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Exhibit i Chapter 9.30 WATER CONSERVATION PLAN 9.30.010 Declaration of emergency. A water shortage emergency shall be declared by resolution of the City Council. The City Manager may administratively determine that any water shortage is terminated, and inform the City Council of such determination. 9.30.020 Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to provide both voluntary and mandatory water conservation stages to minimize the effect of a shortage of water on the city's customers and, by means of this chapter,to adopt provisions that will significantly reduce the consumption of water over an extended period of time,thereby extending the available water required for the city's customers while reducing the hardship to the greatest extent possible on or to the City and on or to the general public. This chapter is also intended to implement the Urban Water Management Plan's Water Shortage Contingency Planning and Stages of Action. 9.30.030.Application of chapter. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all customers, as defined herein, regardless of whether any customer using water shall have a contract for water service with the city. Notwithstanding other municipal code provisions inconsistent with this chapter, the provisions of this chapter shall supersede and prevail for the duration of a City Council declared water shortage. 9.30 040 Definitions. A. "City" is the City of Pleasanton. B. "City Manager"means the City Manager of the City, or his or her designee. C. "Customer"means a person, firm,partnership, association, corporation and all other institutions and businesses receiving water from the water distribution system of the city. D. "Director"means the operations services director of the city, or his or her designee. 9.30.050 Creation of classes. The following types of customers or uses are those which exist in the city's current utility billing system, as follows: A. "Single-family residential individually metered"consists of water service to land improved with structures designed to serve as a residence for a single family, including single- family home,townhomes, and.condominiums. B. "Commercial and Multiple-family"consists of water service to land improved with structures designed to serve commercial (including restaurants),recreational, charitable, educational and cultural uses, as well as residential uses sharing water meters. C. "Irrigation"consists of water service which is separately metered and is used exclusively to water turf and other landscaping areas. D. "Special Landscape Area"are uses as defined in the California Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance Government Code §§65591 et. seq.