Establishing or reestablishing service

(a)No Operator shall establish service where any of the following conditions are present:#

(1)the Service Line is undersized for the anticipated load and the load cannot be reduced to acceptable levels by isolation of select Gas utilization equipment;#

(2)the above-ground portion of the Service Line is not compliant with the Operator's Procedures;#

(3)customer piping has not passed a pressure test as required by the Authority Having Jurisdiction;#

(4)Gas flow is detected through customer piping despite all Gas utilization equipment being shut off; or#

(5)the Authority Having Jurisdiction has found the customer piping to be non- compliant. 9#

(b)No Operator shall reestablish service where subsections (a)(1), (a)(4), or (a)(5) of this section are present. In addition, no Operator shall reestablish service where the non- compliance in subsection (a)(2) of this section is an immediate safety concern. This subsection does not apply to interruptible customers who were shut off due to supply constraints.#