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Official Notice Certification of Active Duty Deployment Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative, Inc. The cooperative will not disconnect electric service to the residential premises of any residential member who is deployed on active duty for nonpayment for electricity provided to the residential premises. Upon return of the residential member from active duty, the cooperative will offer the residential member a period of deployment on active duty to pay any arrearage incurred during the period of deployment. If the time period the cooperative offers the residential member for repayment presents a hardship, the member may request a longer period to repay the arrearage. No late payment fees or interest will be charged to the residential member during the period of deployment or the repayment period. “Active duty” means active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an at of the congress of the United States, or section 5919.29 or 5923.21 of the Ohio Revised Code. The residential member must resume the timely payment of all charges for electric service provided by the cooperative after the return from active duty deployment. In order to avoid disconnection of electric service for nonpayment for electric service during a period of active duty deployment, a completed Certification of Active Duty Deployment forms must be submitted to the cooperative. Certification of Active Duty Deployment forms are available from the cooperative upon request. Holmes-Wayne Electric Announcements Thanksgiving holiday A friendly reminder, HWEC offices will be closed Thanksgiving and the Friday after. As always, our after-hours call center is available for outage reporting, payment and meter reading processing. You can call toll-free at 866-674-1055. Happy Thanksgiving! Stealing electric and meter tampering are crimes Since August 1978, a revised Ohio law has been in effect covering theft of utility service and tampering with utility equipment. The statute provides that a person does not have to be seen tampering with a meter to be held responsible for such action. Prior to the revision in the law, it was difficult to prosecute a person for meter tampering unless the action was witnessed. In addition, in prosecution for a user’s reconnecting a device that was disconnected by a utility, such activity is now considered prima facie evidence that the user intended to defraud the utility. The law defines theft of a utility service as a first-degree misdemeanor if the value of the stolen electricity, plus any utility equipment repair, is under $150. It’s a fourth-degree felony if the value is more than $150 or if the offender was previously convicted of the charge. Tampering convictions carry similar penalties. Tampering is defined “to interfere with, damage or bypass a utility meter, conduit or attachment with intent to impede the correct registration of a meter or the proper function of a conduit or attachments.” Conviction can bring from six months in jail and a $1,000 fine to five years in jail and a $2,500 fine. Meter tampering costs all of us. It costs the cooperative, and it costs you. And, it’s downright dangerous. If you witness someone tampering with their electric meter, contact your cooperative office. Stealing electricity is a crime, and anyone caught violating the law will be prosecuted. Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative, Inc., is required by law to provide this notice to its members annually. 28 COUNTRY LIVING • NOVEMBER 2010
Trustee election — Nomination process begins The board of trustees at Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative will be appointing a nominating committee to select nominees for trustees from their respective districts at its November meeting. The committee consists of six or more members, with at least one member who resides in each district for which a trustee is to be elected. The nominating committee will meet in January at the cooperative office to select nominees for trustees from their respective districts. The districts which members will be voting for new trustees in June of 2011 are District 4, District 5 and District 6. The committee selects from the cooperative membership and lists 10 qualified nominees for each trustee position. A minimum of two names shall be on a ballot to be voted upon for each district. After selection, nominees are contacted by the HWEC board chairman in their order listed for verification and willingness to become candidates for trustee. If you are interested in running for trustee or participating on the nominating committee, please contact Robyn Tate at the cooperative office at 866-674-1055. Proper insulation a simple way to save One of simplest ways to reduce your home’s heating and cooling costs — and improve comfort — involves installing proper insulation. Doing so provides resistance to heat flow. The more heat flow resistance your insulation provides, the lower your heating and cooling costs. Heat flows naturally from a warmer to a cooler space. In winter, heat moves directly from heated living spaces to adjacent unheated attics, garages, basements and even outdoors. It can also travel indirectly through interior ceilings, walls and floors — wherever there is a difference in temperature. During the summer cooling season, the reverse takes place. Heat flows from the outdoors to the interior of a house. To maintain comfort, heat lost in the winter must be replaced by your heating system. In summer, heat gained must be removed by your cooling system. Proper insulation, though, decreases heat flow. Heat flow resistance is measured or rated in terms of its R- value. The higher the R-value, the greater the insulation’s effectiveness. When calculating the R-value of a multilayered installation, add R-values of individual layers. Installing more insulation in your home increases the R-value. Insulation effectiveness also depends on how and where it’s installed. For example, insulation that gets compressed will not provide its full rated R-value. The overall R-value of a wall or ceiling will be somewhat different from the R-value of the insulation because some heat flows around the insulation through studs and joists. Therefore, it’s important to properly install your insulation to achieve the maximum R-value. For more information, visit www.eere.energy.gov or contact our Energy Edvisor, Kenny De- Priest. Source: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy NOVEMBER 2010 • COUNTRY LIVING 28A
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