The following definitions apply whenever said terms appear in these rules.
(a) Consumer: Any person who is the ultimate user of utility services provided by the Service Village.
(b) Customer: Any person or entity who enters into a contractual agreement with the Service Village to receive or to pay for utility services provided by the Service Village. Customers may, but need not, be consumers of the services provided under such a contractual agreement.
(c) Consumer Household: Any service address in which the customer who is contractually liable for utility services furnished to that address does not reside.
(d) Customer Household: Any service address in which the customer who is contractually liable for utility services furnished to that address resides.
(e) Billing Address: The address at which the customer contractually liable for utility services furnished to a service address receives billing from the Service Village. Billing addresses may, but need not, be the address at which said services are received.
(f) Service Address: Any individual address at which utility services are furnished a consumer or customer. The singular may include the plural. Most service addresses will be individually metered. However, in apartment buildings, apartment complexes, duplex apartments, etc., one meter may supply more than one household. In such circumstances, each individual apartment is a separate service address as that term is used herein.
(g) Village Administrator. The Village Administrator shall be empowered and required (when good cause is shown) to compromise and adjust billings; negotiate, defer and compromise disputes as to service requirements or payment demands and to cancel disconnection and/or order reconnection. The Village Administrator shall strive to arrange reasonable alternate methods of payment, or reasonable security for payment, in order to preserve utility service, and shall maintain residential utility service, without discrimination. The Village Administrator shall preside at hearings held pursuant to these rules.
(Ord. 94-1. Passed 2-7-94.)