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RESOLUTION
~ WHEREAS, the City Council has the power and .the duty to regulate rates charged
for gas utility service within the corporate limits of the City of Lubbock, and
WHEREAS, regulation of industrial rates has not been deemed necessary in the
past, but,
WHEREAS escalation of those unregulated rates since the advent of the energy
crisis has created the need to insure that industrial rates are fair and reasonable,
BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
THAT industrial rates for natural gas service, including cost of gas purchases
be regulated and that rates be determined and established by regulatory rules and
procedures adopted and established by Ordinance No. 7560.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
THAT a copy of all testimony and exhibits which are to.be presented by Pioneer
Natural Gas Company be filed with the City Secretary on or before December 16, 1977
and that copies be furnished to all interested parties on or before that date.
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED
THAT any member of the City council of Lubbock (or any employee of the City of
Lubbock who may be hereafter authorized) as designated by the City Council for that
purpose, shall have power to hold hearings and conduct investigations in regard to
this proposal to establish rates for industrial gas service within the City limits
of the City of Lubbock, and to make a record thereof for the use and benefit of the
City Council, the same as if the entire City Council ..were present, and such member
of the City Council or designated employee is hereby given authority to administer
oaths, certify to all official acts, and compel the attendance of witnesses and the
production of papers, books, accounts, and all other pertinent documents and testi-
mony, and said record when so made and properly certified to by such Council person
or employee, shall have the same force and effect as if made before the City Council
and such records as may be made shall be determined by the City Council as if the
record had been made before the City Council itself.
Passed by the City Council this 17 day of November , 1977.
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ROY BASS, MAYOR
ATTE T:
Treya;Phillips, City,S r tary-Treasurer
BY:
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Mary N. Vndsey, Deputy
APPROVED AS TO FORM;'
0. Senter, Jr.,CitVAttorney