LEG00039

• Bill Number: HB90-1106
• Year: 1990
• Title: Concerning the Mandatory Use of Metered Water Delivery and Billing Systems by Water Service Suppliers in this State
• Legislation - Doc Type: Other CWCB Related Bills - Passed

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(3) Communities under sanction by the state health
department for water quality standards shall be exempt from
this article.

37-97-103. Mandator use of metered water deliver and
billinq systems. 1 Every water service supplier providing
water in this state shall provide a metered water delivery and
billing service to its customers according to the following
schedule:

(a) For any new construction serviced by such water
service supplier, including but not limited to construction
for residential, commercial, or industrial use, meters shall
be installed at the time of such construction.

(b) For any existing construction with unmetered taps,
meters shall be installed on fifty percent of such taps on or
before January I, 2000. For any taps remaining unmetered as
of January I, 2000, meters shall be installed on fifty percent
of such taps on or before January I, 2005, and on all
remaining unmetered taps on or before January I, 2009.

(2) Billing of such water services based on the metered
service shall begin no later than ninety days from the date of
the installation of the meter.

(3) Any increase in the rates charged for such water
service attributed to such installation and billing service
requirements shall be based upon the actual costs of such
installation and billing service. Such increase may recover
the total cost of providing such service to the customers of
the water service provider.

(4) Nothing in this section shall preclude a water
service supplier from providing such metered water delivery
and billing service prior to the dates specified in
subsections (1) and (2) of this section or from seeking a
corresponding rate increase necessitated by the provision of
such service prior to those dates.

(5) Within an industrial customer operation, multiple
water uses shall not be considered separate service
connections. Deliveries to any customer other than a detached
single family residential customer who may be subject to this
article may be metered by the use of a single meter for the
entire customer or operation.

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(6) A mobile home park, as defined in section
38-12-201.5 (3), C.R.S., which makes water service available
to tenants but does not bill such tenants for water as a
separate item, is exempt from the provisions of this article.

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