In addition to the charges imposed by this chapter, the following service fees are hereby established:
(a) Gas Tap Fee. A gas tap fee shall be charged, in addition to the above mentioned charges, to each customer requesting a gas tap permit based on the size of the service line used to make the gas tap as follows:
Gas Tap Fee Inside the City corporation limits $400.00 Outside the City corporation limits $525.00 |
Note: An additional $75.00 charge will be assessed should the customer desire an emergency shut-off valve.
(b) Equity Connection Fees. At its discretion and expense, the City may, from time to time, construct additional mains and service facilities in public rights of way or easements. When an improvement or addition to a utility system made by the City at its expense makes service possible in a new location where such service did not previously exist, or improves already existing service, but such improvement or addition is not made for the purpose of benefitting the utility system as a whole, such as by improving the reliability, longevity, capacity or interconnective network of the utility system, such addition or improvement shall be known as a “local main extension”. When an improvement or addition to a utility system made by the City at its expense is made for the purpose of benefitting the utility system as a whole, such as by improving the reliability, longevity, capacity or interconnective network of the utility system, but such improvement or additional can also safely be tapped to make service possible in a new location where such service did not previously exist, or improve already existing service, such an addition or improvement shall be known as a "feeder main extension”. When a connection or tap is made to the City's gas system in a public right of way or easement by an abutting owner or developer for the purpose of providing new service, and where the owner of the lot or parcel to receive such new service has not previously paid an equitable share of the City's cost of extending the main into which the connection or tap is made, the owner of the abutting lot shall pay the City an equity connection fee in order to assist in the recovery of the City's cost of extending the main into which the abutting owner has connected or will connect. The equity connection fee shall be determined as follows:
(1) Local main extension: Where a tap or connection is made to what has previously been constructed as a local main extension, a uniform fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per lineal foot of frontage of the lot or parcel abutting the gas main shall be paid to the City. In the event such lot or parcel of real estate abuts a street, alley, right of way or easement in which such gas main is located on more than one side, the frontage used shall be the shortest lot line distance that such lot or parcel of real estate has abutting the street, alley, right of way or easement in which the connecting main is located; and in the event such abutting lot parcel of real estate is not rectangular, the frontage used shall be the number or lineal feet produced by averaging the front line and the rear lot line, or one-half of the front lot line if the lot or parcel forms a triangle.
(2) Feeder main extension: Where a tap or connection is made to a feeder main extension or residential or commercial building, which existed at the time the feeder main project was approved, along the abutting right of way or easement, shall be permitted to connect to such feeder main for an equity connection fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) per lineal foot for the lesser of either the actual footage of the lot or parcel of real estate or 100 feet of frontage along such abutting right of way or easement. All subsequent attachments are subject to the local main extension fees for actual frontage.
The equity connection fee shall be paid in full to the City before a gas tap is authorized and the connection is made.
(c) Involuntary Disconnection: Reconnection Fee. In the event gas service to customer under Schedule “RS,” Schedule “CS,” Schedule “IS,” or Schedule “OCS” is involuntarily discontinued for any reason other than the City's inability to serve, the City shall be under no obligation to restore service at that location until the City first receives payment of a reconnection fee which is equal to the sum of the monthly customer service charge for each of the months between the time the service was discontinued and the time service is restored up to a maximum of twelve monthly customer charges, any remaining payments due for service provided prior to the discontinuation of service, and the service turn-on fee as set forth in this section.
(d) Voluntary Disconnection: Reconnection Fee, In the event gas service to customers under Schedule “RS”, Schedule “CS,” Schedule “IS,” or Schedule “OCS” is voluntarily discontinued for any reason, the City shall be under no obligation to restore service at that location until the City first receives payment of a reconnection fee which is equal to the sum of the monthly customer service charge for each of the months between the time the service was discontinued and the time service is restored up to a maximum of twelve monthly customer charges, any remaining payments due for service provided prior to the discontinuation of service, and thirty-five dollars ($35.00).
(e) Service Turn-on Fee. A service turn-on fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) shall be charged to each new customer under Schedule “RS,” Schedule “CS,” Schedule “IS,” or Schedule “OCS” and included in the initial service bill. This fee shall also be charged to customers requesting reconnection subsequent to an involuntary disconnection as set forth in this section.
(f) Miscellaneous Fees. The following fees shall be charged to Schedule “RS,” Schedule “CS,” Schedule “IS,” or Schedule “OCS” customers for the following services performed, or arranged to be performed, by the Gas Department:
Service Miscellaneous Fee Special meter reading and/or Special appointment at request of customer $15.00 Inside City $25.00 Outside City After Hours Calls Actual costs of labor and materials multiplied by 1.3 (Regular hours are 7:30 A.M. - 4P.M., Monday-Friday, excluding holidays) Gas meter testing Actual cost of labor and materials multiplied by 1.3 Remote gas meter installation Actual cost of labor and materials multiplied by 1.3 |
(Ord. 62-98. Passed 12-14-98.)