Legal Documents of Rocky Top

No customer shall supply water service to more than one dwelling, premise, duplex unit, apartment or other multiple dwelling unit from a single service line and meter without first obtaining the written permission of the city.

Where the city allows more than one (1) dwelling, premise, duplex unit, apartment or other multiple dwelling unit to be served through a single service line and meter, the amount of water used by all the dwellings, premises, duplex units, apartments or other multiple dwelling units served through a single service line and meter shall be allocated to each separate dwelling, premise, duplex unit, apartment or other multiple dwelling unit served. The water charge of each such dwelling, premise, duplex unit, apartment or other multiple dwelling unit thus served shall be computed just as if each such dwelling, premise, duplex unit, apartment or other multiple dwelling unit had received through a separately metered service the amount of water so allocated to it, such computation to be made at the city's applicable water rates schedule, including the provisions as to minimum bills. The separate charges for each dwelling, premise, duplex unit, apartment or other multiple dwelling unit served through a single service line meter shall then be added together, and the sum thereof shall be billed to the customer in whose name the service is supplied.