HomeMy WebLinkAbout1972-10-03; City Council; Resolution 20981
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WHEREAS, Section 14.04.030 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code
(Ordinance 4001 Section(3) ) 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 penal ties respecting water
service.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the hereinafter stated
regulations respecting water rates, charges, billing, and related
regulations shall become immediately effective upon passage of
this resolution.
I. Generally. The schedules of 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 specifically
provi ded.
RESOLUTION NO. 2098
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD RESPECTING WATER RATES, CHARGES, BILLING, AND RELATED REGULATIONS.
I I. Water Charges.
(a) There shall be a separate monthly water standb charge for each consumer; provided that there shall be only one monthly standby charge for each equiv- alent dwelling unit, each agricultural and indus- trial consumer, and each institutional consumer as follows:
For a 5/8" meter For a 3/4" meter For a 1" meter For a 1 1/2" meter For a 2" meter For a 3" meter For a 4" meter For a 6" meter
$ 3.85 $ 4.70 $ 6.35 $. 8.00 $13.00 $19.25 $38.10 $56.65
(1 ) When one meter serves mu1 tiple dwell ing units or multiple equivalent dwelling units, the first unit shall pay the unit rate based on the above schedule and all other units shall pay the 5/8" meter rate.
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able at the City Hall of the City of Carlsbad upon presentation
and are delinquent if not paid by the 15th of the month following
the monthly bi 11 ing.
IV. Units within multiple dwellings, allowing cooking.
In addition to other charges established by this resolution, a
monthly fee shall be paid to the City for each individual living
unit contained in any motor court, motel, hotel, or rooming house!
or other transient type habitat in the amount of 70$.
V. Meter reading--Water districts. For convenience in
the reading of meters and preparation of water bills, the depart-
ment is expressly authorized to divide the city into districts.
I These districts may, from time to time, be revised or changed as
necessary or desirable, in order to equalize the work of reading
I meters and billing. The meters in each district so established
shall be read on water bills based on such meter readings shall
be prepared and mailed to the consumers in each district on
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(b) The rates to be charged for water supplied in any one month through meters are as follows:
All industrial consumers using over 20,000 cu.ft./month 236/100 cu.ft.
All other consumers 38&/100 cu.ft.
(c) All agricultural consumers who meet the Metropolitan Water District Southern California requirements for agricultural consumers receive a pro-rata share of the agricultural rebate the City receives monthly from the Carlsbad Municipal Water District.
(d) 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 shutoff valve shall be paid for by 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 and 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.
111. PByment of bills. All water bills are due and pay-
approximately the same day of each and every month, except when
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VII. 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 or occupancy of the premises to which the water is to
be furnished at least two days prior to such change. Every appli-
cant shall be liable for the water furnished and metered in
accordance with the application until the water department receive:;
written notice to cancel same and shut off the water, when the
applicant's liability shall cease except as to water previous to
such notice. Every owner of property is liable for water furnishel
to any premises he has rented in the event the tenant does not
pay the water bill. Water service shall not be given any con-
sumer upon change of address until all delinquent charges owed by
the consumer at a former place of residence or business shall be
paid.
VIII. New accounts--Turning on water charge. Regulation
of water service; turning on and off of water supply. A three
dollar and thirty cents charge will be made by the department for
turning on the water supply when requested by the consumer inciden.;
to the opening of a new account.
IX. Units within multiple dwelling not allowing cooking.
In addition to any other charges and fees as contained in this
resolution, a monthly fee of one dollar shall be paid to the city
for each five rooms in any hotel, rooming house, or motel, in
Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays intervene.
VI. Bills--Mailing. Unless the applicant for water
service directs otherwise, all bills will be mailed to the
premises where water service is furnished.
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which no cooking is allowed.
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X. 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 departmen
shall have the right forthwith and without notice to discontjnue
water service to the premises of such delinquent consumer, and
water shall not again be supplied to him or to the premises until
all delinquent water bills, plus the penalties thereon, and
reconnection charges, have been paid.
XI. 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.
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 months' water bill upon such premises and pays, in
addition thereto, the sum of eight dollars and twenty-five cents
for turning on the water supply. Thereupon and not otherwise wil
water service again be made or established to the premises where
the water bill has been delinquent.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED, by the City Council of the
City of Carlsbad at a regular meeting of the City Council held
on the 3rd of October, 1972, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Cmn. McComas, Lewis, Chase and Frazee.
NOES: Cmn. Dunne.
ABSENT: None.
ATTEST: DAVID M. DUNNE, Mayor