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2. Section 12-4.1. Surcharge on county residential customers. • Individually metered residential customers located outside the corporate limits of the city, who are subject to a $2.00 maximum monthly charge for the Albemarle County consumer utility tax, shall be subject to a surcharge equal to eight percent of their monthly gas bills, excluding taxes. Section 12-6. Interruptible service. (a) Conditions. Interruptible gas service shall be supplied at locations where facilities are available to supply the amount of gas requested by the consumer, subject to the following conditions: (1) Gas delivered hereunder shall be separately metered and shall not be used interchangeably with gas supplied under any other schedule; (2) The consumer shall have installed and available for immediate use equipment which will use some other fuel and which can be put in operation within two hours after being notified by the city. (b) Customer's agreement. A customer purchasing gas pursuant to this section agrees to discontinue the service when requested by the city manager or his or her representative on two hours' notice, at any time whenever in the sole judgment of the city manager, such gas is not available for delivery hereunder. If the customer continues to use • or consume gas under this section after being notified by the city manager or his or her representative, the customer shall be billed for all gas so consumed at a rate of ten dollars per thousand cubic feet and the city shall, as soon as the violation comes to its attention, terminate service to the customer until the period of interruption is over. (c) Minimum monthly charge. The minimum monthly charge under this rate shall be three-hundred-sixty-twe five hundredei ht -three dollars for the first one hundred thousand cu is eet or ractiona part thereof; provided, that when the supply of gas available in any one month shall be less than ninety-four thousand five hundred cubic feet due to the service having been interrupted as hereinbefore described, the minimum monthly charge shall be waived and the customer charged at the rate of three-dollars-aad-sixty-twe five dollars and eighty-three cents per thousand cubic feet for gas actually delivered Turing —t -Ye --b il ling month. (d) Rate. For all gas consumed in excess of such minimum, the rate shall be three-dellars-and-sixty-Ewe five dollarsand eei ht - three cents per thousand cubic feet. lnterrxpti e-eusEemrs-eNside tYe—city-liffiits-shall-pay-a-rate-tea-pereent-higher. (e) Contract required. Before service is turned on under this section, the customer shall agree in writing to abide by the terms • and conditions of this section.