0265AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND CHANGING A FRANCHISE ORDINANCE ENACTED BY THE
TOWN OF SOUTNLAKE , TARRANT COUNTY,
TEXAS, ON DECEMBER 5 , 1967 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 TOWN OF SOUTHLAKE TARRANT
TEXAS"; AND PROVIDING FOR A MODIFICATION OF THE DEFINITION OF THE TERMS
"SERVICE LINES" A~ND "YARD LINES" REFERENCED IN SECTION 6 THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TO~] COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF SOUTLAKE, 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 6 of the aforesaid captioned franchise ordinance enacted
on December 5 , 1967 , shall be stricken, cancelled and nullified
and there shall be substituted in lieu thereof a new provision reading as
follows:
"SECTION 6 . In addition to the rates charged for gas
supp%ied, Company may make and enforce 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 there-
for. Company shall have the right to contract with each
customer with reference to the installation of, and payment
for, any and all of the gas piping from the connection there-
of with the Company's main in the streets or alleys to and
throughout the consumer's premises. Company shall own,
operate and maintain 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, sen-
tence, clause or phrase 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 hereinabove 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
, 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 Town and upon acceptance, the provisions hereof
shall be binding upon Town and Company, their successors and assigns.
PASSED AND APPROVED ON THIS THE /~ DAY OF fJJJ~.J.~--
1981.
Secretary
Town of Southlake
, Texas
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF TARRANT
Southlake , Tarrant County, Texas, do hereby
certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of an
amendatory ordinance passed by the Tow. Council .~ of the
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~TNESS MY~ HAND AND SEAL OF SAID TOWN, THIS THE /7 day of
, A.D. 1981.
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City Secretary
Town of Southlake , Texas