(a) If a tourist court, tourist camp, or house trailer park provides utility service through a master meter, the master meter must be in the name of the person to whom a certificate of occupancy is issued under this chapter.
(b) A tourist court or tourist camp may provide utility submeters to unit plots. A house trailer park may provide submeters or individual metering by the utility companies to unit plots.
(c) Where the owner or manager of a tourist court, tourist camp, or house trailer park provides submeters to the unit plots, the submeter or submeters shall comply with the standards of accuracy required by law for the master meter.
(d) The owner or manager of a house trailer park that receives utility service through a master meter shall bill tenants for the utility service in accordance with one of the following methods:
(1) rent the unit plots on a ‘bills paid’ basis and collect for utilities through the rent;
(2) charge separately for utility services and allocate the charges in a fair and reasonable manner among all unit plots in the park occupied during the billing period; or
(3) if submeters are used, charge to each occupied unit plot based on its submeter reading an amount that does not exceed the residential rate for that utility service then in effect in the city.
(e) A house trailer park is not required to bill all utility services under the same method but may bill each utility under a different method.
(f) If a house trailer park charges separately for utility services and allocates the charges as provided in Subsection (d)(2), then the owner or manager of the house trailer park must comply with the following requirements:
(1) The house trailer park must allocate either by use of submeters or based on the size of the house trailer or mobile home and the utility consuming devices it contains.
(2) The house trailer park must apply the allocation to all unit plots occupied by tenants during the billing period.
(3) The house trailer park may include in its allocation utilities consumed in the common areas of the park related to the park operation, including, but not limited to swimming pools, wash rooms, and outdoor lighting.
(4) The owner or manager of a house trailer park shall not charge to its tenants an aggregate amount for a utility service that exceeds the amount that the park is billed for that utility service.
(5) The owner or manager of a house trailer park that inadvertently bills an overcollection shall adjust the collections to compensate the tenants for that overcollection within 90 days from the date the overcollection was billed.
(g) If a house trailer park charges separately for utility services based on an amount not exceeding the current residential rate as provided in Subsection (d)(3), then the owner or manager of the house trailer park must provide the same services to its tenants that are required of retail utility companies, including, but not limited to meter testing and investigation of complaints.
(h) The director shall enforce this section and may by written order, after a public hearing, establish such rules or regulations, not inconsistent with this section, as he determines are necessary to effect the policy of this section.
(i) The owner or manager of a house trailer park shall keep accurate records that demonstrate compliance with this section and shall make the records available to the director upon request. (Ord. Nos. 7772; 15147; 16130; 17226; 19312)