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Florida City Gas FPSC Natural Gas Tariff Volume No. 9 Original Sheet No. 26 RULES AND REGULATIONS (Continued) 19. EQUIPMENT FINANCING If the Company agrees to provide the necessary natural gas conversion or compression equipment, an agreement as to terms and conditions governing recovery of such conversion costs from the Customer may be entered into and the initial contract term of gas service shall at a minimum be the same as the period of recovery stated in the agreement. Further, the rates established in the monthly rate section may be adjusted to provide for recovery by the Company of the costs incurred, including carrying cost at the Company's overall cost of capital; in providing such natural gas conversion equipment. At such time when the Company has recovered its costs of providing the natural gas conversion equipment the ongoing gas deliveries shall be billed at rates stated in the Customers applicable Rate Schedule. 20. TAXES AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS There will be added to all bills rendered all applicable local utility and franchise taxes, State sales taxes and gross receipts tax presently assessed by governmental authority, as well as any future changes or new assessments by any governmental authority subsequent to the date of any Rate Schedule. All such assessments as described above shall be shown on Customer bills. 21. BUDGET BILLING PLAN Available to any Residential Customer as defined under the Technical Terms and Abbreviations of this tariff. A Customer may elect to enroll in the Company's Budget Billing Plan to help stabilize their monthly payments. To qualify for the Budget Billing Plan, a Customer must be a year-round Customer and have no balance owing when beginning the plan. Following a Customer's request to participate in the Budget Billing Plan the Company shall have 45 days in which to determine the Customer's eligibility and process an enrollment to initiate billing under the plan. If a Customer requests the Budget Billing Plan, the initial budgeted payment amount will be based on the average of the previous 12 months usage normalized for weather applied to the then current or Company projected billing rates, and shall include any regulatory fees or taxes applicable to the Customer. If the Customer has not received Gas Service from the Company for the preceding 12 months, the Company will use the best information available to calculate the initial monthly payment amount. The total deferred debit or credit balance will be shown on the Customer's bill. The Company reviews all budget payments and resets them annually on or about August of each year. On such recalculation, one -twelfth of any debit or credit deferred balance will be added to the following year's recalculated budgeted monthly payment amount. However, a Customer may request a payment of a credit balance in which case the recalculated amount will be adjusted to reflect the removal of the credit balance. In addition, the Company also performs a semi-annual review and may adjust the budget payment if it varies by more than $5.00 or 10% whichever is less. Issued by: Carolyn Bermudez Effective: Vice President, Southern Operations Florida City Gas