81-13-Ordinance-Amending the Franchise Agreement with Lone Star Gas Company-12/07/1981ORDINANCE NO. 81-13
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND CHANGING A FRANCHISE ORDINANCE ENACTED BY THE
CITY OF SANGER, DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS, ON Age? i_Z ,3 _,•1972 ,tusa
AND BEING PARTLY STYLED, "AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO LONE STAR GAS COMPANY, A
CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, A FRANCHISE TO FURNISH AND SUPPLY GAS
TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE CITY OF SANGER, DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS"; AND PROVIDING
FOR A MODIFICATION OF THE DEFINITION O'FTHE TERMS "SERVICE LINES" AND "YARD LINES"
REFERENCED IN SECTION 4 THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. As of the effective date of this amendatory ordinance, and
upon acceptance by Lone Star Gas Company of the provisions hereof, Section
4 of the aforesaid captioned franchise ordinance enacted on
April 3, , 19 72 , shall be stricken, cancelled and nullified and
there shall be substituted in lieu thereof a new provision reading as follows:
SECTION 4. In addition to the rates charged for gas supplied, Company
may make and enforce, subject to approval of the City Council, reasonable
charges, rules and regulations for service rendered in the conduct of its
business including a charge for services rendered in the inauguration of
natural gas service, and may require, before furnishing service, the
execution of a contract therefor. Company shall have the right to contract
with each customer with reference to the installation of, and payment for;
provided such charges have been approved by City, any and all of the gas
piping from the connection thereof with the Company's main in the streets
or alleys to the customer's meter. Company shall own, operate and main-
tain all service lines, which are defined as the supply lines extending
from the Company's main to the customer's meter where gas is measured by
Company. The consumer shall own, operate, and maintain all yard lines and
house piping. Yard lines are defined as the underground supply lines
extending from the point of connection with Company's customer meter to
the point of connection with consumer's house piping."
SECTION 2. Enactment of this amendatory ordinance shall in no way ever
be construed so as to diminish or impair any consumer's ownership interest in
service lines (or portions thereof) installed prior to the effective date of
this amendatory ordinance.
SECTION 3. The terms and provisions of this amendatory ordinance shall
be deemed to be severable, and if the validity of any section, sentence, clause
or pharase of this amendatory ordinance should be declared to be invalid, the
same shall not affect the validity of any other section, sentence, clause or
phrase of this amendatory ordinance.
SECTION 4. Except as heretofore and herinabove changed and amended,
the terms, provisions, conditions and requirements of the aforesaid franchise
ordinance shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 5. This amendatory ordinance shall become effective as of
December 7, 1981 , 1981 if the Company files its written acceptance of
the provisions of this ordinance within sixty (60) days after its final passage
and approval by this City and upon acceptance, the provisions hereof shall be
binding upon City and Company, their successors and assigns.
PASSED AND APPROVED ON THIS THE 7th DAY OF December , 1981.
ATTEST:
fel Clity Secretary 01Mayor
City of Sanger, Texas
STATE OF TEXAS X
COUNTY OF Denton
I, Mary Jo Stover , City Secretary of the City of
Sanger Denton County, Texas, do hereby
certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of am
amendatory ordinance passed by the City Council of the City of Sanger
Texas, at a Regular session, held on the 7thday of December �
1981, as it appears of record in the Minutes of the City Council in Book
, page
WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF SAID CITY, this the 7 th day of
December , A.D. 1981
City'Secretary
City of Sanger , Texas