HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 45-XAN ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION EIGHT (8) OF AN ORDINANCE PASSED
BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON JULY 15, 1952 ENTITLED AN
ORDINANCE, "PRESCRIBING CERTAIN RULES AND REGULA-
TIONS GOVERNING THE OPERATION OF THE SEWER SYSTEM
OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT; PRESCRIBING RATES TO BE
CHARGED FOR SEWER SERVICE; EMPOWERING THE CITY
COUNCIL TO CONTROL, OPERATE, MANAGE, MAINTAIN, AND
IMPROVE THE SEWER SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT;
AUTHORIZING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ALL NECESSARY HELP;
PROVIDING THAT THE FUNDS OF SAID SEWER SYSTEM SHALL
BE KEPT SEPARATE FROM ALL OTHER FUNDS OF THE CITY
OF BEAUMONT, AND FOR THE MANNER OF EXPENDITURE OF
SAID FUNDS BY THE CITY COUNCIL FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES;
EMPOWERING THE CITY COUNCIL TO PRESCRIBE NECESSARY
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF SAID
SYSTEM AND DEFINING CERTAIN TERMS; PROVIDING A
PENALTY CLAUSE, AND A PARTIAL INVALIDITY CLAUSE."
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT:
That section eight (8) of an ordinance passed by the
City Council entitled:
"PRESCRIBING CERTAIN RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING
THE OPERATION OF THE SEWER SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF
BEAUMONT; PRESCRIBING RATES TO BE CHARGED FOR SE19ER
SERVICE; EMPOWERING THE CITY COUNCIL TO CONTROL,
OPERATE, MANAGE, MAINTAIN, AND IMPROVE THE SEWER
SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF-BEAUMONT; AUTHORIZING THE EM-
PLOYMENT OF ALL -NECESSARY HELP; PROVIDING THAT THE
FUNDS OF SAID SEWER SYSTEM SHALL BE KEPT SEPARATE
FROM ALL OTHER FUNDS OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, AND FOR
THE MANNER OF EXPENDITURE OF SAID FUNDS BY THE CITY
COUNCIL FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES; EMPOWERING THE CITY
COUNCIL TO PRESCRIBE NECESSARY RULES AND REGULATIONS
FOR THE OPERATION OF SAID SYSTEM AND DEFINING CERTAIN
TERMS; PROVIDING A PENALTY CLAUSE, AND A PARTIAL
INVALIDITY CLAUSE."
be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 8
The following rates, rules, and regulations are hereby
established and shall be enforced and collected by the City Council
of the City of Beaumont for sewer services furnished within the
corporate limits of the City of Beaumont:
(a) The following metered rate based upon water measured
through meters approved by the Waterworks Department shall be ef-
fective on the effective date of this ordinance, to wit:
Inside City Limits of the City of Beaumont:
First 2,000 Gallons
Next 3,000 Gallong
Next 95,000 Gallons
Next 400,000 Gallons
All over 500,000 Gallons
Minimum Charge per month
Maximum Charge per month for
single family residence on
.separate meter.
.75
.10
per
M.
Gallons
.05
per
M.
Gallons
.D3
per
M.
Gallons
.01
per
M.
Gallons
.75
$1.50
(b) No flat$ rate connections shall be made to the Sewer
System of the City of Beaumont.
(c) All bills shall be computed at the herein prescribed
rates and shall be payable within fifteen (15) days from date of
said bills.
(d) Failure or refusal by any customer to pay any bill
to the Sewer Department, or its authorized representatives, upon
demand, shall constitute a breach of contract, and water and sewer
service shall within ten (10) days from notice of such failure be
discontinued to the customer, and such services shall not be renewed
until the customer has paid all delinquent biUs, plus one dollar
($1.00) service charge. Protest of charges on file with the Sewer
Department shall not in any manner alter or extend the purposes
of this paragraph.
(e) Not more than six (6) separate services shall be ren-
dered on any.one meter, provided that all shall be located upon the
same block of ground with no intervening streets or alleys, nor
any public or private property between them. Where.water is sup-
plied through a single pipe on which there is a meter, the Sewer
Department will not undertake to apportion the charges for sewer
dervice among the several owners or occupants, families, or tenants,
but the bill for the sewer service will be charged against the
owner or occupant through whose property the service pipe passes.
PASSED by the City Council this 22nd,day of July, 1952.
Mayor