7553.8. - CONSERVATION PHASE IMPLEMENTATION. PHASE CHANGE INITIATION.

The Water Division shall monitor and evaluate the projected supply and demand for water by its customers, and shall recommend to the City Council the extent of the conservation required by the customers of the Water Division in order for the Water Division to prudently plan for and supply water to its customers. Thereafter, the City Council, by Resolution, may order that the appropriate phase of water conservation be implemented, modified or rescinded in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Urgency Ordinance. Said Resolution shall become effective immediately upon adoption by the City Council and shall be published one time only in a daily newspaper of general circulation. The customer percentage curtailment provisions shall take effect with the first full billing period commencing on or after the effective date of the adoption by the City Council.

Nothing contained in this Urgency Ordinance shall be deemed to require any customer of the Water Division to reduce his consumption of water provided by the Water Division to an amount less than twenty (20) billing units bimonthly at each meter during any billing period.