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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 38 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA (1988), BY AMENDING SECTION 38-83 THEREOF PERTAINING TO RATES FOR WATER. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City ofPortsmouth, Virginia: 1. That an emergency exists because of the decreasing usable capacity of Portsmouth's water reservoirs resulting from severe and continuing drought conditions. 2. That Section 38-83 of the Code of the City of portsmouth, Virginia, be amended and reordained to read as follows: Sec. 38-83. Meter rates for water supplied. (a) For all water that passes through meters, customers within the corporate limits of the city shall pay $2.80 per one thousand (1,000) gallons or $2.0947 per one hundred (100) cubic feet of water supplied for the first six hundred (600) cubic feet of water supplied during a billing period. For any amom,.t of water supplied during a billing period in excess of 600 cubic feet. customers within the corporate limits of the city shall pay $3.50 per one thousand (I000) gallons or $2.6184 per one hundred (100) cubic feet. (b) For all water that passes through meters, customers of the City of Chesapeake who are served by Portsmouth and whose rates are not set by contract shall pay $4.20 per one thousand (1,000) gallons or $3.1420 per one hundred cubic (100) feet of water supplied for the first six hundred (600) cubic feet of water supplied during a billing period. For any amount of water supplied dining a billing period in excess of 600 cubic feet, such customers shall pay $5.25 per one thousand (1000) gallons or $3.928 per one hundred (100) cubic feet. (c) For all water, which passes through meters to the City of Chesapeake pursuant to contract, the City of Chesapeake shall pay: (1) For the first 2.59 million gallons of water per day of water supplied during a billing period. $4.20 per one thousand (1,000) gallons or $3.142 per one hundred cubic (100) feet of water supplied. (2) For water supplied during a billing period in excess of 2.59 million gallons but below three million gallons of water per day, $5.25 per one thousand (1,000) gallons or $3.928 per one hundred (100) cubic feet of water supplied. (3) For the amount of water supplied during a billing period in excess of three million gallons per day, $4.20 per one thousand (1000) gallons or $3.142 per one hundred [100) cubic feet of water supplied.