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Home My WebLink About1986-09-16; City Council; Resolution 8793I 2 L 4 5 E 7 E s 1c 11 12 12 14 15 1E 17 1E 19 2c 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 RESOLUTION NO. 8793 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD REVISING WATER RATES AND CHANGES WHEREAS, Section 14.04.030 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code empowers the City Council to, from time to time, by resolution, adopt rules and regulations for the operation and maintenance of the Water Department of the City, and for furnishing water to users, and empowers the Council to, by resolution, modify rates, charges and penalties respecting water service. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the hereinafter stated regulations respecting water rates, charges, billing and related regulations shall become effective for all water billed after October 1, 1986. I. Generally. The schedules rates, compensations, charges and minimum charges as set out in this resolution are fixed and established as the rates, compensations, charges and minimum charges to be charged and collected by the City for domestic water and water service, except as otherwise specifi- cally provided. 11. Water Charges. a) There shall be a separate monthly water standby charge for each consumer; provided that there shall be only one monthly standby charge for each equiva- lent dwelling unit, each agricultural and industrial consumer, and each institutional consumer as follows: For a 5/8" meter $ 4.40 For a 3/4" meter $ 4.40 For a 1 1/2" meter $ 5.90 For a 2" meter $ 6.40 For a 3" meter $12.30 For a 4" meter $15.40 For a 6" meter $15.40 For a 8" meter $23.70 For a 1" meter $ 5.45 When on meter serves multiple dwelling units or multiple equivalent dwelling units, the first unit shall pay the unit rate based on the above schedule and all other units shall pay $2.53 for each additional multiple residential unit. In the event no water is used through the meter or the property becomes vacant, the monthly stand- by charge will be charged and paid by the owner thereof. rates to be charged for potable water supplied in one month through meters are as follows: All consumers $.80/100 cubic feet agricultural consumers who meet the MetroDolitan Water-District Southern California requiremenis for agricultural consumers receive a pro-rate share of the agricultural rebate the City receives monthly from the Costa Real Municipal Water District. There shall be a monthly charge of five dollars per month for all water connections supplying non-metered water for fire sprinkler purposes. All maintenance or repairs to fire service systems from the water main to the shut off valve shall be paid for the consumer and shall be charged on the regular water billing. All fire service systems shall be equipped with a meter by-pass which shall be paid for an installed at the consumer's expense. In the event water is served through the fire service system, the City Water Department and the Fire Department shall estimate the amount of water used and the regular charge therefore shall be put on customer's bill and shall be paid by consumer. A monthly fee of one dollar shall be paid for each five rooms in any hotel, rooming house or motel, in which no cooking is allowed. A monthly fee shall be charged for each individual living unit contained in any motor court, motel, hotel, or rooming house or other transient type habitat which allows cooking in rooms in the amount of $.70 in addition to other charges established. A charge of twenty dollars ($20.00) will be assessed for the restoration of service after it has been terminated for non-payment. -L- 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 111. Payment of Bills All water bills are due and payable at the City Hall of the City of Carlsbad upon presentation and are delinquent if not paid by the 15th of the month following the monthly billing. IV. Meter Reading - Water District. For convenience in the read- ing of meters and preparation of water bills, the department is expressly authorized to divide the City into districts. These districts may, from time to time, be revised or changed as necessary or desirable, in order to equalize the work of reading meters and billing. The meters in each district so established shall be read and water bills based on such meter readings, shall be prepared and mailed to the consumers in each district on approximately the same day of each and every month, except when Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays intervene. V. Bills - Mailings. Unless the applicant for water service directs otherwise, all bills will be mailed to the premises where service is furnished. VI. Change of Ownership or Occupancy - Notification. It shall be the duty of every person signing an application for water delivery and of every owner of property to which water is delivered to notify the Water Department of any change in the ownership OK occupancy of the premises to which the water is to be furnished at least two days prior to such change. Every applicant shall be liable for the water furnished and metered in accordance with the application until the Water Department receives written notice to cancel same and shut off the water, when the applicant's liability shall cease except as to water used previous to such notice. Every owner of property is liable -3- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 I for water furnished to any premises he has rented in the event the tenant does not pay the water bill. Water service shall not be given any consumer upon change of address until all delinquent charges owed by the consumer at a former place of residence or business shall be paid. VII. Terminating Accounts/New Accounts - Charge for Turning Water On or Off. Regulation of water service; turning on and off of water supply. A ten dollar ($10.00) charge will be made incident to the closing of an account. A ten dollar ($10.00) charge will be made by the department for turning on the water supply when requested by the consumer incident to the opening of a new account VIII. Nonpayment - Service Discontinuance. In the event that any consumer shall be delinquent in the payment of his water bill, and such delinquency shall continue for a period of ten days after the final date for payment of such bill, the department shall have the right forthwith to discontinue water service to the premises of such delinquent consumer. A reconnection charge of twenty dollars ($20.00) will be assessed if the service is terminated and subsequently restored. Water shall not again be supplied to him until all delinquent water bills, plus the penalties thereon, and reconnection charges, has been paid. IX. Restoring Service After Discontinuance. Procedures for restoring service after delinquency period. If water service is cut off or discontinued for failure to pay delinquent bills, such service may again be established only in the event the consumer or the applicant for service at such place pays all delinquent bills, charges and penalties, and makes such cash deposit as may be required by the Water Department. 3 2 2 c. 4 E a. E 7 E s 1c 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 When an owner or consumer has been delinquent in his water bills twice in succession or three times in any one calendar year, he shall be required to deposit a sum equal to an average two month's water bill upon such premises and pays, in addition thereto, the sum of twenty dollars ($20.00) for turning on the water supply. Thereupon and not otherwise will water service again be made or established to the premises where the the water bill has been delinquent. X. The Rates and Charges established by this resolution shall on their effective day supersede the rates established by Resolution No. 7454. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED, by the City Council of the City of Carlsbad at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 16th day of September, 1986, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Council Members Casler, Lewis, Kulchin, Chick and Pettine 7777 de&& MARY H CASLER, MAYOR ATTEST: /P- AL"ETHA L. RAUTENKRANZ, CITY CLE (SEAL)