1351 ORD PRESCRIBING AND REGULATING RATES AND CHARGES FOR LOCAL EXCHANGE TELEPHONE SERVICE FURNISHED IN COP/3,S/
ORDINAIVCE V0. 14-58 .
AN ORDIP1MCE FRESCRIBING atiD REGULATIrvG i HE RATES ;4[iD CHARGES
FOR LOCAL EXCHANGE TELEPHONE SERVICE rURP1ISHED ii1 THE CITY 0F PARIS,
TEXAS BY SOUTHUdESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COh1PANY UIvDER FRA_"~CHISE ISSUED
AND GRANTED BY THE CITY Or PARIS.
VVHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1252, adopted by the City Council of
the City of Paris on the 8th day of October, 1951, authorized and
established certain rates and charges to be made by Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company for various classes of service rendered in the City
oi Paris by said company under franchise from said City; and,
WHEREAS, by application dated October 20, 1954 duly filed with
the City of Paris, presented vo and fully considered by the City
Council, Southwestern Bell Tel.ephone Company has made formal applica-
tion for an increase in local exchange rates and charges for the
various classes of service; arid,
GJHEREAS, extensive hearings on such application have been held
and conducted by a committee of the Council under authorization of and
from the Council, and report of its findings and recommendations duly
made and submitted to the Council, iollowing which the Council by re-
solution adopted on June 13, 1955 for:nally denied and rejected such
application; and,
_NHEREAS, Soui:hwestern 3e11 Telephone Company immediately
following the action of the Couneil in denying such application for
rate increases filed in the Sixty-Second Judicial District Court of
Lamar County, Texas itsapplication and petition for a permanent in-
junction wherein and whereby said company alleges that the telephone
rates and charges authorized and established by the above mentioned
ordinance No. 1252 have become confiscatoxy in that they do not allow
and provide for a fair rate of return on the fair value of telephone
company pronerty used and useable in connection with the operation and
maintenance of the raris District Exchange, based upon which allega-
tion the telephone company seeks under the protection of such injunc-
tion to immediately place into effect a certain specified schedule of
rates and charges for telephone services, which proposed schedule,
rates and charges are, in the apinion of the Council, grossly excessive
and will unquestionably produce earnings fcr the telephone company in
excess of a fair rate of return on the fair value of the property of
said company used and useable in connection with the operation and
maintenance of the Paris District Exchange; and,
u'JHER;A5, the nereinafter schedule of rates for local exchange
telephone service will unquestionably produce for Southwestern 3e11
Telephone Company a fair rate of return on the fair value of such
properties; and,
WHEREAS, it is the opinion and belief of the City Council that
the enactment and adoption of such hereinafter established schedule of
rates and charges is in the best interests of the welfare of the City
of Paris and telephone subscribers in said City in that the establish-
ment cf the same is essential iri order to defeat the design and purpose
of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company to place into effect a much
higher schedule of rates and charges under the protection and authority
of the permanent injunction which it seeks in the above mentioned suit
pending in the Sixty-Second Judicial District Court of Lamar County,
Texas; NOiU, THEREFORE:
BE IT ORDAIPIED ?3Y THE CITY OOUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS:
Section 1. That Southwestern 3e1.1 Telephone Company be
authorized and place inta effect on the lst day of August, 1955 the
following schedule of rates for local exchange service in the Paris
District Exchange in accordance with the provisi.ons of the Charter of
the City of Paris and the franctlise granted to said company by said
City, to-wit:
~
Class of Service
Gne Party Business Flat Rate
Business Extension Station Flat
One Party Residence Service
Two Party Residence Service
Four Party Residence Service
Residence Extension Station
Commercial PBX Trunk
Commercial PBX Station
Semi-Public Service (Guarantee)
Local Messages Under Guarantee-each
Local Messages Over Guarantee-each
Coin Telephone Charge Per Local Message
Extension Semi-Public - Coin
Extension Semi-Public - Non-Coin
Monthlv Rate
~SD
~Q 0
tD
3
'0
See' a), below
1.50
.24 per day
.05 (See Sec.
.04 (See Sec.
.05 (See Sec.
1.50
1.00
(a) The rate for a flat rate PBX Trunk is one and
one-half times the rate for one party business
flat rate service.
Rates andcharges for miscellaneous services and equip-
ment shall remain as heretofore established except as
superseded by those rates and charges containEd in the
Schedule of Miscellaneous Rates and Charges attached
hereto and made a part hereof; provided, however, that
Southwestern Be11 Telephone Company shall have -the
right to file f-rom time to time with the City ;lerk
different rates and chargeF for such miscellaneous
services and equipment, such different rates and
charges to become ef:ective 30 days after filing unless
oi:herwise ordered by the City Council.
5ection 2. That authc>rity to increase tiie charge for local
messages from coin box telephones to ten cents (10fl per message is
hereby granted, to become effective when -the Telephone Company com-
pletes equipment modifications necessary to the due rendition of
telephone service frem such coin box telephones on this basis.
With the making effective of a charge of ten cents for local
messages from such coin box telephones, the rate to the subscriber
to semi-public coin box telephune service shall be eight and three-
quarters cents (8 3/4fl per message for calls over the daily
guarantee and ten cents (10¢) per message for calls unc:er the daily
guarantee.
Sectirn 3. Al1 ordinances heretofore passed by the City
Council of the City of Paris in ccnflict with any provision of this
ordinance relatir.g tc the establishment of rates and charges for
telephone service are here'oy repealed.
Section 4. fJotning in tnis ordinance contained shall be
construed now or hereaiter as limitino or modifying, in any manner,
the right and power of ttie city under the law to regulate the rates
and charges cf Southwestern 3e7.1 Telephone Comparly.
Sectior. 5. ihis ordinance shall become eI'fective
/a / 9 .6 S
Passed and
in regular session
ATTEST:
City Clerk
APFROVED AS TC rG:-t1,r?:
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! City Attorney.
adohteu by the Cit C'~ouncil of the City of Paris
convened on 1.his 1 u`'-day cf July, 195`5.
fMayor
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