(a) This schedule is available and applicable throughout the City's (hereinafter referred to as the "Utility") entire service area for all single or three-phase nonresidential service not specified or applicable under the Utility's Residential Schedule R. Such nonresidential service includes service furnished to retail or wholesale businesses, manufacturing or processing establishments, hotels, motels, mobile homes, trailer camps, stores, restaurants, service stations, professional offices, theaters, amusements, offices, schools, churches, clubs, lodges, multiple dwelling units, apartment houses, public buildings and the like, and all other service that is not strictly residential or home use in character.
(b) This schedule also applies to residential service where the installed or allocated nameplate transformer capacity exceeds twenty-five kVa.
(c) The Utility reserves the right to limit this schedule to a maximum load of 500 kVa. (See Section 1046.24)
(d) This schedule applies to all three-phase service whether for residential or nonresidential use.
(e) All service under this schedule is subject to the provisions of this schedule and the Utility's general rules and regulations, or subsequent revisions thereof, as if fully written herein.
(f) 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.)