Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 23

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 23-Assemblymen Ohrenschall, Buckley, Bache, Manendo, Williams and Arberry

May 12, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Commerce

SUMMARY--Urges Las Vegas Valley Water District to maintain current method for calculation of charges for water to mobile home parks by use of master meter. (BDR R-13)

EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.

ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION--Urging the Las Vegas Valley Water District to maintain the current method for the calculation of charges for water to mobile home parks by use of a master meter.

Whereas, Conservation of the ground-water resources of the Las Vegas Valley is of utmost importance to the residents of this valley and to the State of Nevada; and
Whereas, The use of water meters in single-family residences provides a fair method of charging residents who use water based upon their actual use; and
Whereas, The Las Vegas Valley Water District currently charges residents of mobile home parks who are connected to a master water meter at a rate comparable to such rates charged for single-family residences; and
Whereas, This method has not created any appreciable financial shortfall to the Las Vegas Valley Water District and has provided an incentive for the conservation of water by the individual users of water within a mobile home park; and
Whereas, Charging a mobile home park, and thus its residents collectively, at a rate based on the total flow of water through a master meter would impose on the residents a higher rate intended to affect large commercial or industrial customers and not suited for residential customers; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of Nevada, the Senate Concurring, That the members of the 69th session of the Nevada Legislature do hereby urge the Las Vegas Valley Water District to maintain the current schedule of rates for water usage in a mobile home park until such time as master meters are converted to individual residential meters which would measure actual consumption by each resident of a mobile home park; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly prepare and transmit a copy of this resolution to the Las Vegas Valley Water District.