Section
54.01 Ownership of system
54.02 Consumer application
54.03 Contracts
54.04 Licensed electrician required
54.05 Installation expense
54.06 Meters
54.07 Fees and collections
54.08 Service deposit fund
54.09 Restricted use
54.10 Building moving
54.11 Posting signs
54.12 Access to equipment
54.13 Destruction of property
54.14 Antenna installations
54.15 Load management policy defined
54.16 Requirement and installation of load management device
54.17 Return or reattachment of load management device
54.18 Tampering with load management device unlawful
54.19 Installation of electrical appliances; reporting requirements
54.20 Policies and procedures
54.99 Penalty
The city owns and operates the city electrical system through the Electrical Foreperson, who is directly responsible to the City Administrator. 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 Treasurer. The City Administrator 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 ordinance set the rates to be charged for services rendered and shall file the same in the office of the City Clerk for public inspection at any reasonable time.
(Neb. RS 17-902 through 17-904, 17-906, 17-909) (Prior Code, § 3-301) (Ord. 800, passed 10-18-2005)
Every person or persons desiring electrical service must make application therefor to the City Administrator. Any applicant 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. Electricity may not be supplied to any house or building except upon the written order of the City Administrator. 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. Nothing herein shall be construed to obligate the city to supply electrical service to nonresidents.
(Neb. RS 17-902, 19-2701) (Prior Code, § 3-303) (Ord. 800, passed 10-18-2005)
(A) 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 the 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 Electrical Foreperson, under the direction of the City Administrator, 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 City Administrator or his or her agent.
(Prior Code, § 3-302)
(B) Contracts for electrical service are not transferable. Any person wishing to change from one location to another shall make a new application and sign a new contract. If any consumer shall sell, dispose, or remove from the premise where service is furnished in his or her name, or if the premise is destroyed by fire or other casualty, he or she shall at once inform the City Administrator, who shall cause the electrical service to be shut off from the premise. If the consumer should fail to give notice, he or she shall be charged for all electricity used on the premise until the City Administrator is otherwise advised of the circumstances.
(Neb. RS 17-902, 19-1404)
(Prior Code, § 3-304) (Ord. 800, passed 10-18-2005) Penalty, see § 54.99
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