OR 22.1-A-1 Grants a franchise to Lone Star Gas CompanyAN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 22.1A1
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND CHANGING A FRANCHISE ORDINANCE
ENACTED BY THE CITY OF COPPELL, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, ON SEPTEMBER
10, 1960 AND BEING PARTLY STYLED, "AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO LONE
STAR GAS COMPANY, A CORPORATION, ITS SUCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, A
FRANCHISE TO FURNISH AND SUPPLY GAS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE
CITY OF COPPELL, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS"; AND PROVIDING FOR A
MODIFICATION OF THE DEFINITON OF THE TERMS "SERVICE LINES" AND "YARD
LINES" REFERENCED IN SECTION 4 THEREOF; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COPPELL,
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 September 10, 1960, 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 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, 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 custorDer's
meter where gas is measured by Company. The cons~tmer
shall own, operate, and maintain all yard 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 ownershp interest in service lines
(or portion 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 shall 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 to the aforesaid franchise ordinance shall
remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 5. This amendatory ordinance shall become effective as 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.
DULY PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, this
APPROVED:
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF DALLAS
I, ~50~o~h ' ['~ ra~o~s City Secretary of the City of Coppell,
Dallas County, Texas, do certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct
copy of an amendatory ordinance passed by the City Council of the City of Coppell,
Texas, at a ~ e_{Bijla ~, session, held on the ~:~ q~L_ day of [3!a I~ ~] ,
1981, ~ it appears of record in the Minutes of the City Council in Book ~ I'O ~ ,
Page ) ~ I
WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF SAID CITY, this the ~ ' day of
, A.D. 1981.