(a) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to do, commit or assist
in the commission of any of the following things or acts in the city:
(1) To interfere with, tamper with, destroy, deface, impair, injure,
or wantonly force open any gate, lid, door or meter, or in any way
whatsoever destroy, injure, or deface any part of any fixture, property
or apparatus of the electric system of the city.
(2) To resort to any fraudulent device or arrangement for the purpose
of procuring electricity for himself or others contrary to the city
regulations or ordinances.
(b) Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction in municipal court shall be fined in accordance with the general penalty provision found in section
1.01.009 and each day’s violation of this section shall constitute a separate offense or violation of this section.
(Ordinance 2003-05 adopted 6/17/03)
(a) Separate metering required.
From and after June 17,
2003, each individual residence or building making connection with
or receiving service from the city electric system shall have a separate
meter, and no new connection shall be made by the city unless each
said individual residence or building is separately metered.
(b) Meter serving more than one residence, business or building, added
minimum required.
In existing cases where more than one
(1) residence, business or building is served by a single meter, the
entire amount of electricity consumed and registered through such
meter shall be billed to the meter and shall include an additional
minimum for each and every other residence, business or building served
by such meter, and such procedure shall continue until such are separately
metered.
(c) Multiple businesses.
For the purposes of this section,
multiple businesses shall be considered one business if there is at
least 25% common ownership of the multiple businesses at the same
location.
(Ordinance 2003-05 adopted 6/17/03)
(a) Schedule R - Residential service.
(1) Applicable: To single-family residential customers of all domestic
usage where energy is taken through a single meter.
(2) Customer charge: $15.67 per month.
(3) Energy charge: $0.0362 per kilowatt hour for all kilowatt hours.
(4) Minimum bill: $15.67 per month.
(5) Multiple dwelling units: Where served under one meter, shall be billed
under the applicable commercial rate.
(6) Power cost adjustment: The net energy charge under the above rate
schedule shall be increased or decreased to reflect the application
of a power cost adjustment per kilowatt hour of energy used, calculated
in accordance with schedule PCA.
(b) Schedule SC - Small commercial service.
(1) Applicable: To all nonresidential customers and multiple dwelling
residential customers billed through one meter whose peak usage does
not exceed 104,901 kWh per month in any single month.
(2) Character of service: A.C., 60 cycles per second, single phase, 120/240
volts; three-phase, 120/240, 120/208/240/480 volts, as available the
point of service. Three-phase customers served via underground primary
to pad-mounted transformers are offered only 120/208 or 277/480 volt
service.
(3) Customer charge: $26.38 per month.
(4) Energy charge: $0.0315 per kilowatt hour for all kilowatt hours.
(5) Minimum bill: $26.38 per month.
(6) Power cost adjustment: The net energy charge under the above rate
schedule shall be increased or decreased to reflect the application
of a power cost adjustment per kilowatt hour of energy used, calculated
in accordance with schedule PCA.
(c) Schedule LP-1 - Medium commercial and industrial service.
(1) Applicable: To all commercial and industrial customers where service
is taken through one meter at one point of delivery and where the
peak usage exceeds 104,901 kWh per month in any single month. Customers
exceeding a peak usage of 104,901 per kWh in any single month will
be billed under applicable LP-1 rate for the next consecutive 12 months.
(2) Character of service: A.C., 60 cycles per second, single-phase, 120/240
volts; three-phase, 120/240, 120/208/240/480, 2400/4160, 7200/12,470
volts, as available the point of service. Three-phase customers service
via underground primary to pad-mounted transformers are offered only
120/208 or 277/480 volt service.
(3) Customer charge: $58.44 per month.
(4) Energy charge: $0.0299 per kilowatt hour for all kilowatt hours.
(5) Minimum bill: $58.44 per month.
(6) Power cost adjustment: The net energy charge under the above rate
schedule shall be increased or decreased to reflect the application
of a power cost adjustment per kilowatt hour of energy used, calculated
in accordance with schedule PCA.
(7) Primary service: Where service is taken by the customer at the city’s
available primary voltage, and where the customer owns, operates,
and maintains all service facilities, except metering equipment, required
to take service at such voltage, a credit of two (2) percent of the
base rate charges will be allowed. Metering may be primary or secondary
(corrected for the transformer losses) at the city’s option.
(d) Schedule TISD - School service.
(1) Applicable: To all Tulia Independent School District school facilities
where service is taken through one meter at one point of delivery.
(2) Customer charge: $21.02 per month.
(3) Energy charge: $0.0262 per kilowatt hour for all kilowatt hours.
(4) Minimum charge: $21.02 per month.
(5) Power cost adjustment: The net energy charge under the above rate
schedule shall be increased or decreased to reflect the application
of a power cost adjustment per kilowatt hour of energy used, calculated
in accordance with schedule PCA.
(e) Schedule IPR - Irrigation service.
(1) Applicable: To all crop irrigation facilities where service is taken
through one meter at one point of delivery.
(2) Customer charge: $21.02 per month.
(3) Energy charge: $0.0262 per kilowatt hour for all kilowatt hours.
(4) Minimum bill: $21.02 per month.
(5) Power cost adjustment: The net energy charge under the above rate
schedule shall be increased or decreased to reflect the application
of a power cost adjustment per kilowatt hour of energy used, calculated
in accordance with schedule PCA.
(f) Schedule MUN - Municipal service.
(1) Applicable: To all facilities owned, operated, and/or maintained
by the city.
(2) Customer charge: $21.02 per month.
(3) Energy charge: $0.0245 per kilowatt hour for all kilowatt hours.
(4) Minimum bill: $21.02 per month.
(5) Power cost adjustment: The net energy charge under the above rate
schedule shall be increased or decreased to reflect the application
of a power cost adjustment per kilowatt hour of energy used, calculated
in accordance with schedule PCA.
(g) Schedule PCA - Power cost adjustment.
(1) The purpose of this schedule is to accurate recover from city customers
the cost of total delivered wholesale power purchases. Wholesale power
purchases shall include, but are not limited to transmission charges,
delivery charges, and any other delivery fees necessary. All wholesale
power cost realized shall be billed by the city on its monthly bills
as a power cost adjustment, determined in accordance with the provisions
set forth below:
(2) The formula for calculation of the power cost adjustment factor is
as follows:
PCA
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Power cost adjustment ($/kWh) rounded to the nearest 0.0001
cent.
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WC
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Total delivered cost of power including but not limited to transmission
charges, delivery charges, and any other delivery fees purchased by
the city from its supplier for the immediately preceding wholesale
billing period (kWh).
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P
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Total energy (kWh) purchased by the city from its supplier for
the immediately preceding wholesale billing period (kWh).
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K
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Base wholesale power cost included in the city’s retail
electric rate schedules ($0.00 per kWh).
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S
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Total sales (kWh) to city customers for the current city billing
period (kWh).
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$5.00 of the monthly minimum charge shall be set aside and allocated
for electric automated metering infrastructure (AMI) maintenance,
repair, replacement, construction and installation.
(Ordinance 2014-12 adopted 9/9/14; Ordinance
2018-06 adopted 9/18/2018)
The following rules and regulations shall be applicable to the
connection of electric service, collection of bills for electric service,
deposits, cut-off administration fees, reconnect fees and return check
fees:
(1) Late charge for delinquent bills.
All bills not paid
by the 10th day following the mailing of the monthly bill to a customer
by the city are delinquent. A late charge of 5% of the amount of the
electric bill for service will be made against all electric bills
not paid timely as herein set forth.
(2) Deposits.
(A) Before furnishing electric service to any person, firm, corporation,
or other entity, the city shall require the following advance deposits
to be made therefor:
(i) For apartment houses: $100.00 per apartment.
(ii)
For all other commercial users: The estimated billing for two
months as solely determined by the city or the user may furnish city
with an irrevocable letter of credit acceptable to the city in its
sole discretion from a bank within the city, covering the estimated
billing for two months.
(iii)
For all residential users other than apartment houses: $100.00
per meter.
(iv)
If an electric utility customer fails to pay the electric bill
and appears on the delinquent bill cut-off list prepared by the city
on or after the 20th day after mailing of the monthly bill to a customer
by the city, an additional deposit of $50.00 shall be required of
the customer for continuation of service or reconnecting of service
already cut off. For each subsequent appearance by a customer on the
delinquent bill cut-off list, an additional deposit of $50.00 shall
be required of the customer for continuation of service or reconnecting
of service already cut off up to a two-month average bill of electric
service for said customer. Failure to pay any additional deposits
hereinabove set forth and required will result in the immediate discontinuance
or renewal of electric service to the customer.
(B) Customers who have not been delinquent in payment of billing for
five years will receive a refund of their deposits.
(3) Cut-off administrative fees.
If a customer is placed
on the initial cut-off list by not paying said customer’s electric
bill before the same becomes delinquent, a cut-off list administrative
fee of $6.50 will be charged to the customer and added to said customer’s
electric bill to be immediately due and payable.
(4) Reconnect fees.
If the cut-off list has been processed
and delivered to a city employee for cut-off of the electric service
to a customer, a reconnect fee of $17.50 shall be required to be paid
by the customer to discontinue the process of cutting off or reconnecting
the electric service. If the customer requests that the electric service
be reconnected after 5:00 p.m., and before 8:00 a.m., Monday through
Friday, or on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday, the reconnect fee shall
be $20.00, and such a requested reconnecting of electric service shall
be contingent upon availability of city staff qualified to perform
the reconnect.
(5) Return check fees.
A return check fee of $35.00 shall
be charged and added to the electric bill of the customer on all payments
by check that are paid for any reason, including, but not limited
to, checks which are not paid for insufficient funds in the account.
(Ordinance 2012-13, sec. 1, adopted 9/11/12)