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Every person desiring a supply of electric current shall make application therefor to the city upon blanks to be furnished for that purpose, which application shall be made to the Utilities Manager in the city’s Water and Light Building. The application shall state truly and fully all the uses to which the electric current is to be applied, and no additional use will be allowed except by permission of the city or the Utilities Manager.
(Prior Code, § 52-33)
(A) Overhead service wires. When an application shall be made for electric service to the city and accepted by the Utilities Manager, the city will run or cause to be run overhead service wires, when the service is available, to the customer’s attachment at the nearest reasonable location on the building or pole of the applicant or customer, and thereafter will keep the service wires in good repair and safe condition at the expense of the city. The wires for overhead service shall be considered the property of the city.
(B) Underground service wires. If the customer requests underground service, the service wires shall be the property of the customer and the customer shall be responsible for keeping the underground service wires in good repair and in a safe condition.
(C) Deposit. Applicants for electric service shall be required to accompany their application with a service deposit, to ensure the prompt payment of electric service bills and other charges, in an amount in each case as the Manager shall determine, taking into consideration the volume of service and the type of meter necessary to measure the volume of service under conditions acceptable to the manager. A financial guarantee bond may be substituted in lieu of the required cash deposit. All meters and instrument transformers required for measuring electric current used by the applicant or customer shall be furnished, shall be set in place and shall remain the property of the city. All service deposits shall be managed by the city and shall be refunded to the customer when service is no longer desired, subject to conditions as provided in this chapter. Not more than 1 house or building shall be supplied from 1 connection except by special permission.
(Prior Code, § 52-34)
No electric service customer shall be permitted to take current for residence or commercial lighting purposes at power rates, nor shall any lighting apparatus be attached or suffered to remain attached to any power meter. It shall be unlawful for any person to employ any scheme, device or contrivance for the purpose of evading the proper service and registration of any meter or to employ any scheme or device whereby he or she may obtain current which does not pass through the meter furnished him or her by the city. Finding lighting apparatus attached to a power meter or any device in or near any meter which causes the meter to register incorrectly shall be prima facie evidence of the intent of the occupier of the premises, or of the customer, to convert electric current to his or her own use, which is hereby declared unlawful and the person convicted of the violation shall be punished as provided in this chapter. If it shall appear to the city that any light or power meter shall have been tapped or tampered with, it is hereby empowered to direct the Utilities Manager to install or cause to be installed, at the customer’s expense, a meter installed in iron conduit mechanically sealed in a closed meter box accessible only to the city or its agents.
(Prior Code, § 52-35) Penalty, see § 51.99
Contracts for electric service are not transferable. Any person wishing to change from 1 location to another shall make a new application and sign a new contract. If any customer shall sell, dispose of or move from the premises where service is furnished, or if the premises are destroyed by fire or other casualty, he or she shall, at once, so inform the Utilities Manager, who shall cause the electric current to be shut off from the premises. If the customer shall fail to give the notice, he or she shall be charged for all electric current used on the premises until the city or its agent is otherwise advised of the change.
(Prior Code, § 52-39)
Should an electric service customer’s meter become out of repair or fail to register properly, the customer will be charged for electric current during the time the meter is out of order or repair on the basis of monthly consumption during the same month of the preceding year; provided, however, if no basis for comparison exists, then the customer shall pay such amount as reasonably fixed by the Utilities Manager.
(Prior Code, § 52-40)
(A) The city does not guarantee the delivery of electric current over the lines of its distribution system at any time, to any person, except when its power and connections are in good working order and it has sufficient power, current, equipment and machinery so to do. The city expressly reserves the right to disconnect or discontinue the service for any of the following reasons:
(1) For repairs necessary to be made on any part of its plant, power house, equipment, system or distribution system;
(2) For non-payment of bills when due;
(3) For fraudulent representations in regard to the consumption of current for light, cooking, heat and power;
(4) For the protection of persons or property; and/or
(5) For violation of any of the rules or requirements of this chapter.
(B) The city shall use due and reasonable diligence to provide and supply uninterrupted service to customers, but shall not be liable for damages resulting from interruption of service due to causes over which the city has no control, and the city expressly reserves the right to discontinue or disconnect any customer’s service without any preliminary notice.
(Prior Code, § 52-41)
No person, except an authorized agent of the city, shall be allowed to set the meters as mentioned in this chapter, or to make connections to the electric service of the city. The owner or tenant of premises where a meter is located shall provide ready and convenient access to the meter so that it may easily be examined and read by the city or its authorized agents. Any customer of electric current from the city has the right to request the city to test his or her meter any reasonable number of times, and the city or its agents shall comply with the request, subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the city may adopt. The city reserves the right to test and replace any meter in use at any time. The city will keep clean and in proper repair and will replace without cost to customer any service meter where the repair or replacement results from ordinary wear and tear and not from the wilful negligence or recklessness of customer. In consideration of the service rendered or to be rendered in the matter or repairing or replacing the meter, the applicant or customer specifically consents and agrees to keep all service meters and service wires insured for the benefit of city against fire or other casualty and hereby designates the Utilities Manager as his or her agent or attorney in fact to collect from the insurance carrier, in the event of the loss or destruction of the meter or service wire by fire or other casualty, from the proceeds payable to customer out of any policy of insurance in which he or she is made beneficiary affecting the premises where the meter or service wire is located, the reasonable value of the meter or service wire, and deduct the value from payment to be made to the insured under the policy; provided that, if the customer carries no insurance on the premises or contents of the premises or place where the meter is set, the customer hereby consents and agrees to reimburse the city for the reasonable value of such meter or service wire in the event of destruction by fire or other casualty.
(Prior Code, § 52-42)
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