CHAPTER 53: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Section
General Provisions
   53.01   Ownership
   53.02   Contracts and terms
   53.03   Consumer's deposit
   53.04   Licensed electrician
   53.05   Installation expense
   53.06   Meters
   53.07   Minimum rates
   53.08   Service deposit fund
   53.09   Restricted use
   53.10   Construction and landscaping
   53.11   Trimming trees
   53.12   Rates
   53.13   Inspections
   53.14   Destruction of property
Cogeneration
   53.30   Purpose
   53.31   Definitions
   53.32   Interconnections with qualifying facilities
   53.33   Rates for sales of electric energy to qualifying facilities
   53.34   Rates for purchases of electric energy from qualifying facilities
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 53.01 OWNERSHIP.
   The city owns and operates the city electrical system through the Director of Public Works. The City Council, for the purpose of defraying the cost of the care, management, and maintenance of the city electrical system, may each year levy a tax not exceeding the maximum limit prescribed by state law, on the actual valuation of all real estate and personal property within the corporate limits that is subject to taxation. The revenue from the tax shall be known as the Electrical Fund and shall remain in the custody of the City Clerk/Treasurer. The Director of Public Works shall have the direct management and control of the city electrical system and shall faithfully carry out the duties of his or her office. He or she shall have the authority to adopt rules and regulations for the safe and efficient management of the electrical system subject to the supervision and review of the City Council. The City Council shall by resolution set the rates to be charged for services rendered and shall file the same in the office of the City Clerk/Treasurer for public inspection at any reasonable time.
(Neb. RS 17-902 through 17-904, 17-906, and 17-909) (1973 Code, § 3-1001)
§ 53.02 CONTRACTS AND TERMS.
   The city, through its Electrical Department, shall furnish electric current for light and power purposes to persons whose premises abut on any supply wire of the distribution system and may furnish electric current to any other persons within or without its corporate limits, as and when, according to law, the City Council may see fit to do so. The rules, regulations, and rates for electric service, hereinafter named, in this chapter, shall be considered a part of every application hereafter made for electric service and shall be considered a part of the contract between every consumer now served by the Electrical Department. Without further formality, the making of application on the part of any applicant or the use or consumption of electric energy by present customers and the furnishing of electric service to the applicant or customer shall constitute a contract between applicant or customer and the city, to which both parties are bound. If customer should violate any of the provisions of the contract or any reasonable rules and regulations that the City Council may hereafter adopt, the Director of Public Works, or his or her agent, shall cut off or disconnect the electric service from the building or place of the violation and no further connection of electric service for the building or place shall again be made save or except by order of the Director of Public Works or his or her agent.
(1973 Code, § 3-1002)
§ 53.03 CONSUMER'S DEPOSIT.
   (A)   Every person or persons desiring electrical service may be required to make a service deposit in the amount as has been set by the City Council and on file at the office of the City Clerk/Treasurer. Electricity may not be supplied to any house or building except upon the order of the Director of Public Works. The system shall not supply to any person outside the corporate limits electrical service without special permission from the City Council; provided, that the entire cost of wire, installation, and other expenses shall be paid by the consumer.
   (B)   Nothing herein shall be construed to obligate the city to supply electrical service to nonresidents.
(Neb. RS 17-902, 19-2,701) (1973 Code, § 3-1003)
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