Ordinance No. 549-13 � ORDINANCE N
O. 549-13
AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
REGARDING WATER CAPACITY CHARGES FOR DOMESTIC WATER SERVICE
AND AMENDING ADMINISTRATIVE CODE SECTION 3.1.24(a)
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 amend the Administrative Code to define the water
capacity charges for domestic service for all customer classes.
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. Capacity Char�e - A charge to pay for a public agency's facilities in existence at
the time the charge is imposed or to pay for new facilities that will be constructed
in the future that are of benefit to the person or property being charged.
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 Board finds that the current method for calculating domestic water capacity
charges for properties with greater than one water capacity unit (416 gallons) is difficult to
accurately estimate.
2. The Administrative Code requires a two year monitoring period for properties
with greater than one water capacity unit. The monitored data is compared to the original
� estimate to determine if the original estimated charge is to be increased or decreased.
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� 3. The Board finds that the current method is inconsistent with the method used to
calculate residential domestic water capacity charges, and believes the charge should be based on
the capacity available to the customer through the requested connection size.
4. This Ordinance's proposed amendment to the District's Administrative Code is
designed to standardize the methodology for calculating domestic water capacity charges by
applying the schedule of charges per connection size developed in the 2006 Water Capacity
Charge Study to all customer classes.
5. The Board has determined that it is in the best interest of the health and safety of
District's residents to postpone the scheduled increase in the District's water connection fees
SECTION IV—AMEND SECTION 3.1.24(a) OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Administrative Code Section 3.1.24(a) to be amended as follows:
3.1.24(a). Water Capacity Charge for pomestic Water Service. Refer to Section
3.1.49(a) for the domestic water capacity charge by connection size.
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 section of 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 21 st day of February, 2013, by the following vote:
AYES: Jones, Vogelgesang, Sheehan, Schafer
NOES: None
ABSENT: C�falu
Eric Schafer, P si t
South Tahoe Public Utility District
� ATTEST:<
Kathy Sha ; lerk of the oard
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