§ 51.14 SERVICE OUTSIDE CORPORATE LIMITS.

   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)

§ 51.15 DEPOSIT FUND.

   All electric service deposits, when received by the city, shall be held separate and apart in a fund to be known as the Electric Service Deposit Fund. This Fund is a trust fund for customers of electric service from the city, and may be invested by the city as other idle or surplus funds under its jurisdiction are invested, and such rate of interest per annum may be paid to the beneficiaries of the fund as the city may determine from time to time. When, for any reason, electric service is no longer required, the service deposit shall, upon demand, be returned to the customer by the Utilities Manager, with proper deductions for unpaid service charges and other arrearages due the city. The Utilities Manager shall give each applicant or customer a separate receipt for all service deposits received by this Department.

(Prior Code, § 52-46)

§ 51.16 AMENDMENT OF REGULATIONS.

   The Mayor and Council reserve the right to alter or amend by ordinance the rules and regulations pertaining to electric service, when they so deem advisable.

(Prior Code, § 52-47)

§ 51.17 PERMISSION OF CITY REQUIRED FOR TRIMMING OF TREES NEAR POWER LINES.

   Any person desiring to cut or remove trees or branches thereof, or to fell trees or branches thereof, in close proximity to the lines of the electric distribution system of the city, and which work might cause injury or damage to the lines thereof, shall, before doing the work, give reasonable notice to the Utilities Manager, and shall secure permission from the Utilities Manager so to do, and shall seek the assistance of the city to do the work so that electric service shall not be interrupted or damage done to the lines or property of the city. Any person felling or removing the trees, or branches of trees, resulting in the interruption of electric service or damage to the lines or property of the city, without having given notice to the city as provided in this section, and without having received the permission from the Utilities Manager to do so as provided in this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in this chapter. Nothing contained in this section is intended to relieve any person of liability for damage to property of the city.

(Prior Code, § 52-48) Penalty, see § 51.99

§ 51.18 RIGHT OF CITY TO REMOVE TREE LIMBS OVERHANGING POWER LINES.

   Whenever it becomes necessary to protect the lines or property of the electric distribution system of the city, the city or the Utilities Manager shall have the right to remove and cut away, in a careful and prudent manner, interfering branches or limbs of trees, so that its lines shall be free and open.

(Prior Code, § 52-49)

§ 51.99 PENALTY.

   Any person who shall wilfully or carelessly break, injure or deface, interfere with or disturb any machinery, apparatus, fixture, attachment or appurtenance of the electric generating plant or distribution system of the city, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter or of the rules and regulations of the city legally adopted, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in § 50.99.

(Prior Code, § 52-50)