Ordinance No. 539-12ORDINANCE NO. 539-12
AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
AMENDING AND SUPERSEDING THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION,
WATER, SEWER, STREET LIGHTING, AND GROUNDWATER
MANAGEMENT PLAN ORDINANCES AND ADOPTING THE REVISED
COMPREHENSIVE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
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 the updated and revised South Tahoe
Public Utility District Administrative Code.
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 maintains an Administrative Code as its compilation and
codification of all of its adopted Administration, Water, Sewer, Street Lighting and
Groundwater Management Plan Ordinances.
2. From time to time, the Administrative Code must be cleaned up, as
references within the Code become obsolete.
3. The Administrative Code was last the subject of such a clean up when the
Board, on May 7, 2009, passed Ordinance No. 517 -09.
4. The District proposes to amend and supersede the current Administration,
Water, Sewer, Street Lighting, and Groundwater Management Plan ordinances and
replace them with the revised comprehensive Administrative Code attached hereto, in
order to keep the Code's references current and otherwise accomplish necessary clean up.
5. The Board has determined that it is in the best interest of the health and
safety of District residents to adopt this ordinance to amend and supersede the current
Administration, Water, Sewer, Street Lighting, and Groundwater Management Plan
ordinances and replace them with the revised comprehensive Administrative Code
attached hereto.
SECTION IV — AMENDMENT AND SUPERSESSION OF CURRENT
ADMINISTRATION, WATER, SEWER, STREET LIGHTING, AND
GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT PLAN ORDINANCES AND ADOPTION OF
REVISED COMPREHENSIVE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
The current Administration, Water, Sewer, Street Lighting, and Groundwater
Management Plan ordinances are amended and superseded as shown in the revised
comprehensive Administrative Code attached hereto.
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 and the revised comprehensive Administrative Code attached
hereto shall take effect thirty days after its passage.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District at its duly held regular meeting on the 16th day of February, 2012, by the
following vote:
AYES: Jones, Vogelgesang, Sheehan, Schafer
NOES: None
ABSENT: Cefalu
ATTEST:
Eric Schafer, Pksid
South Tahoe Public Utility District
Kathy Sharper Jerk of the B
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