In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Basic volume charge means a monthly water charge per Ccf for all monthly water use.
(2) Ccf means one hundred (100) cubic feet of water and is equal to seven hundred forty-eight (748) gallons.
(3) Commercial means a customer classification of service wherein family units do not normally reside and includes, but is not limited to, motels, hotels, rest homes, fraternal organizations, laundries, service stations, bottling works, hospitals, restaurants, wholesale, retail and other business establishments, governmental offices or organizations.
(4) Community garden means a customer classification of service where water is provided by way of an irrigation meter to an area of land operated for not for profit individuals or groups to grow and harvest food crops primarily for the use of its members who typically cultivate individual garden plots.
(5) Construction water means water service provided under the terms of section 27-16.2 for water use on construction projects, such as utility pipeline installations or repairs, street or highway construction, site grading, dust control, and concrete mixing. Construction water may not be used to replace water that would otherwise be available from a metered private plumbing or irrigation system, and may not be used to fill swimming pools or landscape features. Construction water may not be resold to any third party.
(6) Department means the city department of water.
(7) Director means the chief officer of the department of water and is the officer designated as the superintendent of the water department in chapter X, section 8 of the Charter.
(8) Governmental customer means the United States and any agency or department of the United States, any customer on land owned by the United States in trust for a Native American tribe or part of a federally-established reservation, the State of Arizona and any agency or department of the State of Arizona, and any political subdivision of the State of Arizona, including any County, any Arizona City or Town, a School District, a Flood Control District, or a Fire District. The rates established in Section 27-33 for City of Tucson and customers located in other incorporated jurisdictions will apply to any governmental customer, even if the governmental customer is located in unincorporated Pima County. Governmental customers shall not be charged the differential rate.
(9) Industrial means a customer classification of services that use at least five million (5,000,000) gallons of water per month for manufacturing purposes at one (1) geographically contiguous location or use sixty million (60,000,000) or more gallons of water in any calendar year for manufacturing purposes at one (1) geographically contiguous location; and schools in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) by prior contract with the city.
(10) Mobile home park with sub-meters means a mobile home park classified as a multi- family customer that utilizes sub-meters to separately meter and bill each user within the mobile home park.
(11) Multi-family means a customer classification consisting of more than three (3) residential units served by one (1) master meter.
(12) Nonparticipating applicant for service shall mean an applicant for new water connection to a subdivision, or parcel of land that has not participated in the cost of the installation of the water supply main to which the connection will be made.
(13) Reclaimed water means wastewater which has received postsecondary treatment.
(14) Residential means a customer classification consisting of one (1) residential unit (single-family) or two (2) or three (3) residential units (duplex-triplex) served by one (1) master meter.
(15) Summer shall mean, for the purposes of computing water rates, the period of time from March 1 through November 30. This change will be effective starting with March 1, 2024, summer period.
(16) Summer surcharges shall mean an amount charged per Ccf for summer monthly water use in excess of the average monthly winter consumption of water. The Tier 1 summer surcharge applies to all monthly water use in excess of the average winter monthly consumption of water and is in addition to the basic volume charge. The Tier 2 summer surcharge applies to all monthly water use in excess of one hundred forty-five (145) percent of the average winter monthly consumption of water and is an addition to the basic volume charge and the Tier 1 summer surcharge. A customer with zero consumption during the winter will be charged for all consumption during the summer months at the Tier 2 rate.
(17) Water facilities means booster plants, storage tanks, wells, pumping equipment, distribution and service lines and all other appurtenances to a water system other than meters.
(18) Winter shall mean, for the purpose of computing water rates, the period of time from December 1 through February 28 (February 29 in leap years). This change will be in effect starting with the December 1, 2023 winter period.
(Ord. No. 4489, § 3, 5-24-76; Ord. No. 4496, §§ 1, 2, 6-7-76; Ord. No. 4550, § 1, 8-10-76; Ord. No. 4626, § 4, 3-3-77; Ord. No. 5235, § 1, 10-6-80; Ord. No. 6327, § 1, 11-4-85; Ord. No. 7171, § 1, 4-17-89; Ord. No. 8024, § 1, 4-12-93; Ord. No. 8120, §§ 1, 2, 9-7-93; Ord. No. 8121, § 1, 9-7-93; Ord. No. 8483, § 1, 5-15-95; Ord. No. 8768, §§ 1, 2, 10-28-96; Ord. No. 9156, § 1, 11-9-98; Ord. No. 9477, § 1, 10-23-00; Ord. No. 96-4, § 1, 9-10-01; Ord. No. 9763, § 1, 9-9-02; Ord. No. 9979, § 1, 6-7-04; Ord. No. 10415, § 1, 6-12-07, eff. 7-9-07; Ord. No. 11993, § 1, 3-7-23; Ord. No. 11982, § 1, 1-11-23; Ord. No. 12052, § 1, 10-17-23)