California Health and Safety Code

§ 116916

HSC § 116916 Effective Jan 1, 2024Div. 104 · Part 12 · Ch. 6

Statute text

(a)This section applies if there is a landlord-tenant relationship between the residential occupants and the owner, manager, or operator of the dwelling.

(b)If a covered water system furnishes individually metered residential service to residential occupants of a detached single-family dwelling, a multiunit residential structure, mobilehome park, or permanent residential structure in a labor camp as defined in Section 17008, and the owner, manager, or operator of the dwelling, structure, or park is the customer of record, the covered water system shall make every good faith effort to inform the residential occupants, by means of written notice, when the account is in arrears that service will be terminated at least 10 days prior to the termination. The written notice shall further inform the residential occupants that they have the right to become customers, to whom the service will then be billed, without being required to pay any amount that may be due on the delinquent account.

(c)The covered water system is not required to make service available to the residential occupants unless each residential occupant agrees to the terms and conditions of service and meets the requirements of law and the covered water system’s rules and tariffs. However, if one or more of the residential occupants are willing and able to assume responsibility for the subsequent charges to the account to the satisfaction of the covered water system, or if there is a physical means legally available to the covered water system of selectively terminating service to those residential occupants who have not met the requirements of the covered water system’s rules and tariffs, the covered water system shall make service available to those residential occupants who have met those requirements.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 855, Sec. 9. (SB 3) Effective January 1, 2024.