Any person desiring the inspection of any gas meter within the city, as provided in Section 11-20-150, shall accompany the application for such inspection with a fee of one dollar which shall be paid to the city collector and for which such applicant shall obtain a receipt from the city collector showing such payment, which receipt shall describe the location of the gas meter to be inspected and shall contain the name of the person for whose benefit said gas meter was installed. Said receipt when presented to the inspector of weights and measures shall be his authority for making the inspection.
If the result of any such inspection shall show any meter so inspected to be inaccurate, and to have registered in such a manner as to show a greater consumption of gas than was actually consumed or than actually flowed through such meter, the fee advanced by the person desiring such test shall be forthwith returned to such person, and such inspection shall be made without any cost or expense of any kind to him. The cost of making such inspection of any meter so found to be inaccurate shall be paid by the company furnishing gas through the same, and by whom or for whose benefit such meter was installed, and the amount of the fees as herein fixed for such inspection shall be paid by such company upon a bill being presented to it by the inspector of weights and measures with his certificate showing that such meter was found by him to be inaccurate. If the result of any inspection of any meter shall show such meter to be registering accurately as herein defined or to have registered a smaller amount of gas than actually flowed through such meter, in such case the expense of such inspection shall be paid for out of the fee required to be advanced by the person making application for such inspection, and no part of such fee shall in any case be returned to such applicant.
(Prior code § 187-16)