ORD 06-20 Water Shutoff ProceduresORDINANCE NO. 06-20
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL. OF THE
CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING SECTION 13.16.080
OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING
TO WATER SHUTOFF PROCEDURES.
APPLICANT: CITY OF ORANGE
WHEREAS, effective Februazy 1, 2020, SB 998, "Water Shutoff Protecrion AcY' (the
AcY')requires water providers such as the CiTy of Orange to provide specified protections to those
residential water consumers facing discontinuation of water service due to nonpayment; and
WH REAS,1he Act requires a written policy on discontinuation including the protections
specified in the Act, which policy has been adopted by the City Council; and
WHEREAS, the current language of Orange Municipal Code, Chapter 13.16, "Water
Rates," Section 13.16.080, requires revision in order to comply with the Act.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I:
Section 13.16.080.A, "Payment of Chazges — Penalty for Nonpayment," of the Orange
Municipal Code is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
A. All water chazges aze due and payable in the CiTy's Finance Office in the Civic Center on
the date they aze rendered and become delinquent twenty-five (25) days thereafter. If the
amount due on any bill for commercial water service is still unpaid by the due date written
on the fmal turn off notice (approximately rivo weeks later), and afrer the Ciry has
reasonably attempted to notify the commercial consumer of the delinquency, the water
shall be shut off and shall remain off until all bills, deposits and service chazges have been
paid. For residential water service, if the amount due on the bill is still unpaid by the due
date specified, the CiTy shall follow those procedures as set forth in the residential water
service shutoffpolicy established by the City Council.
SECTION II:
Should any section, subsection, clause, or provision of this Ordinance for any reason be
held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionaliTy shall not affect the
validity or constiturionaliTy of the remaining portions of this Ordinance; it being hereby expressly
declazed that this Ordinance, and each secfion, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase hereof
would have been prepazed,proposed, approved and raUfied irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declazed invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION III:
A summary of this Ordinance shall be published and a certified copy of the full text of this
Ordinance shall be posted in the Office of the City Clerk at least fifteen(15)days prior to the City
Council meeting at which this Ordinance is to be adopted. A summary of this Ordinance shall also
be published once within fifteen (15) days after its passage in a newspaper of general circulation
in the City of Orange. The City Clerk shall post in the Office of the City Clerk a certified copy of
the full text of the adopted Ordinance along with the names of those City Council members voting
for and against the Ordinance in accordance with Government Code Section 36933.
ADOPTED this l lth day of February 2020.
Mark A. Murphy, Mayor, C' o range
ATTEST:
I ,tSU.t OdY ii
Pamela Coleman, City Clerk, CiTy of Orange
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF ORANGE
I, PAMELA COLEMAN, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, do hereby certify
that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at the regulaz meeting of the CiTy Council held on the
14th day of January 2020, and thereafter at the regulaz mee6ng of said City Council duly held on
the l lth day of February 2020, was duly passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:COiJNCILMEMBERS: Alvazez, Murphy,Nichols, Monaco
NOES:COiINCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COiJNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: COiINCILMEMBERS: None
Pamela Coleman, CiTy Clerk, City of r e
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