ORD 1992-16 - Amend Ch. 17, Water & Sewer Increasing Rates 09-15-1992ORDINANCE NO. 92- 16
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 17, WATER AND
SEWERS, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, INCREASING THE RATES FOR SEWER
SERVICE PROVIDED BY THE CITY; AND MAKING OTHER
PROVISIONS AND FINDINGS RELATED THERETO.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, that:
SECTION 1: Chapter 17, Water and Sewers, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Huntsville,
Texas, is amended by changing Section 17 -21. Monthly charges for Sewer, as follows:
Section 17 -21. Monthly charges for sewer.
a. Commercial rate schedule.
Except as hereafter provided, each commercial use of sewer including churches,
financial establishments, hospitals, hotels, laundries, machine shops, motels, nursing
homes, offices, restaurants, service stations, skating rinks, taverns, theaters and
warehouses, supplied with sewer service by the City shall be charged a monthly sewer
service charge based upon the amount of water consumed by the user and applied
to the following rate schedule:
Gallons of Water
Used per Month Amount or Rate Charged
first 3,000 minimum monthly charge $9.15
all over 3,000, per 1,000 $1.80
b. Residential rate schedule.
Except as hereafter provided, each residential user, including apartments, duplexes,
mobile home parks, and single family residents, supplied with sewer service by the
City shall be charged a monthly water service charge based upon the amount of water
consumed by the user and applied to the following rate schedule:
Gallons of Water
Used per Month Amount or Rate Charged
first 3,000 minimum monthly charge $9.15
all over 3,000, per 1,000 $1.80
(1)
Individually metered residential units. Each residential dwelling unit
individually metered and billed for consumption of water shall be charged for
and owe each month a sewer service charge based upon the amount of water
consumed, as determined by the meter reading, applied to the above rate
schedule; provided, however, that the maximum sewer bill for each
residential unit is twenty-one dollars and 75/100 ($21.75).
(2) Jointly metered residential units.
(a) Each multi-family dwelling unit project shall be charged for and owe
each month a water service charge as follows: A minimum bill equal to total
number of units multiplied by the minimum monthly charge, plus a
consumption charge based upon the amount of water consumed in excess of
three thousand (3,000) gallons, time the number of residential dwelling units,
as determined by the meter reading, applied to the above rate schedule:
provided, however, that the maximum sewer charge for multiple residential
units shall not exceed the number of units multiplied by twenty-one dollars
and 75/100 ($21.75).
(b) Residential Dwelling Unit shall mean one or more buildings, parts of
a building, manufactured homes, mobile homes, or manufactured or mobile
home site within a mobile home park, which building, part of a building,
manufactured home, or mobile home included or would normally be
designated to include a bathroom, principal kitchen facilities and living
quarters; provided, however, that every designated manufactured housing or
mobile home site, or trailer site with water and sewer connections within a
mobile home park shall be considered a residential dwelling unit.
c. Vacancy means that unit is unoccupied and the owner received no rent, lease
payment or occupancy fee for the unit.
d. A jointly metered residential dwelling unit customer shall be entitled to apply for a
deduction for vacancies, or credit for future water service with City for prior water
service payments under the following conditions:
(1) one or more of the residential dwelling units used for the basis of calculation
of the minimum bill was vacant for 25 days or more of the previous calendar
month;
(2) a statement is presented to the City, on a form approved by the City, listing
the specific vacant apartments or mobile home sites and stating the period of
vacancy, signed under the penalty of law by the customer;
(3)
the records of the customer, including lease agreement and rental receipts,
are available for examination by City staff for purposes of verifying the
vacancies;
(4) the customer's water bill is paid and proper deposits exist for water service;
and
(5)
the statement is delivered with written receipt acknowledged, either in person
or by certified mail, to the City Utility Billing Department before the 5th day
of the month following the vacancy, unless the 5th is a Saturday, Sunday or
legal holiday, in which event the affidavit must be received by the City by the
next day which is neither a Saturday, Sunday, nor a legal holiday.
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(6) provided further, that a customer with no more than two jointly metered
residential units may file in advance a quarterly notice of vacancy.
e. Institutional users.
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(1) An institutional user is any person, corporation, agency of the State of Texas,
or political subdivision which uses five percent (5%) or more of the total
water sold by the City or which discharges five percent (5%) or more of the
wastewater treated by the City.
(2) An institutional user shall pay to the City a monthly sewer service charge
based upon the amount of wastewater discharged by the user into the City's
publicly owned treatment works, as applied to the following rate:
Gallons of Wastewater
Used per Month Amount or Rate Charged
(3)
Each 1,000 $1.80
The amount of wastewater discharged by an institutional user shall be based
upon and determined to be the metered amounts of water delivered to the
user through lines which are connected to plumbing fixtures which then
return wastewater to the City's publicly owned treatment works, or by
wastewater metered connections authorized by the City Manager.
Other charges not affected. Nothing herein shall effect or alter any other charge for
sewer service required by the Code or the city's industrial waste ordinances.
Users without city water. Persons not connected to the waterworks system of the city
shall be billed monthly by the city for sanitary sewer services at a rate determined by
the utility office supervisor, which rate shall be consistent with the regular sewer
service charge of similar type premises or users receiving service from the city.
If a person desiring service uses water or maintained premises in such
a manner that a similar type user or premises cannot be found, the
utility office supervisor may recommend for approval to city council
such service charge and conditions as deemed appropriate.
SEC I ION 2: This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
APPROVED this 15th day of September , 1992.
THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE
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by W. H. (Ages. May
ATTEST:
APP OVED AS TO FORM:
Attorney