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CONTRACT FOR IMUSMIAL GAG 9MVICi
00' 0 STATE OP TMAS
LONE STAR GAS CMIPANY, herein called ('Company, it agrees to
sell and deliver natural gas to (UTY 210 I?I,N TON
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herein oallod "Customer) 11 whoso mailing, address is
Danton, Taxao
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and Customer agrees to purchase and receive such gas from Co
mpargr to
meet Oustomerf a fuel requirements at Cuetoimrls premis.ns located in
1)o n bo n
Wn County, State of Texas, and more fully desoribed
Ant
located `l) OlWt4 IN NAV0lral Rtm MJM%rta G1mmUW SU~
apprcodrAatal,► arena hwWrad (YOD) foot aaat of tha *mad~
poi WO QW He K• To W 0% took and IMM star Oar 00FO IS rata
liar Y*$A and apprexiv atoV one4wU (1A) sJU aouUMM at of tha intaw
notion of Dallas Drl" and Doom $t"t+
(a) PmbrMit r'4 11tft)APKI Motuto slro0e wt dlatiotl '
located Ott mast 111ftry st"Ot in Nnto % Taxaa. ~
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extending to and inoluding 4une.30, 1%81 The first contract year of
said term shall oommonco on the date gas is first delivered to Customer
hereunder and shall torminato at the end of the Company's twelfth (12th)
full monthly billing poriod thereafter) and each oueneedinf3 full con.
tract
year shall include twelve (12) consecutive month bills pe_
rioda,
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A1ZT UT; 11,
(l.) This oontraot eovors Gustomor.'e ontiro fuel require-
ments at the aforesaid promises, exoopting sued fuel as moy -be used
for stand-by puroosos during porials of curtailment or interruption
of service an provided for in Article VI hereof,
(2) Customer shall not use gas under this oontraot for
service other than th6t o:lanaifiod by Company as indantrial. Cue..
tourer has elected to ?doeive and pay for gas under this oontraot
during the term hereof' in aoeordanoe with the attaohed Industrial
Rate Schedule h-FX, which i''e incorporated herein and made a part of
this contract,
(1) At 0omps yls roquost Customrr shall from time to time
deposit with Company such amount of money us Company mny determine is
reasonably neoessary to guarantee the payment of gas bills hereunder
and all other bills due by Customer to Company. All money deposited
by Customer with Company nhall bear intnront at the rata presoribed
by law, Interest shall be payablo annuall;r at Company's office from
which bills are rendered under this contract. Upon tho termination
of this contract, said deposit, plus any accrued interest thereon,
less any amount duo Company by Customer, nhall be rofwided to
Customer,
ARTY.CZ,r IV,
(1) Industrial [late Schedule )i-FX 1s based upon the de.
livery of gas having, an avnra(;o total hoatine value of 1,000 British
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thermal rtni.ta per c;ubie toot. Should the moa aF~,~ total heating
value of gan doUvered i.n any morithly period her more or loss than
1,4()0 Britinh thermal uni tij per cubic ,toot, i;l1c, total ehargeo for
such period shall, be inaroased or deoreasod, .respectively, in the
porcentoge 1>y W11J.011 the aver14150 heati.rlE; value of suoh gau i.a greater
or lose than 1,000 British thermal units per cubio foot.
(2) The monthly avorago total hoating value of the gas,
at a pressure of 4 ounces plus V4,4 pounds por square Inch absolute
and at a temperature of 60 dol,rcie.c Fahrenheit, shall 'bo determined
at Companyrs expense by the use of standard tests or the use of re»
oording uulorimetera, Tho dogree of saticration by vapor of
the gas to be dolivored !rerounder shall. be determined monthly l7y
Oorq)any, using standard irwtrumontri and methods, wid tho xseau7.tn
thereof shall be proporly taken into accotuat in datormining the
heating value of the gran delivered.
Ali'l'IOLS V.
(1) The gas cl„ livorod herourOor shall be irnasured at a
single meter location by standard motor or moters furnished rend iii.-
stalled by and at Company's expenav at a place mutually agrecd upon
on Currtomeres prcmi.sos. Ctustomor aliall pruvido, in accordanrcr with
00mpally'a apeoifiontiorru, the nooonrrnry sot"vioe Zino oil (juabolnor',l
premises to oonnout with Comparrly } u lint) and suitable space and ease.
ment for Company's linos and/or rugulatinl; and m ~~rirrg equipment,
Separate oontraots shall be mado and separate bills sisal be ren..
derod for any gas delivered to Curctomor at such motor looation for
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any purpose or use not covered by this contract, Customer shall use
due ow,,o to protoot OompsuWIri property which is located .,n Customer's
premises from damage and shall permit no person other than-ail agent
of Company, or a person otherwise lawfully authorized, to tampor
with, inspect or romove same, All property belonging, to Oompany and
located on Customer's premises shall be removable by Company at any
time during the term of this contract and within a reasonable time
after its termination or after reasonable notice of Customer+s de-
mire to have such property removed, title thereto remaining in Oom..
pang at all times, CcmpwW shall have N11 and free ingress to and
egress from Customerta promises for the construetion, inspeotion,
maintenance,' repair and removal of OomparV'o property thereon or
for any purpose oonneoted with the uervice of gas horuunde.r,
(2) Customer agrees to keep the gas burning equipment and
appurtenances which may be located on the aforesaid premises in good
oondition and in conformity with the requiromonta of uny applicable
city ordinance, state law, rule, order or regulation of any govern.
mental authority having ,jurisdiotion and to comply with all of Oom-
pany's reasonable rules and regulations,
0) Oaf,, shall be doliver,sd to Gustomor at Company+s opera-
tin} proasuro at the point of do;livery, The point of delivory of gas
oo Customer heroundor shall, be at tho ,oint i4}sere i;ho l;as first passes
fYrom Gornpany l a egttipmont into Cuntomcr l o aquipmont, at wh1oh point the
titlo to and ownership of the gas shat':, voojt in Customer. Company
shall not be liable for any loss, dt itq!,,o or injury resultiie, from
the bran or its use after it loavas the aforasaid point of delivery,
all risks thor.oof and therefrom boing hereby Meumod by Customor,
ARTIOLE VI.
(1) H'ar the purpose of thin contract the unit of measure-
ment shall be 1,000 oubio foot of gas at the pressure and temperature
at which it is measured, except whop such gas is measured at a gauge
pressure in excess of h otuloes por square inch. The volume of gas
measured at gauge pressures in excess of b ounces per square inch
shall, be adjustud by oonp utation to the volume that it would occupy
at a pressure of 4 ounces plus lh.h pounds per square inch absolute
and at a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit. In such eomputaticnn
a value of 11i.h pounds per square inch shall be used for atmosphoric
pressure and a value of 60 degrees Fahrenheit shall be used for the
flowing temperature of the gag, except that either party may install
and oporato a recording thermometer to properly record the flowing
temperature of the gas as moanitrod, in which event tile monthly
average of the recr;rdod flowing temperaturos shall be used,
(2) Motor measurements computed by Company aocordi•ni; to
its standard operating pr,v ticas dhal.l be concl.ualve oxcopt whore
the meter is found to be in;-eournto by ns much three (3) por cent
fast or slow or failed to rohi,s'tor, in nithar of which cases Company
shall ropair or replace the motor. Tlio quantity of (,,as delivered
while the meter was inaccurate or fallod to register shall be do-
termined by oorrooting, the error if' the pereontago of orror is
asoertainabla by calibration tort or mathamationl calculation, If
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not so asoortai.nal}le, thon it shall. be determined by erjLim bit) the
quantity on a basis of dalivorios undor similar oonditlons when the
motor was rog'stcri% accuz'ataly. No ardJustment or correction shall
be mado for a period longer than ninety (90) days.
ARTICLI,~ V11.
(l) Company shall have the right ab any and all times,
with or without notice) to imnodiatoly dioconbinuo, In whole or in
part, the supply of gas horeursder if in the opinion of Company a con.
tinuation of the supply under thin contract would adversely affect,
Jeopardize or threaten adequate nerv.i.co to Cornp anyrs domestic or com-
mercial customers or hazard, jopoardizo or threaten adequate service
be other industrial gas customers having priority of sorvioes and
Customer hereby authorizer, Company no to do and ag roon that Company
shall never be liable in dwriagoo or otherwise on account of having
exercisad such rit~,htn.
(2) Oas sold and service randerod heroundor shall be
subjoet to the priurity of service provided in the attached Indus.
trial Hato Schedule h-11, and whoa notified by Corrrpony be do so,
Customer agrees to curbail or discontinue the uao of gas horeundor
in conformity with the service priority providod for in this contract
and in said Industrial hate 7chedulo,. If Customer elansifios hits
business and operationo as being essential to the public health and
safety and oonsidern continuity of his fuel service essential to the
public welfare, then hn shall provide atand.~by fuel and equipment
adequate to meet hio fuel requiromonts during pori,ods of interruption
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of gaS aervico under thin oontraot. Coml,wV cannot tu,d door not
gkIarantoo a uonotant nupp:ly of l,tla horounclrlr. fnab:l.:l.ity or fat lure
of Company to dalivor or Cuatanc,r to rocs:Lve E;as or porfolM thin con.
tract, shall not be the banin of, 0:laimn for damtu,na nuntain'Od by dither
party or for breach of ooirtract whoa duo to Act of Oocl or l;overnmontal
authority, tho of onlunto, labor troublon, firnrl, acol.dontn, breakage,
repair or change of or obatruoLi.onn I.n pipo Boos, nlluipmonb or
machi.nory, depletion or failure of f;E.tn atupp]y, f).ucturat;Lonn in gan
preeaure, domandn in nxcooa of 11.110 cnpucltY of 001troanyle oquipmont,
pipo linen, or sourron of' gatl eupp)v, or otllstr na1gl1jrl o,• conl',3.rltjouc#0e
roaaonably boyond the oorntrol o.l' ol.thor party horoto, 1
ARTICLE VIII.
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(J) OompW sha11 mmAmr to lMnt
Po doliwrod to $uch of dsstoawrio ol"UrIO P soptrats for do
each Noathly bile period in 1110 ours >NSr~ao a~osit stations ,a
dorm oaoh station and the bUlr eo roadbr *411 biipo~ by Ovoeto
at a offtoo 1►oi~tbr Cortawr
( aHdlh ► Ain Irse to or* in
sttaohmd edttl.e of YrrlulgtvislRe,tet sh&U p 'r set livxl
to 01teLt~,~~+ ~ ~P~r to gas dol.orad
n HIIII IOJ., j gta" Slootrio uonoratlns Outiono but Ua oft3 ►
ainiaur, OWAVaa, upplivoab14 to as doliV*nd td OwtolOrl ft*l
11n LUaisrto i~rnsrotins Station >twUr this aogtwwA oirroio I
O the provisions of said WWulo of Yadustrial Aalwsp shy taw
Otinim" oharb Of 'ion Dollars ($10#00) per gonth.
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of mubnequont dof4cu,7L,, whol.hrr o-ll.ma,l,ur or d1.0,1jimilr11'.
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(1) 't'hin contract nlld n'ti. opert,Uon;, 11crounder aro nubjoot
to the applicab:ln f0derr,l "Id ntr,to J.awn tlncl tho applioabl.o ordi.
nancen, o^dera, rulon and rt?i;ulationtj of any 7,oon]., ntato or fodoral
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govornmontal authority havi.ru; or aenorting ,uri,ndi.obi on; but nothing,
contained herein shall be conntruud an a waiver of arty right to ques..
tion or content any euoh law, ordinanoo, ordor, rule or regulation in
any forum having ,jurisdiotion in tho promises,
(2) This contract shall be binding upon the parties .yoroto,
their successors, legal ropresentati.ves or aenigns, but shall not be
assignable by Customer withoul; the written consent of Company.
ARTICLE X.
(1) This contract suporoedos and exti,nGul,shen all prior
contraots between the ps,rtion, or thoir rospnotiva prodecaenors in
interest, for gas at the location and for the purponon heroin deeig-
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natodf and oonstitutos the enti.ro contract between tho parties,
(2) No representation or statement of any roprosentative
of Company shall be a part of this contract nor ati inducement to the
ext3oution horeof unless ineorporatod fully horoin,
WITIMIJ8 THE KKE'01JI.':CUN 11XIU DI' an of the
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JUN 3 01963 19
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MUTUAL HATU SCHEUULIs !1-1?%
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LONE STAR 00 COMPANY
STATE OF WMAS
Tho rate for' incluatrial gas sorViCe horoinaftor quoted is
availablo to any industrial gas customor who can bo sorvod by Companyts
!misting syBtem for industrita purposes, an olnesi,fied by Company, upon
the terms told ocnditions raoitod heroin and in the contract of which
this Itnto ,Sohedule forma a part, ,,his lute shall not be available for
Vtand-by use, but shall be availlablo only to customers purchasing from
Company thoir entire natural gas .tuol requAromonto at the premisoa or
locations sot out .1,11 the oontraot and whoso estimated fuel rogidromento
appraximato or oxooed 1.100,090 I40F per yoar. The gas dolivorod horoundor
is for tho individual use oi' cuotomOr and shall, not bo rooold.
The gas shall be monsuved at a oint.;Ie rooter location. Not
ratan shall. apply to bills paid within tc:n (10) dtlys from monbhv
billing date, obhnrwloo) f;ro;,s ratan rhtill. al,gy,
llil1t; for oustomrers 141110!1 tine connoobed for sarvico for
tRenty (20) or morn doyrs of tiny monthly billing period shall be com-
putod at the rate atatod for full month.V sorvico iu the saran mtulnor
as if the MUNtomor wnh coniioctad for, the full month, Yn computing
bills for uUstomorr connootod 1.9 d,,Vs or l.ovs of any monthly billing,
period, t110 quantitiov of gas in oath block of the rate shall bo re~
duced to 113 of its rogul.ar 11,1.7o (to t;io nearest, hundred cubic foot)
and the not bill for the .first bl.oolc rcducod to 1/3 01, the abated
amount, In all other respoets the provinions of the rate schedule
applies to all sorvice regardlaeu of the length of Limo connected,
0as servico under this Rate Schedule shall be subject to cur-
tAilment, interruption or discontinuance in any paxtioular service area
when necessary in the judgPiont of the Company for it to maintain domestic
and commoroial, sorvioe, and industrial. service, in accordance with the
priorities of service as herein provided. Such curtailment, intarrup-
tion or disoontinuanon shall ho made within the affected service area
in accordance with the following priorityt DomosLio and commercial
service, service ronderod under Company's Industrial I(ates l»N) 2-PP
and 3-?j and service rondarod under Company's hate fox, Public Schools
shall have priority and roooivh proforonoe over sorvica rondarod under
this hate Schadulo,
This Rabo uohodule shall not apply to the following.,
(a) Oas usod in any private rosidenool or in individual gas
applianoos in any rroidcntial unit]
(b) 0as usod in any rooming or boarding house, orplianage, old
people's home, dormitory, hoopital, tourist camp, hotel., apartment build..
ing or other building unad prim,ra,ily as living qudrtoro, exoopt gas used
as fuel, in contra], hoati,nr, plant and for water hoazting auxiliary thereto
if such central hoating plank. has a rntod hoat output equivalont to 30
or more boilor horsepower and a burnor oapaoi,ty of not lens than 1500
cubic feet of gas per hour, But in no ovont ryhall Rate 11-YX be avail-
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able for arU of the purposes herein onumovabed unloos Customer has pro-
vided stand-by equipment, for the use of other fuel., of at loant equal.
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eapaoity to that required heroin for gas service and fuel in storage
in an amount adequate to fulfill Customer's fuel requirements during
periods of i.ntorruption of Etas service in accordanco with this !fate
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(o) Oan used for hoatinr; buildings other than those enumer-
ated in (b) above, except whop Customer otherwise qualifies for an
industrial rate;
(d) Ons used for cookir-4; or food preparation oxcept whore
such oookirk, and food preparation serves oentral dining faoilities and
Oustomer othorwi so qualifies for an industrial rabe;
(e) Gas which Customer eloots to use under (Uompany+s domes-
tio and oonmia,rcial ratos;
(f) Other usoo whioh the Company may from time to time desig-
nate heroin.
IIATS ).I-IiX
ItATI;1
First 1,000 MCF per month -
27-1/11¢, net pr:r M0I0
Nrxt 11,000 MCP p;r month - 25,280, grons, 22-3/11O, not p o r PICF
Next 5,000 14CF' por month - 211:1'1¢ L,zon,s 21-
Next 7.0,000 MCP por month 23,(,10 L+Y..,o!in~ 21..1 11/, not per IIGF
Next 15)000 MCIP por month 23,060 rea8) 20- I not per MCI
Nett 2,000 NCI por month w 2250¢ f;rasn, 20-1/110 not per MC F
All Ovrr 50000 rCI, por month . 21.911,` groan, 19-311.1; not per MCI,
MONTHLY 14INIMUI1, WLI., A minimum ehcalge of "1,265,00 per month will be made
even though Cuetorrrar ";hall not have used sufflo,lent l;ac in nuch month to
malco the arnvunt of i,he bill equal, nuctr !$S:G5.O0,
ANNUAL 14TNIMU14 1311.1 - The total, of the not moublrly bJ.J.1s for any .full
contract yoar shall be not loos than A3,180,03 or oil;ht Limos the 7nrgest
not monthly bill for any monthly IxUllxnt: period endinr; between Ilecombrr 76th
and March 318t, J.nr,luni.vo, whi.chovou, i., hllrho v, "Iiicalu the total. of the
. net monthly bills for Bo <ontrnct yo.,ar be 1rsn thcui ouch amount, then
the difforonce uha.tl be paid at the s mo imo as tho bill for the twelfth
months ,nervica in thrit contract ,your,
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Contract provided for in Article IV of tnn for Industrial
Oas Service, this Rate Scnodulo is bused upon the delivery of gas having
an average total heating value of 1,000 British therma.i units per cubic
foot. Should the average total hooting value of gau delivered in any
monthly por~:u be more or .loss than 1,000 Dritish thermal units per
cubic foot, the total charges for such porio<i shall be increased or
deeroasod, respectively, in the porcontago by which the averages heating
value of such gas is greater or loss than 1,000 British thermal units
per oubio foot,
GO' COST A1?J(13'f rjN'NT CLAM
Tho foregoing mate J.s baued upon a weiehtod average cost of
gas purchased by Lone .Star Oas Oomp~,iy of thirteen conts (130 per 140F.
1 Wotghted avorneo cost of gas purchased, au used herein, Shall be the
weighted averago pried per MCF, computed at a pressure bacjo of )4 ounces
plus 1h,h pounds por square inch abuolute and at a tomp(,-raturc bauu of
00 degrcos i ahrrenheit, which is paid or accrued by Company to producers,
processors, tranriporters or other rlel7.c rs for gal, purchahed by the L'om-
party in Texas) and Oklshoma dUrinf; Corn1)c111y's late t av&Uablc, twelve
fiscal. monthu and shall include arty production tax paid or accruod by
Company or which Congpany pays or accrues to or for a11,y ))arson or
Company.
Whonover the weij;htrd avorngr, cont of rra;; purchc,ned is Mora
or 'Loss than thirteen centn (13~,) por ICI', thin ratr, shall be increased
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or douroased by the iunount of such di.fforrnco; prcvidod, howevor, that
in no event nhall any difforential. appliod cru an incroaso exceed two
and throe-fourths cents (2-3/110) por MCF durint, the period from the
date of the contract to and i,ncludint; june 30, 1966, in applyine the
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gas coat adjustment claune, the adjustmont shall be ooPputed to the
nearest one-hundredth of one oent,
AUJUS'll-I T rat TAXES, LICENSES, 1'fi~, CIIAJiC;b~3 AND RENTALS
This rate shall be subject tc proportional i.ncroaeo or dooroase
for any rtow, increased or doo.roasod excieo, liaonso, privilege, severance,
dedi,oNtion, franchise, gross receipts, rental., ueo, sales, or other char.
acter of taxes, chartres, licenses, excisos, rentals or elution, except ad
valorem and inoome taxes, measured by or i.rnposod upon the metering, pur-
chase, delivery, gross rooeipts, use or sale of gas, that may be levied
or charged ai'ter January 1, 1950, againot Company, diroc:Ly or indireotly,
by duly constituted governmental authoritios, including any such tares or
chargers for which Oonpany is liable throgh any contractual obligation to
reimburtiv othors, but not including any production tax included in the
oaloulatton of the weighted avorato cost of gas an provided in the Gas
Cost Adjustriont Clause,
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