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1947-1550RESOLUTION NO. SSO A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM ADOPTING RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE FREQUENCY CHANGE OF THE ELEC- TRICAL EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM FROM 50 -CYCLE SERVICE TO 60 -CYCLE SERVICE. WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim acting by and through its City Council, hereinafter called, "City" is presently serving electrical service to its customers at a frequency of 50- cycles, and has determined that the present and future public convenience and necessity require the establishing of a uniform system wide alternating current frequency of approximately 60- cycles, and to discontinue the furnishing of 50 -cycle service at such time as 60- cycle service is available; to assist its customers in adapting the their apparatus for this service and to assume /reasonable cost of such work, and WHEREAS, the City assumes the responsibility for develop- ing and activating a sound and workable conversion program and proposes to contract with Southern California Edison Company to perform the frequency change work as required and herein set forth, and WHEREAS, the customer has the responsibility of actively cooperating and assisting in the completion of the conversion program, and WHEREAS, electrical service during frequency clige period will be supplied by the City in the affected area at a frequency of approximately 50- cycles, or at a frequency of approximately 60- cycles depending in each case upon the location and period dur- ing the conversion, and WHEREAS, the general 50 -cycle area of the city's service area is more nearly defined as being all that area lying within the present city limits of the City of Anaheim, and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Anaheim finds Page 1. that the following rules and regulations governing the frequency change of the electrical system and equipment of the City of Anaheim from 50 -cycle service to 60 -cycle service should be estab- lished, and that all rules, regulations and rates of the City inso- far as are inconsistent with these rules and regulations are sub- ordinate thereto, NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM that the following rules and regulations be and they are hereby adopted governing the frequency change of the electrical system and equipment of the City of Anaheim from 50- cycle service to 60 -oycle service, and that all rules, regulations and rates of the City insofar as are inconsistent with these rules and regulations are subordinate thereto. RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING FREQUENCY CHANGE OF THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM AND EQUIP- MENT OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM FROM 50 -CYCLE SERVICE TO 60 -CYCLE SERVICE. (A) DEFINITIONS OF TERMS The following terms when used in these Rules and Regulations shall have the meanings as stated below: (1) CUSTOMER "Customer" is the electric consumer, owner or person having legal control of the electric utilization equipment at the location where the apparatus or ap- pliances are directly supplied with electric service by the City at the time of cutover. (2) UTILIZATION EQUIPMENT "Utilization Equipment" includes appliances or ap- paratus regularly used by the customer for receiving and consuming or converting electric energy to other forms of power or energy. (3) REGULARLY USED "Regularly Used" means that the utilization equip- ment of the customer is connected to the City's system, ready for use continuously or periodically. Spare parts and supplies, equipment and materials in storage, or held for resale, lease, or rental are not considered "regularly used." (4) SURVEY "Survey" is the accumulation of the necessary data, page 2. Ma 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 physical measurements, tests and other engineering data required to determine which items of the .customer's utilization equipment are frequency sensitive and need adaptation. (5) ADAPTATION OR C:.)NVERSION "Adaptation or Conversion" is the necessary chang- ing or adjusting of utilization equipment required to render it capable of performing essentially the same service when supplied from a 60 -cycle alterna- ting current electric system as that previously obtained when supplied from a 50 -cycle system. (6) CUTOVER OR CHANGEOVER "Cutover or Changeover" is the time when the City ceases to furnish 50 -cycle service and commences to supply 60 -cycle service to the customer. (B) CONVERSION COSTS AND ALLOWANCES (1) The City will assume the reasonable costs of adapting cus- tomers' utilization equipment for operation at a frequency of 60- cycles, except as otherwise provided in this Rule and Regulation. (2) The cost of additions, betterments, repairs or maintenance of oustomers' utilization equipment is not a part of the reasonable cost of adapta- tion. Any such work shall be performed at the expense of the customer. (3) A customer may assume the responsibility of adapt- ing his utilization equipent and in such case the City will make a conversion allowance in lieu of adaptation. (4) Conversion allowances shall be based on schedules of adaptation costs which will be developed by the City from time to time, or on the estimated cost of adaptation sf the particular equipment. (5) In exceptional cases or untsual circumstances where utilization equipment cannot be adapted for 60 -cycle operation at a reasonable cost because of its condi- tion, age, inadequate, obsolete, or non- standard design, the City will make a conversion allowance in lieu of adaptation. (C) SURVEY OF UTILIZATION EQUIPMENT (1) A survey will be made of the frequency sensitive uti- lization equipment connected to the City's 50 -cycle system to determine the dhanges necessary to adapt the customers' equipment for operation on a 60 -cycle system. The survey will be conducted by the City, or its contractors, within their normal working hours, with the active assistance of the customer in pro- curing and supplying necessary information and in providing access to his equipment for the purpose of obtaining nameplate data and to make the necessary physical measurements and operating tests. (2) Frequency sensitive utilization equipment of domestic page 3. (D) ENGINEERING OF UTILIZATION gUIPNT (1) The data obtained from the survey of customers' utilization equipment will be analyzed by engineers of the City, or its contractors, to determine the necessary changes required for adaptation of the equipment to render it capable of performing essen- tially the same service when supplied from a 50- cycle system. Frequency sensitive utilization equipment will be adapted in aocordance with stan- dard conversion procedures as determined by the City. Customers will, upon request, be advised of the proposed changes to be made in utilization equipment. (2) Rotating equipment will require adaptation only if it is speed critical and in such cases mechanical changed will generally be made in the drive or driven equipment. Where mechanical changes are, in the opinion of the City, not practicable, electrical changes will be performed. A substantial amount of customers' utilization equip- ment now operating on 50 -cycle current will operate satisfactorily on 60 -cycle current and will not re- quire adaptation because of design, application or operating characteristics. In,general, this includes equipment supplying heat, incandescent lighting, ap- paratus performing non mechanical functions and rotating equipment which is not speed critical, ex- amples of which are as follows: Radios, vacuum cleaners, domestic refrigerators (sealed units and many belt- driven types), wash- ing machines (except spin dry and automatic types) domestic sewing machines, ranges (except timers), roasters, toasters, coffee makers, grills, waffle irons, hand irons and ironers, food mixers, juice extractors, portable fans, shavers and clippers (except vibrator types), door bells, transformers and small shop equipment. Incandescent lighting, small neon signs, fluores- cent lights (single tube), electric heaters, (3 customers will be surveyed by mail. A letter of instuctions will be addressed to each eustomer en- closing a survey card listing the more usual types of frequency sensitive domestic applicances. To insure adaptation of his equipment, the customer must indicate on the survey card which applicances he has and will write in the mane of the manufac- turer, brand, model, and year of electric refriger- ators, home freezers, washing machines, record players, and other equipment, and shall return the survey card promptly to the City in the postpaid envelope. (3) Frequency sensitive utilization equipment of classes of customers other than domestic will be surveyed by authorized representatives of the gity, or its con- tractors, during their normal working hours. (4) Representatives of the City and its contractors en- gaged in the survey will be provided with credentials for identification. page 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 soldering irons, infra red equipment, X -ray equipment heating pads and. blankets. Adding machines, dictating devices, typewriters, cash equipment, coffee grinders, battery chargers, and hand lamps, diathermy (except timers), machines, mailing registers, fountain meat slicers, tools, (E) CONVERSION OF UTILIZATION EQUIPMENT (1) The area served by the City with 50 -cycle electric service will be divided into several areas for the purpose of conversion as controlled by 'electric feeder circuits. The electric service to all cus- tomers within a feeder area must be cutover at one time, which will necessitate the full 000peration of each customer in making his utilization equip- ment available for conversion during the established schedules, All customers will be notified as far in advance as practicable of the conversion schedule and the date of cutover. (2) The City, or its contractors, will make the necessary changes required to adapt the customers' utilization equipment in accordance with the City's engineering determinations. The customer will, without charge, make his utilization equipment available for adapta- tion and provide necessary assistance to avoid delays during the progress of the work. (3) Conversion work on customers' utilization equipment will be performed within the normat working hours of the City, or its contractors. When the City finds it necessary under its schedules and in the best interests of the frequency change program, work may be performed during hours other than normal working hours. Conver- sion work may be performed on an overtime or premium basis for the customer's convenience, provided that such work does not conflict with the conversion schedule and the customer agrees to reimburse the City for the addi- tional cost resulting from such performance of work on an overtime or premium basis. (4) If the customer elects to accept a eonversion allowance, he shall execute an agreement with the City substan- tially in the form entitled "Conversion Allowance and Release Agreement" assuming the responsibility for the adaption of his utilization equipment. page 5. (5) Customers' equipment not regularly used or disconnected from the City's system will not be adapted at the time of the cutover. If, however, within 90 days from the date of cutover the equipment is reconnected and is regularly used in good faith, then the City will, upon reasonable notice, adapt the equipment for 60 -cycle operation. (6) If the customer considers that the work of conversion performed by the City, or its contractoe9,is unsatis- factory, he shall notify the City in writing within 60 days after the date of cutover. In case of seasonal use, such notice shall be given within 60 days after the resumption of seasonal use, but not later than one year after the date of cutover. Upon receipt of such (7) notice and the determination that additional conver- sion work is necessary, the City will perform such work. The City shall in no event be liable for any work performed by the customer. (8) Any material, whether individual parts or complete items of equipment, purchased by the City for use in the conversion of utilization equipment will, upon installation, become the property of the owner of the utilization equipment. The City shall have the right to retain all of the equipment salvaged by it from the adaptation of customers frequency sensitive utilization equipment. (9) Representatives of the City, and its contractors, engaged in the adaptation of utilization equipment will be provided with credentials for identification. (F) CLOCKS AND TIMING DEVICES (1) Clocks and timing devices in use on the City's 50- cycle system will be exchanged or adapted for 60- cyole operation in accordance with the City's standard conversion procedures. A clock depot will be established within the conver- sion area for the exchange or adaptation of portable clocks. (2) Customers will be notified of the location of the clock depot and shall bring their portable clocks to the depot in order to take advantage of one of the following plans: PLAN 1 The Customer may select from the stock of several models available, a new 60 -cycle clock in exchange for his old clock and the payment of a charge in accordance with the following schedute: Clock retail sale Price up to $3.95 3.96 4.95 4.96 5.95 5.96 6.95 6.96 7.95 7.96 8.95 Exchange price to be paid by Consumer 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.75 Note: Retail Sales price does not include California State Sales Tax and Federal Excise Tax. PLAN 2- The City will adapt the customers' 50 -cycle clocks for 60- cycle operation without cost, except as hereinafter provided. Conversion materials and workmanship will be guaranteed by the City for 60 days after the adaptation of the clock. (3) Nonportable clocks and timing devices, including range timers, alarm systems and time switches need not be page 6. brought to the clock depot, but will be adapted by the City, or its contractors, on the customers' premises, or removed to a conversion shop. (4) In exceptional cases where clocks and timing devices cannot be adapted for 60 -cycle operation at a reason- able cost, because of condition, age, inadequate, or obsolete or non standard design, the customer may ex- change his 50 -cycle clock as provided in Plan 1 above, or accept an established conversion allowance in exchange for his clock. (G) DIRECT CONNECTED DE EP WELL PUMPS (1) The City, or its contractors, will make the necessary changes required to adapt direct connected deep well pumps for 60 -cycle operation, in accordance with the City's engineering determination, or the customer may accept a conversion allowance in lieu of adaptation. (2) A survey and pump test will be made by the City to provide information useful in determining the neces- sary changes required in the pumping equipment for 60 -eyole operation. The data obtained from the survey and test will be analyzed by engineers of the City to determine the necessary changes required to render the pump capable of performing essentially the same swervice when supplied from a 60 -cycle system as that previously obtained when supplied from a 50 -cycle system. The adaptation of the pumping equipment will be by de- staging of the pump bowl assembly, or by trimming the pump impeller. The City, or its contractors, will pull, adapt for 60 -cycle operation and reinstall the pump without cost to the customer, provided the pump and the well are in normal operating conditon, and made available for conversion within the established schedule and the customer executes an agreement, substantially in the form entitled "Customers' Order and Agreement to Adapt Pumping Equipment for 60 -cycle Operation." (4) The customer may desire to make his own arrangements to adapt this pump for 60 -cycle operation, to install new equipment, to repair or overhaul his pump or well, to change pump capacity, to raise or lower the pump setting, to sand pump the well, or to make other changes or improvements. In such case9, the customer shall assume the responsibility of adapting his pump- ing equipment for 60 -cycle operation and shall execute an agreement substantially in the form entitled "Con- version Allowance and Release Agreement," and the City shall make a conversion allowance in lieu of adaptation. (3) (5) In exceptional cases or unusual circumstances where the City finds that the pumping equipment of the customer cannot be adapted for 60 -cycle operation at a reasonable cost, because of the condition of the pump or the well, the customer shall assume the res- ponsibility of adapting his pumping equipment for 60 -cycle operation by executing an agreement substan- tially in the form entitled "Conversion Allowance and Release Agreement," and the City shall make a conversion page 7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 allowance in lieu of adaptation. Such cases will include pump frozen in well, collapsed well, sanding up of well, defective pump and other conditions which prevent the normal adaptation and reinstallation of the pumping equipment. (6) Deep well pumps not regularly used or disconnected from the City's system will not be adapted by the City at the time of cutover. If, however, within one year after date of cutover of the electric feeder supplying the service, the customer signs a service agreement for a minimum term of three years, and agrees in good faith to use the pumps regularly the City will, upon reason- able notice, adapt the pumps for 60 -cycle operation. (H) INSTALLATION OR REMOVAL OF UTILIZATION EQUIPMENT (1) Any additions or removals of customers' frequency sensi- tive utilization equipment after the survey has been completed and prior to cutover shall be reported promptly in writing by the customers to the City. Upon receipt of notice of the installation of additional frequency sensitive utilization equipment, the City will survey engineer and adapt such equipment and will endeavor, if the time of the notice permits, to com- plete the necessary adaptation within the established conversion schedule. If the adaptation of the additional equipment has not been completed prior to cutover, the City shall not be liable for loss or damage resulting from 60 -cycle operation. (2) Utilization equipment installed after the survey and prior to cutoyer must be of a type which will require a minimum cost of adaptation to operate on a frequency of 60- cycles. If not of such type all costs in excess of such minimum cost connected with adapting said equipment shall be paid by the customer. (3) The City shall not be responsible for the adaptation of customers' utilization equipment installed after cutover,except as otherwise provided in this Rule and Regulation. (4) Customers now supplied by the City with 50 -cycle service moving into an area which has been converted by the City to 60 -cycle service or into the 60 -cycle service area of the City during the Changeover of the area, may have their utilization equipment adapted for 60 -cycle operation by making written application to the City. Upon receipt of such application, the City will survey, engineer and adapt the customer's fre- quency sensitive equipment within a reasonable time. CONTRACTS (1) If the City determines that the service is of a temporary or speculative character, or of questionable permanency, or that the cost of adaptation of a customer's frequency sensitive utilization equipment is excessive in relation to his annual revenue, the City may require a contract as a condition precedent to adaptation of the customer's page 8. 4J) RESPONSI AND LIABILITY (1) The City, except as otherwise herein provided has the responsibility for adapting customers' utilization equipment to render it capable of performing essentially the same service when supplied from a 60 -cycle system as that previously obtained when supplied from a 50- cycle system. (2) The City's responsibility for the adaptation of the customers' utilization equipment shall cease and terminate 60 days after the date of cutover, except as otherwise provided in this Rule and Regulation. (3) The City shall repair or replace any defective mater ial installed or improper workmanship performed by the City, dr its contractors, upon written notice by the customer to the City within a period of 60 days after the date of resumption of seasonable use, but not later than one year from the date of cutover of seasonal equipment. (4) In the event any customer's equipment is damaged, as a result of the conversion to a frequency of 60 cycles, the City and its contractors will be liable only if such damage is due to the negligence of the City, or its contractors. Such liability shall be limited to the repair of the damaged equipment. The City and its contractors shall not be liable for loss or damage, including but not limited to such items as, loss of use, production, or profits resulting from the adaptation of the customers' utilization equipment, or from the conversion of the City's system to a frequency of 60 cycles, except as provided in the para- graph immediately preceding. The City shall not be liable for loss or damage re- sulting, in whole or in part, from fire, war, riots, strikes, threat of strikes, labor negotiations, jurisdictional disputes between labor unions, wage dis- putes, lockouts, threat of lockouts, action of the elements, accidents, acts of God, inability to obtain materials or labor in the open market, or to obtain transportation of such materials, rules and regulations of any Federal, State, Uounty, Municipal, or any other governmental agency, or other matters beyond the rea- sonable control of City, whether similar to the matters or conditions herein enumerated or not, and without regard to whether such causes exist at the date hereof, or hereafter arise. (5) (6) equipment. Contracts for a term exceeding three years may be required based upon the estimated cost of adapt- ation and the future revenues to be received from the customer. (K) DISCONTINUANCE OR INTERRUPTION OF SERVICE (1) The City will exercise reasonable diligence and oare to furnish and deliver a continuous and sufficient supply of electric energy to the customer during the conversion of the City's system and to avoid any shortage or interruption of delivery of same. The City will not page 9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 (L) AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS (1) This Rule and Regulation shall be subject to amendment or supplement from time to time as conditions require and such amendments and supplements shall become ef- fective upon authorization of the City. The foregoing resolution is signed and approved by me this 27th day of May, 1947. ATTES (2) be liable for interrruption, or shortage, or insuffi- ciency of supply, or any loss or damage during the conversion of the City's system and the customer's utilization equipment. The City, whenever it shall find it necessary for the purpose of adapting customers' utilization equip- ment, or converting its system to a frequency of 60- cycles, will have the right to suspend temporarily the delivery of electric energy, but in all such cases as reasonable notice thereof as circumstances will permit, will be given to the customers and service will be restored as rapidly as may be practicable. In the event a customer fails to comply with this Rule and Regulation, or fails to have his utilization equipment adapted in accordance therewith, service may be discontinued unless the customer notifies the City in writing and executes an agreement assuming the responsibility for the conversion and relieving the Oity of liability for loss or damage resulting from the changeover of his electric service to 60 cycles. 'Clerk o the ig`"ty of Anaheim page 10. ayor of the City of Anaheim STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF ORANGE ss CITY OF ANAHEIM I, Charles E. Griffith, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 27th day of May, 1947, by the following vote of the members thereof: AYES: COUNCILMEN: Pearson, Pace, Heying, Roney and Van Wagoner NOES: COUNCILMEN: None. ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None. And I further certify that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed and approved said Resolution on the 27th day of May, 1947. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said City of Anaheim this 27th day of May, 1947. ,165; leak of the C page 11. f Anaheim.