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The Town Water Department may remove any meter for routine tests, repairs and replacement. Meter tests shall be subject to the following:

(1) Each water meter shall be tested either by the Town or the manufacturer and shall be found to be correct and properly adjusted before being installed. If the test is made by the manufacturer, a report of such test result shall be furnished to the Town prior to the installation.

(2) Whenever, upon test by the Water Department, any water meter is found to have an accuracy within the acceptable American Water Works Association (AWWA) standards, such meter shall be considered to be accurate and correct and no adjustment shall be made in any charge or bill for service prior to the date of such test. If, upon test by the Water Department, any water meter is found to have an average error in excess of the AWWA standards, such meter shall be corrected or replaced, at the option of the Water Department, and an appropriate correction or charge in keeping with the percentage error found upon testing shall be made in the bills or charges for water service measured through said meter during a period of not more than one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the date of such test.

The customer shall have the right to request a special meter test at any time. If the special test made at the customer’s request discloses that the meter is registering correctly within the American Water Works Association standards, the customer shall pay the fee as set by the fee schedule adopted by resolution for the expense of testing such meter. This fee shall be included in their utility bill. (Ord. 1312 §1, 2019)