[Amended 3-22-1977 by Ord. No. 1074; 10-23-1979 by Ord. No. 1182; 12-11-1979 by Ord. No.
1191]
A.
A written application for service under one of the
established rate schedules of the Electric Utility may be required
from each customer, which application, when accepted and service granted,
shall constitute an agreement between the City of Vineland and the
customer. The rate schedule provisions apply to everyone lawfully
receiving electric service from the Electric Utility under the established
rates, and receipt of electric service shall constitute the receiver
a customer of the Electric Utility as the term is used herein, whether
service is based upon contract, agreement, accepted signed application
or otherwise.
B.
A copy of the rate schedule and general terms, rules
and regulations under which service is to be rendered will be furnished
upon request at the office of the Electric Utility.
[Amended 1-14-1986 by Ord. No. 85-66]
C.
Standard contracts shall be for the terms as specified
in the statement of the rates, but where large or special investment
is necessary for the supplying of service, contracts of longer terms
than specified in the rates or with special guaranty of revenue, or
both, may be required to safeguard such investment.
D.
Whenever service is initiated to any customer in any particular location or resumed after discontinuance of service, a service connection charge of $15 will be made. This fee shall not be charged where a change in the name of an account is requested by the customer, provided that the last meter reading is used and therefore does not require a site visit or any further effort on the part of the Electric Utility. A person who is exempted from the fifteen-dollar service connection charge shall not be automatically exempted from the deposit requirements of § 687-10 of this Part 1.
[Amended 3-12-1991 by Ord. No. 91-22; 2-23-1993 by Ord. No. 93-8]
[Amended 3-22-1977 by Ord. No. 1074; 3-12-1991 by Ord. No. 91-22]
Temporary service will be supplied where and
when the electric utility has available facilities and at the rate
applicable to such service, with an additional charge for service
connection and disconnection upon discontinuance of service. The charge
for such connection and disconnection shall be based upon the cost
of providing such service, but in no case shall be less than $75.
The wiring and appliances in the premises of
the customer must be installed in accordance with the provisions of
the current edition of the National Electrical Code of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters and such state and municipal regulations
as may be in force at the time application for service is made. A
certificate of inspection from the Underwriters must be presented
at the office of the Electric Utility before service will be rendered
at a new location.
A.
It is a condition precedent to the supply of service
under rates which base the billing demand or minimum upon the customer's
connected load that the representatives of the Electric Utility shall
have access to the premises at reasonable times to inspect and count
the connected load.
B.
Demands fixed upon the basis of connected load will
remain in effect until the customer makes increases in his connected
load or until the Electric Utility redetermines the demand by subsequent
recounts, which recounts will normally be made at approximately annual
intervals, subject to the right of the Electric Utility to make them
as frequently as it may elect. Recounts will be made upon the customer's
request, provided that no more than one other requested recount has
been made within the preceding 11 months.
Notice for the discontinuance of service must
be given, in writing or in person, by the customer at the office of
the Electric Utility.
[Amended 3-22-1977 by Ord. No. 1074]
A.
The Electric Utility may discontinue its service upon
five days' written notice in case the customer is in arrears in the
payment of bills.
B.
The Electric Utility may discontinue its service upon
reasonable notice if entry to its meter or meters is refused or if
access thereto is obstructed or hazardous or for other violation of
these rules and regulations.
C.
The Electric Utility may discontinue its service without
notice if the customer's installation has become dangerous or defective,
if the customer's equipment or use thereof might injuriously affect
the equipment of the Electric Utility or the service to other customers
or if, upon a reexamination of the customer's installation by a Fire
Underwriters' inspector, as approved by local, state or federal law
having jurisdiction, a certificate of approval is refused.
[Amended 3-22-1977 by Ord. No. 1074]
A.
Where the Electric Utility has discontinued service
for nonpayment of bills, an additional charge for reconnection shall
be made. The charge for such disconnection and reconnection shall
not be less than $15.
B.
In cases where service is temporarily discontinued
at the request of the customer, a disconnection and reconnection charge
shall be based upon the cost of providing such service, but in no
case shall be less than $15.
[Amended 3-12-1991 by Ord. No. 91-22]
C.
In cases where the customer requests a special reading
or billing, the charge for each reading or billing shall be $15.
[Amended 3-12-1991 by Ord. No. 91-22]
A.
The Utility shall have the right of access to the
customer's premises at all times for the purpose of reading meters,
inspecting or repairing apparatus used in connection with its service
or removing its property.
B.
The Electric Utility shall have the right, at its
option and its own expense, to place demand meters, reactive-component
meters or other instruments on the premises of any customer for the
purpose of measuring the demand and/or the power factor or for other
tests of all or any part of the customer's load.
[Amended 3-22-1977 by Ord. No. 1074; 11-12-1980 by Ord. No. 1231; 11-26-1985 by Ord. No.
85-56; 1-14-1986 by Ord. No. 85-66; 2-23-1988 by Ord. No. 88-10; 6-27-1989 by Ord. No. 89-39]
A.
Bills will be rendered by the Electric Utility monthly,
in accordance with the rate selected, applicable to the customer's
service. The word "month" as used herein and in the rate schedules
is hereby defined to be the elapsed time between two successive meter
readings approximately 30 days apart. In the event of the stoppage
or the failure of any meter to register the full amount of current
consumed, the customer will be billed for such period on an estimated
consumption based upon his use of current in a similar period of like
use.
B.
The net rates specified in the various schedules of
the Electric Utility are contingent upon payment within the time limit
specified in said schedules. The final date for payment of the net
amount, which will be shown on each bill, will not fall on a Sunday
or a holiday. A delayed-payment charge, as specified in the rate schedule
on which the bills are rendered, will be added to bills not paid within
the time specified for payment of the net amount. The Electric Utility
may waive this additional charge on a bill, provided that the customer's
previous accounts are paid in full and not more than one other such
waiver has been made on the bills of a preceding 11 months. The gross
rate, which is the net rate plus the additional delayed-payment charge,
will apply on bills when, at the time of payment, the account is in
arrears for previous billings.
(1)
Senior citizens.
(a)
The delayed-payment charge shall be waived to
senior citizens 65 years of age or older, provided that a written
application is made and service is in the applicant's name. Proof
of age must be presented at time of application.
(2)
Disabled American veterans.
(a)
The delayed-payment charge shall be waived to
disabled American veterans, provided that a written application is
made and service is in the applicant's name. Proof of disabled American
veteran status must be presented at time of application. For purposes
of this section, a "disabled American veteran" is any veteran who
has been or shall be declared by the United States Veterans' Administration,
or its successor, to have a service-connected disability.
(3)
Permanently and totally disabled persons.
(a)
The delayed-payment charge shall be waived to
permanently and totally disabled persons, provided that a written
application is made and service is in the applicant's name. Proof
of permanent and total disability status must be presented at time
of application. For purposes of this section, a "permanently and totally
disabled person" is any person who has been or shall be declared by
the United States Social Security Administration, or its successor,
to be permanently and totally disabled.
[Amended 3-22-1977 by Ord. No. 1074; 11-12-1980 by Ord. No. 1231]
A.
A reasonable deposit or a suitable guaranty or security
may be required of the customer before service will be rendered or
continued. The deposit shall be not less than $100 nor more than the
maximum estimated amount which would accrue for a reasonable period
of service at the applicable rate or rates. Upon discontinuance of
service, the deposit will be refunded, less the amount of any indebtedness.
[Amended 1-14-1986 by Ord. No. 85-66]
B.
The Electric Utility will allow simple interest on
cash deposits at such rate per annum as may be established by the
Council of the City of Vineland. Deposits shall cease to bear interest
upon discontinuance of service.
[Amended 4-26-1994 by Ord. No. 94-30]
Where charges specified in the established rates
are based upon the customer's demand, it is intended that such demand
shall fairly represent the capacity which the Electric Utility is
required to stand ready to supply. In case of installations which
use service in such a manner that neither the fixing of the demand
by assessment under the standards rule nor its measurement over the
demand interval as specified in the applicable rate results in a fair
or equitable measure of the supply capacity required to serve the
customer's load, then the demand may be estimated from the known character
of use and the rating data of the equipment connected or from special
tests, the intent being that the demand so determined shall fairly
represent the customer's capacity requirement. The contract for such
loads shall not in any case be for less capacity than the Electric
Utility is required to supply.
The Electric Utility reserves the right to measure
the power factor of the customer's load. Such measurement shall be
made at the point where the electricity is metered by a test at a
time of normal load or, at the option of the Electric Utility, by
permanently installed instruments.
Where demands are reassessed or power factor
is recomputed or customers are found to be on an improper rate as
the result of an investigation made at the customer's request or by
routine inspection, the change of billing to the new demand or power
factor or to the proper rate may be applied within its net payment
period to the bill for the regular meter reading preceding such investigation
and will in any event apply to the bill for the month during which
the check is made.
The Electric Utility will use reasonable diligence
to provide a continuous, regular and uninterrupted supply of service;
but, should the supply be interrupted by the Electric Utility for
the purpose of making repairs, changes or improvements in any part
of its system for the general good of the service or safety of the
public or should the supply of service be interrupted or fail by reason
of accident, strike, legal process, state interference or any cause
whatsoever, the Electric Utility shall not be liable for damages,
direct or consequential, resulting from such interruption or failure.
A.
All fluorescent lighting fixtures, lamps and equipment
installed on customer's premises must be of the high-power-factor
type, with certified rating for each complete operating unit of not
less than eighty-five-percent power factor.
B.
All neon lighting fixtures and equipment with a total
rating in excess of 750 volt-amperes per meter installation must be
equipped with auxiliaries for maintaining a power factor of not less
than 85%. These auxiliaries may be incorporated in the transformers,
or capacitor-transformers may be installed to correct the power factor
of the entire neon installation.
C.
The Electric Utility reserves the right to test fluorescent,
neon or similar equipment before or after its installation.
The rates established by the Electric Utility
for each class of service are based upon the supply of service to
one entire premises through a single delivery and metering point.
Separate supply for the same customer at other points of consumption
shall be separately metered and billed at the available service rate
selected by the customer.
[Amended 11-12-1980 by Ord. No. 1231]
The City of Vineland Electric Utility (CVEU)
reserves the right to make such additional rules, regulations and
restrictions concerning electric lighting and power service as it
may find advisable for the protection of the municipal plant.
[Added 4-11-1972 by Ord. No. 841; amended 4-26-1994 by Ord. No. 94-30]
Extension of electric distribution lines requested
by an applicant and necessary to furnish an entire electric system
to new residential buildings and mobile homes within an approved subdivision
having three or more building lots or to new multiple-occupancy buildings
shall be made underground in accordance with provisions set forth
in detailed rules and regulations governing electric service installations
established and published by the Electric Utility, the differential
in cost of said underground system installation to be assumed and
to be payable in advance by the applicant, in full, or shared in such
proportion with the Electric Utility as may be established and published
in said detailed rules and regulations governing electric service
installations.
[Added 11-12-1980 by Ord. No. 1231]
The Electric Utility will not supply service
to customers who have other sources of energy supply except under
schedules which specifically provide for such service. The customer
shall not be permitted to operate his own generating equipment in
parallel with the Electric Utility's service except on written permission
of the Electric Utility. In order to avoid undue jeopardy to life
and property in his own premises, in the City of Vineland electric
system and in the facilities of third parties, the customer shall
not install his own generating equipment until he has consulted the
Electric Utility.
[Added 11-12-1980 by Ord. No. 1231; amended 12-8-1981 by Ord. No. 1281; 1-14-1986 by Ord. No.
85-66; 4-26-1994 by Ord. No. 94-30]
The energy cost clause, as set forth in §§ 687-31, 687-38 and 687-55, shall apply to Rate R: residential service; Rate GLP: general light and power service; and Rate WLP: wholesale light and power service. In addition, the energy cost clause shall apply to any other established rates for electric service, if so specified.
[Added 8-8-1989 by Ord. No. 89-47; amended 7-14-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-44]
A.
The Electric Utility shall establish a procedure for refund of overpayments
to customers within the current fiscal period, said procedure to be
an addition to this article.
B.
The Electric Utility shall apply a credit balance to active accounts
where an overpayment does exist.
C.
The Electric Utility shall issue refund checks to customers addressed
to the last known address of record where said refund exceeds $5 and
there is no active Electric Utility account against which to charge
said credit.
D.
The Electric Utility shall establish a policy of canceling the overpaid
balance of customer accounts less than or equal to $5 where there
is a remaining credit balance, which balance has accrued on the records
for a period in excess of one year, and no valid address of record
is available for refunding said balance of overpaid account funds.
