20161219PAC to Staff Attachment 35.pdf

(ID Dec2016) Estimator name
C/C:
Account #: Request #:
Service ID #: Contract #:

RESIDENTIAL REMOTE SERVICE CONTRACT
between
ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER
and
//CUSTOMER'S NAME//

This Residential Remote Service Contract (“Contract”), dated , is between Rocky Mountain
Power, an unincorporated division of PacifiCorp (“Company”), and //Customer's Name//
(“Customer”) for extending Residential electric service to Customer’s facilities located at or near
, Idaho.
Company's filed tariffs and the rules of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission regulate this
Contract. They are available for review upon request.
1. Term. This Contract becomes effective when both Customer and Company have signed it.
It will remain in effect for an initial period of five (5) years from the date Company is ready to
supply service, and will automatically renew year to year thereafter until: canceled by
permanent disconnection of service and Customer payment of all removal costs for inactive
facilities; or, otherwise canceled by Company as provided by tariff.
2. Delivery of Power. Company will provide 120/240 volt, single-phase electric service to
Customer’s facilities, and Customer warrants that the residence is permanent in nature.
3. Company Investment. Company agrees to provide an Extension Allowance of $0.00,
towards Company facilities to serve Customer’s residence, as provided for in the tariff, and
Customer warrants that the residence is permanent in nature.
4. Customer Advance. Customer agrees to pay Company the estimated construction costs
in excess of the Extension Allowance (“Customer Advance”). Customer has paid for
engineering, design, or other advance payment for Company’s facilities in the amount of
$0.00, which amount is reflected in the balance due in the Customer selected option
below. (Customer must initial selected option on the blank space at the beginning of the
option and pay the balance due given in that option.)
____ Refund Option. The total Customer Advance for this work is $0.00, the balance
due is $0.00, and Customer remains eligible for refunds. Company will refund part
of the advance if additional customers connect to the new line within sixty (60)
months of the date Company is ready to supply service. Company will refund 20%
of the cost of the shared facilities for each of the first four additional customers.
Company will try to inform Customer when a refund is due. However, in the event
Company is unable to locate Customer or has not identified that a refund is due,
Customer is responsible for requesting a refund within twenty-four (24) months
of the additional customer connecting to the new line.
____ Contract Administration Credit Option. Customer chooses to receive a Contract
Administration Credit of $250 and waive their right to refunds should additional
customers connect to this line. Accordingly, Customer’s balance due is $0.00.
5. Contract Minimum Billing. Customer agrees to pay a Contract Minimum Billing for the
term of this Contract. The billing shall be the greater of: (1) the monthly schedule billing;
or, (2) $0.00 plus eighty percent (80%) of the monthly schedule billing. Billings will be
based on Rate Schedule No. and superseding schedules.
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Company will adjust the minimum charges if additional customers connect to the new line.
6. Customer Obligations. Customer agrees to:
a) Provide legal rights-of-way to Company, at no cost to Company, using Company’s
standard forms. This includes rights-of-way on your property and/or adjoining
property and any permits, fees, etc. required to cross public lands;
b) Prepare the route to Company’s specifications;
c) Install all Customer provided trench, conduit, equipment foundations, or excavations
for equipment foundations within the legal-rights of ways;
d) Take service for not less than sixty (60) months from the date Company is ready to
supply service; and,
e) Comply with all of Company’s tariffs, procedures, specifications and requirements.
7. Underground Facilities. If service is provided by an underground line extension, Customer
will provide, or Company will provide at Customer’s expense: all trenching and backfilling,
imported backfill material, conduit and duct, and furnish and install all distribution
transformer pads, as designed by Company. Company may abandon in place any
underground cables installed under this Contract that are no longer useful to Company.
If any change in grade or surface improvements on Customer’s property, change in
Customer’s property lines, failure to install to the specifications in Company’s Electric
Service Requirements Manual, or failure to install facilities within legal rights-of-way, require
Company to change its facilities, or causes additional cost to Company, Customer agrees to
reimburse Company for such change or cost. The provisions of this paragraph 7 shall
survive the termination of this Contract.
8. Effective. This Contract will expire unless Customer:
a) Signs and returns an original of this Contract along with any required payment to
Company within ninety (90) days of the Contract date shown on page 1 of the
Contract; and
b) Is ready to receive service within one-hundred fifty (150) days of the Customer
signature date below.
9. Special Provisions: None
10. Assignment. Company may at any time assign its rights and delegate its obligations
under this Contract to any: affiliate; successor in interest; corporation; or any other
business entity in conjunction with a merger, consolidation or other business
reorganization to which Company is a party.
11. Waiver of Jury Trial. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each of the parties hereto
waives any right it may have to a trial by jury in respect of litigation directly or indirectly
arising out of, under or in connection with this Contract. Each party further waives any
right to consolidate any action in which a jury trial has been waived with any other action in
which a jury trial cannot be or has not been waived.
12. Entire Agreement. This Contract between Customer and Company replaces all prior
communications about this project.

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//CUSTOMER'S NAME//

By
signature

NAME (type or print legibly) TITLE

DATE

ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER

By
signature

NAME (type or print legibly) TITLE

DATE

Customer’s Mailing Address for Executed
Contract

ATTENTION OF

ADDRESS

CITY, STATE, ZIP

EMAIL ADDRESS

Rocky Mountain Power’s Mailing Address
for Executed Contract

ADDRESS

CITY, STATE, ZIP

EMAIL ADDRESS

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