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Definitions
Service Extension: A service extension
is the electric facilities required to connect the power line existing at the time
of the request for service to the Customer's premises. The service extension shall
include all poles, primary wiring, secondary wiring, right-of-way acquisition and
clearing, trenching and backfilling, and any other one-time cost items associated
with service only to that new Customer, and transformer(s) and/or meter(s) if so
provided in the cost calculation for the specific service requested.
Service Drop: The service drop includes
a 100-foot overhead power line(s) from the initial customer connection with the
Company’s secondary or primary facilities to the Delivery Point.
The service drop is the minimum overhead secondary electrical connection and
shall not include poles, primary wiring, right-of-way clearing or acquisition, trenching
or backfilling, or any other cost item required to serve a new or relocated customer.
Service Relocation: A service relocation
is any change in the location of a service facility, including conversion from overhead
to underground and underground to overhead, requested by the Customer that results
in a one-time cost or expense to make the change.
Contributions-In-Aid-Of-Construction: the monetary
contributions by a customer requesting service to an electric utility to design,
furnish, place and construct such primary and secondary service extensions as are
necessary to render the service requested.
Conduit: the pipe that encloses and protects
electric conductors in underground power installations, including necessary fittings
and connectors.
Customer Owned Lines: electric service lines,
at either primary or secondary voltage, extending from the Delivery Point.
Looped Electric Utility Service: electric service
provided to a customer from a distribution line which receives, or is capable of
receiving, its electric supply from both directions of the distribution line.
Application Fee: the fee paid by the line
extension customer at the time the customer submits a written application for a
line extension. The phrase “application fee” is intended to include
any “engineering fee.” The application fee shall be credited to
the customer against the total cost of the line extension if the extension is constructed,
so that the Fee is only charged once.
Delivery Point: the point at which the
Company’s facilities first connect to the customer-owned facilities.
Primary Line: an electric distribution
line operating at greater than 600 volts.
Secondary Line: an electric distribution
line operating at 600 volts or less.
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