(A) The city shall have the right to shut off the supply of gas at any time to make repairs or improve- ments, to enforce rules or for any operating reason. Where possible, a reasonable notice of the circum- stances will be given to the customers, but in an emergency, the gas may be shut off without notice. The city shall not be held responsible or liable because of any shutoff or discontinuance of service or for any direct or resultant damage to any person, company or customer.
(B) In the event of discontinuance, gas service shall not be renewed until the city authorities have purged the lines. Authorized personnel shall relight pilots. In no case shall the customer turn on his or her own service. The purging of lines, relighting pilots and checking automatic controls will be done by the city. Where the nature of the customer’s operations are such that an interruption of service might create a hazard or large economic loss, the customer shall provide facilities for standby at his or her discretion.
(C) Any customer with critical natural gas requirements must have dual fuel facilities and on-site storage of the alternate fuel. Failure to provide that shall be considered a violation of customer rules and loss or damage resulting therefrom shall be the responsibility of the customer. Those customers shall include, but not be limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, greenhouses, hatcheries, or any other building or business which might suffer any type of loss due to interruption of natural gas service.
(D) The city expressly stipulates with all customers and other persons who may be affected by the discontinuance of service that it neither will insure nor be responsible or liable in any manner for any loss or damages direct or indirect by reason of fire, or for any other cause and all gas service furnished also shall be conditional upon acts of God, inevitable accidents, failure of supply, fires, strike, riot or any other cause.
(Ord. O-81-3, passed 5-18-81) Penalty, see § 51.99