(a) This schedule is available to all consumers located along existing electric distribution lines of the City (hereinafter referred to as the "Utility") who use the Utility's standard primary service and who guarantee the monthly billing capacity specified by the service application or contract, but not less than 500 kW.
(b) Where substation capacity in excess of 500 kVa is required to supply the consumer's existing and probable future requirements, the Utility reserves the right to require the consumer to install the necessary complete substation equipment to take service at the Utility's specified primary voltage, and this Schedule LP shall apply. See elsewhere herein as to character of service, metering, voltages and the like.
(c) Service under this schedule will be furnished only on a twelve-month nonseasonal basis by contract in accordance with the following stipulations and also in accordance with the Utility's general rules and regulations or subsequent revisions thereof, which are a part of this rate schedule as if fully written herein.
(d) 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.)