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Timestamp: 2017-11-18 06:43:35
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Ch 88 WARDS
Ch 142 ELECTRICAL STANDARDS
§ 144-31 Purchase power cost adjustment.
Ch 190 NUMBERING OF BUILDINGS
Ch 229 SKATEBOARDS, ROLLERBLADES AND SCOOTERS
Ch 247 TREES
Ch 250 VECTOR CONTROL
Chapter 144: ELECTRIC SERVICE
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Middletown 6-10-1907.
Electrical standards — See Ch. 142.
Responsibility for electrical connections.
Financial responsibility for electrical installations.
Nonliability of Borough.
Right of Borough to terminate supply.
Restrictions on Borough employees.
Nontransferability of contracts; application for service.
§ 144-7
Failure to comply with regulations.
§ 144-8
Due date for bills other than service bills.
§ 144-9
Ownership of meters.
§ 144-10
Right of entry to remove meters.
§ 144-11
Interference with equipment prohibited.
§ 144-12
Interference with Borough employees prohibited.
§ 144-13
§ 144-14
Inspection of wiring prior to service.
§ 144-15
Certificate of approval required.
§ 144-16
§ 144-17
Standards for electrical wiring.
§ 144-18
Unlawful to bypass meter.
§ 144-19
Deposits for electric service.
§ 144-20
Authority to establish rate schedule.
§ 144-21
Furnishing of current without consent prohibited.
§ 144-22
§ 144-23
Alternative billing for church, meeting house or place of worship.
§ 144-24
Tampering with meters; violations and penalties.
§ 144-25
Budget billing for all residential total electric customers.
§ 144-26
Flat rates or special rates prohibited.
§ 144-27
§ 144-28
Yard lighting.
§ 144-29
Fee for connection after working hours.
§ 144-30
Failure of meter to register correctly.
§ 144-31
Purchase power cost adjustment.
Chapter 144 : ELECTRIC SERVICE
Middletown Borough Council or its authorized designee is the sole entity permitted to aggregate retail customers' power needs and demand response and bid demand response on behalf of retail customers of the municipality directly into any federal-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized electric markets.
Electrical service shall be required in all inhabited properties. Failure to obtain or maintain electrical service in a property or apartment unit while it is inhabited shall deem the property or apartment unit unfit for human habitation and shall further render the structure or apartment unit as dangerous and unsafe. As to apartment units, only the unit without electric service shall be deemed unfit for human habitation. The remaining units in the apartment structure that have electric service shall not be affected. In such instances, in addition to other remedies contained in this Chapter 144, the Code Enforcement Officer shall comply with the provisions of § 127-15.
If the Borough decides for whatever reason to modify or in any way to alter the method of providing electrical service to an existing customer, the customer shall bear all costs for the work required beyond the service termination point unless the modification will solely benefit the Borough or a third party.
Amended 7-11-2005 by Ord. No. 1194, approved 7-11-2005]
When the service has been discontinued for any of said reasons other than those in Subsection A(1) and (2), a charge of $40 for making the disconnection and reconnection, payable before reconnection, will be made. If the service has been discontinued for the reason specified in Subsection A(9), the customer must pay all past due charges, plus reconnection charges in accordance with § 144-27 of this chapter. prior to reconnection of service. Prior to discontinuance of service, the Borough will take such steps as may be reasonable to notify the customer thereof.
Editor's Note: See also Ch. 142, Electrical Standards.
A residential customer who has had a delinquent electric account balance in excess of $50 for more than 90 days over the course of the account history; or
FICO Credit Score Deposit Required
Less than or equal to 525 $200
526 to 600 inclusive $150
601 to 675 inclusive $100
Equal to or greater than 676 $50
Commercial security deposits shall be calculated at the rate of $1 per ampere of service (example: i.e., 400 ampere service equals $400 deposit).
[Added 11-13-1941; amended 4-6-1987 by Ord. No. 943, approved 4-6-1987]
The Borough Council shall be and is hereby authorized to establish a schedule of rates for electric current hereafter furnished by the Borough to its citizens and consumers and to alter and amend the same, from time to time, in whole or in part. The schedule or schedules so established shall provide for all classes of consumers. Until the new schedule of rates is adopted, the present rates shall continue in full force and effect.
[Added 5-10-1926; last amended 12-9-1985 by Ord. No. 907, approved 12-9-1985
Editor's Note: Subsequent amendments to this section noted where applicable.
Residential Total Electric Service. Effective January 1, 2006, all rate customers who were assigned to this rate class shall be migrated to Residential Rate Class - R Rate.
[Amended 12-5-2005 by Ord. No. 1200, approved 12-5-2005]
Residential service -- R Rate.
Customers located in a single, private dwelling in which more than 25% of the square footage of that dwelling is used exclusively in connection with the conduct of a business (commercial or noncommercial) or profession by a person residing therein. Such customers shall have available to them the rates for Commercial-General Service or Commercial-Industrial Service, as the case may be, unless such customer can establish that his or her electrical consumption relating to the business (commercial or noncommercial) or profession is less than 50% of the total electric usage.
Any customer for the usage of electricity for a business (commercial or noncommercial) or a profession located in a building which is detached from the dwelling used by the customer as a residence. Such customers shall have available to them for usage of electricity in such detached buildings the rates for Commercial General Service or Commercial-Industrial Service, as the case may be.
[Last amended 9-20-2006 by Ord. No. 1214, approved 9-20-2006]
Energy charge: $0.0826 per kilowatt-hour.
[Amended 12-8-2003 by Ord. No. 1165, approved 12-8-2003; 12-5-2005 by Ord. No. 1200, approved 12-5-2005; 9-20-2006 by Ord. No. 1214, approved 9-20-2006]
Commercial-General Service, Two-Kilowatt Minimum Small Power and Light Rate -- C Rate.
Application of schedule. This rate schedule is for small general services, including churches, schools and other municipal buildings, and excluding volunteer fire services as provided in Subsection C(9), at nominal secondary voltage. It is available to customers located on the Borough's distribution line desiring electric service for general lighting and/or power service and whose minimum billing demand is not less than two kilowatts.
[Amended 8-10-2010 by Ord. No. 1269, approved 8-10-2010]
[Last amended 12-5-2005 by Ord. No. 1200, approved 12-5-2005]
The energy charge: $0.073 per kilowatt-hour.
Minimum monthly charge. The minimum monthly charge shall be an amount equal to the demand charge plus the customer charge of $10.91 but not less than $10.91.
The determination of billing demand shall be the maximum fifteen-minute demand or as determined by periodic tests. Demand may be determined by estimate, in which case it will be taken as the connected lighting load, plus 60% of the connected heating load, plus the following percentage of connected motor load:
Size of Installation (horsepower)
Under 5 72%
5 to 10 60%
10 to 20 56%
All over 20 52%
Volunteer fire services. The Middletown Volunteer Fire Department shall not be subject to demand charges and demand meters shall not be required for all Middletown Volunteer Fire Department buildings for determination of billing demand charges and billing purposes pursuant to this Subsection C.
[Added 8-10-2010 by Ord. No. 1269, approved 8-10-2010]
Commercial-Industrial Service, Twenty-Kilowatt Minimum Large Power and Light Rate -- CI Rate.
Application of schedule. This rate schedule is for large general service, including churches, schools and other municipal buildings at secondary voltage. It is available to customers located on the Borough's distribution line desiring electric service for general lighting and/or power service and whose minimum billing demand is not less than 20 kilowatts.
The energy charge shall be as follows:
First 2,500 kilowatt hours: $0.0731 per kilowatt-hour.
All additional kilowatt-hours: $0.0605 per kilowatt-hour.
Minimum monthly charge. The minimum monthly charge shall be an amount equal to the demand charge but not less than $50.
Off-Peak Service -- OP Rate. Effective January 1, 2006 this rate no longer available.
[Amended 3-1-1999 by Ord. No. 1111, approved 3-1-1999; 1-3-2000 by Ord. No. 1126, approved 1-3-2000; 12-3-2001 by Ord. No. 1142, approved 12-3-2001; 12-5-2005 by Ord. No. 1200, approved 12-5-2005]
Industrial Service -- I Rate, Large-Capacity Users, as Agreed to By the Borough.
Application of schedule. The following rate is for industrial customers using electric current for power, lighting and heating.
Net monthly rate: The customer's monthly bill shall be the sum of the customer charge, demand charges and energy charges.
Customer charge: $7.57 per electric meter.
The demand charge for all kilowatts of billing demand shall be $4.72 per kilowatt.
First 100 kilowatt-hours: $11.72.
All over 100 kilowatt-hours: $0.059 per kilowatt-hour.
The determination of billing demand shall be the maximum fifteen-minute measured demand or as determined by periodic test.
Minimum monthly charge. The minimum monthly charge shall be an amount equal to the demand charge plus the customer charge of $7.57 but not less than $110.
PACE Rate - P Rate.
[Added 12-3-2007 by Ord. No. 1231, approved 12-3-2007;
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided that the new rate would be applied first to Cycle One electric customers, with electric meters read for billing purposes on or after April 1, 2008 (March use), and for Cycle One electric bills with due dates payable on or after April 1, 2008. The new rate would then be applied in the order the electric meters are read or the electric bills were due thereafter.
amended 12-9-2008 by Ord. No. 12-17, approved 12-9-2008
Editor's Note: This ordinance provided that the purchase power cost adjustment detailed in § 144-31 would apply to this rate class. Ordinance No. 12-17 further provided that the rate class detailed herein would expire with the July 2009 issuance of invoices for June 2009 electric use unless Council readopted said rate; and that, if the rate class detailed herein sunset, those customers in the P rate class would be automatically migrated to the R residential rate class for invoices received in August 2009, for electricity used in July 2009, and all such rules and policies would apply. Per the Borough Secretary, the P Rate was not readopted.
This rate schedule is available to customers:
Located on the Borough's distribution line who desire service for household residential and other ancillary uses in a single-family private dwelling, or in a separately metered electric service in a multifamily apartment house or duplex, including a mobile home as defined by this Code, but not a residential unit with a home occupation as defined by this Code, nor a residential unit with a commercial or retail business co-located; and
Who have successfully enrolled in the PACE or PACENET program, or their successor program(s), with the Pennsylvania Department of Aging; and
Who have made specific application with the Finance Director for the P Rate; and
Where the current customer account does not have a delinquent balance at the time of application for the P Rate.
The character of service shall be continuous, alternating current, 60 hertz, single-phase, dual-phase, or three-phase, 120/240 volts.
Customer charge: $10 per electric meter.
Energy charges for individuals that qualify for the P Rate only:
Peak energy: each day, Monday through Sunday, 12:00 midnight to 12:59 a.m., and 7:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. prevailing local time (18 hours per day): $0.0826 per kilowatt-hour.
Off-peak energy: each day, Monday through Sunday, 1:00 a.m. to 6:59 a.m. prevailing local time (six hours per day): $0.0595 per kilowatt-hour.
Minimum monthly charge. The minimum monthly charge shall be the customer charge of $10.
Setup fee: Each time an account is transferred to or removed from the TOU rate, the account shall be assessed a programming fee of $10.
This rate class is incompatible with any other rate class.
Customers in the P rate class may still qualify for home energy assistance programs.
Where a demand meter measuring demand at any time, whether on-peak or off-peak, has been installed at a church, meeting house or other regular place of stated worship, the church, meeting house or other regular place of stated worship is hereby authorized to elect to be billed, and upon so electing shall be billed, at 25% of the measured demand shown by such meter. The minimum monthly charge shall be an amount equal to the customer charge for a church, meeting house or other regular place of stated worship electing this option in lieu of installing time-of-day meters otherwise required to implement for churches, meeting houses or other regular places of stated worship, as typical off-peak users, the "off-peak, no charge" provisions (§ 144-22E above) relating to demand charges.
[Amended 11-15-2011 by Ord. No. 1279, approved 11-15-2011
Editor’s Note: This ordinance also repealed former Subsection B, regarding notice of delinquent accounts after the 15th day following the issuance of a bill, and provided for the renumbering of former Subsections C through H as Subsections B through G, respectively.
Failure of the U.S. Postal Service to deliver any or all of the above referenced notices, or failure to show proof that the Electric Department affixed a termination notice at the service location, does not constitute grounds for continuation of service for a delinquent account.
Documentation shall be provided to show that a permanent Borough resident at the service location, as identified on the Borough tax rolls, uses life support equipment which requires electric current. This documentation shall be provided by a medical physician, licensed by the commonwealth, who shall sign and attest to such on said application.
[Added 9-20-2006 by Ord. No. 1214,
Editor's Note: This ordinance provided that the new residential customer charge, new residential rate, and the PPCA, for all classes of service, would be applied first to Cycle Two electric customers, with electric meters read for billing purposes on or after 10-2-2006 (September use) and for electric bills due and payable on or after 10-23-2006. The new rate would then be applied as electric meters were read or electric bills were due thereafter.
approved 9-20-2006; 12-8-2009 by Ord. No. 1263, approved 12-8-2009; 4-13-2010 by Ord. No. 1265, approved 4-13-2010; 7-13-2010 by Ord. No. 1267, approved 7-16-2010; 12-14-2010 by Ord. No. 1273, approved 12-14-2010]
Each electric service bill shall also include a positive or a negative purchased power cost adjustment (PPCA) factor to reflect the changes in the Borough's actual purchased power cost. The PPCA shall be applied to each kilowatt-hour (kwh) supplied under all rate schedules as adopted in this chapter. This adjustment determined to the nearest 0.01 mill in accordance with the formula set forth below shall be applied to all kilowatt-hours supplied during the billing period. A copy of the formula spreadsheet must be made available for public inspection, during regular office hours, in the Borough's Finance Department.
The PPCA formula is calculated as the percent change between the wholesale cost, per kwh, from the Borough's wholesale supplier of energy for the base month of January 2005, as that base is divided by 1.0667, and the wholesale cost, per kwh, as reported by the Borough's current wholesale supplier of energy, for the thirty-day period covered by each retail electric invoice. The percent change between the base month and the current time period is the percent, in the form of mills per kwh, by which each retail kwh sold shall be adjusted.
Residential cap on PPCA. The purchase power cost adjustment formula shall not result in an increase in rates more than $0.0550 per kwh above the wholesale all-inclusive cost of electricity to the Borough, beginning with Cycle three bills in March 2011 and ending with Cycle two bills in June 2011. The foregoing residential cap on PPCA may be extended to such date(s) as directed by further resolution of the Borough Council.
[Amended 3-8-2011 by Ord. No. 1278, approved 3-8-2011]