14-95-Ordinance-Amending Chapter 10, Water and Sewer Connection Rates-09/25/1995E ETA RV
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CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. # 14-95
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 10 (UTILITIES) OF THE
CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SANGER, DENTON COUNTY,
TEXAS, MORE SPECIFICALLY SECTION 2 ENTITLED WATER AND
SEWER SERVICE CONNECTIONS ESTABLISHING NEW FEES;
PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY
CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED AND ORDERED by the City Council of the City of Sanger,
Texas that:
Section 2, subsections A & B are hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 2: WATER AND SEWER SERVICE CONNECTIONS
A. WATER SERVICE CONNECTIONS
The City of Sanger shall install, or cause to be installed, and
maintain all water service connections in the streets, 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:
Tap charge for all sizes up to 2" in approved subdivisions where
the infrastructure for connection has been provided by the
developer-------------------------------------------------------- $350.00
Tap
charges
for
all other up to
2"--------------------------$500.00
Tap
charges
for
each additional
inch over 2"-------------$100.00
Charge for meter, box, and connections ------------------- Actual Cost
Charge for Water Connect Fees (User Fee) ----------------- $ 10.00
Charge for service interruption supervision ---------------- $ 25.00
Where service lines have been installed by developer, the water
service connection charge shall be reduced by the amount of the
tap charge as shown for related sizes.
All water services for construction purposes shall be metered and
subject to the same regulations and billings as permanent water
accounts.
In the event that a meter box has been installed by the developer,
the meter and box charge will be reduced ten dollars ($10.00).
E. SANITARY SEWER SERVICE CONNECTIONS
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 four hundred dollars ($400.00) for each sewer lateral
connect.
Service lines that require the cutting or boring of paved streets or
alleys will be subject to an additional charge based on the actual
cost for such bores or cuts necessary for installation. Such costs
will be determined by the City.
The property owner shall install a service line at his or her
expense to the City's lateral, in accordance with City regulations
and subject to the inspection of the City, and shall hereafter be
responsible for normal maintenance of said service line from the
house to property line.
Each house or building within the City of Sanger shall be served by
a separate and independent water and sanitary sewer connection.
Where the service laterals have been installed by a developer to
serve a lot or tract of land, said lot or tract of land shall be exempt
from a connection charge.
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 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 whenever
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); 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 constitutes a separate offense.
This Ordinance will take affect immediately from and after its passage
and the publication of the caption as the law in such cases provides.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED, this the 25th day of September
A.D., 1995, by the City Council of the City of Sanger, Denton County,
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APPROVED:
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Nel Armstrong, Mayor