Applicants for new service shall furnish to the
Cooperative, on the Cooperative's standard form and at no cost to the
Cooperative, an easement granting the Cooperative the right to construct,
operate, and maintain any facilities which the Cooperative may be required to
construct or install on the property of the applicant in order to furnish the
required electric service, along with the right to replace, rebuild or remove
said facilities and the right to serve others from these facilities. Similar
easements will be required from owners of other property upon which the
Cooperative may be required to construct or install its facilities in order to
serve the applicant. Any cost incurred or monetary consideration involved in
connection with obtaining the necessary easements and permits for the
Cooperative to extend service from its system will necessarily have to be
borne by the applicant for such service.
The Cooperative shall extend its distribution facilities to
applicants in accordance with the following line extension provisions. Each of
the provisions classifies the predominate type of electric service/use
anticipated on the applicant's premises, and specifies conditions under which
the Cooperative will extend its facilities to applicant's premises.
It is the Cooperative's intent that this line extension
policy comply with the Rural Utilities Service's concept of area coverage.
The party applying for service shall pay the Cooperative as
aid to construction payment to provide electric service at said location the
sum of all costs of material, equipment, labor, easements, rights of way, and
any other amounts which are required by the tariffs of the Cooperative to
cover the costs of constructing the line extension.
The Cooperative shall retain ownership of all material and
facilities installed by the Cooperative for the extension of service to the
Member. The Cooperative retains the right to serve others from said line
and/or any extension thereof, without any obligation to refund any part of the
above payment or to allow credit on the minimum bill for energy used at
additional points of delivery which may be served from said line or any
extension thereof.
The Cooperative shall classify each applicant's facilities
and/or service requirements as permanent, indeterminate or temporary. After
classification is determined by the Cooperative, electric service at the
location will be billed at the Cooperative's regular established rates for the
class of service required.
If, in the Cooperative's opinion, the location justifies
reclassification from indeterminate to permanent, the Cooperative shall
refund, to the Member receiving service at the time of the reclassification,
the average investment per member in effect at the time of the original
extension of service. This provision applies only if the reclassification
occurs within five years of the date that the Aid-to-Construction was paid for
the original extension of service.
A permanent residential dwelling is described as a single
family dwelling, completely constructed, and occupied on a full time basis, or
any manufactured home or prefabricated structure which is occupied on a full
time basis and which is constructed on or permanently affixed to a concrete
slab or concrete piers (not blocks), and has the wheels, axles, hitches,
and/or towing devices permanently removed, and is connected to a permanent
water and sewer system.
