§ 15-9-243. REVOCATION OF ADJUSTMENT.

(A)

Approval for receipt of the evaporative loss adjustment shall be revoked and the customer shall not receive the evaporative loss adjustment for any billing period:

(1)

affected by customer tampering with the intake or discharge meter or readout or read data transmittal equipment;

(2)

in which a false report of the intake or discharge meter reading is made;

(3)

during which a water tap was installed downstream of the intake meter without the prior written approval of the director; or

(4)

in which the customer has utilized an unmetered bypass of the discharge meter without prior written or telephonic notice to the director.

(B)

For the billing period in which an act described in Subsection (A) occurs, the customer shall be billed for wastewater service with the volume of wastewater being determined by the monthly readings of the City water meters whose readings include the cooling tower installation (i.e. the wastewater volume shall be equal to the actual water consumption for the City water meters servicing the cooling towers).

(C)

In addition to the filing of criminal charges, revocation of the evaporative loss adjustment for the billing cycle affected, and other sanctions available at law or in equity, the director may revoke approval for future application of the evaporative loss adjustment to subsequent wastewater billings of a customer that has made a false report of the reading of the intake or discharge meter, tampered with the intake or discharge meter, readout device, or data transmittal equipment installed , installed a water tap downstream of the intake meter or utilized an unmetered bypass of the discharge meter without notice to the director. If the director revokes approval for application of the evaporative loss adjustment to future wastewater billings, future wastewater billings will be based on the standard wastewater average. If sufficient winter month consumption history is not available to calculate the standard wastewater average, then wastewater billings will be based on actual water consumption determined by the monthly readings of the City water meter readings whose readings include the cooling tower installation until sufficient winter month water consumption data is available to calculate the standard wastewater average.

(D)

Filing of criminal charges or a conviction is not a precondition for revocation of the evaporative loss adjustment if the director has reasonable cause to believe the customer has engaged in conduct prohibited by this article.

Source: 1992 Code Section 18-4-352; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11.