Indiana Administrative Code
Title 170 - INDIANA UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION
Article 4 - ELECTRIC UTILITIES
Rule 1 - Standards of Service
Section 1-12 - Customer requests for tests; application to commission

Universal Citation: 170 IN Admin Code 1-12

Current through September 18, 2024

Authority: IC 8-1-1-3; IC 8-1-2-4

Affected: IC 8-1-2-35

Sec. 12.

(a) Upon application of any customer to the commission, and at the discretion of the commission, a test shall be made of the customer's watthour meter by the public utility or its contractor under the supervision of an employee of the commission. The commission shall promptly notify the public utility of any application. No fee shall be payable by the customer for the test, except as may be charged under section 11(b) of this rule.

(b) Upon application of any customer to the commission, and at the discretion of the commission, an electric demand test shall be made upon the customer's electric load by the public utility or its contractor under the supervision of an employee of the commission. The commission shall promptly notify the utility of any application. The requested test shall be made as soon as practicable after receipt of the application and under exactly similar conditions of installation and operation as may be mutually agreed upon, in writing, by the customer and the public utility. No fee shall be payable by the customer for the test, except as may be charged under section 11(b) of this rule.

(c) This section shall not interfere with the practice of a utility in its tests of meters except that, upon receiving notice of a written application to the commission by a customer for a test, the utility shall not:

(1) remove;

(2) interfere with; or

(3) discard; the customer's meter until completion of the test without the prior written consent of the customer, unless the removal of the meter is required in order to perform the requested test.

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