01-87-Ordinance-Amending Water Utility Rates-04/07/1987CITY OF SANGER,
ORDINANCE NO.
TEXAS
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 10, (UTILITIES) SECTION 3,
SUB -PARAGRAPH A. (INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS) OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS TO PROVIDE FOR AN
INCREASE IN WATER UTILITY RATES; PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL
OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE;
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY
FOR VIOLATION.
Section I
WHEREAS, the Utility Board of the City of Sanger has recom-
mended a water utility rate increase, and
WHEREAS, the City Council having duly considered the needs
of the City and the water utility system does concur that said
rate increase is needed.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED that Chapter 10 (Utilities)
Section 3, sub -paragraph A. (Inside The City Limits) of the
Code of Ordinances of the City of Sanger is hereby amended to
read as follows.
A. INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS
Monthly Consumption
Up to 2,000 gallons minimum
A11 usage over 2,000 gallons
effective April 15, , 1987.
Section II
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$9.00 per unit served
$1.20 per thousand
gallons
All Ordinances or parts of .Ordinances in conflict herewith
are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
Section III
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses,
and phrases of this Ordinance are severable and, if any
phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this
Ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid
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judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction,
such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the
remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and sections
of this Ordinance, since the same would have been enacted
by the City Council without the incorporation in this
Ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause,
sentence, paragraph, or section.
SECTION IV
Whenever in this Ordinance an act is prohibited or is made
or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor,
or wherever in such Ordinance, the doing of an act is
required or the failure to do any act is declared to be
unlawful, the violation of any such provision shall be
punished by a fine of not exceeding One Thousand ($1,000.00)
Dollars; provided, however, that no penalty shall be
greater or less than the penalty provided for the same or
similar offense under the laws of the State. Each day
any violation of this Ordinance shall continue shall
constitute a separate offense.
SECTION V
This Ordinance will take effect immediately from and after
its passage and the publication of the caption as the law
in such cases provides.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 7th day of April , 1987,
by the City Council of the City of Sanger, Texas.
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
Mayor
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