Ordinance No. 545-13 i
� ORDINANCE NO. 545-13
AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
AMENDING ADMINISTRATIVE CODE SECTION 6.1.2 REGARDING THE
BILLING OF WATER SERVICE CHARGES
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 billing of water service charges.
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 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 Ordinance of the District, and provide the public with guidelines
� appficable 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. The District's Administrative Code provides that water service charges be
billed in advance for each billing period.
2. The provisions of the DistricYs Administrative Code regarding the billing of
water service charges were implemented when all District water service
customers were billed on a flat fee basis. However, at present all of the
District's commercial water customers are billed pursuant to a metered rate
and, pursuant to California law, all residential customers receive metered
water service or will receive metered water service by 2025.
3. California law requires that customers receiving metered water service be
charged based on their water consumption.
4. While it was appropriate to bill customers receiving water service pursuant to
a flat fee charge in advance, customers cannot be billed based on their actual
water consumption in advance of their water use.
� 5. The proposed amendment is intended to make clear that customers receiving
metered water service and billed based on water consumption will be billed in
arrears according to the District's meter reading schedule.
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6. The Board has determined that it is in the best interest of the DistricYs
customers to adopt an ordinance amending certain provisions of the
Administrative Code regarding the billing of water service charges.
SECTION IV—AMEND SECTION 6.1.2 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Administrative Code Section 6.1.2(a) is to be amended as follows:
6.1.2 Billin_q of Water Service CharQes. Water Service charges, as provided
in Sections 3.1.23 through 3.1.55, inclusive, shall be billed as follows:
a) General. Except, as otherwise provided in this Section 6.1.2., annual flat
rate water service charges shall be billed in advance for the billing period, as
determined by the District. Metered water rate service charges shall be billed
in arrears as determined by the District.
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 any section, subsection, subdivision,
paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase 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, clause or phrases may be
determined to be unconstitutional or invalid.
SECTION VI — EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance amending the above referenced section to the Administrative
Code shalt 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 7th day of February, 2013, by the
following vote:
AYES: Cefalu, Jones, Vogelgesang, Sheehan, Schafer
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
Eric Schafer, Presiddnt
� South Tahoe Public Utility District
ATTEST��t,
Kathy Shar Clerk of the oard