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• ATTACHMENT 6 Exhibit A- Redline Chapter 9.30 WATER CONSERVATION PLAN 9.30.010 Declaration of emergency. It is hereby found and declared that aA water shortage and-emergency shall be declared by resolution of the City Council. The City Manager may administratively determine that any water shortage is terminated, and inform the City Council of such determination.exists within the water service area of the city, as total projected customer water use from May through September (the peak summer period of this and any future y r), may exceed the projected water supply for the same period. It is necessary to regulate and prohibit certain water uses as provided in this chapter in order to address adequately this water shortage and emergency. 9.30.020 Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to provide both voluntary and mandatory water conservation stages to minimize the effect of a shortage of water on the city's customers and, by means of this chapter, to adopt provisions that will significantly reduce the consumption of water over an extended period of time, thereby extending the available water required for the city's customers while reducing the hardship to the greatest extent possible on or to the city and on or to the general public. This chapter is also intended to implement the Urban Water Management Plan's Water Shortage Contingency Planning and Stages of Action. 9.30.030 Application of chapter. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all customers, as defined herein, regardless of whether any customer using water shall have a contract for water service with the city. Notwithstanding other municipal code provisions inconsistent with this chapter, the provisions of this chapter shall supersede and prevail for the duration of a City Council declared water shortage-the emergency and until termination of this chapter. 9.30.040 Definitions. A. "Allocation" means the amount of water used by a customer during the comparable ununer billing period in 1990, as reduced by the percentage established in Stage II through Stage VI "ceiling" as established in the various stages. B. "Ceiling" means twice the amount of the `floor". AG. "City"means the city of Pleasanton. BD. "City Manager" means the City Manager of the City, or his or her designee. C. "Customer"means a person, firm, partnership, association, corporation and all other institutions and businesses receiving water from the water distribution system of the city. D . "Director" means the operations services director of the city. or his or her designee. F. "Floor" means the average summer water use during 1990 for each residential customer classification, as reduced by the percentage established in Stage II through Stage VI herein. For G. "Excess Use" means the difference between a customer's actual consumption of water for the billing period and the customer's allocation. H. "GPD" means gallons per day. I. "Summer" means the months of May through September, inclusive.