O-81-900 - 5/28/1981ORDINANCE NO. q66
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND CHANGING A FRANCHISE
ORDINANCE ENACTED BY THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK, WILLI-
AMSON COUNTY, TEXAS, ON JANUARY 10, 1967, AND BEING
PARTLY STYLED, "AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO LONE STAR
GAS COMPANY, A CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND AS-
SIGNS, A FRANCHISE TO FURNISH AND SUPPLY GAS TO THE
GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK, WILLIAM -
SON COUNTY, TEXAS": AND PROVIDING FOR A MODIFICA-
TION OF THE DEFINITION OF THE TERMS "SERVICE LINES"
AND "YARD LINES" REFERENCED IN SECTION 5 THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK,
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 5 of the aforesaid captioned
franchise ordinance enacted on January 10, 1967, shall be
stricken, cancelled and nullified and there shall be substi-
tuted in lieu thereof a new provision reading as follows:
"SECTION 5. In addition to the rates charged for
gas supplied, Company may make and enforce reason-
able 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 fur-
nishing 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 thereof 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 main-
tain all yard lines and house piping. Yard lines
are defined as the underground supply lines extend-
ing 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 amenda-
tory ordinance.
SECTION 3. The terms and provisions of this amendatory
ordinance shall be deemed to be severable, and if the valid-
ity of any section, sentence, 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 require-
ments of the aforesaid franchise ordinance shall remain in
full force and effect.
SECTION 5. This amendatory ordinance shall become effec-
tive as of June 10, 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. yf
READ and APPROVED on first reading this the / ! Pic(
day
of ;
, 1981.
READ, APPROVED and ADOPTED on second reading this the
-111-11'
day of y-i-k2,,y
ATTEST:
, 1981.
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NNE LAND, City Secretary
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LARRY ° TCNN, Mayor
City of Round Rock, Texas