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The Director will accept applications from a developer for the installation of a meter to measure water for construction purposes if a service connection has been installed by the developer and accepted by the City. The Department will prepare a separate billing for each metered service connection used to supply water for construction, and the Department will assess the following charges:

A. Inside the City.

1. For each metered service connection used to supply water for construction inside the City, the developer must pay, in advance, an estimated water use charge for 120 days of water for construction. The Department will apply the water rates for inside-the-City water service prescribed in Section 37-63 to the estimated quantity of use for the 120-day period. If construction continues longer than 120 days, the developer must pay, in advance, an additional monthly minimum water use charge, based on estimated water use, for each month construction continues.

2. The developer must pay the estimated 120-day water use charge before the Department will set a meter. The developer must pay the City for all water recorded by all meters from the date the meter is set until a new account is established pursuant to this chapter for the property served by the meter.

3. When a new account is established for the property served by a meter, the Department will take a final meter reading and will bill the developer for any water use in excess of the estimated payments. The developer must pay the amount due within 60 days. In no event is any portion of the estimated water use charge refundable.

B. Outside the City. For each metered service connection used to supply water for construction outside the City, the provisions of subsection A of this section apply, except that the Department will apply the water rates for outside-the-City water service prescribed in Section 37-64 to the water estimates and use. (Ord. No. G-6741, § 2 (Exh. A), 2020)