Chapter 3.20 BOROUGH LIGHT DEPARTMENT

Chapter 3.20
BOROUGH LIGHT DEPARTMENT¹

Sections:

3.20.010 Established – Management.

A. There is created for the borough a department for the administering of the business in connection with the acquisition, establishment, operation and maintenance of the borough’s light plant or public utility, which shall be known as the borough light department.

B. The light department shall be under the charge of the borough manager or such other municipal officer as may be designated by the borough manager. The duties of such person administering the borough light department shall be purely ministerial and he shall have no power to bind the borough in any manner in connection with the operation and maintenance of the light plant or public utility without the ratification of the borough through its borough assembly. The person in charge of the borough light department shall perform all duties as may be assigned to him by the borough manager and borough assembly and shall receive such compensation as the borough assembly may from time to time determine. [Ord. 251 § 5, 1970; prior code § 3.50.020.]

3.20.020 Establishment of rates.

The borough light department, through the officer in charge thereof, is empowered, authorized and directed, after his appointment and qualification, from time to time to propose a tariff and schedule of rates to be charged and collected for the furnishing of electricity for light, power and heat to the customers and users thereof, which tariff and schedule, upon ratification by the borough through its borough assembly, shall be the rates in effect until later changed by ordinance. [Ord. 251 § 5, 1970; prior code § 3.50.020.]

For Charter provisions on the borough electric system, see Charter § 8-1.