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(A) Electrical bills shall be due and payable monthly at the office of the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer. The Municipal Clerk-Treasurer shall charge and collect from each customer the amount due to the Electric Department.
(B) Meters shall be read one time each month on or about the seventeenth day of each month. It shall be the duty of customers of the electrical system to pay their bill in net cash each month by mail or to appear at the office of the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer. The Municipal Clerk-Treasurer shall charge and collect from each customer the amount of electricity used since the last examination, together with any other charges, properly itemized, due the electrical system.
(Prior Code, § 3-306)
In the event that any customer’s meter falls out of repair or fails to register properly, the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer shall charge such customer the same amount billed one year prior to such disrepair. In the event that there is no such basis for comparison, the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer shall charge the customer such amount as he or she deems fair both to the customer and the municipality.
(Prior Code, § 3-309)
All electrical consumers shall be liable for the minimum rate provided by resolution unless and until the consumer shall, by written order, direct the Utilities Superintendent to shut off the electricity, in which case, he or she shall not be liable thereafter for electrical service until the electricity is turned on again.
(Prior Code, § 3-310)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. RS 17-902
(A) The electrical system does not guarantee the delivery of electric current over the lines of the distribution system, except when it has sufficient power, current, equipment and machinery to do so.
(B) The Utilities Superintendent has the power and authority to disconnect or discontinue such service for any good and sufficient reason without liability. The municipality shall use due care and reasonable diligence to provide and supply uninterrupted service to consumers but shall not be liable for damages resulting from an interruption of service due to causes over which the municipality has no control, and the municipality expressly reserves the right to discontinue or disconnect any consumer’s service without preliminary notice.
(Prior Code, § 3-311)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. RS 17-902
Contracts for electrical service are nontransferable. Any person wishing to change from one location to another shall make a new application. If any consumer shall sell, dispose or be removed from the premises where service is furnished in his or her name, or if said premises is destroyed by fire or other casualty, he or she shall at once inform the Utilities Superintendent, who shall cause the electrical service to be shut off from said premises. If the consumer should fail to give such notice, he or she shall be charged for all electricity used on said premises until the Utilities Superintendent is otherwise advised of such circumstances.
(Prior Code, § 3-312)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. RS 17-902
(A) Should any house or building moving occur or be necessary and it becomes necessary in said work to remove or disturb any of the property or wires of the municipal electrical system, the same should not be done except upon written permission received from the Utilities Superintendent, who shall then order paid in advance the actual cost of moving said wires, and such cost shall be paid by the applicant prior to the moving of the building or house.
(B) All expense of removing, changing and replacing said wires or apparatus of the municipal electrical system shall be paid out of the deposit made prior to moving, and any surplus remaining after all expenses are paid shall be returned to the applicant; provided, that if, in the course of moving said building or house, it becomes apparent that additional expense will be incurred, such additional deposit as deemed necessary may be demanded.
(Prior Code, § 3-313)
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