(A) Every person desiring a supply of electric current must make application therefore to the city office, which application shall be on designated forms to the utility office at City Hall. The application must state truly and fully all the uses to which the electric current is to be applied and no additional use will be allowed except by permission of the city.
(B) When such application shall be made for electric services to the utility office, the city will run or cause to be run, supply wires or wires to the buildings of the consumer, if the same are located on premises abutting the distribution system of the city.
(C) New applicants for electric service shall be required to accompany their application with a service deposit in an amount set by City Council.
(D) All meters required for providing applicant with electric service shall be furnished, shall be set in place, and shall remain the property of the city. All service deposits shall be refunded to the consumer when service is no longer desired subject to the conditions as hereinafter provided. All such supply wires shall be considered the property of the city. Not more than one house or building shall be supplied from one connection except by special permission. No consumer shall be permitted to take current for residence or commercial electric purposes at power rates, nor shall any electrical apparatus be attached or suffered to remain attached to any power meter. It shall be unlawful for any person to employ any scheme, device, or contrivance for the purpose of evading the proper service and registration for any meter or to employ any scheme or device whereby he or she may obtain current which does not pass through the meter furnished him or her by the city. Finding electrical apparatus attached to a power meter or any device in or near any meter which causes the same to register incorrectly shall be prima facie evidence of the intent of the occupier of the premises, or of the consumer, to convert electric current to his or her own use, which is hereby declared unlawful, and the person convicted of a violation of the same shall be punished as hereinafter provided; and, in it shall appear to the Electric Commissioner that any electrical meter shall have been tapped or tampered with, he or she is hereby empowered to install or cause to be installed, at the consumer’s expense, a meter installed in iron conduit mechanically sealed in closed meter box accessible only to the Electric Commissioner or his or her agents.
(Prior Code, § 54.03) (Ord. 626, passed 3-24-1969; Ord. 1530, passed 6-13-1994; Ord. 1737, passed 9-22-2003)