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Ordinance No. 2216 Page 3 of 20 Exhibit A Chapter 6.40 TAXICABS 6.40.070 License tax. Before the chief of police issues the certificate, the applicant shall pay the city's business license tax for the right to engage in the taxicab business as set forth in the master fee schedule (on file in the office of the city clerk). Chapter 14.04 REGULATION OF WATER SYSTEM AND WATER SERVICE FEES 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 60 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 60 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 County, California, addressed to the person to whom notice is given; provided, however, that in the event such violation results in a public hazard or menace, then the director may enter upon the premises without notice and do such things and expend such sums as may be necessary to abate such hazard, and the reasonable value of the things done and the amounts expended in so doing shall be a charge upon the person so in violation. D. Upon failure of any consumer billed or the owner of any premises to pay any water service charge subsequent to delinquency, the following action shall be taken by the city or the director to enforce such payment: 1. In each case where any bill for water service remains unpaid after such bill becomes delinquent, and remains unpaid for 60 days thereafter the director shall: (a)