04-04-09-Ordinance-Amending Utility Fees-04/21/2009MOO IM19180
ORDINANCE 04-04-09 AJJV13803S UI0
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS, AMENDING ARTICLE 4.000
OF APPENDIX A "FEE SCHEDULE" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE
CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS, AMENDING ARTICLE 4.000 UTILITY RELATED FEES,
SECTION 4.101 UTILITY CONNECTION FEES, SECTION 4.103 UTILITY SERVICE
FEES (b), AND 4.402 ELECTRIC SERVICE CONNECTIONS; PROVIDING FOR THE
REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS:
Section 1. That Article 4.000, Appendix A "Fee Schedule" of the Code of Ordinances,
City of Sanger, Texas, is hereby amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE 4.000 UTILITY RELATED FEES
Division 4.100 Generally
Sec. 4.101 Utility Reconnection Fees
Service may be discontinued upon ten days written notice to customers having past due bills on
the twenty-seventh day of the month of billing. In addition, a thirty dollar ($30.00) service fee
will be assessed to all water customers and a thirty dollar ($30.00) service fee will be assessed to
all electric customers whose service bill has not been paid by the twenty-seventh of the month of
billing, whether the service has been disconnected or not,
Sec. 4.103 Utility Service Fees
(b) After -Hours Utility Service Fee. A customer who requests a utility service connection or
disconnection after 4:00 p.m., where the connection or disconnection is due to no fault of the
city, will be charged a service fee of $50.00 in addition to the $30.00 service fee on each service.
Sec. 4.402 Electric Service Connections
Electrical service connection fees shall be as follows:
(1) Service Fee. New customers and customers moving within the system: $30.00.
(2) Tem orM Service Fee. Paid upon request for service by a contractor for a remodel
or a landlord. $30.00 each service. Temporary service is only good for thirty (30)
days.
(3) Service Fee. To customer who is disconnected for nonpayment or who has not paid
by the end of business on the 27 h and reconnected, or customer requesting disconnect
and reconnect for remodeling or upgrading electrical wiring: $30.00 each service.
Section 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of
such conflict, hereby repealed.
Section 3. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases and words of this Ordinance are severable and, if any
word, 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 portions of this Ordinance, since the
same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this Ordinance
of any such unconstitutional word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section.
Section 4. This ordinance will take effect immediately from and after its passage, as the
law and Charter in such cases provide.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 21st day of April 2009 by the City Council of the City of
Sanger, Texas,
ATTEST:
v
Rosalie Chavez, City Sear ry
Joe Higg ,