Chapter 27 UTILITIES*
Section 27-112 Same--Residential service rate.
(a) Application: The residential service rate applies to all customers
where service is supplied
to a residential dwelling unit. No other service rate shall be available for service to which the
residential service rate applies. Each residential dwelling unit must have a separate meter through
which the electricity supplied the residential dwelling unit shall be measured for billing by the
department. If a portion of the electric service supplied to a dwelling unit is used for
nonresidential purposes, the customer can arrange his wiring in such manner that the electric
service for residential purposes can be metered separately and this rate schedule is applicable to
the portion used for residential purposes. The residential service rate shall not be available for
standby, supplementary or resale services.
(b) Type of service. The type of service shall be single-phase, sixty-hertz,
120/240.
(c) Monthly rate charge. The monthly rate per kilowatt hour shall be
as follows, subject to fuel
adjustments as provided in section 27-118:
(1) Customer charge $
7.20 per month
(2) Energy charge
Summer:
First 750
kwh 9.44 cents per kwh
Next 1,250
kwh 12.77 cents per kwh
All remaining
kwh 13.72 cents per kwh
Nonsummer:
First 750
kwh 9.44 cents per kwh
All remaining
kwh 10.88 cents per kwh
Except when the customer has permanently
installed in a living area a minimum of five (5)
kilowatts of utility-approved electric space heating equipment which is the sole source of
comfort heating (except decorative fireplaces) for the area(s) to be heated, the rate per kwh for
the non-summer season will be:
First 750
kwh 9.44 cents per kwh
All remaining
kwh 8.04 cents per kwh
(d)
Minimum: The minimum monthly rate charge shall be seven dollars and twenty cents
($7.20).
(e) In lieu of gross receipts tax payments and sales tax: In addition
to the charge based on
monthly rates as computed above, the total monthly charge for service shall include applicable
sales taxes and an in lieu of gross receipts tax payment equal to 7.5268 per cent of the monthly
rate charge. Sales taxes shall be applied to the total of the monthly rate charge and the in lieu of
gross receipts tax payment.
(f) Standby service for solar assisted residences: Notwithstanding other
provisions of this
section, the electric service rates set forth in this section for residential customers shall be
available and apply to all residential customers regardless of the use by that residential customer
of solar energy for comfort heating or the use of electric energy as standby and supplementary
service to solar energy as the primary source of comfort heating for residential purposes.
(g) Load control: Customers under this rate may receive a discount on
summer bills if they
elect to allow the city to install, operate and maintain load control devices on qualifying cooling
equipment (see Sec. 27-129).
(h)
Net metering credit. Qualified customers under this rate may receive a per kWh discount
for the energy supplied by a qualified net metering unit as outlined in Sec. 27-120.1.
(Code 1964, § 15.550; Ord. No. 9930, § 1, 9-6-83; Ord. No. 10167, § 1, 5-7-84; Ord. No.
10808,
§ 1, 12-2-85; Ord. No. 11079, § 1, 6-2-86; Ord. No. 11464, § 1, 5-4-87; Ord. No. 13491,
§ 1, 10-19-92; Ord. No. 14776, § 1, 3-4-96; Ord. No. 16185, § 1, 9-20-99; Ord. No. 17894,
§ 1, 11-3-03;
Ord. No. 18220, § 1, 9-20-04; Ord. No.18689, § 1, 9-19-05; Ord. No. 19212, § 1, 9-18-06;
Ord.
No. 19681, § 1, 9-17-07; Ord. No. 20051, § 1, 9-15-08; Ord. No. 20417, § 1, 9-21-09;
Ord. No.
20742, § 1, 9-20-10)
(Ord. 20742, Amended, 09/20/2010, Prior Text; Ord. 20417, Amended, 09/21/2009, Prior Text; Ord. 20051, Amended, 09/15/2008, Prior Text; Ord. 19681, Amended, 09/17/2007, Prior Text; Ord. 19212, Amended, 09/18/2006, Prior Text; Ord. 18689, Amended, 09/19/2005, Prior Text; Ord. 18220, Amended, 09/20/2004, Prior Text; Ord. 17894, Amended, 11/03/2003, Prior Text; Ord. 16185, Amended, 09/20/1999, Prior Text)