Terms and Conditions - Rappahannock Electric Cooperative

Cooperative will analyze the Customers usage to determine if the
Customer is on the most favorable applicable rate.
E. Right-of-Way
1. The Cooperative shall determine the route, placement, and type of
construction of electric distribution facilities based on the least cost
method and accepted utility practices. The Applicant shall locate
and physically mark all private underground facilities located in the
Cooperative determined route, and will release the Cooperative
from any liabilities therewith.
2. The Applicant, at no cost to the Cooperative, shall provide the
Cooperative a valid written right-of-way easement covering
Cooperative facilities on the property of the Applicant in a form
acceptable to the Cooperative. Should it be necessary for said
easement to be approved by a government agency or recorded on
permanent record at the respective county clerk’s office, the
Applicant shall pay the Cooperative prior to construction for all
costs associated with preparation, approval, and recordation of
easement documents. The Applicant shall give the Cooperative or
its agents access to its equipment and facilities, and the right to
construct, operate, upgrade, relocate, and maintain its facilities on
the Applicant’s property.
3. Prior to construction of Cooperative facilities all right-of-way
easements and permits required for the Cooperative’s and
Applicant’s facilities must have been secured. The Cooperative
may solicit right-of-way easements from property owners whose
lands will be affected by the extension of the Cooperative’s facilities
to the Applicant. If landowners require compensation for granting
easements necessary to provide electric distribution service to the
Applicant, then the Cooperative shall notify the Applicant of the
landowners’ demands and request the Applicant to satisfy such
demands. If the Cooperative’s standard procedures for obtaining
the easement are not successful, the Applicant may be required to
either secure, or assist in securing, a satisfactory easement from
others and/or pay the Cooperative’s additional costs, including
those resulting from condemnation.
4. Subdivision Developers shall grant the Cooperative a free and
continuous easement and cleared right-of-way adjacent to all
streets and lot boundaries within the property of the development,
and the authority to design construct, maintain, upgrade, relocate,
and operate an electrical distribution system as proposed by the
Cooperative.
5. The Cooperative shall have the right to keep easements clear of
trees, shrubbery, undergrowth and other obstructions.
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative
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