HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 900071 - Tx Utilities Electric CompanyORDINANCE NO. 900071
AN ORDINANCE APPROVING RATE SCHEDULES AND SERVICE REGULATIONS FOR
TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
THEREFORE, 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WITHDRAWN, FINDING AND DETERMINING THAT THE MEETING AT WHICH THIS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
SETTING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. On January 16, 1990, 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 16, 1990, 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service regulations may be changed, modified, amended or withdrawn with the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 system -wide 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 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. This ordinance shall become effective upon passage and final
reading hereof.
READ, PASSED AND APPROVED on First Reading this 23rd day of January,
1990.
READ, PASSED AND APPROVED on Second and Final Reading this 13th day of
February, 1990.
or
ATTEST°
Leslie Barone, Deputy City Secretary
APPROVED.
Diane Callander, City Attorney
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