HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983-12-20; City Council; Resolution 74541
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RESOLUTION NO. 7454
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD REVISING WATER RATES AND CHARGES
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 January 1, 1984.
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.
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 equivalent dwelling unit, each
agricultural and industrial consumer, and each institutional
consumer as follows:
For a 5/8" meter
For a 3/4" meter
For a 1 meter
For a l$." meter
For a 2 'I meter
For a 3 " meter
For a 4 " meter
For a 6 meter
For an 8 " meter
$ 4.40
$ 4.40
$ 5.45
$ 5.90
$ 6.40 $12.30
$15.40
$15.40
$23.70
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(1) When one 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 $2.53
for each additional multiple residential unit,
(2) In the event no water is used through the meter
or the property becomes vacant, the monthly
stand-by charge will be charged to and paid by the
owner thereof.
The rates to be charged for water supplied in any one month
through meters are as follows:
All consumers 73.5G1100 cu. ft.
All agricultural consumers who meet the Metropolitan Water
District Southern California requirements for agricultural
consumers receive a pro-rata share of the agricultural
rebate the City receives monthly from the Costa Real
Municipal Water District.
There shall be a monthly charge of five dollars per month
for all water connections supplying non-metered water fGr
fire sprinkler purposes.
fire service systems from the water main to the shut off
valve shall be paid for by the consumer and shall be charged
on the regular water billing. All fire service systems shall be equipped with a meter by-pass which shall be paid .
for and installed at the consumer's expense. In the event
water is served through the fire service system, the City
Water Department and the Fire Department shall estimate the
amount of water used and the regular charge therefore shall
be put on customer's bill and shall be paid by consumer.
All maintenance or repairs to
A monthly fee of one dollar shall be paid for each five
rooms in any hotel, rooaing house or motel, in which no
cooking is allowed.
A monthly fee shall be charged for each individual living
unit contained in any motor court, motel, hotel, or rooming
house or other transient type habitat which allows cooking
in rooms in the amount of 70$ in addition to other charges
established.
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 lSth of the month following the monthly billing.
IV. Meter Reading - Water District. For convenience in the reading of
meters and preparation of water bills, the department is expressly authorized
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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.
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.
The meters in each district so established
Bills - Mailing. Unless the applicant for water service directs
otherwise, all bills will be mailed to the premises where water service is
furnished.
VI. Change of Ownership or Occupancy - Notification. It shall be the
duty of every perscn 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 applicant
shall be liable for the water furnished and metered in accurdance with the
application until the Water Department receives written notice tc cancel
same and shut off the water, when the applicant's liability shall cease except
as to water previous to such notice.
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 consuner at a former place
of residence or business shall be paid.
Every owner of property is liable for
VII. New Accounts - Turning on Water Chargg, Regulation of water service;
turning on and off of water supply.
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.
A three dollar and thirty cents charge
VIII. Nonpayment - Service Discontinuance. In the event that any consumer
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;hall be delinquent in the payment of his water bill, and such delinquency
;hall continue for a period of ten days after the final date for payment of
such bill, the department shall have the right forthwith and without notice
;o discontinue water service to the premises of such delinquent consumer, and
gater shall not again be supplied to him or to the premises until all delinquent
tater bills, plus the penalties thereon, and reconnection charges, have been
laid.
IX. Restoring Service After Discontinuance. Procedures for restoring
service after delinquency period.
Eor 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
ielinquent bills, charges and penalties, and makes such cash deposit as may be
If water service is cut off or discontinued
required by the Water Department.
When an owner or consumer has been delinquent in his water bills in
successicn 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
snd pays, in addition thereto, the sum of eight dollars and twenty-five cents
for turning on the water supply.
again be made or established to the premises where the water bill has been
Thereupon and not otherwise will water service
delinquent.
X. The Rates and Charges established by this resolution shall on their
effective day supersede the rates established by Resolution No. 733.8 .
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PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED, by the City Council of the City of
rlsbad at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the
xember , 1983, by the following vote, to wit:
20th day of
AYES: couucil ars Casler,
NOTES: None
ABSENT: None
Lewis, Kulchin, Chick and Prescott
MARY H. CfSLER, Mayor
CTEST :
LETHA L. RAUTENKRANZ, City Clerk
SEAL)
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