Charges for gas transportation services rendered under this Rate Schedule shall be billed separately from service rendered under any other tariff (except other Transportation Rates) to the Customer by the Company. All bills for gas transportation and transportation balancing service 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 three dollars ($3.00) or less, ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bill; and to bills in excess of three dollars ($3.00), there shall be added ten percent (10%) of the first three dollars ($3.00) of the bill, plus three percent (3%) of the bill in excess of three dollars ($3.00

The Company shall have the right at any time, and from time to time, to interrupt or limit the delivery of gas to the Customer hereunder whenever the Company does not have, for any reason, sufficient capacity at any point in its distribution system to maintain adequate service to its general gas customers and to render transportation service hereunder. When, due to such operational constraints, interruption or limitation of service hereunder is invoked by the Company, it will invoke such interruption or limitation ratably among Customers receiving service hereunder, affecting such operational constraints.

Neither the Company nor the Customer shall be liable to the other for damages caused by the interruption, suspension, reduction or curtailment of the delivery of gas hereunder due to, occasioned by, or in consequence of, any of the following causes or contingencies, via: acts of God, the elements, storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, sleet, floods, lightning, earthquakes, landslides, washouts or other revulsion of nature, epidemics, accidents, fires, collisions, explosions, strikes, lockouts, difference with workmen or other industrial disturbances, vandalism, sabotage, riots, inability to secure cars, oil, coal, fuel or other materials, supplies or equipment, breakage or failure of machinery, equipment, compressors, mains, pipes, delivery lines, storage or delivery facilities, wars, insurrections, blockades, acts of the public enemy, arrests and restrains of rulers and people, civic disturbances, federal, state or other governmental laws, orders, decrees, restraints or regulations, the Company's inability to secure natural gas, or failure of the natural gas supply, or curtailment or diminution of natural gas deliveries to the Company by its supplier and any other causes or contingencies not within the control of the party whose performance is interfered with, whether of the kind herein enumerated or otherwise.