(A) The city’s distribution and service facilities will be installed above ground on poles, towers or other fixtures; however, underground facilities may be provided when requested by the customer, in accordance with the city’s underground installation policy.
(B) The city may require the customer to perform any excavation conduits and backfill necessary for the installation of underground electric service and may require the customer to provide concrete foundation pads for transformers or other pad-mounted equipment associated with underground service. All work shall be in accordance with the city’s specifications.
(C) Service connections will be made as follows.
(1) Where both the city’s lines and the customer’s entrance conductors are above ground, and where the service agreement between the city and the customer is not to be made on one of the city’s electric service agreements. The city will extend its service conductors to the customer’s building, terminating them on the outside of the building at an attachment point provided by the customer at a location and route provided by the customer and satisfactory to the city for this purpose. As to electricity, the attachment point must be of sufficient height to satisfy the requirements of the National Electrical Safety Code and of applicable local and state codes, and the strength of the structure at the point of connections must be satisfactory to the city. The customer will provide and own all meter sockets or enclosures per city specifications, with the exception of 13 terminal meter bases. The customer will install all meter bases and enclosures. The city will make the necessary connections from its service conductors to the customer’s entrance conductors.
(2) Where both the city’s lines and the customer’s entrance conductors are below ground, or when one is above ground and the other is below ground, or where the size of the customer’s demand or any unusual character of the customer’s location requires the service agreement between the city and the customer to be made on one of the city’s electric service agreement, the city will make the necessary connections from its service conductors to the customer’s entrance conductors as in division (D)(1) above, if applicable, or as in division (D)(3) below, if applicable. If neither divisions (D)(1) above nor (D)(3) below is applicable, the connection shall be at a point to be agreed upon by the city and the customer.
(3) (a) When, in the city’s opinion, an individual transformer installation is necessary to serve the customer’s demand and the demand exceeds the capacity of a pole-type transformer installation, the city will require the customer to provide suitable outdoor space on the customer’s premises to accommodate a ground-type transformer installation, or substation.
(b) When the incoming service is overhead and the customer provides space for a ground-type transformer installation, or substation, the city will erect a structure outside of and immediately adjacent to the fence surrounding the installation, and will connect to the customer’s entrance conductors at that point. The city may require the customer to provide main disconnecting switches at the point of connection, which switches shall control all of the customer’s load other than the fire pump circuit, if any. In the event the space agreed upon for the installation is adjacent to one or more of the customer’s building walls, the city will connect to the customer’s entrance conductors on the outside of one of the walls.
(4) With respect to any service, after a service connection has been made it may be changed by the city upon request of the customer, but the customer must bear the expense of the change and the change will not be made where it will interfere with or jeopardize the city’s service either to the customer desiring the change or to any other customer or customers.
(Prior Code, § 11-20)