Sec.16-11-88. Periodic and routine tests

Each utility shall adopt the following periodic and routine test and repair schedule of its meters:

Size of Meter Inches	Interval between Test Years
⅝	8
¾	8
1	8
1½	4
2	4
3	3
4	2
6 & larger

(1) If a utility’s meters are maintained in compliance with the provisions for meter testing herein and in accordance with the above schedule, (or as the test interval has been extended in part as described below), and if the utility has consistently demonstrated satisfactory compliance in its annual meter test report submissions to the Authority over the most current consecutive three-year period including the condition that the utility has not exceeded an amount of overdue meters equal to ten percent (10%) of the total due tests in any year over that three-year period, and if at least ninety percent (90%) of the meters so tested register an accuracy of not less than ninety-six percent (96%) nor more than one hundred two percent (102%) during the given three-year period, such utility, upon request, may be granted an extension in the time interval between test years. Such extension shall be in an increment of two years and shall apply only to those meters in sizes of five-eighths inch, three-quarters inch and one inch. Requests for subsequent two-year increment extensions shall require the same satisfactory annual test reporting and minimum three-year accuracy history and maximum allowed ten percent overdue meters, as described above, for the then current test interval meters. The maximum allowed meter test interval period shall be sixteen years.

(2) If a utility’s water meter testing program does not comply in whole or in part with the standards and requirements prescribed in subsection (1) above during a consecutive three-year period, the time interval between test years for those meters in sizes of five-eighths through one inch may be reduced by the Authority to a period not less than six years.

(Effective December 7, 1978)