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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0264 - Water Rates (Repealed by Ord 1766) SE b AMENDED BY ORD. NO. �4. E N D E O BY ORD 3,23 3V 3, IRA 7 32,1-4(1-2-- 1 9 76, I C 9 wri g 6 odif 1.144 0 1 ORDINANCE NO. 264 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM OF THE TOWN OF TUKWILA, REGULATING THE USE OF WATER THEREFROM, PROVIDING FOR THE SALE OF THE SANE, FIXING THE PRICE THEREOF AND PROVIDING A METHOD OF COLLECTING RATES THEREFOR, PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE AND REPEALING ORDI- NANCES NO. 196 AND NO. 205 AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF TUKWILA AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The word "Superintendent" wherever used in this ordinance shall be held and construed to mean the Superintendent in charge of the Town Water System of the Town of Tukwila, and any act in this ordinance required or authorized to be done by him, may be done on his behalf by any authorized employee of the Water Department. The word "Person" wherever used in this ordi- nance shall be held to mean and include natural persons of either sex, associations, co- partnerships and corporations, whether act- ing by themselves or by a servant, agent or employee; the singu- lar number shall be held and construed to include the plural and the masculine pronoun to include the feminine. SECTION 2. Any person desiring to be connected with the water supply system of the Town of Tukwila shall make application therefor to the Town Clerk. Applications shall be made upon a printed form furnished for that purpose, which application shall contain a description of the property where such water supply is desired, the size of the service pipe, and shall be signed by the owner of the property to be served or his duly authorized agent. SECTION 3. The application provided for in the preceding section shall contain a contract on the part of the person mak- ing the same, to pay for the water applied for at the rate and in the manner specified in such contract, and shall reserve to the Town of Tukwila the right to charge and to collect the rates and enforce the penalties provided for in this ordinance, in the manner herein provided, to change the rates at any time by ordi- nance, to temporarily discontinue the service at any time without notice to the consumer, and shall specify that said contract is subject to all the provisions of this ordinance and of any ordi- nance of the Town of Tukwila relating to the subject, hereafter passed, and shall provide that the Town of Tukwila shall not be held responsible for any damage by water or other cause resulting from defective plumbing or appliances in the property supplied with water, installed by the owner or occupant of said property, and shall provide that in case the supply of water shall be interrupted or fail by any reason, the Town shall not be held liable for damages for such interruption or failure, nor shall such interruptions or failures for any reasonable period of time be held to constitute a breach of contract on the part of the Town or in any way relieve the consumer from performing the obligations of his contract. SECTION L. All contracts shall take effect from the day they are signed and rates shall be charged from the day the property is connected with the Town's water supply. 0 -1- SECTION 5. Upon the presentation to the Superintendent, of the receipt for the installation fees, the Superintendent shall cause the property described in the application to be connected with the Town's water main by a service pipe extending at right angles from the main to the property line and including a stop- cock placed within the lines of the street curb, which connection shall thereafter be maintained and kept within the exclusive con- trol of the Town. SECTION 6. All persons connecting to Town services or laying their own private pipe shall be required to use standard galvanized pipe up to and including three- fourths (3/4) inches in size. All water mains, extensions and branches shall be laid within the boundaries of the city streets and all mains, extensions and branches shall be not less than two (2) inches in diameter and of standard galvanized or approved cast iron pipe; said pipe shall be laid not less than thirty -six (36) inches below the surface of the ground. The length and size of all mains, extensions and branches must have the approval of the Water Committee of the Town Council of the Town of Tukwila. The committee must render its report with- out delay and their decision shall be final. SECTION 7. No service connection less than three- fourths (3/4 inches in size shall be installed. The fees for the installation o water service as hereinbefore provided shall be as follows: For a three fourths (3/4.) inch connection. .$60.00 For larger connections the actual cost of the material and labor involved in the installation will be charged. SECTION 8. Whenever the owner or occupant of any property connected with the town's water supply system shall desire to use the water he shall notify the Superintendent and request that the water be turned on to said property. The owner shall leave his portion of the service exposed in the trench until it has been inspected and the water turned on, when he shall immediately cover the pipe. SECTION 9. All water used for any purpose shall be supplied through a meter. Every house or building supplied by Town water must install its own separate service connection with the Town main and the house or building so supplied will not be allowed to supply water to others, except temporarily where there are no mains in the street. When a new main is laid in any street owners of property on said street who are being supplied with to water from a private main or a connection to a private service shall make application for a tap and shall connect up with a separate service connection to the main in front of the property. SECTION 10. If additional property is connected, such pro- perty may be charged at double the rate for the time they are in use, and the service may be shut off and a charge of five (5.00) dollars made for shutting off and turning on such service. In case water shall be turned off as provided in this section the same shall not be turned on again until all rates and charges against such property have been paid in full. -2- SECTION 11. A change in the size or location of a service connection shall be paid for by the owner on the basis of the cost of materials and labor involved in making said change. SECTION 12. Whenever any water customer desires to discon- tinue the use of water for a period of not less than one month he shall make written application to have the water turned off and pay all arrearages in full. The water will be turned on again without charge, but no remission of rates will be made for less than one month, or without the application prescribed in this section. A charge of five dollars ($5.00) will be made to remove and install a meter. SECTION 13. When water has been shut off by the Town for any cause and is turned on again or allowed or caused to be turned on by the owner without written application, no remission of rates will be made on account of its having been shut off, and the Superintendent may then shut off the water at the main, or remove a portion of the service connection in the street and shall charge the actual cost of cutting out and reinstating the water supply to the owner of the property. SECTION 14. All water rates will be charged against the property for which the service was installed. All charges for water, when the same become delinquent and unpaid, shall be a lien against the property to which the same has been furnished. in case any charges for water shall become a lien against any property, the water shall be cut off until such charges,with five dollars 45.00) additional for the expense of turning the water off and on, are paid. SECTION 15. All accounts for water shall be kept in the name of the owner of the property for w hich the service was installed, and not in the name of any tenant. SECTION 16. It shall be unlawful for any person to make any connection with any service or branch pipe thereof, or to make any repairs, additions, or alterations of any pipe, stop, or waste, or any fixtures connected or designed to be connected with the Town water system, except in compliance with this ordinance. SECTION 17. The Town Council, in case of emergency, when- ever the public safety, health, or the equitable distribution of water so demands, may direct the Superintendent to change, reduce, or limit the time or discontinue the use of water if in its judg- ment public necessity demands. SECTION 18. It shall be unlawful for any person willfully to place any automatic sprinkling device or willfully to place or to hold any hose in such position or manner that water therefrom falls on any person while on any public street or sidewalk. SECTION 19. If any person shall violate any provision of the preceding section the Superintendent shall shut off the water furnished to the property upon which such violation is made, and shall charge five ($5.00) dollars for shutting off and again turn- ing on such water. -3- SECTION 20. The Town reserves the right in case of a shortage of water from any cause to make an order forbidding or suspending the use of water for sprinkling or irrigation, or to fix the hours during which the same may be done, by proper notice, and any per son violating such order shall have his water shut off by the Superintendent and shall pay a charge of five dollars ($5.00) for having the water shut off and turned on again. SECTION 21. It shall be unlawful for any person to use water for irrigation or sprinkling during the progress of any fire in the Town, unless for the protection of property, and all irrigation and sprinkling shall stop when an alarm of fire is sounded, and shall not be begun again until the fire is extinguished. SECTION 22. The Town reserves the right at any time, without notice, to shut off the water supply for repairs, extensions, non- payment of rates, or any other reason, and the Town shall not be responsible for any damage such as bursting of boilers supplied by direct pressure; the breaking of any pipe or fixtures, stoppages or interruptions of water supply, or any other damage resulting from the shutting off of water. SECTION 23. All meters on services of consumers shall be and remain the property of the Town. In all cases where meters are lost, injured or broken by carelessness or negligence of owners or occupants, and in the case of nonpayment, the water shall be shut off and will not be turned on until such charge and the charge for turning on the water are paid. In Brent of the meter getting out of order or failing to register properly the consumer shall be charged on an estimate made by the Superintendent on the average monthly consumption during the last three (3) months that the same was in good order or from what he may consider the most reliable data at his command. SECTION 24. The rates for the use of water shall be as follows: For the first seven hundred (700) cubic feet or less per month or fractional part, $3.25. PROVIDED: Where two (2) or more separate buildings are supplied by the same meter the minimum rate shall be $3.25 per month for each building, as long as the meter remains on the service through which the water is supplied. PROVIDED: That out buildings such as barns, chicken houses, gar- ages and such shall not be construed as separate buildings. For all water in excess of seven hundred (700) cubic feet, sixteen (16) cents per hundred (100) cubic feet. All rates due for water are to be subject to a discount of,'twenty-five ($.25) cents if paid on or before the tenth (10) day of the month in which they are payable. Any business firm within the Town of Tukwila will be supplied with water at rates herein stated: For the first seven hundred (700) cubic feet or less per month or fractional part, $3.25. For all water in excess of seven hundred (700) cubic feet, and up to and including ten thousand (10,000) cubic feet, sixteen (16) cents per hundred cubic feet. For all water from ten thousand (10,000) cubic feet to fifty thousand (50,000) cubic feet, thirteen (13) cents per hundred cubic feet; for all water in excess of fifty thousand (50,000) cubic feet, eleven (11) cents per hundred cubic feet. -4- In computing meter rates, as provided above, results ending in one or two cents will be counted as "0 results ending in three, four, six or seven cents will be counted "5 results ending in eight or nine cents will be counted "10." SECTION 25. The rates for water supplied to consumers not within the Town limits shall be as follows: For the first seven hundred (700) cubic feet or less per month or fractional part, $3.25. For all water in excess of seven hundred (700) cubic feet, sixteen (16) cents per hundred cubic feet. The above rates to consumers outside the Town limits are subject to the same discount as the rates to consumers inside the Town limits, Provided: that nothing in this section shall prevent the Town Council from fixing other and different rates for the sale of water to water districts. Provided: that all meters, including master meters for water districts and all other meters for measuring water to outside consumers shall be installed within the Town limits or within the limits of easements, franchises or right -of -ways belonging to the Town. SECTION 26. All water charges shall be due and payable on the first day of each and every month for the water consumed during the previous month and shall,be paid to the Town Treasurer or to the person delegated by him to receive such monies. In all cases where the tenth day of the month falls on Sunday or a holiday the discount will be allowed if the water bill is paid on the next succeeding day. In all cases when the Water bill becomes de- linquent the Superintendent may shut off the water and shall not turn it on again until all arrearages have been paid. A11 bills will become delinquent on the tenth day of the month following the month that the water was consumed. SECTION 27. Failure to receive a bill will not be recognized as a valid excuse for failure to pay rates when due. Change of ownership of property and change in mailing address must be filed in writing with the Town Treasurer. SECTION 28. It shall be unlawful for any person, unless duly authorized by the Superintendent, to disturb, interfere with or to damage any water main, pipe, machinery, tools, meters or any other appliances, buildings or grounds belonging to, connected with or under the control of the Municipal Water System of the Town of Tukwila. SECTION: 29. It shall be unlawful for any person to bathe in or to throw any substance into any reservoir, water tank or impound• ing dams of the Municipal Water System of the Town of Tukwila. SECTION 30. It shall be unlawful for any person to make connections with any fixtures or to connect any pipe with any water main or water pipe belonging to the Water System or to open or to close any valves in the System without first obtaining permission so to do from the Superintendent. SECTION 31. The Superintendent shall have authority to de- cide any question which may arise and which is not fully covered in this ordinance, and his decision shall be final unless an appeal is made to the Town Council. In such a case the decision of the Council shall be final. -5- SECTION 32. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemea guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine in any sum not exceeding three hundred (300.00) dollars or imprisoned for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 33. Ordinances No. 196 and No. 205 and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect on January 1, 1959 after its passage, signing and posting as pro- vided by law. PASSED the Town Council and approved by the Mayor this 17th day of November 1958. 7.Z Cnas. 0. Baker, mayor Atte t: i Lois T. Newton Clerk -6-