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• •• data to the County Utilities Director. Rates and charges may be amended, upon proper justification by the Utility. Other provisions of this Ordinance deal with the mechanisms of the setting of rates and charges. 2. The Utility shall at any time, when requested by a consumer, make a test of the accuracy of any meter; prior, however, to any test being made by the Utility, the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) shall be deposited with the Utility 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 Utility 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. 3. (a) The approved rates of any utility which receives all or any portion of its utility service from a governmental agency or from a 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 utility 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 implementing a change in rates under this subsection, the utility shall file an affirmation under oath as to the accuracy of the figures and calculations upon which the change in rates is based, and that the change will not cause the utility to exceed the range of its last authorized rate of return. (c) If, within 24 months of an adjustment in the rates as authorized by this subsection, the Board shall find that a utility did thereby exceed the range of its las*_ authorized rate of return, it may order the utility to refund the difference to the rate payers. This provision shall not be construed to require a bond or corporate undertaking not otherwise required.