(a) This schedule is available to residential, farm and home consumers of the City, located within the service area of the City's electric distribution system, hereinafter referred to as the Utility, where no more than twenty-five kVa of installed or allocated nameplate rated transformer capacity is required.
(b) All service shall be single-phase delivered through a single set of service wires for single-family use, the service location to be designated by the Utility.
(c) Where more than twenty-five kVa of installed or allocated nameplate rated transformer capacity is required, the Utility's General Service Schedule (GS) shall apply.
(d) All applications for service shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Utility's standard application form and in accordance with the provisions set forth in this schedule and also in accordance with the Utility's general rules and regulations or subsequent revisions thereof on file at the Utility's office, which general rules are a part of this schedule as if fully written herein.
(e) This schedule is applicable for service supplied to what is ordinarily designated and recognized as individual single-family, residential or home use, including apartments, mobiles homes and other individual single-family dwelling quarters or units. Where service is supplied through one meter to more than a single-family dwelling unit or living quarters or apartment, the Utility's General Service Schedule (GS) shall apply.
(f) This schedule is not applicable for service utilization that is ordinarily considered in public utility operation as being nonresidential or nonhome use in character. For such nonresidential service, the Utility's General Service Schedule (GS) shall apply. For further definition of nonresidential service, see the General Service Schedule (GS).
(g) Where electric service is supplied for combined residential and nonresidential use, or for three-phase service, the Utility's General Service Schedule (GS) shall apply or, at the consumer's option and at his or her expense, the wiring may be separated, subject to the Utility's inspection and approval, and each class of service separately metered and billed under the applicable schedule.
(h) For all customers located outside the City’s corporation limits, the rates and charges set forth in this schedule shall be increased by an amount equal to the excise (kilowatt-hour) tax imposed on the City’s electric distribution system under Ohio R.C. 5727.81. Said increase shall become effective with the bills that are due December 10, 2014 as part of the usage period and shall thereafter be automatically adjusted to reflect any change in the kilowatt-hour tax imposed by Ohio R.C. 5727.81.
(1) The kilowatt-hour tax attributed to the distribution of electricity to end users located outside a municipality’s corporation limits must be paid to the Treasurer of the State of Ohio and the kilowatt-hour tax attributed to the distribution of electricity to end users located inside a municipality’s corporation limits is deposited in the municipality’s General Fund;
(2) The City previously compensated the City’s electric utility for the services and contributions that it provides to the City by transferring from the General Fund to the Electric Fund a portion of the kilowatt-hour tax funds received in the General Fund;
(3) The City Council now desires to retain in the General Fund all of the kilowatt- hour tax funds attributed to deliveries to customers located inside the City’s corporation limits in the General Fund; and
(4) The City Council also desires to recover the kilowatt-hour tax attributed to the distribution of electricity to electric customers located inside and outside the City’s corporation limits by increasing the City’s current electric rates applicable to said customers by an amount equal to the kilowatt-hour tax imposed on the City.
(Ord. 85-30. Passed 5-22-85; Ord. 2001-16. Passed 3-21-01; Ord. 2014-23. Passed 9-8-14.)