(A) The following charges will be applied by MMU to cover the cost of connecting or reconnecting a meter or service.
Description of Service | Charge |
Description of Service | Charge |
(B) New Connects - Connecting utility service at any location where services have previously been disconnected or where the billing account name and/or account number changes, except as noted below (during normal business hours) | |
Residential | $10.00 |
Commercial | $20.00 |
Note: In the event that a spouse wishes to do a name change only on a residential account where there has been no change in location and no meter readings are required necessitating a service call, there will be no connection fee charged. | |
(C) New Connect - Connecting utility services at any location where services have been previously disconnected and where the billing account name and/or account number changes (after normal working hours). | |
Minimum: | $40.00 |
(D) Disconnecting and reconnecting utility services to any account due to non-payment (during normal working hours). | |
Minimum: | $25.00 |
(E) Disconnecting and reconnecting utility services to any account due to non-payment (after normal working hours). | |
Minimum: | $50.00 |
(F) Disconnecting and reconnecting utility services to any account that has been illegally reconnected by customer after the account was disconnected by MMED. In addition, all meter tampering charges shall apply as contained elsewhere in MMED rules and regulations. | |
Minimum: | $100.00 |
(G) Any miscellaneous service call that requires dispatching an employee and pickup truck for the convenience of the customer (during normal working hours). | |
Minimum: | $15.00 |
(H) Any miscellaneous service call that requires dispatching an employee and pickup truck for the convenience of the customer (after normal working hours). | |
Minimum: | $35.00 |
(I) Temporary service fee for temporary service installation | |
Minimum: | $60.00 |
(J) Processing fee for checks returned by the bank due to insufficient funds. When a check is returned to MMED by the customer's bank, a twenty-dollar ($20.00) service charge will be applied. If a customer has three (3) returned checks within a six (6) month period, the utility has the right to refuse any further personal checks from the customer for a twelve (12) month period. If collection trips are made, a charge of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per trip will be applied also. | |
Minimum: | $20.00 |
(K) Trouble Calls - The customer will pay twenty dollars (20.00) during MMED's normal office hours and sixty dollars ($60.00) at other times for service calls to their premises providing the trouble proves to be in the facilities for which the customer is responsible. These charges will appear on the customers next monthly billing. | |
Minimum: | $20.00 or $60.00 |
Note: Should the disconnect or reconnect require the service of MMED's service truck (bucket truck) during normal business hours, the minimum fee will be sixty dollars ($60.00). | |
(L) After-hours will be billed at actual cost with a minimum of one hundred dollars ($100.00). | |
Note: Any extra trips to the customers premises imposed by the customer will result in additional fees for each trip of fifteen dollars ($15.00). | |
(Ord. 2003-02, passed 1-21-03; Am. Ord. 2003-10, passed 4-21-03)