North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 04 - COMMERCE › Chapter 11 - UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 18 - PROVISION OF WATER AND SEWER SERVICE BY LESSORS › Section 11 R18-06 - RATES

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) The rates shall
				equal the cost of purchased water or sewer service (The usage rate charged by
				the provider shall equal the usage rate charged by the supplier.). A
				Commission-approved administrative fee not to exceed $3.75 may be added to the
				cost of purchased water and sewer service to compensate the provider for meter
				reading, billing, and collection. A provider whose schedule of rates and fees
				does not include a separate base charge to the lessee may request approval of a
				pass through of the base charge from the supplier to be included in the
				administrative fee resulting in a request for approval by the provider of a
				total monthly administrative fee greater than $3.75. With the exception of base
				charges approved before August 1, 2004, all charges other than the
				administrative fee shall be based on lessees' metered consumption of water. All
				sewer service shall be measured based on the amount of water metered. Metered
				consumption of water shall be determined by metered measurement of all water
				consumed by the lessee, and not by any partial measurement of water consumption
				(i.e., ratio utility billing system (RUBS) and hot water capture, cold water
				allocation (HWCCWA) are not allowed), except as permitted in
				G.S.
				62-110(g)(1a) and Commission
				Rule R18-8).
(b) A provider of
				water or sewer service may track increases in the unit consumption rate charged
				by the supplier of such service, and may (subject to limitations imposed by
				Commission Rules) change its administrative fee, by filing with the Commission
				a notification of revised schedule of rates and fees. Every notification of
				revised schedule of rates and fees shall be in such form and detail as the
				Commission may prescribe and shall include (1) the current schedule of the unit
				consumption rates charged by the provider, (2) the schedule of unit consumption
				rates charged by the supplier to the provider that the provider proposes to
				pass through to the provider's lessees, (3) the schedule of the unit
				consumption rates proposed to be charged by the provider, (4) the current
				administrative fee charged by the provider, and, if applicable, (5) the
				administrative fee proposed to be charged by the provider. Any such
				notification of revised schedule of rates and fees shall be presumed valid and
				shall be allowed to become effective simultaneously with the increase in the
				unit consumption rate of the supplier upon 14 days' notice to the Commission,
				unless otherwise suspended or disapproved by Commission Order issued within 14
				days after filing.
(c) Every
				request for approval of a monthly fixed administrative fee in excess of $3.75
				shall include (1) the provider's current and proposed cost of meter reading,
				billing, and collection not to exceed the Commission-approved amount of $3.75,
				(2) the current or proposed base charge from the supplier, if applicable, (3)
				the total proposed monthly fixed administrative fee, and (4) the number of
				lessees to whom water or sewer service is provided. Any such request shall be
				suspended for a period of 30 days after filing.
(d) The provider may impose a returned check
				charge, not to exceed the maximum authorized by
				G.S.
				25-3-506, for a check on which payment has
				been refused by the payor bank because of insufficient funds or because the
				lessee did not have an account at that bank.
(e) No provider shall charge or collect any
				greater or lesser compensation for the costs of providing water or sewer
				service than the rates approved by the Commission.
NCUC Docket No. WR-100,
				  Sub 5, 08/01/04, 01/20/05; NCUC Docket No. WR-100, Sub 7, 01/10/12; NCUC Docket
				  No. WR-100, Sub 10, 04/04/2018.