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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND CHANGING A FRANCHISE ORDINANCE
ENACTED BY THE CITY OF ALLEN, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, ON
DECEMBER 24, 1953, OF RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF ALDERMEN, BOOK 1, PAGE 15, AND BEING STYLED, "AN ORDI-
NANCE 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 CITY OF ALLEN,
COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, AND THE ENVIRONS THEREOF; FIXING
RATES AND CHARGES FOR NATURAL GAS AND GAS SERVICE; PRO-
VIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF A FEE OR CHARGE FOR THE USE OF
THE STREETS, ALLEYS AND PUBLIC WAYS, APED PROVIDING THAT
IT SHALL BE IN LIEU OF OTHER FEES APED CHARGES, EXCEPTING
AD VALOREM TAXES," SO AS TO STRIKE THEREFROM THE FIRST
SENTENCE OF SECTION 9 AND SUBSTITUTE IN LIE$ THEREOF A
NEW FIRST SENTENCE OF SECTION 9 PROVIDING FOR THE PAY-
MENT OF A CERTAIN RENTAL FEE OR CHARGE BY LONE STAR GAS
COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, FOR THE USE OF THE
STREETS, ALLEYS AND PUBLIC WAYS OF CITY.
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SECTION 1. From and after the effective date of this amendatory
ordinance, and upon acceptance by Lone Star Gas Company of the provisions
hereof, the first sentence of Section 9 of the aforesaid ordinance enacted
on December 24, 1953, shell be stricken, cancelled and nullified, and
there is substituted in lieu thereof a new first sentence of Section 9
reading as follows:
"SECTION 9• Company, its successors and assigns, agrees
to pay and City agrees to accept, on or before the lst day of
July, 1967, a awn of money which shall be equivalent to two
percent (2,%,) of the gross receipts received by Company from
the sale of gas to its domestic and commercial consumers
within the city limits of said City (expressly excluding,
however, receipts derived from sales to industrial and
governmental users and consumers in said City) for the pre-
ceding calendar year and on or before the lst day of July,
1968, a sum of money which shall be equivalent to two per-
cent (2,%) of the gross receipts received by Company from
the sale of gas to its domestic and commercial consumers
within the city limits of said City (expressly excluding,
however, receipts derived from sales to industrial and
governmental users and consumers in said City) for the
period January 1, 1967, to May 31, 1967, and four per-
cent (4%) of said gross receipts for the period from
June 1, 1967, to December 31, 1967, and on or before
the 1st day of July, 1969, and on or before the same
day of each succeeding year during the life of this
franchise, up to and including the year 1978, a sum
of money which shall be equivalent to four percent (4$)
of the gross receipts received by Company from the sale
of gas to its domestic and commercial consumers within
the city limits of said City (expressly excluding, how-
ever, receipts derived from sales to industrial and
governmental users and consumers in said City) for the
preceding calendar year, which annual payment shall be
for the rights and privileges herein granted to Company,
including expressly, without limitation, the right to
use the streets, alleys and public ways of said City,
and which annual payment is fixed and determined to
be the reasonable, adequate and complete compensation
for all the rights and privileges herein granted."
SECTION 2. Except as hereinabove changed and amended, the terms,
provisions, conditions and requirements of the aforesaid franchise ordinance,
as enacted on December 24, 1953, shall remain in full force and effect.
The enactment of this amendatory franchise ordinance shall not
affect the existing rates and charges presently being charged for natural
gas and natural gas service in said City.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall become effective if Company
files its written acceptance of the provisions of this ordinance within
thirty (30) days after its final passage and approval by this City, and
upon acceptance, the provisions hereof shall be binding upon City and
Company, its successors and assigns.
PASSED AND APPROVED this _ day of
1967.
ATTEST:
City Secretary Mayor
City of Allen, Texas
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STATE OF TEXAS §
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COUNTY OF COLLIN §
I, , Secretary of the City of
Allen, Collin County, Texas, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing is a true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the
Board of Alermen of the City of Allen at a session held
on the day of , 1967, as it appears
of record in the Minutes of said Board, in Book , page _.
WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF SAID CITY, this the
day of , A.D. 1967. ^—
Secretary
City of Allen, Texas
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