(A) Availability. This service is available to residential customers for general service who are located on the utility’s distribution lines and served through a single point of delivery and measured through one meter.
(B) Character of service. This schedule is for single-phase, alternating current at standard voltage as designated by the utility.
(C) Monthly bill. The monthly electric bill shall be calculated by adding the customer charge, the energy charge and any applicable rider charges as indicated in division (F) below. The energy charge will be calculated by multiplying the energy charge, shown on Appendix C of this chapter, by the monthly billed energy in kilowatt-hours (kWh).
(D) Minimum bill. The customer charge set forth in this schedule shall be the minimum bill.
(E) Terms of payment.
(1) All bills on the above schedule shall be rendered and due monthly. If not paid by the fifteenth day of the month following the date of the bill, there shall be added to bills of $3 or less a 10% penally to the amount of the bill. Bills in excess of $3 shall have a 10% penalty added to the first $3 of the bill plus a 3% penally to the amount of the bill in excess of $3.
(2) Remittances sent by mail on or previous to the fifteenth of the month as evidenced by the United States Post Office mark on the envelope in which they are received will be accepted as a tender of payment within the time limit. When the fifteenth falls on a Saturday, Sunday or on any legal holiday, the first business day thereafter shall be considered as being within the time limit.
(F) Rate riders. This rate schedule is subject to a power cost adjustment (PCA) factor as stated in Appendix D of this chapter and a rate stabilization adder (RSA) as staled in Appendix E of this chapter.
(G) Disconnection/reconnection. Whenever the service is disconnected for nonpayment of a bill, or for any reason beyond the control of the utility a reconnection of service is required by any customer, a disconnect/reconnect charge as listed in Appendix B of this chapter will be paid to the utility to cover a part of the cost of disconnection and reconnection of service.
(Ord. 14-2017, passed 10-10-2017)