Ordinance No. 568-17 Amending Admin Code 3.1.49(f)ORDINANCE NO. 568-17
AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
AMENDING ADMINISTRATIVE CODE SECTION 3.1.490 REGARDING
PHYSICAL CONNECTION FEES
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 physical connection fees.
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 Cade — 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
applicable 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 a standard deposit for physical
connections to the District's water main. This deposit is used for actual time
and material costs to the District.
2. The proposed amendment is intended to incorporate a more accurate cost for
time and materials directly incurred by the District as a result of installation.
The proposed charges are the District staff's best estimate of the average
cost of providing such services.
3. The Board has determined that it is in the best interest of the District's
customers to adopt an ordinance amending this provision to the
Administrative Code.
SECTION IV — AMEND SECTION 3.1.49(f) OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Administrative Code Section 3.1.49(f) is to be amended in its entirety to read as
follows:
3.1.49(f) The applicant shall pay the District a $5000 deposit for the physical
connection to the District's water system. If the actual time and material charges are
less than the $5000 deposit then the customer will be refunded the difference. If the
charges are greater than the $5000 deposit, the customer will be billed the difference.
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 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 6th day of April 2017 by the following
vote:
AYES:Vogelgesang, Jones, Sheehan, Wallace
NOES: None
ABSENT: Cefalu
Randy Vogelgesang, President
South Tahoe Public Utility District
ATTEST:
Melonie Guttry, Clerk of the Board
South Tahoe Public Utility District