(A) Meter required.
(1) It shall be necessary for any user of potable water furnished by the city who does not have a meter installed upon the premises to so notify the City Manager, and the City Manager shall provide for the installation of a meter in accordance with the connection fees as shown in § 55.02.
(2) It shall be a requirement that each single-family residential unit and duplex shall have a separate water meter. The city may require that each unit in a multiple unit area be metered individually, which requirement may be enacted either in the initial stage of the multiple residential unit development or at any subsequent date that the city deems advisable. An early non-requirement by the city shall not be a waiver of that requirement.
(B) Meter installation. Meters shall be installed in a location that will be easy to access.
(C) Reading meters. The City Manager, by his or her agents, shall read or cause to be read every water meter used in the city at such times as are necessary that the bills may be sent out at the proper time.
(D) Testing meters. Any municipal water meter shall be removed and tested for accuracy at the request of the customer for a fee that will be charged to the customers account. If the tested meter is over the AWWA- recommended standards for meter accuracy, the meter shall be repaired or replaced within a reasonable period of time and the fee shall not be charged to the customer account. Fee amount shall be set by resolution.
(E) Dual meters.
(1) Purpose. It shall be the purpose of this subsection to allow for the establishment of a dual meter system of metering potable water supplied to a person or business entity, and to meter potable water consumed or otherwise used in such a manner that it does not enter the sewer system for the purpose of determining the appropriate sewer charge.
(2) Billing option. Any individual person, firm, corporation, or business entity (hereinafter referred to as “user”) shall have the option to apply for billing pursuant to this subsection.
(3) Application required; contents. Any user electing to use dual meters shall first file an application with the office of the City Manager, which application shall contain the following:
(a) User’s name and mailing address;
(b) Billing address, if different from § 55.10(E)(3)(a);
(c) Location of structure or premises involved;
(d) Purpose of requesting dual meters;
(e) A plan, schematic drawing, or approved private sketch which shall, with reasonable accuracy, show all water flow routings located on the premises involved, together with proposed meter positions;
(f) Number of meters required; and
(g) Signature of applicant.
(4) Review of application by City Manager. The City Manager or his or her designee shall review the application, cause to be completed any inspection or inspections deemed to be necessary and recommend to the City Council approval or denial of the application.
(5) Action of City Council. The City Council approval may be made contingent on further inspection or inspections prior to final acceptance for dual meter billing.
(6) Grants of easements to city. All owners/users shall grant or cause to be granted to the city without cost all rights, easements, permits, and privileges which are necessary for the rendering of services established herein. The rights, easements, permits, and privileges shall be executed to the city prior to instituting billing procedures under this chapter. Authorized employees of the city shall have access at all reasonable hours to the premises of the user for the purpose of inspection and reading of all meters. All meters shall be situated adjacent to each other and located on a city easement.
(7) Previous meter charge to be paid. Prior to the initiation of the dual meter billing for any user there shall be paid to the city these sums of money determined to be due the city for meter costs and any other incidental labor or material cost to the city in connection with the initiation of this procedure; however, nothing herein obligates the city to provide any service whatsoever other than providing potable water to the property line.
(8) Effect on other charges. Nothing in this subsection shall change or alter any other fee, rate, or charge established by any ordinance or resolution. Any user using the dual meter system of billing shall be billed at the same sewer rate as will any other user not operating under this chapter with the exception that the user shall be billed only for the number of gallons determined to have been discharged into the city sewer system. Security deposits, in addition to those already established, may be required as hereafter established by resolution.
(F) Additional connection to master meter. Any user or person operating from a master meter for potable water shall notify the city 14 days in advance prior to connecting to or permitting connection to any line connecting to city potable water. Failure to provide notice shall be punished as set forth in § 55.99.
(Ord. 1386-19, passed 10-28-19)