939.041 WATER CONSUMED DURING CONSTRUCTION OF STRUCTURES.

   (a)   In order to compensate the City for each ninety-day period in which water is consumed during the course of construction preceding the installation of a water meter, a nonrefundable temporary tap fee shall be assessed and collected in connection with the issuance of a building permit for the construction of any structure which is to be supplied with water before a water meter is installed and which is not already served through a permanent water meter which is approved or installed by the City.

   (b)   Each temporary tap fee shall be valid for a period of ninety days. The first such fee shall commence and be due and payable on the date a building permit is issued. A renewal temporary tap fee, in the same amount as the original, shall be due and payable at the expiration of the first and every subsequent ninety-day temporary tap fee period, unless prior to that date a permanent water meter, which is acceptable to the City, has been installed and is in operation.

   (c)   The temporary tap fee, which shall never be less than nineteen dollars ($19.00), shall be one dollar ($1.00) per 100 square feet of structure, or portion thereof, under construction. Square footage of the structure under construction shall be computed using the exterior dimensions of the structure according to the plans submitted to the Construction Services Division and shall include the sum of all floors of the building including the basement.

   (d)   No structure shall receive a final plumbing inspection approval unless and until a permanent water meter is installed therein and is in operation. (Ord. 92-4-28. Passed 4-8-92.)