Arcadia Municipal Code Div. 1 Establishment

The bimonthly rates for metered services, and for all other purposes for which no other rate is specified for water put to or made available for beneficial use in the City and served through a meter, shall be as specified by Resolution of the City Council. No such Resolution shall be acted upon until at least one public meeting (regular Council meeting) is conducted at which oral and written presentation can be made concerning the rate changes.

(Amended by Ord. 1333 adopted 1-3-67; amended by Ord. 1769 adopted 4-19-83)

(Repealed by Ord. 1556 adopted 3-2-76)

(Ord. 1142 adopted 10-3-61 repealed original Ch. 5, Parts 1 through 4 and added a new Ch. 5, Parts 1 through 5)

The bimonthly charge to be collected for private fire protection services shall be one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the prevailing rate of the "inside city" charges.

Public fire hydrant service shall be charged for at the rate of seventy-five cents (75¢) per hydrant per month. Said charge shall include water used for fire extinguishing purposes; repairs and replacement to fire hydrants and appurtenant facilities.

(Ord. 1142 adopted 10-3-61 repealed original Ch. 5, Parts 1 through 4 and added a new Ch. 6, Parts 1 through 5)

The Council reserves the right in its discretion to grant to charitable institutions and indigent persons rebates from the rates herein set forth.

No allowance or rebate shall be made in the water rates charged against any property or premises while the water remains connected therewith and full rates shall be charged against any and all property as hereinabove specified until the Department has been notified in writing to shut off water therefrom.

The charges under each rate schedule herein shall be subject to an overriding adjustment described as follows:

An adjustment shall apply to each one hundred (100) cubic feet of water sales to which water rate charges apply as provided under the schedules herein. The adjustment shall be the amount by which the cost of pumping per one hundred (100) cubic feet of total sales by the water system exceeds $0.0595 per one hundred (100) cubic feet.

The determination of the cost of pumping per one hundred (100) cubic feet shall be made six (6) times yearly for each of the two (2) calendar month periods ending with the last day of February, April, June, August, October and December. Said cost of pumping shall be derived by dividing the total energy cost invoices relating to all pumping for the production, transmission and distribution of water by the total water sales, expressed in hundreds of cubic feet, for the same two (2) month period, and the result shall be expressed to the nearest $0.0001.

The amount by which the cost of pumping per one hundred (100) cubic feet exceeds $0.0595 per one hundred (100) cubic feet is the amount of the adjustment. Such adjustment, multiplied by all units of one hundred (100) cubic feet represented in the customer's billings and expressed to the nearest $0.01, shall be added to the customer's billings as otherwise determined under the provisions of the schedules herein. The adjustment shall be applied commencing with the next full billing period.

(Added by Ord. 1563 adopted 6-15-76, effective 10-1-76)

A consumer in whose name water service is rendered to his home in a dwelling unit, who has applied for and received an exemption from payment of utility user taxes pursuant to Arcadia Municipal Code 2672.1, shall receive a six hundred (600) cubic feet bi-monthly free water allowance.

(Added by Ord. 1724 adopted 5-26-81, operative 7-1-81)

(Ord. 1142 adopted 10-3-61 repealed original Ch. 5, Parts 1 through 4 and added a new Ch. 5, Parts 1 through 5)