Ordinance No. 505-08
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ORDINANCE NO. 505-08
AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
AMENDING SECTION 4.5.4 OF DIVISION 4 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE
CODE REGARDING SEWER SERVICE CHARGES
FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION
BE IT ENACTED by the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District, County of EI Dorado, State of California, as follows:
SECTION I - POLICY AND PURPOSE
The purpose of this Ordinance is to adopt certain amendments to the
Administrative Code regarding the sewer service charges for new construction.
SECTION II - DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this Ordinance, the terms used herein are defined as follows:
A. The District - The South Tahoe Public Utility District.
B. The Board - The Board of Directors ofthe South Tahoe Public Utility
District.
C. Administrative Code - The compilation and codification of all of the
Administrative, Water, Sewer, Street Lighting and Groundwater Management
Plan Ordinances of the District, which establish the authority and the principles
for decisions of the District, and provide the public with guidelines applicable to
District operations.
SECTION III - FINDINGS
The Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility District, County
of EI Dorado, State of California, make the following findings:
1. Currently the Administrative Code provides for the billing of
sewer service charges to begin the first of the month following the month in
which the inspection of the sewer lateral connection for new construction occurs;
2. The District begins billing sewer service charges in the next quarterly
billing period following the month in which the inspection of the sewer lateral
connection for new construction occurs;
3. Because sewer services are generally not used immediately after a
sewer lateral is inspected, the District desires to amend the Administrative Code
to delay the imposition of sewer service charges until six months after final sewer
lateral connection inspection;
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4. The Board of Directors has determined that it is in the best interest
of the District and the community to adopt this Ordinance with respect to the
imposition of sewer service charges for new construction.
SECTION IV - AMEND SECTION 4.5.4 OF DIVISION 4 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
The following section 4.5.4 shall be amended as follows:
"4.5.4 General Rates - Sewer Service. There is hereby established
an annual service charge as established by the Ordinances, rules and regulations
of the District, for connection to the sewers of the District. The service charge
shall be applied to new connections beginning in the third quarter after the quarter
in which the final sewer lateral connection inspection at the property line occurs."
SECTION VI - SEVERABILITY
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If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause
or phrase of this Ordinance and its implementing rules and regulations is for any
reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the
validity ofthe remaining portions of this Ordinance or the Administrative Code.
The Board of Directors declares and determines that it would have passed section,
subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase thereof of this
Ordinance and its implementing rules and regulations and the Administrative
Code irrespective of the fact that anyone or more section, subsection,
subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases may be determined to be
unconstitutional or invalid.
SECTION VII - EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance amending the above referenced section of the
Administrative Code shall take effect thirty (30) days after its passage.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of the South
Tahoe Public Utility District at its duly held regular meeting on the 3rd day of
April, 2008 by the following vote:
AYES: Directors Mosbacher, Schafer, Rise, Claudio
NOES: Director Jones
ABSENT: None
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South Tahoe Public Utility District
ATTEST:- .
\., Kathy Sharp
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That for and on behalf of the Clerk of Board of the SOUTH TAHOE
PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT, affiant posted copies of 0" c~ So S - 0 [f in form
attached hereto and by reference made a part hereof, in three (3) public places in
the District as follows:
1. South Tahoe Public Utility District
Administration Building
South Lake Tahoe, CA
2. AI Tahoe Post Office Station
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Government Center
1360 Johnson Boulevard
South Lake Tahoe, CA
That said posting was completed on the g dayof.J\ ~r'\ \
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