Ariz. Admin. Code § 14-2-405

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 24, June 14, 2024

Section R14-2-405 - Service Connections and Establishments

A. Priority and timing of service establishments

1. After an applicant has complied with the utility's application and deposit requirements and has been accepted for service by the utility, the utility shall schedule that customer for service connection and/or establishment.

2. Service establishments shall be scheduled for completion within five working days of the date the customer has been accepted for service, except in those instances when the customer requests service establishment beyond the five working day limitation.

3. When the utility has made arrangements to meet with a customer for service establishment purposes and the utility or the customer cannot make the appointment during the prearranged time, the utility shall reschedule the service establishment to the satisfaction of both parties.

4. Each utility shall schedule service establishment appointments within a maximum range of four hours during normal working hours, unless another time-frame is mutually acceptable to the utility and the customer.

5. Service establishments shall be made only by qualified utility service personnel.

6. For the purposes of this rule, service establishments are where the customer's facilities are ready and acceptable to the utility and the utility needs only to install or read a meter or turn the service on.

B. Service lines

1. An applicant for service shall be responsible for the cost of installing all customer piping up to the meter.

2. An applicant for service shall pay to the utility as a refundable advance in aid of construction the sum as set forth in the utility's tariff for each size service and meter. Except where the refundable advances in aid of construction for meters and service lines have been included in refundable advances in aid of construction for line extensions and thus are refundable pursuant to main extension contracts approved by the Commission, each advance in aid of construction for a service line or meter shall be repaid by the utility by an annual credit of 1/10 of the amount received, said credit to be applied upon the water bill rendered in November of each year until fully paid, for each service and meter for which the advance was made, and said credit to commence the month of November for all such advances received during the preceding calendar year.

3. Where service is being provided for the first time, the customer shall provide and maintain a private cutoff valve within 18 inches of the meter on the customer's side of the meter, and the utility shall provide a like valve on the utility's side of such meter.

4. The Company may install its meter at the property line or, at the Company's option, on the customer's property in a location mutually agreed upon.

5. Where the meter or service line location on the customer's premises is changed at the request of the customer or due to alterations on the customer's premises, the customer shall provide and have installed at his expense all piping necessary for relocating the meter and the utility may make a charge for moving the meter and/or service line.

6. The customer's lines or piping must be installed in such a manner as to prevent cross-connection or backflow.

7. Each utility shall file a tariff for service and meter installations for Commission review and approval.

C. Easements and rights-of-way

1. Each customer shall grant adequate easement and right-of-way satisfactory to the utility to ensure that customer's proper service connection. Failure on the part of the customer to grant adequate easement and right-of-way shall be grounds for the utility to refuse service.

2. When a utility discovers that a customer or his agent is performing work or has constructed facilities adjacent to or within an easement or right-of-way and such work, construction or facility poses a hazard or is in violation of federal, state or local laws, ordinances, statutes, rules or regulations, or significantly interferes with the utility's access to equipment, the utility shall notify the customer or his agent and shall take whatever actions are necessary to eliminate the hazard, obstruction or violation at the customer's expense.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R14-2-405

Adopted effective March 2, 1982 (Supp. 82-2). Amended subsection (B) effective September 28, 1982 (Supp. 82-5).