Section 134.11. Meters and control equipment.

 

(1)  Where possible to do so, all gas quantities required to be reported to the commission shall be metered.

(2)  All gas sold to customers shall be measured by commercially acceptable measuring devices owned and maintained by the utility. The maintenance of the accuracy of the meters shall be the responsibility of the utility.

(3)  Every reasonable effort shall be made to measure at one meter location all gas quantities necessary for billing the customer.

(4)  All gas customers of the same type, pressure, and/or volume classification shall have their gas metered with instruments having like characteristics and at the same pressure base, except that the commission may approve the use of instruments of different types if their use does not result in unreasonable discrimination.

(5)  Any regulators or equipment used to provide service in accordance with commission or filed utility rules and rates shall be commercially acceptable devices owned and maintained by the utility.

(6)  A temperature-compensating meter shall be used whenever a gas meter is subject to the elements of the weather or wide variations in temperature. All present non-compensating installations subject to the elements of the weather and wide variations in temperature shall be changed so that 100% compliance will be attained by the end of the first complete testing cycle as provided in s. PSC 134.30 (1) .

History: 1-2-56 ; r. and recr. Register, February, 1959, No. 38 , eff. 3-1-59; cr. (6), Register, January, 1965, No. 109 , eff. 2-1-65.