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At the time of installation, the location of all electric service lines shall be depicted and identified on a photocopy of a plat of the portion of the village in which the service line is installed, and a copy thereof shall be maintained by the Village Electric Department for future reference by the Electric Department, the Water Department, and any other utility company or private owner who may wish to refer thereto for reasons of safety and to avoid the nuisance and costs of interfering with an existing electric line in place when excavating for other purposes.
(Ord. 95-16, passed 3-28-95; Am. Ord. 16-15, passed 4-26-16)
The village is the owner of all electric lines and equipment from the village substation through and including the customer electric meters. The village's liability and responsibility for maintenance of the system ends at the customer's property line.
(Ord. 95-16, passed 3-28-95; Am. Ord. 16-15, passed 4-26-16)
Before performing any digging or excavation work in any area of the village where there are underground cables, residents of the village shall contact the Electric Department and the Electric Department shall, within one working day of such contact, come to the premises where the digging or excavation is to take place, and shall locate any underground cables for the resident free of charge. Any person who damages an underground cable through digging or excavation and has not complied with this section shall be liable to the village for the cost of any repairs which the village has to make to its underground cables.
(Ord. 95-16, passed 3-28-95; Am. Ord. 16-15, passed 4-26-16)
(A) Customers of the village electric system shall be responsible for installing any necessary protective equipment to protect the village electric system from interference and damage by customer equipment.
(B) No customer shall cause harmonics of 60 cycles per second to be applied to the village's electric system which could adversely affect the village's system or the equipment of other customers. The arithmetic sum of the harmonics of 60 cycles per second in the voltage and current wave forms must be less than 10%, with no single harmonic in excess of 5%.
(C) No customer shall install equipment for the generation of electric power which can be operated in parallel with the village electric system without prior express written approval of the Village Administrator. The village may elect to have all plans, specifications, etc., for all such generation and connecting devices submitted to a qualified expert for review prior to installation thereof. All costs for such review shall be billed to the customer.
(D) When a customer desires to install or use stand-by generating facilities for the purpose of supplying customer's energy requirements in the event of interruption of the village's normal supply, a written service agreement shall be entered into before such facilities are installed or used. To prevent parallel operation of customer's stand-by generating facilities with the village's service, back feed to the village's distribution system and damages to the customer's facilities, the customer shall be required to install a non-fused, double throw switch, or when approved by the village, non-fused double throw switches, acceptable to the village, for transferring the customer's load from the village's normal source of supply to the customer's stand-by generation.
(E) All grounding conductors for service shall be installed, owned and maintained by the customer. All meter boxes and enclosures shall be permanently grounded in accordance with the latest addition of the village Electrical Code. Temporary services shall be grounded by a grounding rod of ten feet in length driven two feet below the surface.
(Ord. 95-16, passed 3-28-95; Am. Ord. 16-15, passed 4-26-16)
ELECTRIC EXTENSION FOR NEW RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISIONS
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOND CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS. Refers to any contracts or undertakings of the village in connection with any bond ordinance or bond issue of the village.
DEVELOPER. Refers to persons, firms or corporations which own the land in a New Residential Subdivision at the time of its final platting.
ELECTRIC SYSTEM BOND ORDINANCE. Refers to "An Ordinance Authorizing and Providing for the Issuing of $ 1,100,000 Electric System Revenue Bonds for the Village of Chatham, Sangamon County, Illinois, for the Purpose of Defraying the Cost of Purchasing an existing Electric Substation Site from Central Illinois Light Company and for the Improvement of that Substation Facility in the Village of Chatham, Illinois", Ordinance No. 86-9.
NEW RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION. Refers to a subdivision, at least 80% of the land of which is zoned residential, the final plat for which is accepted by the village on or after August 1, 1990.
VILLAGE. Refers to the Village of Chatham, Illinois.
(Ord. 95-16, passed 3-28-95; Am. Ord. 16-15, passed 4-26-16)
Electric systems for all new residential subdivisions shall be constructed by the village as set forth in these regulations, and developers shall be eligible for partial rebates of the electric system costs for such subdivisions, only by complying with these regulations.
(Ord. 95-16, passed 3-28-95; Am. Ord. 16-15, passed 4-26-16)
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