03-88-Ordinance-Amending Water Service Connection Fees-03/21/1988CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 03-88
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 10 (UTILITIES) OF THE CITY
OF SANGER CODE OF ORDINANCE MORE SPECIFICALLY, SECTION 21
PARAGRAPH A, ENTITLED WATER SERVICE CONNECTIONS, PROVIDING
FOR AN INTERPRETATION OF CHARGES AND FEES, PROVIDING FOR
A REPEAL OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT, PROVIDING FOR A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND
PROVIDING A PENALTY CLAUSE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS
THAT: Section 2, Paragraph A is hereby amended to read
as follows:
SECTION I
SECTION 2: WATER AND SEWER SERVICE CONNECTIONS
A. WATER SERVICE CONNECTIONS
The City of Sanger shall install, or cause to be in-
stalled, and maintain all water service connections
in the street, alleys, and easements. All interruptions
of water service to any and all customers shall be
made under the direct supervision of the city water
department before such interruption is made. Any
person, firm, or corporation found interrupting water
service without city supervision shall be in violation
of this section and shall be subject to fines and
penalties as prescribed in Chapter 1, Section 5 of the
Sanger City Code.
The city shall charge for the installation and
maintenance of all such connections a sum sufficient
to cover the average cost thereof. Such sum is to be
determined and collected by the utility department
and shall be at the following rates:
Connection charge for all sizes up to, but not including,
2" in approved subdivisions where the infrastructure for
connection has been provided by the developer........$300.00
Connection charges for all other up to, but not including,
Connection charge for each additional inch or fraction
thereof................................. ............$100.00
Charge for meter, box, and connections...........Actual cost
Charge for Water Connect fee (User fee) ..............$ 20.00
Charge for service interruption supervision..........$ 25.00
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B. SANITARY SEWER SERVICE CONNECTIONS
1) The City of Sanger shall install all sanitary sewer
service connections in the streets, alleys, and
easements both inside and outside the city limits.
Said service connections shall be installed from
the main to the property line when the sewer main
is located in an alley or a street right-of-way; if
the sewer main is in an easement, the service connection
shall be installed from the sewer main to the easement
boundary line. The City of Sanger shall charge three
hundred fifty dollars ($350.00) for each sewer lateral
connect.
SECTION II
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 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 Dollars ($1,000.00), pro-
vided, 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. 5)4
PASSED AND APPROVED this day of 1988,
by the City Council of the City of Sanger, Texas.
APPROVED:
ATTEST:
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Secretary
Mayor