Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-08-06

clared to be subject to modification
and change if they impose too great
hardship upon any company The
rules are as follows:
Rules Are Announced
Rule 1. A meter may be con
sidered as correct if, when passing gas
! at the rate OF six cubic feet per hour
i per light capacity, it shows, in
cOmpar son with a standard gas
iproyer, an error which is not greater
than two per cent.
Rule 2. No gas company shall al.
low a gas meter to remain in service
for a period longer than three years
without checking it for accuracy and
Ireadjusting it if found to be inaccur-
ate.
Rule 3. Each company shall keep
a record of tests made on meters be-
fore installation and upon receiving
them from the services.
Rule 4. Each gas company shall
provide itself with equipment neces-
sary for testing meters, such equip
ment to consist of a standard meter
proven with suitable accessories.
Rule 5. Each gas company shall
make a test of the accuracy of
meter upon request of a consumer,
provided such consumer does not
make a request for test more fire.
iquently than once in six months A
report giving the results of such
fTC, th,1I In NI,,
and a complete record of such tests
shall be kept on file in the office Of
the company.
Rule g. Upon formal application OF
amy consumer TO the railroad com
mission a test shall be made upol
the consumers meter by an inspector
employed by the railroad commits
sion, such test to be made as soon as
practicable after receipt of the ap-
ipIicatiOn. For such test fee of two
dollars $4,000 shall be paid by the
consumer making application for the
test if the meter is found to be slow
or correct within the allowable limits,
and by the company owning the
meter if the meter is found to be fast
| beyond the allowable limit
Rule 7. Meter diaIs shall be read
directly in cubic feet of gas and bills
rendered periodically by the company
| shall designate the readings o.
| the meter at the beginning and end
of the time for which the bill is rem
dered, and give the dates at which
! the readings were taken.
Rule 8. The company furnishing
gas, which, within a one mile radius
from the distribution center, gives a
monthly average total heating value
of not less than 600 B. T. IT,, may be
considered as giving adequate service
as far as the heating value Of the gas
lis concerned.
Rule g. Each gas company, whose
output exceeds twenty million cubic
feet a year, shall equip itself with a
standard calorimeter outfit, with
which periodic tests upon the gas shall
be made A record of these tests
shall be made and kept open for pub
lie inspection
| Rule 10. Gas pressure, as meas
ured at meter inlets, shall never be
less than / y inches nor more than
is inches of water pressure; and the
daily variation Of pressure at che in
let of any one meter on the system
shall never be greater than 100 per
cent Of the minimum pressure.
Rule H. Each company shall make
frequent measurements of the press
ure variations, and these shall be kept
: on record and open for public in
spection.
Rule T. In no case shall the gas
contain more than thirty grains of
total sulphur per 100 cubic feet, ana
not more than a trace of sulphur as
unsulphuretted hydrogen.
Rule g. Each company shall keep
a record of complaints which shall in
clude the name and address OF fhe
consumer. the date, the nature OF the
complaint. and the remedy CLASH
! fed summary Of these records shall
be submitted to the commission on or
before the twenty-eighth day of each
month
/ Rule II. No electric meter which
registers upon ''no-load" shall be