(A) Subject to available funds, the City Manager, or his or her designee, is authorized to develop, promote, and administer water conservation programs to encourage and assist persons in conserving water. The water conservation programs may include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Installing, or providing rebate programs for the installation of, water saving devices and irrigation systems in the landscaped areas of residential, commercial, industrial, and public property and public rights-of-way;
(2) Replacing landscaping and turf with drought tolerant plant material and water efficient landscaping;
(3) Developing educational programs to promote water conservation; and
(4) Converting, where financially and technically feasible, potable water distribution systems to recycled water distribution systems for landscaped areas of residential, commercial, industrial, and public property and public rights-of way.
(B) The City Manager shall prepare and implement policies and procedures governing any water conservation program established pursuant to this § 13.26.160.
(C) The City Manager is authorized to enter into agreements relating to such water conservations programs, provided such agreements are approved as to form by the City Attorney.
(D) The expenditure of funds for any water conservation program shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 3.08, as applicable, and any other provisions of the Municipal Code restricting the expenditure of city funds.
(Ord. 2962 § 2 (part), 2009.)