly Rate
One Party Business Service, Flat Rate $15.50
Business Extension, Flat Rate 1.75
One Party Business Service, Measured Rate 8.50 (a)
Business Extension, Measured Rate 1.00
One Party Residence Service, Flat Rate 5.50
Two Party Residence Service, Flat Rate 4.70
Four Party Residence Service, Flat Rate 3.80
Residence Extension, Flat Rate 1.25
Two Party Residence Service, Measured Rate 3.50 (b)
Residence Extension, Measured Rate 1.00
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Class of Service Monthly Rate
Commercial P. B. X. Trunks, Flat Rate $23.25
Commercial Stations, Flat Rate 1.75
Residence P. B. X. Trunks, Flat Rate 8.25
Residence Stations, Flat Rate 1.25
Hotel.P. B. X. Trunks, Measured Rate 15.50 (c)
Hotel Station, Measured Rate 1.00
Semi-Public Coin Station Service, Daily Guarantee .35 (d)
(a) Includes 100 outgoing messages - additional local messages 5¢ each.
(b) Includes 45 outgoing messages - additional local messages 5¢ each.
(c) Guarantee that local message revenue to company shall not be less
than the FB1 rate for each trunk.
(d) Additional local messages 5¢ each.
Authority to charge for miscellaneous services and equipment the
rates set out in the schedule of Miscellaneous Rates and Charges attached
hereto marked Exhibit "A" and made a part hereof is also granted.
SECTION 3.
Until otherwise ordered by the City Council in the due exercise of
its regulatory power, mileage charges now in effect may continue to be
charged for telephone service rendered subscribers situated in the areas
set out in Ordinance No. 2586, passed September 15, 1948, in Ordinance No.
2211, passed August 2, 1944, and in Ordinance No. 1931, passed December 23,
1936.
SECTION 4.All ordinances heretofore passed prescribing rates for telephone
service in the Fort Worth Exchange, except the ordinances referred to in
Section 3 above, are hereby repealed, and the rateri set out in said ordi-
nances are hereby rescinded and set aside.
SECTION 5.
Nothing in this ordinance contained shall be construed as in any man-
ner, now or hereafter, limiting or modifying the right and power of the
City Council, under the law, to regulate the rates charged by the South-
western Bell Telephone Company for telephone service rendered within its
Fort Worth Exchange.
SECTION 6.
It shall be unlaw-ful for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, a private
corporation, or any other person, firm or corporation, receiver or lessee
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operating a local telephone exchange service, or engaged in the business
of furnishing local telephone exchange service in the City of Fort Worth,
or for any officer, agent, representative or employee thereof, to demand,
exact or collect from any subscriber any charge for service enumerated here-
in in excess of the rates and charges authorized by this ordinance.
SECTION 7.
Every such person, firm, corporation, receiver, lessee, officer,
agent, representative or employee violating the provisions of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall
be fined in any sum not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), and each
such demand, exaction or collection of a charge in excess of such rates
shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 8.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the
date of its passage and publication as required by lair.
Pavf4jo w, approved this the /O day of June, 1953•
Mayor of the City o ort Worth,
Texas
ATTEST:
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APPROVED_�FORP4 AND LEGALITY: '
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EXHIBIT "A"
SCHEDULE OF MISCELLANEOUS RATES AND CHARGES
Installation or
Rate per Month Move Charge
I. Key Telephone Systems.
1. No. 1-A Key Telephone Systems.
a. Pick up:-per station, per line $ .35 -----
b. Holding:
(1) Per line equipped .50
(2) Per telephone equipped .35 -----
c. Intercommunication:
(1) 0n premises:
s) Per intercommunicating line 1.25
b) Automatic signaling, one -
or two way .50 -----
(2) Off-premises:
(a) Per central office line
equipped 7.00 -----
(b) Per off-premises extension
telephone equipped, in-
cluding 3 way key 1.00 _-__-
d. Cutoff:
(1) Manual, per telephone equipped .25 -----
(a) Key and bell to be cut off
located at telephone in-
volved, with no other feature
at that location, nonrecur-
ring charge $1.50 ---- __-_-
(2) Exclusion (Manual) per telephone
equipped .25
(3) Exclusion (Automatic) per tele-
phone equipped 1.25 ____-
e. Signaling:
(1) Control Units, per line:
(a) For non-continuous visual
or audible line signals 1.25 -----
(b) For continuous visual or
audible line signals 1.75
(c) For busy lamps 1.00 -----
(d) For combined line and
busy lamp signals:
Common equipment, each 1.00 =----
Per line equipped 1.50
(e) Key illumination .75 ____-
(2) Local signaling:
(a) Combined code and selective
signaling unit .75 -:
(b) Buzzers, each .25
(a) Push buttons, each .25 ___-_
f. Telephones having access to inter-
communicating line only:
Regular extension telephone rate
and S.C.C. ---- ___--
g. Private line terminations:
(1) Ringdown signaling (magneto)
per line 2.00 -----
(2) Automatic signaling (common
battery) per line 1.75 -----
2. No. 2-A Telephone Systems:
a. Loud Speaker set and amplifier
unit 4.25 $5.00
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Installation or
Rate per Month Move Charge
II. Key Equipment - Mul. Line
(No. 100 Type):
1. 3 line single sided key box $ 3.00 $ 5.00
2. 3 line double sided key box 3.50 7.50
3. 6 line single sided key box 4.00 10,00 .
4. 6 line double sided key box 4.50 15.00
5. Line equipment, each, per line 2.00 -----
6. Inter-communicating line, each 1.50 -----
a. Intercom. line key, each .50 --
7. Operator's set, each .50 -----
III. Private Branch Exchange Equipment:
1. Commercial PBX Systems:
a. Manual Service
(1) Switchboards
(a) Cordless Type
3x7, per position 9.00 -----
5xl2, per position 12.00 -----
(b) Non-multiple type
30 or 40 line, per position
20.00 -----
60 or 80 line, per position
25.00 -----
120 or 320 line, per posi-
tion 35.00 -----
(c) Multiple type*
Per position 6o.o0 -----
b. Dial Service - Switchboard Systems*
(1) Switchboards
(a) Cordless, business type,
per position 13.00 -----
(b) Cordless, business or
residence type, per
position 17.00 -----
(c) Non-multiple type, per
position 35.00 -----
(d) Multiple type, per
position 60.00 -----
(2) Selectors or Connectors, each 4.00 -----
(3) Line equipment, each .75 -----
(4) Power plant:
For 2 digit systems 35.00 -----
For 3 and 4 digit systems 70.00 -----
(5) Restricted or isolated stations
(a) In exchanges of 25,000 Regular Service
stations and over, each 1.25 Connection Charge
(b) In exchanges under 25,000 Regular Service
stations, each 1.00 Connection Charge
c. Dial Service - Key Station Systems**
(1) Switching Equipment 35.00 -----
(2) Key Stations, in addition to Regular Service
regular extension station rate .75 Connection Charge
(3) Relay equipment for lamp signals
on key station or keyless sta-
tion lines, per relay .75 -----
(4) Line pickup equipment .50 -----
(5) Control key 1.50 -----
(6) Dial station line terminal 1.50 -----
(7) Key illumination .75 -----
*Minimum Contract Term - 5 years.
**Minimum Contract Term - 1 year.
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Installation or
Rate per Month Move Charge
2. Hotel PBX Systems:
a. Manual Service
(1) Switchboards
(a) Cordless type
3x7, per position $ 9.00 -----
5x12, per position 12.00 -----
(b) Non multiple type
30 or 40 line, per position 20.00 -----
60 or 80 line, per position 25.00 -----
120 or 320 line, per posi-
tion 35.00 -----
(c) Multiple type*
Per position 66.00 -----
(2) Stations, each Regular Service
(a) In exchanges of 25,000 1.25 Connection Charge
stations and over
(b) In exchanges under 25,000 Regular Service
stations 1.00 Connection Charge
(3) Trunks
(a) The hotel guarantees that
for each trunk connected,
the total message revenue
accruing to the telephone
company each month shall
equal the monthly rate for
one-party line business Regular Service
flat rate service ---- Connection Charge
(4) Local messages, each
(a) In exchanges of 25,000
stations and over .04 -----
(b) In exchanges under 25,000
stations .035 -----
(5) Toll messages
Established toll rates less 15%,
except for messages made by the
hotel management or its employees,
for which established toll rates
are applicable ---- -----
*Minimum Contract Term - 5 years.
3. Tie Line Terminal Charges:
a. Between two dial systems or between
a dial and a manual system:
(1) Arranged both to select and to be
selected, each 5.00 -----
(2) Arranged either to select or to
be selected, each 3.50 -----
(3) Incoming selectors for selec-
tion, each 4.00 ----- x
b. Between two manual switchboards,
each terminal No Charge -----
IV. No. 4-A Key Equipment
1. Without holding feature 1.00 $ 1.50
2. With holding feature 1.25 1.50
V. Directory Service
1. Business Extra Listings .50 -----
(CONTINUED)
Installation or
Rate per Month Move Charge
VI. Push Button and Buzzer (or Bell)
Equipment:
1. Push Buttons, each $ .25 -----
2. Buzzers (or Bells), each .25 -----
3. Four Button Pad, each .50 -----
4. Eight Button Pad, each .75 -----
VII. Outdoor Sets:
1. Special protected sets for use in Regular Service
explosive atmospheres 8.00 Connection Charge
VIII. Commercial Power.
1. The necessary electrical power wiring, power outlets and commercial
power required for the operation of telephone equipment shall be fur-
nished by the customer, and the customer assumes all responsibility
for the safe condition of such wiring, outlets and power.
IX. Service Connections, Move and Change
Charges. Sch. Sch. Sch. Sch. Sch.
I II III IV V
1. Service connection charges
(Bon-recurring) apply as follows:
Company owned stations in exchange
or zone area: (From: 1 2000 10,000 40,000 Over
(To: 2000 10,000 40,000 100,000 100,000
a. Instrumentalities not
in place:
(1) Business Main Stations
and PBX Trunks, each $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 $4.25 $5.00
(2) Residence Main Stations
and PBX Trunks, each 1.75 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50
(3) Business PBX and Ex-
tension Stations, each 1.50 1.50 1.75 2.00 2.50
(4) Residence PBX and Ex-
tension Stations, each 1.25 1.25 1.50 1.50 2.00
b. Instrumentalities in Place:
(1) At one location, regard-
less of the amount of
equipment involved, per
customer 1.25 1.25 1.50 1.50 2.00
2. Move Charges (Inside Moves)
apply as follows:
(1) Stations moved, each 1.25 1.25 1.50 1.50 2.00
(2) Moves of other equip-
ment and wiring Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost
3. Change Charges apply as,follows:
(1) Change in style or type
of telephone instruments,
each 1.25 1.25 1.50 2.00
(2) Changes in other equip-
ment and wiring Cost Cost Cost Cost Cost
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