(a) Bills for all electrical current finished shall be rendered once each month and shall be due fifteen days after the date of billing.
(Ord. 121-82. Passed 9-27-82.)
(b) Bills for all electric homes may, at the option of the consumer, be placed on a budget plan by the consumer so informing the City during the month of May of each year with the year for billing purposes to begin on July first. Budget rates are to be determined by dividing the preceding twelve months bill by eleven with the twelfth month of the budget plan to be billed so as to adjust the year’s bill for over or underpayment by the consumer. The Service Director shall have the authority to adjust these budget rates to reflect the increase or decrease in cost to the City of obtaining this current and in the billing rate in force within the area served.
(c) Consumers from other than all electric homes may petition the Electric Committee of Council for budget plan for their homes. The granting of such requests shall be entirely within the discretion of such committee.
(d) Anyone applying for a budget plan of electric service billing shall be current in his past electric bills or be found to be ineligible for such plan until such time as he becomes current in payment.
(e) All consumers using a budget plan for payment of electric service shall be subject to the ten percent (10%) delinquency charge established in Section 921.05(a) for late payments on their bill.
(Ord. 10-78. Passed 3-27-78.)