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10-96-Ordinance-Amending Chapter 10 Sewer Utility Rates Multi-Family-09/16/1996CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS ORDINANCE NO. # 10-96 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 10, SECTION 4 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SANGER, DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS, ENTITLED SEWER SERVICE RATES; ESTABLISHING RATES FOR MULTI -FAMILY DWELLINGS; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED AND ORDERED by the City Council of the City of Sanger, Texas that: SECTION 1 Chapter 10, Section 4 of the Sanger code of Ordinances is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 4: Sewer Service Rates (1) Residential - Class A Class A customers shall include all residential type users including but not limited to, single-family residences, apartment units, trailer court units, duplexes, or any other service primarily intended for domestic or residential use. The City may include similar low volume users such as churches and small business offices or stores in Class A. All Class A customers of municipal wastewater facilities will be charged a minimum of $15 per monthly cycle and $1.00 per thousand gallons of metered water in excess of the first one thousand (1,000) gallons, but in not case to exceed $25.00 per month. (2) Commercial - Class B Class B customers shall include commercial users such as but not limited to, restaurants, cafes, car washes, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, ā¯‘ffices, hotels, motels, laundries, grocery stores, department ,stores and other commercial business operations as may be identified as not a Class A type user. All Class B customers of municipal wastewater facilities shall be charged a minimum of $21.00 per monthly cycle and $1.00 per thousand gallons of metered water in excess of the first one ORDINANCE # 10-96 SEWER SERV. RATES PAGE 2 thousand (1,000) gallons, but in no case to exceed $125 per month. (3) Multi -Family Dwellings The amount due for multi -family dwellings shall be the Class A rate multiplied by the number of occupied dwelling units. SECTION II All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed. SECTION III It is 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 the 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 punishable by a fine not to exceed One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars; provided that no penalty shall be greater or less than the penalty provided for the same or similar offense under the laws of the State of Texas. Each day any violation of this Ordinance shall continue shall constitute a separate offense. SECTION V This Ordinance will take effect September 16, 1996. ORDINANCE 10-96 SEWER SERV. RATES PAGE 3 PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED, this the 16th day of September A.D., 1996, by the City Council of the City of Sanger, Denton County, Texas. ATTEST: Rosalie Chavez City Secretary '001111111111111B11/ ///1 of S-AN, r E X I F.Mijo-0. ohn W. Coker, III Lyor, City of Sanger