§ 13.20.060. City small commercial (Schedule CSC).

A.

Availability. City small commercial service shall be available to any separately metered customer within the City whose electric service is for nonresidential use, applicable to all business and commercial enterprises, offices, shops, hotels, schools and institutions (excluding businesses in the home operated solely by phone or mail by the resident only) for lighting and small power. Residential use may be included where a business is operated in the home on the same meter as the household. The metering of apartment houses and mobilehome courts shall comply with Section 13.20.260. Each meter is to be considered a separate customer. "Commercial" is defined as any business user where value is not added to a product through manufacturing or processing or where storage of bulk materials is not the primary function, or pumping of oil or other materials is not involved as the primary function.

B.

Service. The service provided shall be such phase and voltage as the utility has immediately available to the site. Single phase service shall not be utilized where motors aggregate over fifteen (15) hp, except at the utility's option. All motors over one and one-half hp shall have a nominal rating of two hundred thirty (230) volts or higher.

C.

Rates—CSC.

1.

Minimum rate for the first fifty (50) kWh/month shall be as follows:

a.

Seventeen dollars and twenty-six cents ($17.26) per month from the date of publication of the ordinance codified in this chapter through December 31, 2014;

b.

Seventeen dollars and fifty-one cents ($17.51) per month for the period effective January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015; and

c.

Seventeen dollars and seventy-six ($17.76) per month for the period effective January 1, 2016 until further action by the Governing Body.

2.

The rate applying to the next one thousand nine hundred fifty (1,950) kWh/month shall be as follows:

a.

$0.1012 per kWh from the date of publication of the ordinance codified in this chapter through December 31, 2014;

b.

$0.1062 per kWh for the period effective January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015; and

c.

$0.1112 per kWh for the period effective January 1, 2016 until further action by the Governing Body.

3.

The rate applying to the next three thousand (3,000) kWh/month shall be as follows:

a.

$0.0922 per kWh from the date of publication of the ordinance codified in this chapter through December 31, 2014;

b.

$0.0972 per kWh for the period effective January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015; and

c.

$0.1022 per kWh for the period effective January 1, 2016 until further action by the Governing Body.

4.

The rate applying to the next five thousand (5,000) kWh/month shall be as follows:

a.

$0.0852 per kWh from the date of publication of the ordinance codified in this chapter through December 31, 2014;

b.

$0.0902 per kWh for the period effective January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015; and

c.

$0.0952 per kWh for the period effective January 1, 2016 until further action by the Governing Body.

5.

The rate applying to the next ten thousand (10,000) kWh/month shall be as follows:

a.

$0.0802 per kWh from the date of publication of the ordinance codified in this chapter through December 31, 2014;

b.

$0.0852 per kWh for the period effective January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015; and

c.

$0.0902 per kWh for the period effective January 1, 2016 until further action by the Governing Body.

6.

The rate applying to all usage in excess of twenty thousand (20,000) kWh/month shall be as follows:

a.

$0.0742 per kWh from the date of publication of the ordinance codified in this chapter through December 31, 2014;

b.

$0.0792 per kWh for the period effective January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015; and

c.

$0.0842 per kWh for the period effective January 1, 2016 until further action by the Governing Body.

(Ord. 1219 § 5, 1990; Ord. 1138 § 6, 1984)

(Ord. No. 1552, § 5, 9-26-13)