Section 3-6

Meter Reading and Rendering of Bills

  (a)    All water supplied by the department will be measured by means of
      suitable meters registering in gallons.
  (b)    Meters will be read and bills rendered monthly or bimonthly as
      determined by the department.  Special readings may be made, when
      necessary, for closing accounts or other reasons.  If a meter cannot
      be read, an estimated bill will be rendered, said bill to be calculated
      whenever possible on prior consumption.
  (c)    Closing bills for short periods of time from the last meter reading
      date will ordinarily be determined by the amount of water actually
      used, as indicated by the meter reading, plus a proration of the
      service charge if such a charge is set up on the rate schedule.  In
      prorating service charges, a billing month shall be considered to be
      30 days.
  (d)    For the purpose of computing charges, all meters serving the
      consumer's premises shall be considered separately, and the readings
      thereof shall not be combined except in cases where the department,
      because of operating necessity, installs two or more meters in
      parallel to serve the same consumer's supply pipe.