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ORDINANCE NO. 927
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND CHANGING A FRANCHISE ORDINANCE
ENACTED BY THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TARRANT COUNTY,
TEXAS, ON APRIL 10, 1967 AND BEING PARTLY STYLED, "AN
ORDINANCE GRANTING TO LONE STAR GAS COMPANY, A CORPORATION,
ITS SUCCESSOR AND ASSIGNS, A FRANCHISE TO FURNISH AND SUPPLY
GAS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS,
TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS"; AND PROVIDING FOR A MODIFICATION OF THE
DEFINITION OF THE TERMS "SERVICE LINES" AND "YARD LINES"
REFERENCED IN SECTION 7 THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, 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 7 of the aforesaid captioned franchise ordinance enacted on
April 10, 1967, shall be stricken, cancelled and nullified and there shall
be substituted in lieu thereof a new provision reading as follows:
"SECTION 7. In addition to the rates charged for gas
supplied, Company may make and enforce reasonable charges,
rules and regulations for service rendered in 'the conduct
of its business. Company shall have the right to contract
with each customer with reference to the installation of
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 install,
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,
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 requirements of the aforesaid
franchise ordinance shall remain in full force and effect.
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SECTION 5. This amendatory ordinance shall become effective as
of October 12 , 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 12th day of October
, 1981.
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D~~im, Mayor
ATTEST:
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APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
STATE OF TEXAS I
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COUNTY OF DALLAS I
WHEREAS, there was finally passed and approved on October 12,
1981, Ordinance No. 927 amending the Lone Star Gas Company Franchise
Ordinance No. 166 enacted by the City of North Richland Hills, Tarrant
County, Texas on April 10, 1967, of record in the Minutes of the City
Council, to revise the definition of the terms "service lines" and
"yard lines" set out in Section 7 of said franèhise, which is recorded
in Book VII of the Minutes of the City Council of said City; and
WHEREAS, Section 5 of said amendatory ordinance provides
as follows:
"SECTION 5. This amendatory ordinance shall be-
come effective as of October 12, 1981 if the
Company files its written acceptance of the pro-
visions 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."
AND, WHEREAS, it is the desire of Lone Star Gas Company, a
Division of ENSERCH Corporation, to comply with the above-quoted pro-
visions of Section 5 thereof.
NOW, THEREFORE, premises considered, Lone Star Gas Company,
a Division of ENSERCH Corporation, acting by and through its duly
authorized officers, and within the time prescribed by Section 5
quoted above, does hereby accept the provisions of the above amendatory
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Ordinance No. 927 in accordance with its terms, provisions, conditions,
and requirements, and subject to the stipulations and agreements therein
contained.
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WITNESS THE EXECUTION THEREOF, on this thec.:?~ day of Cf'~~--f?í' ,
1981.
ATTEST:
LONE STAR GAS COMPANY, a Division
of ENSERCH CORPORATION
By
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VicfJ President
STATE OF TEXAS I
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COUNTY OF TARRANT I
I, , City Secretary of the City of
North Richland Hills, Texas, do hereby certify that the above and fore-
going is a true and correct copy of a formal acceptance of Ordinance No.
927 finally passed and approved by said City on October 12, 1981, and
of record in the Minutes of the City; and I do further certify that said
acceptance has been duly presented to the City Council and filed in con-
nection with and as a part of said amendatory Ordinance No. 927.
OF WHICH, witness my official signature and the seal of said
City on this the ~tav day of IJA./-r-- , 1981.
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City Secretary
ty of North Richland Hills, Texas