The following rules of service shall apply:
(A) (1) The Superintendent of the Electrical Department may deny service to a customer, when in his opinion the wiring or equipment is unsafe or has objectionable characteristics. However, the city will cooperate with the customer in order to determine the necessary remedial action of 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 service. In the case of high motor starting current, violently fluctuating or intermittent loads, etc., city reserves and shall have the right to require customer to install, at the customer’s expense, transformers and apparatus to correct the objectional conditions. (These causes may include but are not limited to welders, hoists, elevator motors, pumps, and similar apparatus).
(B) 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 service are installed at customer’s request, to supply apparatus which may be abnormally sensitive to voltage, the cost of such substation or transformer is considered a corrective device under division (A) of this section, and shall be provided at the customer’s expense,unless at the discretion of the city, special circumstances require a reduction in the cost to the customer.
(C) The electric rates that are applicable to customers for industrial and commercial services are based on all such customers maintaining a power factor of not less than 85 % lagging. In the event a customer’s power factor is less than 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 85%.
(D) 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) 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 may be required to pay, at the discretion of the city, without refund, the installed cost of such corrective equipment shall remain the property of the city, at the city’s option. In lieu of such payment, and subject to approval by the City, a customer may elect to pay a monthly charge equal to 1.50% of the installed cost of such corrective equipment, installed by the city.
(Ord. 624, passed 9-20-93; Am. Ord. 635A, passed 1-17-94)