11A - 2ND READ ORD - WATER AND SEWER with revised ordinance

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promise to appear as prescribed by Chapter 5C, Title 111, of part 2 of the Penal Code of the State of California (commencing with Section 853.6). SECTION 11. Section 16-38 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended such that it reads in its entirety as follows (new language underlined, deleted language in strikeout for tracking purposes only): Sec. 16-38. - Service charges. (a) Owners and/or occupants of any improved parcel of real property in the city, as shown on the latest county assessment roll, except any parcel receiving bin or roll -off service exclusively, shall pay to the city a solid waste collection service charge refuse service charge) in such amounts, at such times, and in such manner as shall be established by resolution of the city council. Such refuse service charge is imposed to provide for the continuing availability of curbside service, and shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms of said resolution regardless of actual use thereof or of any interruptions or delays in such service, except to the extent reductions or refunds may be specifically authorized or directed by the executive director of public works or his/her designee. (b) For purposes of administrative convenience the city council may establish billing units for payment of the said service charge consisting of one (1) or more occupancies within one (1) or more parcels. The said total refuse service charge reflecting the number of billable units shall be billed as provided in Section 39-20 of this Code as part of the city's regular consolidated municipal utility services account/billing, statement, but shall be listed as a separate line item on the municipal utility services accountibitling statement. (c) A penalty of ten (10) percent shall be assessed on all unpaid refuse service charge bills thirty (30) days after the billing date. No penalty, however, will accrue until thirty (30) days after the date that the bill has been presented in accordance with section 39-20 of this Code. 111UHMM-17111UHL LIIVIUIUIU•- •-• . . . [WKIN-01 Will" NOW 0,10M -0 M!i (e) In the event the occupant(s) of any property or premises, having registered, a municipal utility services account and transferred municipal utility services into their own name as tenant(s), thereafter quit or otherwise vacate the premises, then responsibility for future municipal utility services charges, including refuse charges, shall revert to the Ordinance No. NS -XXX Page 52 of 56 11 A-54