Each owner or person having control of, or in charge of any residential or business building or structure in the city, which is now supplied or shall hereafter be supplied with natural gas services by the city shall be and is hereby required to install a separate natural gas line to connect each such building or structure so furnished with natural gas with the city's main lines in the street or alley adjacent to such premises. Each separate natural gas line shall be installed in a manner to permit the city to install a separate natural gas meter for each such building or structure for which natural gas is supplied by the city. In this section the definition of a residential building or structure includes a recreational vehicle, mobile home, or HUD-code manufactured home.
(1986 Municipal Code, Title 8, Chapter 5, Section 8-5-1; Ordinance 592 adopted 6/13/2023)
It shall be unlawful for any person to turn on or off city natural gas services to any building or premises. In the case of an emergency or the possibility of an emergency which involves the residential or business building or structure, the gas service may be turned off. However, it is unlawful for any person other than a city employee using the appropriate safety precautions to turn on gas services once they have been turned off either by the City of Sundown or by some person because of an emergency.
(1986 Municipal Code, Title 8, Chapter 5, Section 8-5-2)
It shall be unlawful for any person in any manner to deface or to destroy the structures, machinery or fixtures connected with or pertaining to the City of Sundown natural gas distribution system.
(1986 Municipal Code, Title 8, Chapter 5, Section 8-5-3)
Before any consumer may have gas service from the city, he must deposit with the city a reasonable amount as in the opinion of the city may be necessary, except that no deposit shall be for an amount less than as provided for in the fee schedule found in the appendix of this code. Said deposit shall not bear interest, and shall be refunded to the depositor when he shall have discontinued the use of city gas and shall have paid all bills and accounts due the city for any account whatever connected with the gas service, and shall return the receipt when reclaiming the deposit. If the receipt is lost, he must give security to the city or furnish the city satisfactory evidence of his right to receive the deposit. This deposit is required and made in the nature of a guarantee for the payment of gas service accounts, and damages to service connections or meters caused through the neglect, abuses, or failure to properly care for the same by the consumer or his agents, and the said deposit or any part thereof may be applied by the city to the payment of any such account when it becomes past due. This deposit shall not be made nor accepted in the nature of a prepayment, but only as a guarantee. Failure to pay the gas bill when due by the consumer is considered notice from consumers to discontinue service and apply so much of the deposit as is necessary for the payment of the then past due account. In case any deposit or any part thereof shall have been applied in payment of past due accounts, no service may be reestablished until the deposit shall have been restored to the full amount required.
(Ordinance 454, sec. II, adopted 9/25/06)