Legal Documents of Gatlinburg

Customers who have fulfilled their contract terms and wish to discontinue service must give at least three (3) days written notice to that effect unless the contract specifies otherwise and the city shall have the right to continue such service not to exceed 10 days from receipt of notice. Notice to discontinue service prior to the expiration of a contract term will not relieve the customer from any minimum or guaranteed payment under such contract or applicable rate schedule.

Under no circumstance will the continuance or discontinuance of service be used as a means of forcing the occupant of the premises to surrender possession thereof.

When service is being furnished to an occupant of premises under a contract not in the occupant's name, the city reserves the right to impose the following conditions on the right of the customer to discontinue service under such a contract:

1. Written notice of the customer's desire for such service to be discontinued may be required; and the city shall have the right to continue such service for a period of not to exceed ten days after receipt of such written notice, during which time the customer shall be responsible to the city for all charges for such service. If the city should continue service after such ten day period subsequent to the receipt of the customer's written notice to discontinue service, the customer shall not be responsible to the city for such charges for any service furnished after the expiration of such ten day period.
2. During such ten day period, or thereafter, the occupant of premises to which service has been ordered discontinued by a customer other than such occupant, may be allowed by the city rules and regulations. (1976 Code, § 13-117)