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Bob F

krw wrote:
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:56:11 -0800, "Bob F"
wrote:

krw wrote:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:51:56 -0800, "Bob F"
wrote:

wrote:
On Feb 18, 12:07 am, David Nebenzahl
wrote:
On 2/17/2010 1:00 PM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

Bob F wrote:

The permits are the city, the power utility is the city. What's
laughable?

I've never lived anywhere where "the power utility is the city",
so you are laughable.

You've never heard of municipal power companies? Lessee, not far
from where I live, Palo Alto, Sacramento, and several others I
can't think of just at the moment run their own power systems
within their cities. Marin County just decided to set up a
county-wide power authority. So yes, in many places "the power
utility is the city".

Now who's laughing?

I guess we still are laughing because the real issue was that the
poster claimed utilities are routinely notified by residential
customers when they add significant loads to their homes. First
he claimed it was required of homeowners by utilities directly.
Then he claimed it was because you had to get a permit for
electrical work. Then he claimed that because his electric
utility happens to be run by the municipality, that when you get
an electric permit, that counts as notifying the utility.

I only relayed what I was told by the city inspector or the utility
worker (not sure which). OK - they must be liers.

Well, there certainly is a LIAR here. Since you "can't remember"
who told you this nonsense...

Can you remember the exact details of everything that happened to
you years ago?

I don't "repeat" lies.

NO lie!

I just got a callback from a chief inspector at Seattle City Light. He quoted me
the part of the Seattle City Code that requires notification of load additions.
It is the law here. He also said, he didn't personally know who you would
notify. Generally, he said, they find out when service entrance updates are
done, since they hook up the power. But, by law, you are supposed to notify the
utility, and if you don't, you are responsible for repairs, if for instance, the
transformer blows.