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The city water department may supply accommodation and standby water service under the following conditions:
Sec. 27-41.1(1). Where the city water department has sufficient water service available, at the location service is desired, to supply the applicant for accommodation or standby service without impairing service to the department's regular customers.
Sec. 27-41.1(2). The applicant shall pay the full costs of making the physical connection, including any main extension, the service connection and meter.
Sec. 27-41.1(3). Charges shall be as follows:
(a) The minimum applicable monthly charge according to the meter size and quantity of water used.
(b) Minimum charge is to be billed for a full twelve (12) months, or in the event the meter is removed for any cause, the charge for reconnection shall be thirty-two dollars and ninety-five cents ($32.95).
(Ord. No. 2665, § 9, 9-21-64; Ord. No. 3394, § 12, 1-12-70; Ord. No. 9388, § 1, 5-22-00; Ord. No. 9704, § 2, 5-13-02; Ord. No. 10510, § 2, 3-18-08, eff. 7-1-08; Ord. No. 11072, § 2, 5-21-13, eff. 7-1-13)
Note: Former § 27-41.1.
For temporary services to circuses, fairs, camps and construction works, etc., the temporary nature or limited duration of which enterprise is known in advance, and also to operations of a speculative exploratory character or of a doubtful permanence, the water utility will, if in the opinion of the superintendent of the water department the furnishing of such service will not work an undue hardship upon it or its then existing consumers, furnish such temporary service under the following conditions:
Sec. 27-42(1). The applicant for such temporary service shall be required to pay to the water utility the cost of installing and removing any facilities necessary in connection with the furnishing of such service by the utility.
Sec. 27-42(2). Each applicant for temporary service may be required to deposit with the water utility a sum of money equal to the estimated amount of the water utility's charges for such service, or to secure otherwise, in a manner satisfactory to the water utility, the payment of any bills which may accrue by reason of such service so furnished or supplied.
Sec. 27-42(3). Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting or in any way affecting the right of the water utility to collect from the consumer any other or additional sum of money which may become due and payable to the water utility from the consumer by reason of the temporary service furnished or to be furnished hereunder.
Sec. 27-42(4). Actual water used shall be charged for at the above rate.
(1953 Code, ch. 25, § 23)
(a) In the event any water meter has failed to register the water used, the estimated charge for water service shall be based on the previous year's consumption amount. If the customer does not have consumption history for the prior year period, the average of the class or other equitable method may be utilized.
(b) In the event meters that are equipped with an automatic meter reading device (AMRs) that fail to transmit readings, the billing will be corrected by utilizing the actual meter reading registered on the meter. The consumption will be distributed over the months where the reading transmission failed.
(c) When the accuracy of a water meter is questioned by the consumer, the department shall cause an official test to be made upon payment by the consumer in the amount of one hundred eleven dollars and thirty-seven cents ($111.37). For testing three (3) inch or larger meters, the charge shall be based on a department estimate of the actual cost.
If, upon completion of the official test, it is found that the meter is registering over three (3) percent more water than actually passes through at any flow, another meter will be substituted therefor, and the fee charge for such test will be refunded to the applicant. An adjustment for a period of three (3) months prior to the test will be made on the basis of the percentage the meter is over-registering.
(1953 Code, ch. 25, § 24; Ord. No. 4489, § 11, 5-24-76; Ord. No. 4626, § 9, 3-3-77; Ord. No. 7391, § 6, 4-16-90; Ord. No. 8446, § 3, 2-13-95; Ord. No. 9238, § 5, 6-14-99; Ord. No. 9377, § 1, 4-17-00; Ord. No. 9388, § 1, 5-22-00; Ord. No. 9555, § 1, 5-14-01; Ord. No. 9704, § 2, 5-13-02; Ord. No. 9842, § 1, 5-12-03; Ord. No. 9977, § 2, 5-24-04; Ord. No. 10359, § 2, 12-12-06, eff. 1-16-07; Ord. No. 10510, § 2, 3-18-08, eff. 7-1-08; Ord. No. 10897, § 2, 5-24-11, eff. 7-5-11; Ord. No. 11072, § 2, 5-21-13, eff. 7-1-13)
Whenever a meter has been removed for any cause for more than thirty (30) days, the superintendent of the water department may fix a flat charge based upon the average charges for the previous three (3) months, or the same amount as was charged during the same month or period the year preceding, whichever is the lower amount.
(1953 Code, ch. 25, § 24)
In addition to the rates established by this article, the superintendent of the water department is hereby directed to charge and collect for all water used by any person performing any street improvement or other public work contract with the city.
(1953 Code, ch. 25, § 29)
The superintendent of the water department is hereby directed to charge and collect a reasonable amount for all waters used by any person in flooding trenches and other excavations which have been made or dug in the construction of any sewers, manholes, pipelines, gas mains, telephone or electric light conduits in the city; and the rate to be so charged shall be fixed by the superintendent of the water department.
(1953 Code, ch. 25, § 30)
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