8-2-9: USE OF SERVICE:
The following rules of service shall apply:
   A.   Safety Of Wiring And Equipment:
      1.   The City office may deny service to a customer when it is his opinion that the wiring and equipment are unsafe or have objectionable characteristics. However, the City will cooperate with the customer in order to determine the necessary remedial action for such characteristics.
      2.   All of the customer's lighting equipment, motor driven equipment, apparatus, and appliances shall have such characteristics or be equipped with corrective devices so as to enable the City to maintain a satisfactory standard of electric services. In the case of high motor starting current, violently fluctuating or intermittent loads, etc., the City reserves and shall have the right to require the customer to install, at the customer's expense, transformers and apparatus to correct the objectionable conditions. (These cases may include welders, hoists, elevator motors, pumps, and similar apparatus.)
   B.   Substations Or Transformers: When a separate or oversized substation or transformer must be installed specifically to eliminate the effect of the objectionable load characteristic, and the distribution system would otherwise have the capacity and equipment required to supply a normal load service of the same size, or where separate transformers and/or services are installed at customer's request, to supply such apparatus which may be abnormally sensitive to voltage, the cost of such substation or transformer is considered a corrective device under subsection A of this section, and shall be provided at the customer's expense.
   C.   Power Factor: The City utilities retain rates that are applicable to industrial and commercial services which are based on all such customers maintaining a power factor of not less than eighty five percent (85%) lagging. In the event a customer's power factor is less than eighty five percent (85%) during periods of normal operation, the city reserves the right to require customer to install at his own expense such corrective equipment as may be required to increase customer's power factor to not less than eighty five percent (85%).
   D.   Correction Of Objectionable Conditions: When a customer fails to install the necessary facilities on his premises to correct the objectionable conditions of his load or fails to prevent such objectionable conditions from interfering with the city's supply of satisfactory service to other customers, the city shall have the right to deny service to such customer until the objectionable conditions shall have been corrected in a manner satisfactory to the city.
   E.   Customer Liable For Cost Of Correction By City: Where corrective equipment is installed by the city on its distribution system to correct any objectionable conditions, the customer whose service caused the objectionable conditions will be required to pay the city, without refund, the installed cost of such corrective equipment, which said corrective equipment shall remain the property of the city. In lieu of such payment, and subject to approval by the city, a customer may elect to pay a monthly charge equal to one and twenty five hundredths percent (1.25%) of the installed cost of such corrective equipment installed by the city. (Ord. 1066, 9-19-1983)