(A) The city shall have the right to shut off the supply of gas whenever it is necessary to make repairs, improvements, enforce rules or for any operating reason, or if an unsafe condition exists. In all cases where possible, a reasonable notice of the circumstances will be given to the customers, but in an emergency or the discovery of an unsafe condition, the gas may be shut off without notice. Such necessary repairs or work will be made by the city as rapidly as may be practical. The city shall not be held responsible or liable because of any shut-off or discontinuance of service for any direct or resultant damages to any person, company or customer.
(B) In the event of such discontinuance of gas service, the city will make every attempt to safeguard the customer and service shall not be renewed until the city authorities have purged the lines to put into service all automatic controls and 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 customers' operations are such that an interruption of service might create a hazard or large economic loss, such customer shall provide facilities for standby service at his or her discretion.
(C) Whenever mains, pipes, service connections or other facilities of the gas system are taken up, shut off or interfered with by reasons of any street improvements, the city will endeavor to maintain service so far as is reasonably possible, but will not be directly or indirectly liable for any interruption, poor pressure or inconvenience of any kind either to the customer's adjacent or to other customers affected thereby. Direct damages to property due to such operations shall be either repaired or replaced by the city without cost to the customer.
(D) The city expressly stipulates with all customers and other persons who may be affected by the discontinuance of service that it will neither insure not be responsible or liable in any manner for any loss or damages direct or indirect by any reason of any fire or any other cause, and all gas service furnished shall also be conditional upon acts of God, inevitable accidents, fire, strikes, riots or any other cause. Any customer having a facility, operation, process or activity which cannot under any or all conditions tolerate temporary interruption of gas service shall provide an alternate source of on-site fuel or heat for utilization during such interruption. The responsibility for this alternate rests fully with the customer.
(1993 Code, § 38-2-15) (Ord. 726, passed 2-3-1986; Am. Ord. 845, passed 9-3-1991; Am. Ord. 879, passed 1-4-1993)