Contract

A properly executed contract, if required, is necessary before any service may be taken under this rate schedule.

Any Customer requesting new or increased service of 50 mcf or more under this rate shall execute a written contract for service for a period of not less than one year, specifying a maximum daily quantity of gas which the Company is obligated to deliver. Such contract shall continue in effect from year to year thereafter.

The minimum bill shall not be reduced for any billing month because of any interruption, suspension, reduction or curtailment of the delivery of gas except in the event it shall be due to, occasioned by, or in consequence of, a default of the Company, a strike or strikes of employees or workmen of the Company, differences between the Company and its employees or workmen, inability of the Company to secure gas or other material, supplies or equipment, failure of the gas supply, or curtailment or diminution of gas deliveries to the Company by its supplier or suppliers, breakage or failure of the Company's machinery, equipment, compressors, mains, pipes, delivery lines, storage or delivery facilities, federal, state or other governmental laws, orders, decrees, restraints or regulations applicable to the operations of the Company when, in any event, if the Company does not supply and deliver gas in sufficient quantity that the bill therefore calculated at the applicable rate is at least equal to the minimum monthly payment hereunder, then the minimum for such month shall be based on the maximum daily demand for the month multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the hours in the month that gas service was not curtailed, and the denominator of which is the total hours in the month.