All bills under this schedule shall be rendered and due monthly. If not paid within seventeen (17) days after the bill is mailed, there shall be added to bills of $3.00 or less, 10% of the amount of the bill; and to bills in excess of $3.00 there shall be added 10% of the first $3.00, plus 3% of the amount of the bill in excess of $3.00.

A properly executed contract is required before any service may be taken under this rate schedule. The contract entered into between the Company and a Customer hereunder shall continue for a fixed period of one or more years from the date thereof, such number of years to be agreed upon by the Company and the Customer, and from year to year thereafter, subject to the right of either party to terminate the same at the end of such agreed period or of any such year to year extension thereof by written notice to the other given not less than sixty (60) days prior to the date of such intended termination, but the obligation of the Company hereunder shall in no event extend beyond the termination of the initial term or of the then current renewal term at the time said written notice of termination is given. It shall be proper for the Company and any Customer applying for and receiving service hereunder to specify in said contract such provisions as may be agreed upon between the Company and the Customer with respect to the Customer's obligation to use gas whenever the same is made available to Customer by the Company and with respect to Customer's equipment that is to be supplied with the gas service furnished hereunder, and the maximum obligation of the Company to supply during the period gas is served. The prices herein quoted, and the period to which the said prices apply, relate essentially to gas service supplied during off-peak periods, such gas becoming available to the Company during such off-peak periods, and the Company shall enter into contracts only to such extent, in the Company's sole determination, as can be served from the supply available during such periods.

The equipment served hereunder must be on a meter separate from any other gas consuming equipment, and will be billed separately and independently of any other usage of the Customer.