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establishing rates, fees, billing, delinquencies, and collection are set forth in City ordinances and resolutions enacted pursuant to the authority in such ordinances; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to grant such temporary and further relief to the City's utility customers as set forth herein; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that an emergency exists because the preservation of public property, health, safety, and welfare requires the City to take immediate action to respond to impacts on the City's public utilities due to the Marshall Fire. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE, COLORADO: Section 1. Those provisions of ordinances and resolutions adopted by the City Council addressing City Utilities shall be, and hereby are, temporarily suspended as follows: A. All collection procedures for delinquent accounts for City Utilities shall be suspended for a period of one month. B. Billing of City Utilities shall be suspended for one month, during which time City staff shall investigate and identify those properties served by City Utilities that have been destroyed or damaged by the Marshall Fire. For purposes of this ordinance, "damaged" shall mean the structure is not habitable and is not being occupied as a result of the Marshall Fire. Section 2. All outstanding charges for City Utilities to properties identified by City staff as damaged or destroyed by the Marshall Fire shall be discharged. Charges for City Utilities to properties not damaged or destroyed by the Marshall Fire accrued during the one -month period set forth in Section LB shall be discharged. Section 3. The Finance Director is hereby authorized to promulgate such rules and procedures as are necessary or expedient to effectuate the provisions of Sections 1 and 2 of this ordinance, including but not limited to determining how to coordinate the temporary suspensions set forth in Section 1 with utility billing cycles and dates on which meters are read. Within thirty (30) days following the final reconciliation of accounts for City Utilities, the Finance Director shall notify the City Council in writing of the amounts discharged pursuant to Section 2. Section 4. This ordinance shall become effective upon adoption and shall continue in effect for each property served by City Utilities for only the temporary period set forth herein, based on billing cycles and meter readings as determined by the Finance Director, after which time all ordinances and resolutions temporarily suspended by this ordinance shall be reinstated without further action by the City Council. During the time when this ordinance is effective, and thereafter, all water rents and rates shall be a charge and lien upon the real property to which water service is provided from the time such rents are due, and shall be a perpetual charge against such property until paid or discharged by the City, as provided in Section 13.12.130 of the Louisville Municipal Code. Ordinance No. 1823, Series 2022 Page 2 of 3