§ 154-115. Residential customers served through single meter.

Use of sub-meters in multifamily or mixed use structures containing residential units and residential customers served through a single meter during construction.

(1)

No water shall be supplied nor any building permit issued to any newly constructed multi-family residential building or structure or mixed use building or structure containing residential units unless the building or structure is built with either individual meters that measure water provided to each residential unit or private sub-unit meters owned and managed by the property owner that measure water provided to each residential unit with a utility owned master meter that measures the quantity of water to the master meter. This requirement shall not apply to those applications received by the bureau of buildings prior to July 1, 2009.

(2)

Nothing in this Code section shall render the department of watershed management responsible for providing, owning, operating, or maintaining any sub-meter required under this Code section. For buildings with master meters required to install sub-meters under this Code section, the property owner shall be responsible for providing, owning, operating, and maintaining the sub-meters.

(3)

Monthly water and sewer rates and charges applicable to a single account will be charged while under construction for structures that have more than one house, apartment or condominium living unit on one meter. As soon as any part of the building is occupied, water and sewer base charges will be applicable for each house, apartment or condominium living unit that may be occupied and monthly rates and charges for water consumption and sewer service will be computed based on each unit having used water within each consumption range of the adopted rate schedule.

(Code 1977, §§ 9-4082, 9-7006; Ord. No. 1998-87, § 36, 12-10-98; Ord. No. 2005-88, § 1, 12-13-05; Ord. No. 2009-14 (09-O-0285), § 1, 3-24-09)