1046.01   RULES AND REGULATIONS.
   (a)   Application for electrical energy service shall be made at the office of the Village Administrator or his or her designee. Connections for electrical energy service shall be made only upon written application and contract therefor, executed by the party desiring the same or his or her designee. All renters, and those whose homes are only partly paid for, applying for electrical energy service, shall put up a deposit as determined by the Village Administrator, if, in the opinion of such Administrator, the same is necessary. With the exception of those renters whose landlords pay the light bill, no property owner's signature for his or her tenant shall be accepted. Any deposit shall be returned to the consumer upon termination of service after all unpaid bills or other indebtedness to the Village Administrator has been paid.
   (b)   The Village Administrator is hereby authorized and directed to receive applications for electrical energy service from consumers who can be supplied from the lines of the Village and is hereby charged with the responsibility of enforcing these rules and regulations.
   (c)   No connection shall be made until the consumer has brought out his or her service wires eighteen inches beyond the walls of his or her building in such manner as to be readily accessible from the lines of the Village.
   (d)   All meters shall be located on the outside of the building where possible. All meters shall be installed by the electrical maintenance man of the Village. For any damage or injury to any meter while so in use, the Village Administrator shall make a charge sufficient to cover such damage, which shall be collected as other charges for electric service from the consumer using such meter.
   (e)   While the Village Administrator is not required to inspect the wiring installation of consumers with a view to determining its sufficiency or its safety, the Administrator may refuse to supply electrical energy to any installation which the electrical maintenance man of the Village considers to be inadequate or which conflicts with the National Electrical Code or any rule or regulation enacted by Council which may apply. Every contract for electric service shall contain a provision that the Village shall not be responsible for any damage caused to persons or property by interruption of service, by defective fixtures or defective wiring on the consumer's premises, or by the use of electrical energy thereon.
   (f)   The duly authorized electrical maintenance man and employees of the Village shall have the right at all reasonable times to enter the premises of any consumer, for the purpose of reading, inspecting, repairing or removing the meter and repairing or removing any appliances or property of the Village.
   (g)   The consumer shall advise the Village Administrator, in writing, of any material change to be made in his or her installation and shall not make any material addition to or reduction from the connected lead at the time the service is installed without first having the written consent of the Administrator or his or her designee.
   (h)   Consumers' meters and other appliances shall be provided with suitable devices so that the Village can interrupt service and/or disconnect lines if a consumer's use of electrical energy is detrimental to the Village's supply of electrical energy in general or in the consumer's locality.
   (i)   All charges for electrical energy furnished consumers in the Village shall be due on the twentieth day of each month, and if such charges are not paid when due, a ten percent penalty shall be added upon such charges. Upon failure to pay the charge assessed against a consumer on the due date or within ten days thereafter, the electrical energy being furnished to the consumer, or to the property on which the consumer resides, shall be stopped until the accrued charges are paid in full. However, any consumer who is delinquent in the payment of electrical energy charges may, upon application made to the Village Administrator, pay such delinquent charges in installments, as determined by the Administrator.
   (j)   Any consumer whose electric service has been discontinued for nonpayment for such service shall pay a fee of ten dollars ($10.00) to the Village before the meter will be reinstalled.
   (k)   The Village Administrator shall, upon a deposit of ten dollars ($10.00), test a meter, subject to the following conditions:
      (1)   If a meter is found to over-register by an amount exceeding two percent, another meter will be furnished and proper reduction shall be made on the electric bill.
      (2)   If a meter does not over-register by an amount exceeding two percent, the ten-dollar ($10.00) deposit will not be refunded and the bill must be paid as rendered.
   (l)   In case of a violation of any rule or regulation herein provided, the Village Administrator may discontinue service to the consumer violating the same, and in such case service shall not be again furnished to such consumer until a fee of ten dollars ($10.00) is paid for making reconnections.
   (m)   All applications and contracts for service are subject to changes in rates, service and rules and regulations hereinafter put into effect by the Village.
(Adopting Ordinance)
   (n)   Any new electrical installation, whether it be industrial, commercial and/or multi-unit residential, the consumer shall furnish, install and maintain the electrical service from the Village primary feeders to the premises. The installation shall be according to the National Electrical Code.
   All transformers installed shall be of dual voltage (2400-4160Y 7200-12470Y) and owned and maintained by the consumer.
   The Village shall furnish and maintain all meters and metering transformers and specify the location of the meters.
(Ord. 90-176. Passed 7-17-90.)