Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-08-12
ORDINANCE NO. rs.

| An Ordinance establishing Board of Gas
/ Commissioners for the city of De
| Smet, and providing for the construction
and use of service mains by patrons of
the gas system of said city of De Smet.
! Be it ordained by the City Council of
the city of De Snet South Dakota.
Section l.. A Board of Gas Commission
ers for the city of De Smet is hereby estab-
| lished as follows: Said Board shall con.
sist of three members of the city council
of said city to be appointed by the mayor
and approved by the council at the first
regular meeting after the adoption and
4 approval of this ordinance and thereafter
at the first regular meeting of the city
council in May of each year. Their terms
shall be to the first regular meeting in
| May of each year and until their su ucces.
sors are duly appointed. The duties of
vided, The city auditor OF the city of De
/ Smet is hereby made and constituted ex-
| officio clerk of said Board
Section 2. The Board of Gas Commits
| sioners shall have full control of the Gas
! System of the city fDe Smet, the employ
| ment of persons connected herewith, the
purchase of supplies and the making of
| extentionS and REPAIRS; provided, how
ever, that all indebtedness incurred by
| them in the just and reasonable discharge
| OF their duties shall be duly audited and
council of said city, the same as other
bills; provided, however, that the said
| Board of Gas Commissioners shall have
| Joint control with the Board of Water
ment of the plant itself where said gas
| is generated and any and all questions in
| regard to the operation and management
| of the plant about which the said Boards
may be unable to agree shall be referred TO
the city council whose action thereon
shall be final.
Section B. Every person, firm or cor
poration desiring supply of gas from the
Gas System of said city of De Snct shall
make application therefor to the said
! Board oi Gas Commissioners IN such form
n. ha tNTa ri hP m
purpose and not more than one house or
consumer shall be supplied from one tap
of gas main.
Section A. The cost of construction from
the curb stone shall be paid by the person,
firm or corporation making application
for the use of gas,
Section 5. No person except a licensed
plumber under the ordinances of this city
of De Sinet shall lay service mains, pipe
buildings, attach fixtures, or make any
change in any appliance, fixture, or other
apparatus used for conducting the gas and
the burning OF the same.
Sections The said Board of Gas Com
missioners shall prescribe the rules, reg
ulations and requirements for the tap
ping of mains, the making of connections
Herewith and the uses to which the gas
may be put; and all fixtures, couplings,
connections, stop cocks, lamps, burners
and stoves SHALL be approved by the said
Board of Gas Commissioners and the gas
shall not be turned on at any place until
such piping, fixtures, couplings, connec
tions, lamps, burners and stoves have
been approved by said Board; and no
| changes or alterations of any kind what
ever shall be made in connection with the
use of gas from the gas system of said
CITY without being first approved by said
Board of Gas Commissioners, or in the
| piping, fixtures, couplings, connections,
| lamps, burners, or stoves or in any other
way whatever.
Section z. Every consumer of gas shall
provide himself with recording meter of
| proper capacity to be approved by said
Board of Gas Commissioners which meter
may be procured from said Board of
| Gas Commissioners on such terms as
! they may adopt.
| Section 8. The Board of Gas Cornffiis-
soners or their duly authorized agents
shall have free access to premises IN
(which gas from the gas system is used,
at all reasonable times TO determine IL the
| gas is properly used and TO examine PIP
| ing, fixtures, couplings, connections,
! lamps. burners or stoves and todetermine
| il the provisions of this ordinance ale
complied with and lawfully obeyed. Con,
sumers must at all times frankly and
! honestly answer all proper questions put
| to them relating to the use OF gas
Section o. All rents must be paid by
| the 10th of each month TO the city trea sur
| er at his office I'm said city, which rents
| case of nonpayment by the 10th of each
| month the gas will be cut off without
further notice.
| Section 10. Consumers shall pay the
p feet the sum 9nof' Of 80 90 two two dollars. No
| charge shall be less than fifty cents per
month. The meter shall be read Inonthiy
on the first OF each month. The rents
and charges as above fixed may be chang
ed at any regular meeting of the city
council, and upon vote OF a full councii.
Section IL. Every person taking gas
shall keep his own service pipes, hxtures,
connections aud couplings, stoves ana
lamps In good repair at his own risk ana
expense and II II expressly stipulated BY
said city of De Smet and Board OF Gas
shall be made against the said city ot
be smet or said Hoard by reason OF the