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(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)
All electric current furnished customers of the city shall be measured by meters of a type as approved by the Utilities Manager. Accounts between the customer and the city shall be kept under a bookkeeping system as shall be provided by the Utilities Manager. All meters shall be read monthly and the electric service meter readings shall be delivered to the Utilities Manager for billing and collection by his or her Department. Statements of monthly electric service bills shall be mailed or delivered to customers each month. All customers shall pay in net cash to the Manager, at his or her office in the city’s Water and Light Building, the amount due the city for electric service or other proper charges due the city for any month. If the customer shall neglect or refuse to pay his or her bill within 10 days after the mailing date designated on his or her bill, the bill shall be considered delinquent. If the bill is not paid by 7 days following mailing of the cutoff notice, service may be discontinued and disconnected until all amounts in arrears are paid in full, together with a fee equivalent to a 1-hour charge at the regular labor charge rate set by the city for the resumption of service.
(Prior Code, § 52-43)
The city shall have the power and authority to contract with any person, including other municipalities, to sell electric current for light, heat, power or other purposes beyond the corporate limits of the city when it is beneficial to the city to do so. For furnishing the electric service outside the corporate limits to other municipalities, other public service companies or government authorities for purposes of resale, the rates shall be set by the city; provided that, the contract rate made in such cases shall be uniform insofar as it affects the users of equal amounts of current under the contracts under similar circumstances.
(Prior Code, § 52-45)
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