§ 36-27. Initial or minimum charge.

(a)

The initial or minimum charge, as provided in the rate schedule, shall be made for each meter installed, regardless of location. Each meter requires a separate meter reading sheet, and each meter reading sheet shall cover a separate and individual account.

(b)

Where service is furnished to a consumer during certain months only, the minimum charge per service for the period of nonuse shall be the regular minimum as set out in the published rates of the town.

(c)

Service furnished for a given lot shall be used on that lot only. Each consumer's service must be separately metered at a single delivery and metering point. Each commercial unit and each storeroom or stall used for business purposes shall have a separate meter. All commercial uses, including storerooms and stalls for business purposes, shall be metered separately from any residential use and vice versa, whether now in service or to be installed in the future; provided, however, when a residence is in the same structure with a business, it shall be metered as one unit.

(Code 1991, § 13-7; Ord. of 5-10-1988, § V)