HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Amending Chapter 29 of Municipal Code (Gas Rates) ORDINANCE NO. 949
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 29 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY
OF AMES, IOWA, BY REPEALING SECTION 29-1 THEREOF AND ENACTING A
NEW SCHEDULE OF NATURAL GAS RATES, AND PROVIDING THE TIME WHEN
SUCH RATES SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE, AND PROVIDING FOR REFUNDS TO
CUSTOMERS UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES BASED UPON COST OF GAS SOLD.
Be It Ordained By The City Council of The City of Ames, Iowa, as
follows:
Section 1. That Section 29-1 of Chapter 29 of the Municipal
Code of the City of Ames, Iowa, be and the same is hereby repealed
and the following shall be substituted in place thereof to be
known as Section 29-1 of the Municipal Code of the City of Ames,
Iowa:
29-1 Schedule of Gas Rates. The rates to be charged
for natural gas in the City of Ames, Iowa for space
heating and all general use, effective beginning with
meter readings from and after December 1 1959,
are hereby fixed and established asfollows:
First 500 cu. ft. , per month, $1.14
Next 2,500 cu. ft. , per month, $1.22 per M cu. ft.
Next 7,000 cu. ft, per month, $0.84 per M cu. ft.
Next 40,000 cu. ft. per month, . $0.70 per M cu. ft.
Next 50,000 cu. ft. per month, $0.64 per M cu, ft.
Next 100,000 cu. ft. , per month, $0,54 per M cu. ft.
Over 200,000 cu. ft,, er month, 0,46 per M cu. ft.
Minimum monthly bill, V.14.
The above rates are based upon the cost of gas as set forth
in Federal Power Commission Order, Docket G-15335, effect-
ive November 27, 1958, and at the time the Federal Power
Commission shall order final wholesale gas rates pursuant
to the proceedings in the Commission' s Docket No. G-12153
or Docket No. G-15335, or both of such dockets, then the
distributor shall, within thirty (30) days of such order,
notify the City Council of the annual amount by which
wholesale gas costs to the distributor may have been re-
duced, and the distributor shall translate any reduction
in such costs into terms of a decrease in the rates above
set forth, which said rates shall thereupon be so reduced.
In the event that the distributor receives any refund of
excess charges paid by it for periods subsequent to the
effective date of this ordinance, then the distributor
shall translate such refund into terms of a decrease in
the rates as reduced pursuant to the provisions of the
sentence immediately above, which decrease in rates shall
continue for a period of twelve (12) months, after which
the rates as reduced in the sentence immediately above
shall automatically become effective. Such decrease
shall be based upon the sales in thousands of cubic feet
made by the distributor for the first twelve of the
thirteen months immediately prior to the month in which
such refund is received by the distributor.
Section 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
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Section 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after December 1 , 1959, and its passage and
publication as prescribed by law.
Passed this 24th day of November 1959.
M. W. Jorddn, C Clerk Aeale P. De art, Mayor
Moved by Lawlor and seconded by Schilletter that Ordinance No. 949 ,
be passed on its first reading, and that the date of December lst
be established as the date to be effective.
Voting Aye: Armstrong, Judge, Smith, Lawlor, King, and Schillettec.
Voting Nay: None
Moved by Lawlor and seconded by Smith that the rules governing the
passage of ordinances be suspended and the second and third read-
ings be omitted and Ordinance No. 949 be placed on its final
passage.
Voting Aye: Armstrong, Judge, Smith, Lawlor, King, and Schillette
Voting Nay: None
Moved by Smith and seconded by Schilletter that Ordinance No. 949
do now pass.
Voting Aye: Armstrong, Judge, Smith, Lawlor, King, and Schilletter
Voting Nay: None
Mayor De Hart declared Ordinance No. 949 duly adopted.
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I, M. W. Jordan, City Clerk of the City of Ames, Iowa, do hereby
certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 949 was duly
and properly passed at a meeting of the City Council on the 24th
day of November, 1959, and published in the Ames Daily Tribune on
the 30th day of November, 1959.
M. W. Jorda y Clerk