(A) For purposes of this section the following definitions shall apply:
APPROVED WATER METER SYSTEM. Such meter pit, yoke, and related piping as shall meet those standards developed and published by the Maintenance Superintendent of the Municipal Water Utility from time to time together with such water metering instrument as shall be supplied by the Municipal Water Utility for that purpose.
DWELLING. Any enclosed space including any house, apartment, mobile home, or any similar location which shall be used for human habitation and shall contain cooking facilities.
OTHER USER. Any premises, business entity, firm, corporation, concern, organization or governmental unit or subunit which is served by the Municipal Water Utility and which has water-using facilities used exclusively by its personnel and business visitors.
(B) No dwelling or other user shall be served by the Municipal Water Utility unless such service shall be measured by an approved water meter system, which system shall separately measure service only to such dwelling.
(C) The Maintenance Superintendent of the Municipal Water Utility shall establish standards for the installation of meter pit, yoke, and related piping and shall cause these standards to be reduced to writing and maintained for public inspection at the office of the Municipal Water Utility. The Maintenance Superintendent may, in the exercise of his or her reasonable discretion, approve such other water metering systems from time to time as shall afford equal reliability and accuracy to the system described in the standards made and published.
(D) The Secretary of the Municipal Water Utility shall notify the owner of record of any dwelling which is believed not to have a separate water meter by registered or certified United States postage, return receipt requested, that the dwelling fails to conform to this section. The Secretary shall further notify the residents of each such dwelling by a notice prominently and securely attached to the door or other prominent location at the dwelling that the dwelling fails to conform to this section. In each case the notice shall inform the owner or resident that 30 days after service of such notice upon them, water service to the dwelling will be terminated until the dwelling is brought into conformity with this section. Such fee for restoration of water service as is prescribed by the tariffs of the Municipal Water Utility shall apply to such termination of service.
(E) The Secretary of the Municipal Water Utility shall notify the owner of record of any building occupied by more than one other user believed not to have a separate water meter by registered or certified United States postage, return receipt requested, that the building fails to conform to this section. The Secretary shall further notify the other users by a notice prominently and securely attached to the door or other prominent location at the premises of each user that the building fails to conform to this section. In each case the notice shall inform the owner or other user that 30 days after service of such notice upon them, water service to the building will be terminated until the building is brought into conformity with this section. Such fee for restoration of water service as is prescribed by § 50.16 shall apply to such termination of service.
(F) If, in the opinion of the Maintenance Superintendent of the Municipal Water Utility, the physical construction of the plumbing which serves an apartment house, business building, or similar multi-unit facility is such that an individual meter system cannot be installed to measure water service to each dwelling unit or other user within such multi-unit facility, the multi-unit facility may continue to be served by one water meter. The monthly charge for such service shall be the greater of the product of the multiplication of the minimum charge for service to a residence as set forth in § 50.16 by the number of dwelling units or other users in such multi-unit facility regardless of the number of such units actually occupied at the time of the determination or the charge for the amount of water actually used by such multi-unit facility.
('84 Code, § 50.02) (Ord. 5-22-84B, passed 5-22-84; Am. Ord. 9-24-85, passed 9-24-85)
Cross-reference:
Meter deposit required, see § 50.03
Meter deposit required, see § 50.03