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Section XI. Section 14 of Resolution No. 73-83 is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 14 RATE SCHEDULE E� 1. When this franchise takes effect, the Company shall have authority to charge and collect not to exceed the following schedule of rates, which shall remain effective until changed or modified as herein, provided to -wit: Exhibit "B" 2. The rates charged by the Company for its service hereunder • shall at all times be compensatory and shall be fair and reasonable and designed to meet all necessary costs of the service, including a fair rate of return on the Company's investment under efficient and economical management. The Company agrees that the County has the authority to enter into this Franchise Agreement and the regulation of said Company. Company agrees that it shall be subject to all authority now or hereafter possessed by the County or any other regulatory body having competent jurisdiction to fix just, reasonable and compensatory rates. In setting said rates, the County shall be guided by the standards set forth in Florida Statute 367.081 relating to the establishment of rates and charges. In any evF_it, the Company shall always be responsible for justifying its proposed rates and charges by the submission of accounting and engineering data to the County Utilities Director. Fates and charges may be amended, upon proper Justification by the Conpany. Other provisions of this Ordinance deal with the mechanisms of the setting of rates and charges. 3. The Company shall at any time, when requested by a consuirer, make a test of the accuracy of any meter; prior, however, to any test being made by the Company, the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) shall be deposited with the Company by the party requesting such test. Such sum shall be returned if the test shows the meter to be inaccurate in its delivery. If the meter is inaccurate, the meter will be repaired or changed, and should the meter reading calibrate too high, a billing adjustment will be made for no more than the past six month's actual readings. Whenever it is necessary to shut off or interrupt service for the purpose of making repairs or installations, the Company shall do so at such times as will cause the least amount of inconvenience to its consumers and, unless such repairs are unforeseen and immediately necessary, it shall give not less than five (5) days' notice thereof to its consumers for non -emergencies. 4. (a) The approved rates of any utility which receives all or any portion of its utility service from a governmental agency or from u water or sewer utility regulated by the Board and which redistributes that service to its utility customers shall be automatically increased or decreased without hearing upon verified notice to the Board 30 days prior to its implementation of the increase or decrease that the rates charged by the governmental agency or other utility has changed. The approved rates of any Company which is subject to an increase or decrease in the rates that it is charged for electric power or the amount of ad valorem taxes assessed against its property shall be increased and decreased by the utility, without action by the Board, upon verified notice to the Board 30 days prior to its implementation of the increase or decrease that the rates charged by the supplier of the electric power or the taxes imposed by the governmental body have changed. The new rates authorized shall reflect the amount of the change of the ad valorem taxes or rates imposed upon the utility by the governmental agency, other utility or supplier of electric power. Provisions of the subsection shall not prevent a utility from seeking changes in rates pursuant to the provisions of subsection. (b) Before inplementing a change in rates under this subsection, the Company shall file an affirmation under oath as to the accuracy of the figures and calculations upon which the change in rates