09-19-99-Ordinance-Amending Residential Water and Sewer Connections and Fees-10/04/1999CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. # 09-19-99
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 II A. RESIDENTIAL 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 charges for sizes up to 1-------------------------------------------------- $1500.00
Additional meter for Sprinkler system ---------------------------------------- $ 350.00
Charge for meter, box, and connections----------------------------------- Actual Cost
Charge for Water Connect Fees (User Fee)------------------------------------ $ 20.00
Charge for service interruption supervision------------------------------------ $ 35.00
All water services for construction purposes shall be metered and subject to the same
regulations and billings as permanent water accounts.
All meters and meter boxes shall be supplied by the City. In the event that a meter and meter
box is installed by the developer, the meter and box charge will be reduced ten dollars
($10.00).
B. 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 twelve hundred fifty dollars ($1500.00) for each connection.
SECTION II B. COMMERCIAL 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:
1. Duplexes, Apartments, Motels, etc.
Tap charges for all sizes up to 2"--------------------------------------------- $350.00
Plus $ 1150.00 for each habitable unit
Tap charges for each additional inch over 2----------------------------------- $100.00
Plus $ 1150.00 for each habitable unit
2. All Other Commercial
The following list shall apply to all other commercial taps:
Upto 1" line---------------------------------------------------------------- $ 1500.00
1 V2 " line ------------------------------
$ 2000.00
2" line--------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 2500.00
3 " line---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 3100.00
4" line---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 3800.00
6" line----------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 5200.00
8" line---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 6400.00
Charge for meter, box, and connections-------------------------------- Actual Cost
Charge for Water Connect Fees (User Fee)-------------------------------- $ 20.00
Charge for service interruption supervision -------------------------------- $ 35.00
All water services for construction purposes shall be metered and subject to the same
regulations and billings as permanent water accounts.
All meters and meter boxes shall be supplied by the City. In the event that a meter and meter
box is installed by the developer, the meter and box charge will be reduced ten dollars
($10.00).
B. 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 lime 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.
1. Duplexes, Apartments, Motels, etc.
Tap charges for all sizes up to 4------------------------------------------------ $400.00
Plus $ 1100.00 for each habitable unit
Tap charges for each additional inch over 4------------------------------------ $100.00
Plus $ 1100.00 for each habitable unit
2. All Other Commercial
The following list shall apply to all other commercial taps:
4" line----------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 1500.00
6" line----------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 3000.00
8" line----------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 6000.00
10" line--------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 8250.00
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.
The property owner shall install a service line, with clean -out fitting, 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
structure to the property line.
SECTION III
All water funds collected in excess of established costs shall be deposited in a separate account for
new storage facilities, new pump stations, purchase of easements or main trunk lines and disbursed
only after specific approval by the City Council.
All sewer funds collected in excess of established costs shall be deposited in a separate account for
new sewer plant, additions to sewer plant, purchase of easements or main trunk lines to plant and
disbursed only after specific approval by the City Council.
SECTION IV
All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby
repealed.
SECTION V
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 VI
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 October 5, 1999 after the publication of the caption as the
law in such cases provides.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED, this the 4th day of October, 1999, by the
City Council of the City of Sanger, Denton County,
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Rose Chavez, City SecretarO
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