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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE APPROVING RATE SCHEDULES AND SERVICE REGULATIONS FOR
TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
THEREFOR, PROVIDING CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH SUCH RATE SCHEDULES AND
SERVICE REGULATIONS MAY BE CHANGED, MODIFIED, AMENDED OR WITHDRAWN,
FINDING AND DETERMINING THAT THE MEETING AT WHICH THIS ORDINANCE IS
PASSED IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AS REQUIRED BY LAW, AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY
STEPHENVILLE
COUNCIL
TEXAS:
OF THE CITY OF
SECTION 1. On January 22, 1993, Texas Utilities Electric
Company filed with the Governing Body of this municipality and
simultaneously with the Public Utility Commission of Texas a
virtually identical Petition and Statement of Intent with proposed
changes in the rate schedules and service regulations of said
Company.
SECTION 2. The rate schedules and service regulations of
Texas Utilities Electric Company approved and set by the Public
Utility Commission of Texas pursuant to the Petition and Statement
of Intent filed by said Company with the Public Utility Commission
of Texas on January 22, 1993, are hereby approved as the rate
schedules and service regulations under which said Company is
authorized to render service and to collect charges from its
customers for the sale of electric power and energy within the
corporate limits of this municipality until such time as said rate
schedules and service regulations may be changed, modified, amended
or withdrawn with the approval of the Governing Body of this
municipality.
SECTION 3. The aforesaid rate schedules and service
regulations herein approved shall be effective from and after the
date the Public Utility Commission of Texas orders said new rate
schedules and service regulations effective for Texas Utilities
Electric Company, provided that, in order to effect uniform
systemwide rates, changed rates may be earlier placed in effect
within this municipality to the same extent that changed rates are
earlier placed in effect in all of the other areas served by Texas
Utilities Electric Company but only pursuant to an order of the
Public Utility Commission of Texas fixing interim rates or pursuant
to a bond filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas and
subject to refund to the same extent as authorized by Section 43(e)
of the Public Utility Regulatory Act.
SECTION 4. The filing of said rate schedules and service
regulations shall constitute notice to the consumers of
electricity, within this municipality, of the availability and
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application of such rate schedules and service regulations.
SECTION 5. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be
construed now or hereafter as limiting or modifying in any manner,
the right and power of the Governing Body of this municipality
under the law to regulate the rates, operations, and services of
Texas Utilities Electric Company.
SECTION 6. It is hereby officially found and determined that
the meeting at which this Ordinance is passed is open to the public
and as required by law and that public notice of the time, place
and purpose of said meeting was given as required.
SECTION 7. An emergency exists necessitating the suspension
of any rule requiring multiple readings of this Ordinance and all
multiple readings of this Ordinance are hereby waived; this
Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED at
COUNCIL of the
Texas, on this the --;2day of
a Regular Meeting of the City
City of STEPHENVILLE
.e , 1993.
Mayor
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