Ordinance No. 528-11ORDINANCE NO. 528-11
AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
AMENDING ADMINISTRATIVE CODE SECTIONS 3.1.52 AND 3.1.53
SUPERSEDING SECTION IV OF ORDINANCE NO. 490-05
REGARDING WATER SERVICE CALL CHARGES
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 I - POLICY AND PURPOSE
The purpose of this Ordinance is to adopt certain amendments to the Administrative Code
regarding water service call charges.
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.
D. General Manager — The General Manager of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District.
SECTION III — FINDINGS
The Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility District, El Dorado County,
State of California, makes the following findings:
1. The District's Administrative Code provides schedules of charges for water
service calls performed by District employees, including separate charges for those service calls
that occur during regular working hours and those service calls outside of regular working hours
and on holidays.
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2. The costs incurred for water service calls made during regular working hours are
provided for in the general water rates charged to District customers as part of their regular water
service. A further separate charge to a District customer for such a service call is not necessary.
3. Water service calls made outside of regular working hours are not provided for in
the general water rate charged to District customers because the District incurs significant extra
labor costs when a District employee is required to work outside of regular working hours or on
a holiday.
4. When a water service call is necessary outside of regular working hours, the
customer should be required to pay for the extra labor costs incurred as a result of that service
call.
5. The proposed water service call charges reflect the cost of labor and other
additional expenses directly incurred by the District as a result of such service calls made outside
of regular working hours. The proposed charges are approximately equal to the cost of providing
such services.
6. 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
regarding charges for water service calls.
SECTION IV — AMENDMENT TO ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
The following sections of the Administrative Code shall be amended in their entirety to
read as follows:
3.1.52 SCHEDULE 4 —WATER SERVCIE CALL CHARGES FOR SERVICE
CALLS DURING REGULAR WORKING HOURS
There shall be no charge to customers for any service call made during regular working
hours, as those hours are defined in this Administrative Code.
3.1.53 SCHEDULE 5 —WATER SERVICE CALL CHARGES FOR SERVICE
CALLS OUTSIDE REGULAR WORKING HOURS
The charge for each service call made outside of regular working hours, excluding
holidays, shall be $190. The charge for each service call made on a legal holiday shall be $240.
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
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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 by the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District at its duly held regular meeting on the 3rd day of February, 2011 by the following vote:
AYES: Cefalu, Jones, Mosbacher, Rise, Schafer
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
Dale Rise, President
South Tahoe Public Utility District
ATTEST Q
Kathy Shar , lerk of the oard
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