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engineering data to the County Utilities Director. Fates and charges <br />!40 1 may be amended, upon proper justification by the Utility. Other <br />provisions of this Ordinance deal with the mechanisms of the setting of <br />rates and charges. <br />® 2. The Utility shall at any time, when requested by a consumer, <br />make a test of the accuracy of any meter; prior, however, to any test <br />being made by the Utility, the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) shall be <br />deposited with the Utility by the party requesting such test. Such sum <br />shall be returned if the test shows the meter to be inaccurate in its <br />delivery. If the meter is inaccurate, the meter will be repaired or <br />lot, <br />changed, and should the meter reading calibrate too high, a billing <br />adjustment will be made for no more than the past six month's actual <br />readings. Whenever it is necessary to shut off or interrupt service for <br />the purpose of making repairs or installations, the Utility shall do so <br />at such times as will cause the least amount of inconvenience to its <br />consumers and, unless such repairs are un-oreseen and inmediately <br />necessary, it shall give not less than five (5) days' notice thereof to <br />its consumers for non -emergencies. <br />3. (a) The approved rates of any utility which receives all or <br />any portion of its utility service from a governmental agency or from a <br />water or sewer utility regulated by the Board and which redistributes <br />that service to its utility customers shall be automatically increased <br />or decreased without hearing upon verified notice to the Board 30 days <br />prior to its implementation of the increase or decrease that the rates <br />charged by the governmental agency or other utility has changed. The <br />approved rates of any utility which is subject to an increase or <br />decrease in the rates that it is charged for electric power or the <br />amount of ad valorem taxes assessed against its property shall be <br />increased and decreased by the utility, without action by the Board, <br />upon verified notice to the Board 30 days prior to its implementation of <br />the increase or decrease that the rates charged by the supplier of the <br />electric power or the taxes imposed by the governmental body have <br />changed. The new rates authorized shall reflect the amount of the <br />change of the ad valorem taxes or rates imposed upon the utility by the <br />governmental agency, other utility or supplier of electric power. <br />Provisions of the subsection shall not prevent a utility from seeking <br />changes in rates pursuant to the provisions of subsection. <br />(b) Before implementing a change in rates under this <br />subsection, the utility shall file an affirmation under oath as to the <br />accuracy of the figures and calculations upon which the change in rates <br />is based, and that the change will not cause the utility to exceed the <br />range of its last authorized rate of return. <br />(c) If, within 24 months of an adjustment in the rates as <br />authorized by this subsection, the Board shall find that a utility did <br />thereby exceed the range of its last authorized rate of return, it may <br />order the utility to refund the difference to the rate payers. This <br />9 <br />