HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977-06-21; City Council; Resolution 51271
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0 RESOLUTION 140. e
WHEREAS, Section 14.04.030 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code
(Ordinance 4001 Section (3) ) empowers the City Council to, from
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
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CITY OF CARLSBAD REVISING WATER RATES,
CHARGES, BILLING, AND RELATED REGULATIONS.
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
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resolution.
11. Water Charges.
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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 provided.
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For a 5/8" meter For a 3/4" meter For a 1 I' meter For a 1 l/2" meter For a 2 'I meter For a 3 'I meter For a 4 'I meter For a 6 'I meter
(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 equivalent dwelling unit, each agricultural and industrial consumer, and each insti- tutional consumer as follows:
3.85 4.70 6.35
8.00 13.00 19.25 38.10 56.65
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(1 1 When one meter serves mu1 ti p1 e dwell ina 0
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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.
In the event no water is used through the meter, or the property becomes vacant, the monthly stand-by charge will be charged to and paid by the owner thereof or the applicant for service.
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(b) The rates to be charged for water supplied in any one month through meters are as follows:
City Hall of the City of Carlsbad upon presentation and are del
if not paid by the 15th of the month following the monthly bill
A1 1 consumers, other than agricultural , using over 20,000 cu. ft./month 28$/100 cu. ft. over 20,000 cu. ft.
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All other consumers 43$/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.
1V. Units Within Multiple Dwellings, Allowing Cooking. In
addition to other charges established by this resolution, a monthly 1
(d) 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 Depart- ment 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.
There shall be a monthly charge of five dollars per
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111. Payment of Bills.
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 706.
All water bills are due and payable at the
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'I ! e a V. Meter Reading - Water Districts. For convenience in the
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1 reading of meters and preparation of water bills, the department is
expressly authorized to divide the City into districts.
may, from time to time, be revised orchangedas necessary or desirable,
in order to equalize the work of reading meters and billing. The meters
These districts
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I except when 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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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.
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 previous to such
notice. Every owner of property is liable for water furnished to any
premises he has rented in the event the tenant does not pay the water
bill.
address until all delinquent charges owed by the consumer at a former
place of residence or business shall be paid.
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Every applicant shall be liable for the water furnished
Water service shall not be given any consumer upon change of
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I! 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 incident to the opening of a new
account.
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11 11 X. Nonpayment - Service Discontinuance. In the event that any
I a monthly fee of one dollar shall be paid to the City for each five
rooms in any hotel, rooming house, or motel, in which no cooking is
allowed.
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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
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27(( in succession or three times in any one calendar year, he shall be
right forthwith and without notice to discontinue 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.
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I XI. Restoring Service After Discontinuance. Procedures for 1 restoring service after delinquency period. If water service is cut
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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 I Department.
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l 0 e upon such premises and pays, in addition thereto, the sum of eight
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1 and not otherwise will water service again be made or established to the
1 premises where the water bill has been delinquent.
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1 Carlsbad at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 21st day
Councilmen Frazee, Lewis, Packard and Councilwoman Casler.
of June, 1977, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:
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ABSENT: Councilman Skotnicki a
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M NORA Az K. GARDINER, .? AEAM&&kdd Deputy City Clerk