45-571.02. Municipal conservation requirements; compliance

A. A municipal provider that has been given notice, in the manner prescribed in section 45-565, subsection B, of a municipal conservation requirement that is substantially identical to an industrial conservation requirement is not required to comply with that municipal conservation requirement respecting an individual user to which one of the following applies:

1. The individual user was given written notice of the municipal conservation requirement by the director in the manner prescribed in section 45-565, subsection B or section 45-571.01, subsection B.

2. The individual user was reported by the municipal provider, on a form provided by the department and received by the director at least ninety days before the adoption of the applicable management plan, as being an individual user to which the municipal conservation requirement applies.

3. The individual user was given written notice of the municipal conservation requirement by the director in the manner prescribed in subsection B of this section, except that the municipal provider shall comply with the municipal conservation requirement until the first date on which the individual user is required to comply with the requirement.

B. If the individual user was not reported by the municipal provider as an individual user to which the municipal conservation requirement applies on a form provided by the department and received by the director at least ninety days before the adoption of the management plan, the director may give written notice of a municipal conservation requirement that is substantially identical to an industrial conservation requirement to that individual user more than thirty days after the adoption of the management plan in which the requirement is established. An individual user that is given written notice pursuant to this subsection shall comply with the conservation requirement not later than January 1 of the calendar year following the first full year after the date of the notice.