(A) Applicants for utility services, namely, gas, water, or electricity, or any two or three of such services, from the city shall make a utility deposit as set forth in the city’s fee schedule.
(B) If additional meters are required by the applicant, the deposit for each additional meter shall be as set forth in the city’s fee schedule.
(C) If any applicant’s service is disconnected as a result of the procedure set forth in § 50.02, that applicant’s service, on the first occasion of a disconnect, shall not be restored until the applicant pays a deposit as set forth in the city’s fee schedule.
(D) When the applicant ceases to require utility service and surrenders the meters to the city, the deposit shall be refunded to the applicant less any charges due to the city of the applicant.
(E) A consumer who has paid all prior utility indebtedness at another location in the city on or before the indebtedness became due for two years immediately preceding the application for new utility service shall not be required to make such deposit.
(F) All consumers who have made a utility deposit with the city shall have such deposit returned to them, provided the consumer has paid all utility indebtedness on or before the date the indebtedness is due, for two years prior.
(Prior Code, § 3-1101) (Ord. 385, passed 11-10-1980; Ord. 485, passed 8-3-1993; Ord. 663, passed 6-5-2008; Ord. 669, passed 7-15-2008; Ord. 721, passed 8-4-2015)