Los Angeles Municipal Code § 132.01 PHASE I.
SEC. 132.01. PHASE I.
Effective upon declaration of the Mayor as provided in Section 131.05, no customer shall make, cause or permit any use of electricity provided by the Department in a manner which is contrary to the provisions of Subsections a through i of this section.
a. Street Light Reduction.
(i) Electricity Supplied to City Agencies. The Director of the Bureau of Street Lighting of the Department of Public Works shall maintain a Council-approved plan which, upon implementation, will produce a twenty-five percent (25%) reduction in energy used for street lighting.
(ii) Electricity supplied to agencies of the County of Los Angeles and State of California. The appropriate agencies of the County of Los Angeles and State of California are hereby requested to maintain a plan which, upon implementation, will produce a twenty-five percent (25%) reduction in energy used for street lighting.
b. Prohibited Use of Outdoor Advertising and Decorative Lighting.
(i) No customer shall at any time make, cause or permit any use of electricity supplied by the Department to: light billboards or signs; advertise goods or services; identify the providers of goods or services; display goods, objects or designs symbolic of commercial enterprises, trademarks, or logo; operate motors or devices to rotate or move advertising signs; operate pumps or other devices in fountains which are primarily decorative; operate building floodlighting, architectural or decorative lighting, lights used for landscaping; or for any other purpose of those listed above.
(ii) Exception. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection (i) hereof, each business establishment may operate its window and display lighting and may illuminate one outdoor sign between the hours of sunset and 10:30 p.m. local time or one-half (1/2) hour after closing, whichever is the later in time.
c. Prohibited Use of Functional Outdoor Lighting. No customer shall make, cause or permit any use of electricity from the Department for the floodlighting of outdoor business areas including, but not limited to, service stations, used car lots, new car lots, automobile parking lots, or similar businesses when not open for business. After sunset, when such businesses are open, the use of electrical energy for such purposes shall not exceed fifty percent (50%) of the energy used during the base period.
d. Comfort Heating and Cooling.
(i) No customer shall make, cause or permit the use of electricity from the Department for the purpose of comfort space heating or cooling in any commercial or industrial establishment when such premises are not open for business. During business hours, no electricity shall be used in such establishments to provide heat to raise the temperature therein above 65 F nor to provide cooling to reduce the temperature therein below 85 F except where other temperatures are specifically required by law.
(ii) Exception. Comfort space heating or cooling systems may be operated contrary to the requirement of this subsection if it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Department prior to such operation that to do so will thereby result in a lower total energy consumption.
e. Prohibition of Electrical Use for Outdoor Public Exhibitions:
(i) Commercial Recreational or Cultural Activities. No customer shall make, cause or permit the use of electricity from the Department for commercial recreational or cultural activities in excess of seventy-five percent (75%) of the amount used by that customer in the base period for the same or similar activities.
(ii) Non-Commercial Recreational or Cultural Activities. No customer shall make, cause or permit the use of electricity from the Department for non-commercial recreational or cultural activities between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and sunrise, local time, on facilities other than those which are publicly owned.
(iii) Exceptions. The foregoing prohibitions on the use of electricity for outdoor public exhibitions shall not apply to drive-in theaters or to religious, educational and political assemblies, nor any recreational or cultural activity otherwise protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
f. Prohibited Indoor Business Lighting. The use of electricity is prohibited for window displays and for lighting the interior of any business establishment during that period of time that said establishment is not carrying on the usual and customary activities of that business, provided, however, that a business establishment may provide sufficient illumination to carry out ordinary and customary maintenance and janitorial services.
g. Residential Restrictions. No customer shall make, cause or permit the use of electricity from the Department for residential purposes in an amount in excess of ninety percent (90%) of the amount used during the base period, as defined in this chapter. No customer shall use electricity provided by the Department for the heating or lighting, or both, of swimming pools located on private residential property. For the purpose of this subsection, a customer is deemed to be using electricity for residential purposes if the customer is receiving such electricity pursuant to the Departments D-1 Domestic Service Schedule or is receiving such electricity solely for consumption on and in premises used exclusively for non-transient residential purposes. As used in this subsection, premises shall be deemed to be used exclusively for non-transient residential purposes if substantially all of the residents therein occupy the dwelling units thereof on a month-to-month, or longer, tenancy, with rent therefor payable not more frequently than monthly. Such premises include mobile home parks that meet the requirements of this subsection in all other respects.
h. Commercial and Institutional Restrictions. No customer shall make, cause or permit the use of electrical energy from the Department for any purpose whatever in the operation of an institution or commercial enterprise in an amount in excess of eighty percent (80%) of the amount of electrical energy consumed by that customer in that enterprise during the base period as defined in this chapter. A customer is deemed to be using electricity for the operation of a commercial enterprise if the customer is receiving electricity pursuant to the Department’s General Service Schedules, other than customers receiving electricity for residential purposes as defined in Subsection g above, and is engaged in those activities described in Major Groups 40-86 and 89-99 inclusive, and Appendix ‘A’ thereto, of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972 Edition, prepared by the Statistical Policy Division of Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget.
i. Industrial Restrictions. No customer shall make, cause or permit the use of electrical energy from the Department in the operation of any industrial enterprise in an amount in excess of ninety percent (90%) of the amount of electrical energy consumed by that customer during the base period as defined in this chapter. A customer is deemed to be using electricity for the operation of an industrial enterprise if the customer is receiving electricity pursuant to the Department’s General Service Schedule and is engaged in those activities described in Major Group 01-39 inclusive, and Appendix “A” thereto, of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972 Edition prepared by the Statistical Policy Division of the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget.