Ordinance No. 564-15 ORDINANCE NO. 564-15
AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT ADDING
SECTION 6.2.6 TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE REGARDING ACCEPTABLE
FORMS OF PAYMENT FOR DISTRICT SERVICES
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 u ose of this Ordinance is to ado t a new rovision to the Administrative Code
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I 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 Administrative Code does not currently specify acceptable forms of payment
or restrict unacceptable forms of payment that the District will accept for payment of services.
2. The District periodically encounters customers that make payments far District
services in large quantities of coins.
3. A customer paying for District services in large quantities of coins results in an
inefficient use of staff time that is in inconsistent and unfair to the District's other customers.
4. The Board has determined that it is in the best interest of the District to adopt an
Ordinance to add a new provision to the Administrative Code to specify acceptable forms of
payment.
SECTION IV—ADD SECTION 6.2.6 TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Section 6.2.6 is added to the Administrative Code to read as follows:
6.2.6 Acceptable forms of pavment. The payment for District services shall be
paid in legal tender of the United States of America. Cash, checks, and electronic payments from
MasterCard, Visa, Discover Card, debit card, or bank account are acceptable forms of payment.
Payments must be made payable to the South Tahoe Public Utility District. The District has the
right to refuse any payment tendered in coin.
SECTION VI—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 VII—EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance amending the above referenced sections to the Administrative Code shall
take effect thirty(30) 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 19th day of November, 2015, by the following
vote:
AYES: �ones, Vogelgesang, Sheehan, Wallace, Cefalu
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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Randy Vogelgesang, President
South Tahoe Public Utility District
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ATTEST:
Melonie Guttry, Clerk of the Board
South Tahoe Public Utility District