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<br />4 9A? ?C7 -?4 ORDINANCE N0. _ri-7
<br />Regulating and fixing the price at which The Ea.st Ohio Gas Company,
<br />its successors a.nd assigns, shall be required to furnish natural
<br />gas to the City of North Olmsted, Ohio, a.nd its inhabitants.
<br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUIVCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, BTATE
<br />OF OHIO:
<br />SECTION l. The maxi.mum price which The East Ohio Gas Company, its succes-
<br />sors and assigns (hereinafter called the "Company"), shall be permitted to
<br />cha,rge and the minimum price at which it shall be required to furnish natural
<br />gas to the City of North Olmsted, Ohio, (hereinafter called the "City") and
<br />its inhabitants during the period comm.encing with the June, 1959, reading of
<br />meters in the City and ending with the June, 1963, reading of ineters in the
<br />City, unless sooner terminated as hereinafter provided, shall be and the
<br />same hereby is fixed for each individual consumer as follows:
<br />For the first 1,000 cubic feet, or less, or none, measuxed
<br />through any one meter per month . . . . . . . . . . $1.50;
<br />For the next 299,000 cubic feet, measured through such meter,
<br />per month . . . . . . . . . .752O for each 1,000 cubic feet;
<br />For all over 300,000 cubic feet, measured through such meter,
<br />per month . . . . . . . . . . 67¢ for each 1,000 cubic feet.
<br />Each bill to each consumer which shall not be paid within 10 days
<br />from the date of maturity established therefbr is subject to an
<br />additional charge of 3¢ for each 1,000 cubic feet per month. The
<br />minimum additional charge shall be 3¢ per bill.
<br />All bills shall be payable at the ma,in office of the Company in the City
<br />of Cleveland, Ohio, or at such branch collection agency or agencies in the City
<br />or elsewhere as may from time to time be established by the Company.
<br />If and whenever a rate schedule for domestic and cornmercial natural gas
<br />is finally fixed for the City of Cleveland, Ohio, applicable in Cleveland duxing
<br />the period of this ordinance or any portion thereof, which differs from the
<br />ordinance rate set forth above, then the ordinance rate shall in each case be
<br />adjusted for such period or any portion thereof to the same rate schedule as
<br />is finally fixed for domestic and commercial natural gas consum.ers in the City
<br />of Cleveland for such period or any portion thereof. The ordinance rate as so
<br />adjusted for such period or a.ny portion thereof shall be termed the "revised
<br />ordinance rate" for such period or portion thereof.
<br />The term "finally fixed" as used in this ordinance shall mean the final
<br />determi.nation of the rate schedule for domestic and commercial natural gas
<br />consumers of the Company in -L-he City of Cleveland for the period of this ordinance
<br />or portion thereof, either by agreement of the Company and the City of Cleveland,
<br />or by a final order of Zhe Public Uti]_ities Commission of Qhio, original or on
<br />remand, from which no appeal is taken or not affected by an appeal, or by a
<br />final decree of the court of last resort if such decree fixes or af'f'irms such
<br />rates, or by an ordinance of the City of Cleveland not appealed from or not
<br />contested by the Company, or by a rate schedule filed with said Commission
<br />and permitted to continue without proi;est by any person.
<br />If by the preceding paragraphs a revised ordinance rate is required for
<br />the period of this ordina.nce or any portion thereof, then in lieu of the
<br />ordinance rate such revised ordinance rate shall be and it is hereby fixed
<br />as the maximum price which the Company shall be permitted to charge and the
<br />minimum price at which it shall be required to furnish natural gas to the
<br />City and its inha.bitants for the time during which such revised ordinance
<br />rate is applicable as above provided. In the event any such revised ordina.nce
<br />rate is lower than the ordinance rate herein provided, the Company sha11 determine
<br />the amount each conswner in the City has paid in excess of such revised or-
<br />dinance rate for the time during which the revised ordinance rate is applicable,
<br />and ref'und such excess to such consumer by monthly credits upon his next suc-
<br />ceeding monthly bill or bills a,nd upon any outstanding indebtedness of such
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