Ordinance No. 522-10 ORDINANCE NO. 522-10
AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
REGARDING THE MAINTENANCE OF WATER METERS
AMENDING SECTION 3.2.5 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE AND
SUPERSEDING ORDINANCE NO. 513-09
BE IT ENACTED by the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District, County of El Dorado, State of California, as follows:
SECTION 1— POLICY AND PURPOSE
The purpose of this Ordinance is to adopt certain changes to the Administrative
Code regarding the maintenance of water meters.
SECTION II — DEFINITIONS
For the purposes 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 of the 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 the 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 El
Dorado, State of California, make the following findings:
1. The District allows new water service connections pursuant to the
applicable provisions of the Ordinances, rules, and regulations of the District and
specifications for water service.
2. While the Administrative Code provides that all water metering devices
are the property of the District, the Administrative Code further allows that such metering
devices may be installed by a property owner or his or her contractor, in accordance with
the applicable provisions of the Ordinances, rules, and regulations of the District and
specifications for connection to the District's water system.
3. Consistent with the District's ownership of metering devices, the
Administrative Code allocates the responsibility for the maintenance, repair and
replacement of water meters, risers, boxes and appurtenance to the District.
4. When a customer requires for its connection a meter smaller than two
inches, the meter is supplied to the customer by the District. When a customer requires
for its connection a meter of two inches or greater in size, the customer supplies the
meter, through its purchase from a District - approved supplier. The District does not test
or inspect meters that it does not supply prior to their installation.
5. In the case of meters of two inches or greater in size, the costs of repairing
or replacing such a meter are disproportionately greater than the costs of repairing or
replacing a meter smaller than two inches in size. Ordinarily, if such costs arise within
the first year that such a meter is in service, the need for repair or replacement is a result
of improper installation or freeze protection of the meter.
6. The proposed amendment allocates to any property owner receiving water
service through a meter of two inches or greater in size, the responsibility for the
maintenance, repair and replacement of such a meter within the first calendar year after
the property is connected to the District's water service.
7. The proposed amendment is intended to equitably allocate the costs of
repair and replacement of water meters as between the property owners served by those
meters and the District's customers in general.
8. The Board has determined that it is in the best interest of the health and
safety of District residents to adopt an ordinance to amend certain provisions of the
Administrative Code the maintenance of water meters.
SECTION IV — AMEND SECTION 3.2.5 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Administrative Code Section 3.2.5 to be amended as follows:
District Meter Responsibility. The District shall maintain, repair and replace all
water meters, risers, boxes and appurtenances. Such duty as described in this Section
ends at the meter Tail or Meter Flange located on the outlet side of the meter box or
meter pit, depending on the meter type. Notwithstanding the foregoing, property owners
whose properties receive water service through a meter that is two inches or greater in
size shall be responsible for the maintenance, repair and replacement of all water meters,
risers, boxes and appurtenances to their water service connections for one calendar year
from the time that the property is connected to the District's water service..
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All property owners shall install, maintain, repair and replace, as necessary, the
w ater service downstream from the outlet of the meter box. The property owner's
maintenance, in good repair, of such meter parts shall be subject to the provisions of
Section 6.5 of the District's Administrative Code.
SECTION V — SEVERABILITY
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 of the 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 any one or more
sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases may be
determined to be unconstitutional or invalid.
SECTION VI — EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance amending the above referenced sections to the Administrative
Code shall take effect thirty days after its passage.
PASSED AND ADOPTED the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public
Utility District at its duly held regular meeting on the 18th day of March, 2010, by the
following vote:
AYES: Directors Cefalu, Jones, Rise, Schafer
NOES: None
ABSENT: Director Mosbacher
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Dale Rise, President
South Tahoe Public Utility District
Kathy Sharp Clerk of the board
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tiof AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
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I, CU\r S 1,.)` nu P✓\, being first duly sworn, deposes and says:
That for and on behalf of the Clerk of Board of the SOUTH TAHOE
PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT, affiant posted copies of O r k I , 2 -10 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
1275 Meadow Crest Drive
South Lake Tahoe, CA
2. Lake Tahoe Community College
One College Drive
South Lake Tahoe, CA
3. Government Center
1360 Johnson Boulevard
South Lake Tahoe, CA
That said posting was completed on the CQ day of 1'(1,rc,L. ,
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Signed by:
Subscribed and sworn
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