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The customer shall deposit an amount of $5.00 to cover the cost of such test and the deposit shall be returned to the customer if the meter is found to register more than two percent (2%) fast. The customer shall have the right to attend the conduct of the test and a written report of the test will be given to him if he so requests. B. Adjustment of Bills for Meter Error: When upon test, a meter is found to be registering more than two percent (2%) fast, the City will refund to the customer the amount of the overcharge based on corrected meter readings for the period the meter was in use, but not exceeding a period of six (6) months. When upon test a meter two (2) inches or less in size is found to be registering more than twenty five percent (25%) slow, the City may bill the customer for the amount of the undercharge based upon corrected meter readings for the period the meter was in service, but not exceeding a period of three (3) months. When upon test a meter three (3) inches or larger in size is found to be registering more than five (5%) percent slow, the City may bill the customer for the amount of the undercharge based upon corrected meter readings for the period the meter was in service, but not exceeding a period of three (3) months. SECTION 7410. General Requlations A. Meter Required: Every water service except a fire service shall have a meter installed in the service line on public property or as close to public right of way as possible, if street improvements do not permit installation on public property. B. Maintenance of Customer's Facilities: Customers shall prevent all waste of water and keep their service pipes, fixtures, stop cocks and other apparatus (except facilities owned by the City) in good repair and free from leakage and backflow at their own expense. Customers shall be liable for all damages which may result from the customer's failure to maintain said facilities in good repair and free from leakage and back- flow. C. Vacated Premises: Water rates will be charged for vacated premises until the City Water Service office shall have been notified of the discontinuance of the use of water, and is requested to turn off the water. D. Admittance to Premises: Any authorized employee of the City shall be admitted at all reasonable hours to all appropriate parts of the premises supplied with water to see that the provisions of this Chapter, resolutions adopted pursuant thereto, and a~inistrative regulations published in accordance therewith are carried out. E. Unauthorized Turn-On: No one except an authorized employee of the City of Santa Aha shall turn the water on or off from or to any premises at City curb cock, or connect or disconnect, or in any w~y tamper with, any pipes in the meter boxes or with any other part of the water system of the City. F. Resale or Distribution: No customer supplied by the City shall commercially supply water to any other person on property other than the premises for which the customer has applied for service, except as may be permitted by special agreement with the Department. Water used by any customer shall be restricted to that use specified in the application or permit for said service. G. Utility Emerqency Requirements: Ail faucets, sprinklers, hose nozzles or other continuous streams must be shut off promptly upon the sounding of an alarm of fire or upon notice of other emergency or major disaster. The water shall not be turned on again until the fire is known to be extinguished or the required repairs have been made. -5-