§ 98-52. General provisions.

(a)

All users of electricity furnished by the City of Siloam Springs shall be charged for such electricity at the rates herein, from and after the effective date of this chapter.

(b)

Any consumer using electric service without first having signed an application therefor shall be held responsible for all electric service remaining unpaid at the premises supplied. Service shall not be connected at the premises until all unpaid bills for electric service shall have been paid at the office of the City of Siloam Springs Light and Water.

(c)

No other electric power or lighting service shall be used by the consumer in conjunction with the city's service; except for emergency stand-by systems or qualified co-generation systems installed according to national and city codes. Under no circumstances will a consumer be permitted to sell or deliver, in any manner, electric current to other residences or places of business within the city. All co-generation systems must be approved and permitted by the electric department before installation.

(d)

Properly authorized agents of the city shall at all reasonable hours have free access to premises for the purpose of examining, repairing or removing its meters and other property and no one who is not an agent of the city shall remove or tamper with same.

(e)

All residential and retail services shall be supplied through meters furnished and installed by the city. Master metering and combined billing of individual consumer shall be prohibited on newly constructed or remodeled installations with each consumer being metered and billed separately by the city. Installations with master metering in use prior to passage of this chapter may remain unless remodeled but shall be considered as commercial services. Overnight camping, dormitories, hotels, motels, nursing homes and installations which share common kitchen facilities, heating or cooling systems shall be considered commercial accounts and shall be excluded from the requirements of this subsection.

(f)

The customer may use electricity for power, lighting and heating through the same meter and at the same time. If voltage variations resulting from this combined use require regulating apparatus, in the judgment of the customer, the required regulation equipment shall be furnished and installed by the customer at their own expense.

(g)

All rates shall be subject to verification by the personnel of the Siloam Springs Electric Department.

(h)

Service shall be available from the city at any point within the territory registered to the city with the Arkansas Public Service Commission. No other source of electric power shall be used within the city except as allowed in subsection (c) of this section of the Siloam Springs Municipal Code.

(Code 1978, § 4.08.02; Ord. No. 18-06, § 5, 4-17-2018)