Sections
19 entriesSection 1954.201Establishes legislative findings only, stating an intent to encourage water conservation in multifamily residential rental buildings through measures within landlord or tenant…Section 1954.202Defines For the purposes of this chapter: (a)"Billing agent" as a person or entity who contracts to provide submetering services to a…Section 1954.203Requires water submeters used for separate tenant billing to be lawfully inspected, tested, verified, installed, maintained, and recalibrated, measure only the tenant's…Section 1954.204Requires a landlord intending to bill a tenant separately for submetered water to give written pre-lease disclosures in at least 10-point type…Section 1954.205Limits a landlord’s regular submetered-water bill to specified volumetric usage, allocated fixed charges, an administrative fee, and authorized late charges. Caps the…Section 1954.206Requires submeters to be read within three days of the same point each billing cycle and payments to be due at that…Section 1954.207Requires a water submeter to be read after a tenant takes possession, permitting a regular reading from less than five days earlier,…Section 1954.208Prohibits a landlord from passing through deposits, disconnection or reconnection charges, landlord late-payment fees, or other water-provider penalties unless the penalty is…Section 1954.209Requires a landlord, within seven days after a tenant's written or electronic request, to provide available submeter inspection and verification dates, master-meter…Section 1954.210Requires landlords to investigate and, when warranted, correct water-system conditions causing constant or abnormally high usage. If repair occurs more than 21…Section 1954.211Allows a landlord to enter a dwelling to install, repair, or replace a submeter, investigate or correct abnormal water use, or read…Section 1954.212Limits a tenant's volumetric water charge when a necessary monthly submeter reading is unavailable despite tenant access: the charge may be 75…Section 1954.213Allows a $7 late fee after a water bill remains unpaid 25 days and up to $10 on later bills, with 12-month…Section 1954.214Establishes that this chapter does not preclude or preempt an ordinance or regulation adopted prior to January 1, 2013, that regulates the…Section 1954.215Prohibits waiver of any rights or obligations established under this chapter and declares every purported waiver void. The provision makes the chapter’s…Section 1954.216Limits the submetering chapter to dwelling units in buildings where submeters were required by the specified building standard and units where submeters…Section 1954.217Exempts a partial-use submetering system, including one measuring only hot-water usage, from the submetering chapter when the system was first placed in…Section 1954.218Sets January 1, 2018 as the date on which this chapter becomes operative. The provision makes that date the chapter’s stated operative…Section 1954.219Requires property subject to the Water Code provisions mandating individual submeters to bill residents for water service under this chapter at all…