2017-08 Reorganization Amending City Code Chapters 9, 16, 64, 65, 66, 75

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6. COMMERCIAL SERVICE LINE. Water service classified as commercial service will be supplied through a single service line to each building situated on one lot or parcel of ground or on contiguous lots or parcels of ground under single ownership and the water furnished thereto will be measured by a single meter for each service line. The property owner may request in writing to the Public Works Director that more than one service line or more than one meter be utilized to furnish the water service in this section. The Director shall approve or deny such requests in writing to the property owner prior to service line installation. The intervening of a street, alley, or public easement or way between such lots or parcels of ground under single ownership shall be ignored in determining the contiguity thereof. In the event any part of such lot or parcel, or such contiguous lots or parcels, is separated into more than one ownership, the respective separate parcels shall thereafter be served by separate service lines and meters. 7. WATER METER INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE. All existing and newly installed water meters shall be located or relocated, at the expense of the owner of the premises served, so as, in the determination of the Public Works Director, to control the entire supply of water to the premises and in a clean, dry safe place so that the meter or meters not be subject to great temperature variance and be properly protected from freezing and other hazards, and be easily accessible for installation, maintenance, reading, and replacement. All meters shall at the time of installation be equipped with a device, approved by said Director, which will permit said meter to be read without entry into the building or other enclosure wherein the meter is located, said device being known as a communication module. After original installation, said Department shall test, inspect, repair, or replace water meters and communication modules as needed. Said Department may charge the owner of the premises served for service and/or replacement costs for water meters and accessories that are damaged due to improper protection from freezing and other hazards by said owner. 9. CLASSIFICATION OF WATER SERVICES. Water services from the water system of the City are hereby classified as residential monthly services, commercial monthly services, and industrial monthly services. The term "monthly" as used in this Chapter, unless some other meaning is clearly intended from the context in which the same is used, means a period of twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, or thirty-one days, as the case may be, whether the same commences or ends on the first day of a calendar month or otherwise. Water services from said system to a single family residence or a two-family residence are residential services. Water services to which more than one million (1,000,000) gallons or 133,680.55 cubic feet per day are furnished, averaged over the one year period immediately preceding the effective billing date, are industrial services. Except as otherwise provided herein, all other services are commercial services. Classifications shall be assigned at the determination of the Public Works Director. If there is insufficient actual measurement of water furnished to determine the average use as aforesaid, classification pending determination based on actual use, may be made on the basis of reasonable estimate. 11. NOT FOR PROFIT INSTITUTIONS. Water service to public and semi-public entities, organizations and institutions not operated for profit including but not limited to religious, educational, eleemosynary, philanthropic and other similar entities or organizations with U.S. Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) recognition of exemption from federal