Section 322. Standard of pressure  


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  • The minimum pressure of gas so furnished
      or supplied which shall be permitted in any service  main  in  any  such
      city  shall  be sufficient to balance a column of water one and one-half
      inches in height. The maximum  pressure  therein  allowed  shall  be  an
      amount  sufficient  to balance a column of water three and three-fourths
      inches in height, plus  an  allowance  at  the  rate  of  one  inch  for
      variation  of  each  one  hundred  feet  of  increase in altitude in the
      distributing system between the holder and  the  point  of  consumption,
      except that no maximum pressure shall be prescribed in service mains the
      pressure  of  gas from which is regulated by service governors, supplied
      and maintained without charge to consumers.