If a tenant contests the accuracy of the submeter, the tenant shall have the option
of demanding that the City of Seattle provide an independent test of the meter through
the Department of Finance and Administrative Services. If the meter reads within these
ranges of accuracy, the tenant requesting the test shall pay the meter test fee. If
the meter reads outside these ranges of accuracy, the landlord shall pay the meter
test fee and within 30 days refund any overpayments for the past three months based
on a recalculation of the past year's billings by correcting for the inaccuracy of
the submeter. Submetering thereafter shall only be permitted with a repaired submeter.
(iii)
The meter test fee for each test of a submeter pursuant to this subsection shall be
$65.
B.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a landlord from addressing billing
of master metered or other unmetered utility services in a written addendum to a lease.
A lease addendum may be used to give the notice required under subsection A.1 of this
subsection, so long as the lease addendum is provided to the tenant with the notice
required under that subsection, and so long as all other requirements of this chapter
are satisfied.
(Ord. 123361, § 235, 2010; Ord. 122213, § 1, 2006; Ord. 121320 § 1, 2003.)