13.12.025 Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
“City” includes the department responsible for the administration of these requirements, the employees and/or its contractors or subcontractors.
“City utility charges” shall mean charges related to the City’s water, sewer, stormwater, and sanitation service.
“Customer” shall mean a person, firm, or corporation connected to the City’s water and/or sewer system; or a person, firm, or corporation that is accessible to the City’s sewer system; or a person, firm, or corporation receiving City utility and/or sanitation services.
“Commercial” shall mean any offices, warehouses, retail stores, beauty salons, restaurants, nursing homes, hotels, commercial laundry facilities and any nonresidential customer not defined as an industrial customer.
“Industrial” shall mean any customer with an average annual water usage of fifty thousand (50,000) cubic feet per month or that is required to obtain an industrial sewer pretreatment permit by the administrative authority.
“Residential” shall mean as follows:
(1) “Single Family” shall mean any residential unit where each dwelling unit is served by an individual meter;
(2) “Multi-Family” shall mean any multiple dwelling units served by a single water meter.
“Timely” shall mean within the prescribed period of time as specified on the utility bill.
“Unified billing charges” shall mean charges related to the City’s water, sewer, stormwater, and sanitation service.
“Winter usage” shall be defined as follows for the various classes of customers:
(1) “Single family residential” shall mean the three (3) month average consumption shown on the billings during the three (3) billing months during winter of each year or the Olathe system winter average usage if the winter average is not available.
(2) “Commercial, Industrial, and Multi-family residential” shall mean the three (3) month average consumption shown on the billings during the three (3) billing months during winter of each year or the customer actual usage if the winter average is unavailable. (Ord. 21-47 § 2, 2021; Ord. 94-91 § 1, 1994.)