Resolution 7699 RESOLUTION NO. 7699
WHEREAS, Peoples Water and Gas Company is a public utility
company and, as such, is rendering gas service within the corporate
limits of the City of Miami Beach under and subject to the provisions
of Ordinance No. 260, passed and adopted on November 6, 1928, and
ordinances and resolutions amendatory thereof and supnlemental
thereto, and
WHEREAS, on December 1, 1947, Peoples Water and Gas Company
arbitrarily placed in effect certain rates and charges for rendering
gas service in the City of Miami Beach, and at all times since
December 1, 1947, has been and at the present time is charging and
collecting such rates and charges for gas service rendered within
the corporate limits of the City of Miami Beach, and
WHEREAS, under the provisions of Chapter 26545, Laws of
Florida, 1951, the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission
is authorized andempowered to establish, impose and enforce rates
and charges for gas service rendered by Peoples Water and Gas Company
within the corporate limits of the City of. Miami Beach, and
WHEREAS, under the provisions of said Chapter 26545, Laws
of Florida, 1951, the rates and charges now being charged and col-
lected by Peoples Water and Gas Company for gas service rendered
within the corporate limits of the City of Miami Beach are subject
at all times to the regulatory authority and control of the Florida
Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, and
WHEREAS, it is the belief of the members of the City Council
that the rates and charges which Peoples Water and Gas Company is
charging and collecting at the present time for rendering such gas
service are excessive and therefore? in the ini;erest of the public,
should be reduced by the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities
Commission;
NOW., THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF MIAIviI BEACH, FLORIDA:
THAT the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission is
hereby requested and urged to issue an official order forthwith re-
quiring Peoples Water and Gas Company to show cause at a public hear-
ing to be held as soon as practicable why the rates and other charges
now being charged and collected by such Company for gas service ren-
dered within the corporate limits of the City of Miami Beach should
not be reduced upon the ground that such rates and charges are exces-
sive and contrary to the public interest, such public hearing to be
held in the City of Miami Beach to enable representatives of said
City and the customers of said Company to take such action at and in
connection with such public hearing as may be advisable;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the City Clerk is hereby
authorized and directed to send a duly authenticated copy of this
resolution by registered mail to the Secretary of the Florida Rail-
road and Public Utilities Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, as
official notification to said Commission of the action taken hereby.
PASSE) and ADOPTED this 8th day f July A. D. 1951.
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Attest: ,c Mayor
ity Clerk
OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY - CITY HALL - MIAMI BEACH 39, FLORIDA
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