A. Each customer using electric energy furnished by the Water and Electric Department for water heating requirements to any building or premises shall pay such basic rate charge as is determined from time to time by resolution of the Village Council introduced at one meeting and enacted at a subsequent meeting.
B. The basic rate charge for each kilowatt hour supplied in the period covered by any bill is subject to adjustment in accordance with the provisions of the purchase power cost adjustment Rider A as provided in Section 13.08.160 of this chapter.
C. On every bill of each customer there shall be added to the charge as computed above a charge to offset the effect of the tax imposed by the state pursuant to "The Public Utilities Revenue Act" (35 ILCS 620/1, et seq.). Such added charge shall be separately itemized and shown on the face of the customer's bill.
D. Service under this rate shall be available only under the following conditions and restrictions:
1. The building or premises must be equipped by the customer or owner with a three wire one hundred fifteen (115)/two hundred thirty (230) volt service connection to the distribution lines of the village.
2. Only permanently installed storage-type electric water heaters with thermostatic control, equipped with heating elements of not less than one thousand (1,000) watts nor more than four thousand (4,000) watts capacity at two hundred thirty (230) volts, which conform to the Department's standard specifications for water heaters, shall be used by the customer.
3. Energy shall be furnished through a separate two hundred thirty (230) volt meter, to be supplied by the Village, and no other appliance shall be connected to such meter.
4. The customer shall provide and maintain all necessary wiring.
5. Energy will be supplied under this rate only in case the demand of the heater does not exceed the capacity of the transformer and service connection required for service furnished at other rates, and only during such portions of any twenty-four (24) hour period, aggregating not more than eighteen (18) hours per day, when the generating and line capacity of the Village is not required for other service. Such periods of the day, during which energy is supplied under this rate, may be established and changed at the option of the Village whenever demands on its generating and distribution system make such changes advisable.
6. No additional investment shall be required by the Village, other than for the meter necessary to measure the energy used, and if additional investment is required to furnish service under this rate to any applicant in order to reserve necessary capacity to render adequate service under other rates, the Village shall have the right to restrict the availability of this rate in such cases.
7. Failure of the customer to comply with one or more of the foregoing conditions shall be sufficient cause for the discontinuance of the service under this rate.
(Ord. MC-228-99 § 6 (part), 1999: prior code § 9.12)