(A) Any person may request that the city’s Water Utility furnish a separate water meter to be attached to the hose bib or water faucet outside the person’s home or business. The purpose of such meter shall be to measure water used for such outdoor purposes as washing cars, watering lawns, and other similar uses, where the water used will not be entering the public sanitary sewer system.
(B) The only separate water meter permitted to be used shall be a new meter with vacuum breakers originally furnished by the city. In all cases, a person requesting permission to use such a meter shall secure approval from the City Manager or designee, install a vacuum breaker on all hose bibs that the new meter is connected to, and have such meter and installation inspected by the city’s Water Utility prior to use.
(C) The fee for the purchase and inspection of a new meter and vacuum breakers shall be stated in the Council approved city schedule.
(D) The meter shall be the property of the premises owner or person purchasing the meter and the city shall not be responsible for any repair or maintenance of the meter.
(E) A meter owner may request that the city test the meter. The charge for summer meter testing shall be the same as the fee for testing of regular water meters as set forth in the Council approved city fee schedule.
(F) Such separate meter may only be used to record water consumption through the approved connections where installed during the months of April through November each year. The separate meter shall be removed by the premises owner or person purchasing the meter during the months of December through March of each year and shall not be used during said period. It shall be the premises owner’s responsibility to remove the meter to prevent it from freezing and to re-install it each year in time for the city to conduct any required inspections.
(G) Water consumption recorded by the separate meter shall be billed by inclusion in the normal monthly water/sewer bill to the premises, except that there shall be subtracted from the overall bill that portion of the regular sewer charge attributable to the flow through the separate meter.
(H) If any such separate water meter shall become defective, it shall be the responsibility of the premises owner to have the meter repaired or replaced. Any and all readings from a defective meter shall result in the premises owner being billed for both water and sewer consumption, without credit for that portion of the sewer charge attributable to the flow through the separate meter.
(Ord. passed 3-13-2003)