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<br /> Section 10. The maximum price which the company shall be permitted
<br />to charge and the minimum price at wh$ch it shall be required to furnish
<br />natural gas to the City and its inhabitants'for the period beginning with
<br />the reading of meters in the City in August, 19~8 and ending with the
<br />August, 1952 reading of meters, unless sooner terminated as hereinafter
<br />provided, shall be and the~same hereby is fixed for each individual con-
<br />sumer as follows (hereinafter called the ,ordinance rate"):
<br /> For the first 1,000 cubic feet, or less, or none, measured
<br /> through any one meter, per month,
<br /> For all over 1,000 ~ubic feet, per month, measured through each
<br /> meter, per month, ~ 1/2~ per o~e hundred cubic feet.
<br /> If the bill is not paid within ten days after the maturity estab-
<br /> lished therefor, 3¢ additional per thousand cubic feet per month.
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<br /> If any consumer because of absence ~r otherwise shall notify the
<br /> Company in writing to shut ~ff ~he supply ef gas, the Company
<br /> shall make no such charge for any full meter reading period,
<br /> during the time the gas is shut elf.
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<br /> Ail bills shall be payable a~ the main office of the Company in the
<br /> City of Cleveland, Ohio, or at such branch collection agency or agencies
<br /> in the City, or in said City of Cleveland, Ohio, as may fr~m ~ime to ~ime
<br /> be established by the Company. ~
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<br /> Section 11. This ordinance shall take effect as a proposal to the
<br /> Company from and after the earliest period allowed by law, and each and
<br /> every provision hereof shall become operative ~n its acceptance in writing
<br /> by the Company. Such written acceptance, if made, shall he forthwith maile(
<br /> or delivered by the Company to the Clerk of the Council of the City, and
<br /> when so received this ordinance shall constitute a valid contract binding
<br /> upon said City and the Company according to its terms.
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<br /> Section 12. At any time after August 15, 1950, the City, at i~s opti(
<br /> may terminate the provisions and regulations of this ordinance, and the
<br /> tract created by acceptance of this ordinance by the Company, prior to the
<br /> expiration of the provisions of this ordinance by lapse of time, by ordiman(
<br /> of its Council dul~ passed, a ~ertified ~opy of which shall be served upon
<br /> the Company at its office in the City of Cleveland, which said ordinance
<br /> shall specify a termination date not less than ~hree months subsequent t~
<br /> the date of serving such copy of such ordinance, and at any time after
<br /> August 15, 1~50, the Company may likewise terminate the contract ,? cr~ted
<br /> by serving written notice of such termination upon said City, ~hicn notxce
<br /> shall specify a termination dat~ not less than three months subsequent to
<br /> the date of serving such notice, and after service of such ordinance or of
<br /> such written notice, at the time therein fixed for such termination all the
<br /> provisions of this ordinance shall cease and terminate.
<br /> Section 13. The provisions hereof'shall in all.respects inure ~o the
<br /> benefit of and be binding upon said Oity, its successors, and the Company,
<br /> its successors and assigns.
<br /> Section 1~. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from
<br /> and after ~he earliest period allowed by law.
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<br />Approved: July 6. 1958..
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<br />Wm. R. Fair~rieve ,,,
<br /> president
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<br />H,~ A...R~es .... Clerk'
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<br />A. I. Kauffman
<br /> ~ayo~
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