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Ordinance No. Page 16 C. Opening bills, closing bills, monthly bills rendered for a period of less than 27 days or more than 33 days, and other bills requiring proration, will be computed in accordance with the applicable schedule,but the amount of the fixed charge or minimum charge specified therein will be prorated on the basis of the ratio of the number of days in the period to the number of days in the average billing period, based on an average month of 30.4 days. Should the total period of service be less than one month, no proration will be made, and no bill shall be less than the specified monthly fixed charge or minimum charge. D. On each bill for water service rendered by the city to its consumers will be printed substantially the following language: This bill is due upon receipt and becomes is delinquent if not paid on the first day after the current billing due dateof the calendar month after its due date. UpeFi4f delinquentncy of this bill, service may be discontinued and a basic penalties assessedy of 10% of the amount of this bill will be added for the first month delinquent and an additital penalty of 1/2 of 1% of the time the bill remains unpaid after its delinquent date. A cash deposit and a reconnection charge may be required to reestablish service. See Municipal Code §14.04.090. • Chapter 14.04 Regulation of Water System and Water Service Fees: amend §14.04.130 to read as follows: 14.04.130 Enforcement measures. A. A consumer's water service may be discontinued for nonpayment of a bill for water service furnished if the bill is not paid within 30 days after it has become delinquent. A consumer's water service may also be discontinued for nonpayment of a bill for water service furnished at a previous or different location served by the city, if such bill is not paid within 30 days after it has become delinquent. No service will be discontinued under this subsection until at least five days after deposit by written notice from the director to such consumer in the United States Post Office of Pleasanton, Alameda County, California, addressed to the person to whom notice is given and stating the city's intention to discontinue service. The city may also provide additional notice about discontinuance of water service by telephone contact, and/or a door hanger with written notice on the main entrance of the building where water service is furnished. B. The city may discontinue service without notice to any premises where a consumer's installation for utilizing the service is found by the director to be dangerous or unsafe or where the use of water on such premises is found by the director to be detrimental or injurious to the water service furnished by the city to other consumers, or where the director finds that negligent or wasteful use of water exists on any premises which affects the city's water service. The city shall have the right to discontinue water service to any premises if necessary to protect itself against fraud or abuse. C. In the event of violation of any terms of this chapter(except subsections A and B of this section), the department may disconnect the premises to which such violation relates from the water system after first notifying in writing the person causing, allowing or committing such violation, specifying the violation and, if applicable, the time after which (upon the failure of such person to prevent or rectify the violation) the director will exercise his or her authority to disconnect the premises from the water system; provided, that such time shall not be less than five days after the deposit of such notice in the United States Post Office at Pleasanton, Alameda