Ordinance No. 575-19 Sewer Service ChargesORDINANCE NO. 575-19
AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
AMENDING SECTION 4.5.4 OF DIVISION 4 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE
CODE REGARDING SEWER SERVICE CHARGES
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 adopt certain amendments to the
Administrative Code regarding the sewer service charges for construction.
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 Ordinances of the District, which establish the authority and the principles
for 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. Currently the Administrative Code provides for the billing of
sewer service charges to begin six months after final sewer lateral connection
inspection;
2. The District begins billing sewer service charges in the next
quarterly billing period following the quarter after the six months in which the
inspection of the sewer lateral connection occurs;
3. Because sewer services are generally not used immediately after a
sewer lateral is inspected, the District desires to amend the Administrative Code
to delay the imposition of sewer service charges until a final/final sewer
inspection is completed;
4. The Board of Directors has determined that it is in the best interest
of the District and the community to adopt this Ordinance with respect to the
imposition of sewer service charges for construction.
SECTION IV — AMEND SECTION 4.5.4 OF DIVISION 4 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
The following section 4.5.4 shall be amended as follows:
"4.5.4 General Rates — Sewer Service. Connections shall be billed
when a final/final inspection is completed."
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 section, subsection,
subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases may be determined to be
unconstitutional or invalid.
SECTION VII — EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance amending the above referenced section of the
Administrative Code shall take effect thirty (30) 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 5th day of
September, 2019 by the following vote:
AYES: CEFALU, JONES, VOGELGESANG, SHEEHAN, EXLINE
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE 17
Randy Vogelgesang, President
South Tahoe Public Utility District
ATTEST:
Melo"Guttry. C erk of the bard
South Tahoe Public Utility District