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Home My WebLink AboutORD 71-22ORDINANCE NO. �71- Z Z_ ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SEC. 40-8 AND 40-9 OF CHAPTER 40 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS, TO BE EFFECTIVE JULY 11 19713 ESTABLISHING RATES, RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR WATER SERVICES BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS BY CHANGING SAID RATES, RULES AND REGULATIONS; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND RE- PEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS: 1. That Sec. 40-8 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Beaumont, Texas, is hereby amended effective July 1, 1971, to read as follows: "Sec. 40-8. Rates, rules, regulations—Service Inside City. "Effective July 1, 1971, the following rates, rules and regulations are hereby established and shall be enforced and collected by the City Council for water services furnished within the corporate limits of the city: "(1) The following metered rate for water measured through meters approved by the waterworks department shall be effective: (a) Minimum charge, First 1,500 gallons ............ $ 1.50 (b) Next 98,500 gallons ...... (c) Next 100,000 gallons ..... (d) Next 100,000 gallons ..... (e) Next 100,000 gallons ..... (f) Next 100,000 gallons ..... (g) All over 500,000 gallons . .50 per M gallons .48 per M gallons .47 per M gallons .46 per M gallons .45 per M gallons .40 per M gallons "(2) No flat -rate connections shall be made to the mains of the waterworks system except for private fire lines. Private fire line rates are as follows: (a) Minimum Charge, 4" tap or smaller ............... $ 4.00 per month (b) Minimum Charge, 511 tap ... 5.00 per month dl (c) Minimum Charge, 6" tap ... $ 6.00 per month (d) Minimum Charge, 8" tap ... 8.00 per month (e) Minimum Charge, 10" tap .. 10.00 per month (f) Minimum Charge, 12" tap .. 12.00 per month "(3) All bills shall be computed at the herein prescribed rates and shall be payable within thirty (30) days from the date of such bills, which is also the date of reading the meter. "(4) Failure or refusal by any customer to pay any bill to the water department, or its authorized" representatives, upon demand, shall constitute a breach of contract, and water and sewer service may, within ten days from notice of such failure, be discontinued to the customer, and, at the discretion of the Director of Water Utilities, such services shall not be renewed until the customer has paid all delinquent bills, plus the following applicable service-charge(s): For cutting service and locking meter ............ $ 4.00 For replacing a broken lock ..................... 7.00 For removal of a meter.... 12.00 For killing tap (cutting off service at the main line) .................... 35.00 Protest of charges on file with the water depart- ment shall not in any manner alter or extend the purposes of this subsection. "(5) The water department, or its authorized agents, may require from any applicant for water service a cash deposit to secure payment of water, sewer and sanitation charges, or any other charges that may accrue, and when such deposit is made it shall be not less 'than fifteen dollars; provided, however, additional deposits may be required from any applicant to pay charges accrued or to accrue for these services. Failure to pay additional deposit will forfeit right to water, sewer and sanitation services and same may be discontinued five (5) days after notice to pay such additional deposit. "(6) Each building containing one or more dwelling units shall be served by a separate meter of a size to be determined by the water department. Accessory buildings, including servants quarters, may be served by the same meter as serves the main building. Motels, motor hotels and trailer camps are not included and may be served by a single meter. -2- "(7) Where the services are used by more than one (1) dwelling unit and is served by a single meter, or where the dwelling units are not served by separate meters, a minimum charge of one dollar and fifty cents will be made for each dwelling unit served, and water used over fifteen hundred gallons per unit per month shall be billed at the appropriate rate as listed in paragraph (1) hereof. 2. That Sec. 40-9 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Beaumont is hereby amended, effective July 1, 1971, to read as follows: "Sec. 40-9. Same—Service outside City. "No water service shall be furnished any sub- division outside the city limits of the city unless and until a plan, plat or replat shall have been first approved in the manner and by the authorities provided for in Article 427b, Tex. Civ. Stat., and Article 974a, Tex. Civ. Stat. If such a plan, plat or replat shall have been so approved in accordance with the said state statutes, the city council may, if it is deemed advisable, furnish water service to premises outside the city limits of the city, under the following rules: "(1) Any person residing outside of the city limits desiring to use city water shall make application to the waterworks depart- ment requesting service, which shall state the location of the premises to be served and the purpose for which water is to be used. Such application shall be made upon blanks furnished by the city clerk and shall be signed by the agent or owner of the property to be served, and he will become liable for charges for water furnished under such services. "(2) Water service to consumers outside the city limits shall be rendered at the following metered rates: Same as inside the city limits, plus twenty-five percent each month; provided, however, the minimum charge shall be two dollars per month. "(3) Failure or refusal by any customer to pay any bill to the water department, or its authorized representatives, upon demand, shall constitute a breach of contract, and water and sewer service may, within ten days from notice of such failure, be discontinued to the customer, and, at the discretion of the Director of Water Utilities, such services shall not be renewed until the customer has paid all delinquent bills, plus the following applicable service charge(s): ME For cutting service and locking meter ............ $ 4.00 For replacing a broken lock ..................... 7.00 For removal of a meter ... 12.00 For killing tap (cutting off service at the main line) .................... 35.00 Protest of charges on file with the water depart- ment shall not in any manner alter or extend the purposes of this subsection. "(4) The city council may make special contracts with a customer whether inside or outside the city limits with reference to rates charged for services furnished by the waterworks department, which shall be equal and uniform and a sufficient rate to pay all operating, maintenance, depre- ciation, replacement, betterment, and interest charges, and for interest and sinking fund sufficient to pay any bonds issued to improve, extend or repair the waterworks system, or any outstanding indebtedness against the same. "(5) The city council may make contracts with owners of suburban property for extensions of mains to such property and for connections of such mains to the waterworks system of the city; provided, nothing in this section shall be construed to compel the city council to give service to any customer outside the city limits." 3. That any person who violates any provision of this Ordinance shall, upon conviction, be punished as provided in Sec. 1-8 of the Code of Ordinances of Beaumont, Texas. 4. That if any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance or the application of same to a particular set of• persons or circumstances should for any reason be held to be invalid, such invalidity shall in no wise affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance, and to such end the.various portions and provisions of this Ordinance are declared to be severable. -4- 5. That all Ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict here- with are hereby repealed. / PASSED by the City Council this �j day of 0(,w e- , 1971. -5- l - Mayor -