(A) It shall be the duty of every consumer to use gas in an efficient manner and in efficient appliances. Gas should not be burned in an appliance designed for coal or other fuel and not efficient for burning gas, nor in fireplaces with open chimney flues wasteful of the heat, cooking ranges with solid tops, or cooking or laundry stoves with burners more than one and one-half inches below the bottom of the cooking utensil, or wasteful or improperly adjusted or clogged machines, or in any water heater or other appliance or furnace not reasonably efficient. Vent pipes should be used on water heaters, cook stoves, enclosed type space heaters, or other appliances especially designed to be vented.
(B) The consumer shall provide a system of piping within his or her premises for connection to gas appliances. Consumer’s piping should not re-enter the ground after once reaching the surface. Consumer shall provide an outlet side for the meter loop in a suitable location. The normal gauge pressure, at which gas will be supplied through the company’s meter to the customer’s piping, will be approximately 5.3 ounces PSIG. A pressure higher than that may be supplied to an individual customer who so requests.
(C) The company under previously existing regulations has provided service through one master meter to private distribution lines for multiple federal, municipal, or private housing projects and mobile home parks, and has in some cases provided individual meters for such facilities. Bills will be rendered on an individual basis to the individual metered customers, but the customer(s) owning the private distribution line or being served by the private distribution line will be responsible for payment of any differences between gas delivered through the master meter and gas delivered through the sum total of individual meters. All such construction within the above mentioned projects and mobile home parks must meet the requirements of all federal, state, and local piping laws before the company will connect the customer.
(Ord. 2-95, passed 5-8-1995)