CHAPTER 2.5. Water Service
Chapter 2.5 added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 623, Sec. 2.
§§ 1954.201–1954.219 · 19 sections
- § 1954.201 It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to do both of the following: (a) To encourage the conservation of water in multifamily residential…
- § 1954.202 For the purposes of this chapter: (a) “Billing agent” means a person or entity who contracts to provide submetering services to a landlord, including billing.…
- § 1954.203 (a) Submeters used to separately bill tenants for water service shall satisfy each of the following requirements: (1) The submeter shall be inspected, tested,…
- § 1954.204 Before executing a rental agreement, a landlord who intends to charge a tenant separately from rent for water service in a property with submeters shall…
- § 1954.205 (a) As part of the regular bill for water service, a landlord shall only bill a tenant for the following water service: (1) A charge for volumetric usage,…
- § 1954.206 (a) Submeters shall be read within three days of the same point in each billing cycle. (b) Payments shall be due at the same point in each billing cycle. A…
- § 1954.207 (a) At the beginning of a tenancy, a submeter shall be read after the tenant takes possession. If the regular reading occurs less than five days prior to the…
- § 1954.208 Unless it can be documented that a penalty is primarily the result of a tenant’s or tenants’ failure to comply with state or local water use regulations or…
- § 1954.209 The landlord shall maintain and make available in writing, at the tenant’s written or electronic request, within seven days after the request, the following:…
- § 1954.210 (a) If a tenant notifies the landlord of, or the landlord otherwise becomes aware of, a leak, a drip, a water fixture that does not shut off property,…
- § 1954.211 The landlord may enter a dwelling unit as follows: (a) For the purpose of installing, repairing, or replacing a submeter, or for the purpose of investigating…
- § 1954.212 (a) If a monthly submeter reading necessary to measure volumetric usage is unavailable, and the tenant has provided access to the submeter, the tenant may be…
- § 1954.213 (a) A tenant may be charged a late fee for any water service bill not paid 25 days after mailing or other transmittal of the bill. If the 25th day falls on a…
- § 1954.214 This chapter does not preclude or preempt an ordinance or regulation adopted prior to January 1, 2013, that regulates the approval of submeter types or the…
- § 1954.215 The rights or obligations established under this chapter shall not be waived. Any purported waiver is void.
- § 1954.216 (a) This chapter applies to the following: (1) All dwelling units offered for rent or rented in a building where submeters were required to be installed…
- § 1954.217 A submetering system that measures only a portion of a dwelling unit’s water usage, including, but not limited to, a system that measures only hot water usage,…
- § 1954.218 This chapter shall become operative on January 1, 2018.
- § 1954.219 Any property that is required to install individual submeters pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 537) of Chapter 8 of Division 1 of the Water Code…