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

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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 of the Depat4ment of Water Manageffien . 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 income taxation may be, by the Public Works Director , classified as residential for meter charges only in accordance with such classification. Water quantity charge classifications for not for profit institutions are not affected by this section. 13. REGULAR BILLING. The Public Works Department of Wa4ef Management, upon such schedule as shall be determined by the Director thereof, shall cause each water meter to be read regularly each classification period applicable to each meter and shall promptly return such readings to the Department of Finance. The Department of Finance shall compute the appropriate charges for water furnished in accordance with this ordinance and shall bill for the same. The water bill shall set forth the period during which the charges shown thereon accrued, the amount of the service charge, the amount of the water-furnished charge, the amount of water furnished, the due date of payment and any other charges connected with such service including the amount and the reason for same. 14. SPECIAL METER READING. In the event a meter is not accessible to be read at the time usually scheduled for such reading so that the same is not then read, charges may be based on an amount of water estimated to have been furnished through said meter determined in the same manner as provided in Section 8 hereof. Not more than one bill based on an estimate shall be permitted. It shall be the duty of the owner of the premises or the person in possession thereof to arrange with the Public Works Department for a special time at which the meter will be accessible for such purpose at the usually scheduled time for such reading for the billing period succeeding the estimated bill. A fee of Thirty Five Dollars ($35.00) shall be charged for each special reading requested to be made during regular departmental working hours and a fee of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for each special reading requested to be made during a time other than regular departmental working hours. Failure to cause the required reading to be timely made shall be a delinquency and shall result in the same penalty and admit of the same notice and consequences as late payment as elsewhere provided herein.