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ORDINANCE NO. 537
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING CERTAIN O'RDINANCf!X BM)
PARTS OF ORDINANCES AN!D ESTABLISHING RATES FOR
THE SALE OF ELECTRIC EmRGY BY THE CITY OF LODI
AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BB AN URGENCY b!EASURE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LODI DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. REPEAL. Ordinance No. 215, entitled '#AN
OR'DINANCB REPEALING CERTAIN ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES
AND ESTABLISHING RATES FOR THE SALE OF ELECTRIC ENERGY BY THE
CITY OF LODI", all amendments thereto, and all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 2. RATES. Rates for the sale of electric energy
by the City of Lodi shall be as follows per month:
DOMESTIC SCKEDULE "A"
This schedule is applicable to all domestic lighting,
heating, cooking, and single phase domestic power service in
single-family dwellings and in flats and apartments separately
metered by the City.
Service charge per meter per month:
Energy Charge(to be added to service charge) $ .60
First 40 K.W.H. per meter per month ........ .038
Next 60 K.W.H. per meter per month ........ .O27
Next 100 K.W.H. per meter per month ........ .022
All excess K.W.H. per meter per month ...... .011
Special Conditions: Where polyphase power is to be combined
with single phase, a &-wire service and meter will be supplied
and the service charge per month shall be .......... $1.00
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COMMERCIAL LIGHTING SCHEDULE "B"
This schedule is applicable to all single phase or poly-
phase alternating current service, provided that all polyphase
service to any customer on the same premises shall be supplied
through one meter.
At the customer's option, single phase and polyphase
service may be combined.
Voltage - When polyphase service is to be combined with
single phase, a 4-wire service will be supplied at either
120/240 Volt or 120/208 Volt.
Service Charge per month ...................... $ .60
Polyphase Service:
Single phase meter rate plus $ .90 per meter per month.
S;.*/P pf Minimum Charge :
$ .60 per month per H.P. oflpolyphase connected load.
Energy Charge (to be added to Service Charge)b
First 50 K.V.H. per meter per month .... $I .038
Next 150 K.W.H. per meter per month .... .035
Next 800 K.W.H. per meter per month .... .029
Next 2000 K.W.H. per meter per month .... .025
Next 3000 K.W.H. per meter per month .... .02
All excess K.W.H. per meter per month ... .018
SCHEDULE "D"
This schedule is applicable to alternating current used
in motors, heating and cooking devices, and rectifiers for
battery charging.
Rate per K.W.H. of Monthly Consumption of
H.P. of Con- First 50 KWH Next 50 KWH Next 150 KWH All over 250 Ic;tJH
nected Load Der H.P. Der H.P. Der H.P. Der H.P.
2 to 9.9 $ .042 $ -023 $ -013 $ .01
10 to 24.9 .038 .022 .012 .01
25 and over .032 .02 .011 .009
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(A) Minimum Charge:
First 50 H.P. per month ................. $1.10
All over 50 H.P. per month .............. 75
(B) Voltage: Any standard voltage.
(C)
customer be based on the H.P. of the measured maximum demand
instead of H.P. of connected load. In which case, the H.P.
of demand on which the rate and minimum will be based will not
be less than 30% of the connected load, and the minimum charge
will not be less than $25.00 per month. In this case, all
classes of use may be combined and receive service through
the maximum demand meter.
(I)) The maximum demand in any month will be the average H.P.
input (746 Watt equivalent) indicated by instrument to be supplied,
owned, and maintained by the City, and at the CityFs expense
upon the customerrs premises adjacent to the Watt hour meter
in the fifteen minute interval, in which the consumption of
electrical energy is more than in any other fifteen minute
The above rate and minimum charge may at the option of the
interval in the month, or at the option of the City, the maxi-
mum demand may be determined by test.
(E)
and other installations where the energy demand is intermittent
or subject to violent fluctuations, the City may base the cus-
tomer's maximum demand upon a five minute interval.
(F)
for larger installations by guaranteeing the rate and minimum
In the case of hoists, elevators, welding machines, furnaces,
Any customer may obtain the rates and conditions of service
charges applicable to the larger installation.
may not be changed more than once per year.
Such a guarantee
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INDUSTRIAL POWER
Description of Service:
This schedule is applicable to alternating current light-
ing and, at the customer*s option, to alternating current for
heaCing, cooking, power or any combination thereof (either
single-phase or polyphase) alone or combined with lighting,
provided all polyphase power service to any customer on the
same premises shall be supplied through one meter. Service
to each of two or more separate areas, but not in the same
building, and which do not overlap within the same premises
may be individually metered.
Special Conditions :
(a) Maximum Demand: The maximum demand in any month
will be the maximum average power taken during any 15-minute
interval in the month, provided, however, that whenever such
monthly maximum demand has exceeded 400 kw for three consecutive
months and thereafter until it has fallen below 300 kw for
12 consecutive months, a 30-minute interval may be used; pro-
vided further, that in cases where the use of energy is inter-
mittent or subject to violent fluctuations, a 5-minute interval
may be used. A thermal type of demand meter which does not
reset after a definite time interval may be used.
(b) Voltage: Service on this schedule wrtll be supplied
at the secondary voltage available or, at the option of the
customer, at the primary voltage available. Were secondary
voltage is desired and polyphase power is to be combined with
single-phase, a &wire Ssmice will be supplied, either 120-240-
volt or 120-208 volt, whichever is available.
(c) Primary Voltage Discount: When delivery hereunder
is made at the same voltage as that of the line from which the
service is supplied a discount of 3%
will be allowed.
for line voltages of 4 kxr
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(d) Power Factor. When the bill8Qg demand has exceeded
400 kw for three consecutive months and thereafter until it
has fallen below 300 kw for twelve consecutive months, bills
will be adjusted for weighted monthly average power factor
as follows:
The total charge (except the minimum charge) for any
month as computed on the above rates will be decreased
or increased, respectively, by 0.1% for each 1% that the
average power factor of customer's load in that month
was greater or less than 85%, such average power factor
to-be computed (to the nearest whole per cent) from the
ratio of lagging kilovolt-ampere-hours to kilowatt-hours
consumed in the month, proviclsa, howwar, that no power
factor correction will be made for any month when customerrs
maximum demand was less than 10% of the highest such demand
in the preceding eleven months.
Rate I: This rate applies to demands of 1,000 kw or less.
Energy Charge :
First 6,000 kwhr or less per month .........
For all excess over 6,000 kwhr per month:
First 50 kwhr per kw of billing demand ... 1.9@ per kwhr Next 150 kwhr per kw of billing demand: First 100,000 kwhr ..................... 1.1@ per kwhr Balance ................................ .8$ per lnwhr Next 100 kwhr per kw of billing demand.... .8@ per kwhr All excess ............................... .5@ per kwhr
$135.00
Minimum Charge, per month:
$135.00 but not less than 809 per kw of billing demand.
Rate 11: This rate applies to demands above 1,000 kw.
Snergy Charge :
First 6,000 kwhr or less per month ........ $150.00
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F~P all excess over 6,000 kwhr per month:
Next 150 kwhr per kw of billing demand:
First 50 kwhr per kw of billing demand ... 2.10p per kwhr
BBlance ................................ 0.85p per kwhr
Next 100 kwhr per kw of billing demand ... 0.8% per kwhr
All excess ............................... 0.60# per kwhr
First 100,000 kwhr...................... 1.20@ per kwhr
Minimum Charge, per month:
$1500.00 but not less than 90g? per kw of billing demand.
Section 3. URGENCY REI@”E MEASURE. This ordinance is
hereby declared to be an urgency measure for the immediate preser-
vation of the public peace, health and safety, and a measure
fixing an amount of money tb be raised by taxation, all within
the meaning of Section 36937 of the Government Code of the State
of California and Article IVY Section 1, of the Constitution
of the State of California. The facts concerning such deblara-
tion are:
(a) The City of Lodi owns and operates an electric
distribution system, presently purchasing el’ectric energy in
bulk from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. The contract
under which such electric energy is purchased expired on August
27, 1955, and new and substantially higher rates will thereafter
be imposed by the Company. Lack of additional revenue to the
City, commencing on the date on which higher rates will be
imposed upon the City, will result in a reduction in the govern-
mental and proprietary services furnished the public by the
City, to the detriment of the public peace, health and safety.
(b) The extent to which rates charged the City by
the Company would be increased have not previously been deter-
minable. The City has continuously attempted for a period of
ten (10) months to obtain from the Company a definite schedule
which would become effective upon expiration of the existing
contract. These unsuccessful neQotiations, carried on in the
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Approved this
Attest:
City Clerk
public interest, have prevented the equitable adoption of
consumer rate schedules by the City except through enactment
of an urgency measure as herein adopted.
(c) Partial reliance upon electric revenues for the
provision of other governmental and proprietary services has
made it impracticable to make complete provision for the opera-
tion of Municipal facilities in the fiscal year 1955-56, pending
determination of electric costs.and revenues. Assurance of
safe and reasonable service levels requires the adjustment of
such costs and revenues at the earliest possible moment.
Section 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall take
effect upon its adoption and be in full force with respect to
all electric bills rendered on and after October 1, 1955.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF SAN JOAQUIN ss.
I, HENRY A. GLAVES, JR., City Clerk of the City of Lodi
and ex officio Clerk of the City Council of said City, do
hereby certify, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 537 was
adopted in regular meeting of said City Council held Septem-
ber 7, 1955, after reading in full, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen - Fuller, Hughes, Mitchell, Richey
and Robinson
NOES: Councilmen - None ABSENT: Councilmen - None
I FURTHER CERTIFY that Ordinance No. 537 was approved
and signed by the Mayor on the date of its passage and has
been published pursuant to law.
City Clerk
Dated: September 21, 1955
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