Where a meter for any reason stops or fails to register, the average consumption for the previous year of the same month, together with the month before, and the month after for the same previous year shall be deemed to be the consumption for the month that the meter was dead. [Ord. 962 Art. VII, § 84, 1959; Code 1970 § 13.24.040; Code 1954 § 4-3.146.]