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(b) All residential customers shall pay a usage charge as provided for in the fee
schedule in appendix A of this code for every hundred cubic feet of water used on the
average month during the period commencing November 15th of the annual billing
period immediately preceding the month for which a bill is currently being tendered. It is
the intent of this section to establish a fixed monthly sewer service usage charge for
each customer that will be consistent from month to month within a given year. The city
will determine the average cubic feet of water used by each customer during the
November 15th to February 15th period each year and will use it to set a monthly
average for that particular customer, structure or property. The usage charge will be
multiplied against the average monthly water consumption measured in cubic feet as
set forth above to calculate the sewer bill for the ensuing twelve-month period. In the
event the customer, structure or property did not receive public water utility service
during the immediately preceding November 15th to February 15th time frame, the
customer may request at the time of initiation of service that billing be based on the city-
wide average monthly usage rate; otherwise the city will calculate the billing on actual
water use until such time as a full three-month average is determined and then use that
average or the city-wide average by type of customer, whichever average is smaller.
Each year the city will establish a new city-wide average monthly usage rate for the
period commencing November 15th and ending February 15th for the purpose of
establishing use charges for customers that do not have prior historical usage data.

(c) Effective November 1, 2002, all commercial customers shall pay a usage charge
as provided for in the fee schedule found in appendix A of this code for every hundred
cubic feet of water used each month. From the date of this subsection until November 1,
2002, commercial customers will be billed for every hundred feet of water used in
accordance with subsection (b) above.

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