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(6) charges, fees or surcharges for electricity services or programs, which are mandated by the California Public Utilities Commission or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, whether or not such charges, fees or surcharges appear on a bundled or line item basis on the customer billing. (c) As used in this section, the term "charges" shall also include the value of any other services, credits, property of every kind or nature, or other consideration provided by the service user in exchange for the electricity or services related to the provision of such electricity. If a non-taxable service and a taxable service are billed together under a single charge, the entire charge shall be deemed taxable unless the service supplier can reasonably identify charges not subject to the utility users tax based upon its books and records that are kept in the regular course of business, which shall be consistent with generally accepted accounting principles. (d) The tax administrator, from time to time, may survey the electric service suppliers to identify the various unbundled billing components of electrical retail service that they commonly provide to residential and commercial/industrial customers in the City, and the charges therefor, including those items that are mandated by state or federal regulatory agencies as a condition of providing such electric service. The tax administrator, thereafter, may issue and disseminate to such electric service suppliers an administrative ruling identifying those components and items which are: i) necessary or common to the receipt, use and enjoyment of electric service; or, ii) currently, or historically have been, included in a single or bundled rate for electric service by a local distribution company to a class of retail customers. Unbundled charges for such components and items shall be subject to the tax of subsection (a) above. (e) As used in this section, the term "using electricity" shall not be construed to include the mere receiving of such electricity by an electric public utility or governmental agency at a point within the City for resale; or the use of such electricity in the production or distribution of water by a public utility or a governmental agency. (f) The tax on electricity provided by a non-utility service supplier not under the jurisdiction of this code shall be collected and remitted in the manner set forth in section 35-158 of this code. All other taxes on charges for electricity imposed in this section shall be collected from the service user by the electric service supplier or its billing agent. The amount of tax collected in one (1) month shall be remitted to the tax administrator on or before the twentieth (20th) day of the following month in accordance with section 35-163 of this code; or, at the option of the person required to collect and/or remit the tax, such person shall remit an estimated amount of tax measured by the tax billed in the previous month or upon the payment pattern of the service user on or before the twentieth (20th) day of the following month in accordance with section 35-163 of this code. Ordinance No. NS-2436 Page 7 of 22