Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-23

tricity or electric current for lighting, domestic or industrial purposes oth- CT than electric motors of One CID Horse Power or more the rate shall be for the first One Hundred QOO) Kilowatt Hours Twelve and One-half Cents (12hc) per KiloWatt hour; for the second One Hundred 000) Kilo- watt hours, Ten Cents (10c) per Kilowatt hour; and Eight Cents (8c) per Kilowatt hour for all in excess Of Two Hundred (200) Kilowatt hours per calendar month.
 Sec. 5. Motor service for electric itv and electric current used or con sumed in motors of a standard rating of less than One CD Horse Power shall be the same rate as lighting service Motors of standard rating of One CD Horse Power or more shall have rate not to exceed SIX (6) Gents per KilOwatt hour used in any calendar month, this class ot service to be registered through 2 separate meter for power purposes only.
 Minimum Monthly Service Charge
 Sec. 6.-On all classes of service there shall be a minimum monthly service charge or rate of $1.5O Tor the first 800 watts of connected load and of 75 cents for each additiona 500 watts or fraction thereof of the connected load for the electricity ol | electric current consumed during any one calendar month.
 Meter Test at Consumers Request
 Sec. T. Upon giving the vendor o electricity or electric current at leas1 | two days written notice, the cOnsu mer shall have the right at any time to require said vendor to test sucl meters in his presence and if the con | sumer so desires, in the presence O an expert representative appointed by him. If at the request of the consumer, any meter shall be tested more often than once year anC found to register within Two CD pel cent of the correct amount the con sumer shall upon demand, pay to saiC vendor all expenses incurred by tho said vendor in connection with sucl test
 Sec. 8. That neither the Town no the inhabitants thereof shall pay o be required to pay any greater rate or charge than the rates and charge! herein provided for electricity O. electric current supplied, furnished delivered and or sold to it or them b, any person, partnership, associa tion or corporation engaged in Q hereafter to engage in the supplyine furnishing, delivering and or sellin of electricity or electric current t said Town and or to the inhabitant thereof.
 Sec. g. That the rates and charge hereinbefore provided and set fort are hereby determined to be reason able rates and charges and that the are the maximum rates and charge which shall be charged.
 Penalty.
 Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful fo any person, partnership, associa tion or corporation to sell electricit or electric current except through meter within the specified rates an any violation thereof shall be pur ishable by a fine of not less tha Twenty-Five Dollars ($25OO) nor e1 ceeding One Hundred Dollars (S100 for each offense.
 Sec. II. That this Ordinance sha be published in The Seward Dail Gateway, a newspaper of general cil , culation in the Town of Seward Alaska, and shall become effective o September 2, 1924.
 Passed by the Common Council c the Town of Seward, Alaska, and al proved this 18th day of Februar! 1924.
 l.. " RAY, Mayor of the Town of Seward, flask
 Attest:
 (seaD VIM. H. WHITTLEsEY, Municipal Clerk.