CHAPTER 7
ELECTRIC UTILITY CUSTOMER SERVICE POLICIES
ARTICLE 5. EQUIPMENT
SECTION:
§4060 Customer’s Wiring And Equipment
§4062 City Employees Only To Install Connection
§4066 Inspection Or Recommendations Without Charge Or Liability
§4067 Customer’s Responsibility For City’s Property
§4069 Service Entrance Locations
§4060 CUSTOMER’S WIRING AND EQUIPMENT
A. It shall be the customer’s responsibility to provide suitable protective equipment such as fuses, circuit breakers and relays adequate to protect his/her equipment. If three-phase equipment is used, it shall be the customer’s responsibility to protect it against phase failure, also under and over voltage. The City will take all reasonable precautions to prevent phase failure or abnormal voltage variation, but cannot guarantee that such conditions may not occur, due to circumstances beyond its control.
B. The customer’s wiring shall be in accordance with the editions of the National Electric Code presently adopted and in force as part of the Ukiah City Code and such revised, modified or subsequent editions thereof which may from time to time be adopted.
C. The City reserves the right to refuse or discontinue service to customers equipment or to where such equipment is in hazardous condition, or not in conformity with lawful codes and local regulations.
D. The customer shall be solely responsible for the maintenance and safety of his/her wiring and equipment and the City shall not in any way be liable for accident, or damages, occurring to the customer or to third parties because of contact with or failure of any portion of the customer’s installation. (Ord. 957, §1, adopted 1995)
§4061 EQUIPMENT LIABILITY
The City does not assume the duty of inspecting the customer’s service appliances or apparatus or any part thereof and assumes no liability therefor. In the event that the customer finds the City’s electrical equipment and/or service to be defective, the customer shall notify the City of the defect immediately. (Ord. 957, §1, adopted 1995)
§4062 CITY EMPLOYEES ONLY TO INSTALL CONNECTION
Only duly authorized employees or agents of the City will be permitted to install a service connection from the City’s distribution line to the customer’s premises. (Ord. 957, §1, adopted 1995)
§4063 OWNERSHIP
The service connections, meters, and other facilities furnished by the City and located wholly or partially upon the customer’s premises are and shall remain the property of the City, which has and shall have the right to repair, replace, and remove them. (Ord. 957, §1, adopted 1995)
§4064 MAINTENANCE
The City will not be responsible for the installation and maintenance of the electrical lines beyond the end of the City’s service connection point or meter. (Ord. 957, §1, adopted 1995)
§4065 RIGHT OF SAFE ACCESS
The City, through its authorized employees, shall have safe access to its equipment at all reasonable times for the purpose of reading meters and testing, repairing or replacing any equipment which is the property of the City. If such equipment is located where locks are required, the City shall be supplied with and retain keys to all locks giving access to City equipment. If such equipment is located where an electronic security system is required, the City shall be supplied with codes or electronic keys giving access to City equipment. (Ord. 957, §1, adopted 1995)
§4066 INSPECTION OR RECOMMENDATIONS WITHOUT CHARGE OR LIABILITY
The City will not charge or assume any liability for any inspection work or recommendations made by the City or its agents in connection with the City’s electrical service or related equipment whether that inspection results from a complaint or any other cause. (Ord. 957, §1, adopted 1995)
§4067 CUSTOMER’S RESPONSIBILITY FOR CITY’S PROPERTY
It shall be the responsibility of the customer to take all reasonable and proper precautions to prevent damage to the city’s property on his/her premises. Such property shall include meters, instruments, transformers, services, and connections, and any other equipment installed by and remaining the property of the city. In the event that the city’s property is damaged because of the customer’s negligence, the city may collect from the customer the cost of repairs or replacement. (Ord. 957, §1, adopted 1995)
§4068 RIGHT OF WAY
The city will install electric utility facilities only along public roads and highways and upon public lands or private property across which satisfactory rights of way or utility easements may be obtained without cost to the city. Facilities to be located on public lands or private property across which the city cannot obtain a right of way or utility easement under conditions satisfactory to the city must be built, owned and maintained by the applicant or applicants, and constructed to conform to the effective rules for electrical construction regularly adopted by the public utilities commission of the state of California. (Ord. 957, §1, adopted 1995)
§4069 SERVICE ENTRANCE LOCATIONS
New service entrance locations shall be authorized and approved by the city prior to installation. (Ord. 957, §1, adopted 1995)