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86-9-Ordinance-Amending Water Utility Rates-04/22/1986CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS ORDINANCE NO.86-9 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 10, SECTION 2 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS, ENTITLED WATER SERVICE CONNECTIONS TO PROVIDE FOR FEES; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS: SECTION I THAT CHAPTER 10, SECTION 2-Al OF THE SANGER CODE OF ORDINANCES IS HEREBY AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 2-Al: WATER SERVICE CONNECTIONS The City of Sanger shall install, or cause to be installed, 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 ordinance 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: Tap Charge for all sizes up to 2"----------$150.00 Charge for meter, box, and connections----- actual cost Charge for service interruption supervision- 25.00 each SECTION II All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed. SECTION I I I CITY RTa nplo' P ? 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 prohibitei.'d 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 Two Hundred ($200.00) 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 thisg day of GG , 1986, by the City Council of the City of Sanger, Texas. ATTEST: Cif y S etary APPROVED: Mayor 2