§ 8A-380. Definitions.

The following words and phrases when used in this section shall have the following meanings:

AWWA shall mean the American Water Works Association.

CSD shall mean the Miami-Dade County Consumer Services Department.

Code shall mean Code of Miami-Dade County.

Commission shall mean the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners.

Director shall mean the Director of the CSD or his/her designee.

Individual unit shall mean the occupied space by a specific resident in a multiple unit property, including but not limited to individual units, common areas and swimming pools.

Master meter shall mean a meter used to measure all water service usage of a multiple unit property, including but not limited to individual units, common areas and swimming pools.

Multiple unit property shall mean a property where two (2) or more units are served by a single master meter, including but not limited to, condominiums, cooperatives, apartment and office buildings, town houses, mobile home parks and shopping centers.

Municipality shall mean any self-governing jurisdiction in Miami-Dade County.

Owner shall mean a person, firm, corporation or other business entity who owns a multiple unit property and who purchases water service from WASD at retail rates, and provides remetering.

Partial submetering shall mean the use of a submeter which does not measure the total water service consumption of an individual unit in a multiple unit property resulting in a prorated or estimated water service bill.

Registration shall mean the authorization by the Director required by this article in order to engage in remetering.

Remeterer shall mean a person, firm, corporation or other business entity that provides two (2) or more services to the Owner pertaining to remetering, including but not limited to, submeter installation, submeter reading, billing and record keeping.

Remetering shall mean the resale of water service by use of a submeter by an Owner at a rate or charge which does not exceed the Owner's actual purchase price.

Resident shall mean a person who purchases water service from an Owner.

Submeter shall mean the meter serving an individual unit of a multiple unit property and that is installed after the outlet side of the master meter that allows the reading of individual water service consumption.

Submetering shall mean the measuring of water service to an individual unit by placing a submeter after the outlet side of the master meter to obtain actual readings for the individual unit.

WASD shall mean the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department.

Water service shall mean water and/or sewer service as provided by WASD.

(Ord. No. 96-137, §§ 1, 2, 9-17-96)