When you are either moving in or moving out of an apartment, City Light as of December 15, 2000 requires that your meter be read and reported to them. This is in order to insure the accuracy of your opening or closing billing.

In our apartment buildings, this will require contacting the Manager to allow you access to the meter with the exception of the 419 building, which has the meters in a location available to the tenant in the hallway just outside of the laundry room .

1. Write down the City Light meter number located on the front nameplate of your meter
2. The meter will have four or five dials. The dials indicate the number of kilowatt-hours you have used since the previous reading.
3. Stand directly in front of the meter so that you can clearly see the location of each pointer
4. Read and clearly indicate the location of the pointers on the blank dial faces below. If the pointer is between two numbers, draw your line between those two numbers.
5. Once you have marked the location of the pointers, please give this information to a utility account representative by calling
   (206) 684-3000 or you can go Online to hook-up or disconnect your electrical services at:
   
   http://www.cityofseattle.net/light/accounts/resa/