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i ORDINANCE 196
AMENDED BY 205
REPEALED BY 264 Y• ,..eF� iii
0 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM OF
THE TOWN OF TUKWILA, REGULATING THE USE OF WATER THEREFROM,
/J PROVIDING FOR THE SALE OF THE SAME, FIXING THE PRICE THEREOF
j� AND PROVIDING A METHOD OF CO•LLECTING RA'�ES THEREFOR, PROVIDING
PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE AND REPEALING ORDI=
NANCES NO.128,NO.136,NO.145, NO.178, NQ.180 AND NO. 187.
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C NOW THEREFOR, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN
UP 0 OF TUKWILA AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The word "Superintennt" 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 he held and construed to include the plural and
the masculine pronoun to include the feminine.
III SECTION. 2. Any person desiring.to have premises connected
with the water supply system of the Town of Tukwila shall make
application therefor to the Superintendent. Applications shall
be made upon a printed form furnished for that purpose, which
application shall contain a description of the premises where
such water supply is desired, the size of the service pipe ,and
shall be signed by the owner of the premises 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 temporarly 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 on the premises supplied with
water, installed by the owner or occupant of said premises, and
shall provide that in case the supply of water shall be interupted
or fail by any reason, the Town shall not be held liable for damages
for such interuption 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 4. All contracts shall take effect from the day they
are signed and rates shall be charged from the day the premises
are connected with the Townis) water supply.
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SECTION 5. Upon the presentation to the Superintendent, of
the receipt for the installation fees, the Superintendent shall
cause the premises 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 exclusmve con-
trol of the Town. Every house supplied by Town water must install
its own separate service connection with the Town main, and the
premises so supplied will not be allowed to supply water to other
premises, except temporarly where there are no ;rains in the street.
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 5At (14) 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.
I) SECTION 7. No service connection less than three fourths (3/4)
p inches in size shall be installed. The fees for the installation of
water service as hereinbefore provided shall be as follows:
For a three- fourths(3 /4) inch connection. 40.00.
a/? 2D 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 premises
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 premises. Tho owner shall leave hid
portion of the service exposed in the trench until it has been
inspected and the water turned on, when he shall iniuediately cover
the pipe.
SECTION 8. It shall be unlawful for any person whose premises
are supplied with water to furnish water to additional premises un-
less he shall first make application in writing so to do and in the
same manner as an original application for the installation of
water service.
SECTION 10. When additional premises are connected without
the application prescribed in the preceding section, such premises
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 two (yw2.00) 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 pre-
mises have been paid in full.
SECTION ll When new buildings are to be erected on the sites
of old ones and it is desired to increase the size of or to change
the location of the old service connection, or where a service con-
nection to any premises is abandoned or no longer used, the Super-
intendent may cut out or remove such service connection, after which,
should a service connection be required to said premises, a new ser-
vice shall be placed only upon the owner making an application and
paying for a new tap in the regular manner.
When a new main is laid in any street, owners of premises on
said street who are being supplied with town 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 ron of t premises.
(2)
SECTION 12. Whenever the owner or occupant of any premises
desires to discontinue 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 two dollars (p2.00) willrbe.,made to remove and
install a meter.
SECTION 13. When water has been shut off for any cause and is
turned on again or allowed or caused to be turned on by the owner
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
acid 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 premises
for which the service was installed. All charges for water, when the
same become delinquent and unpaid, shall be a lien against the pre-
mises to which the same has been furnished. In case any charges for
water shall become a lien against any premises, the water shall be
cut off until such charges, with two dollars(2.00) 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 premises for which the service was installed, and not in the
name of any tenant; provided, that persons renting or leasing may
be supplied on their own account, and in such cases the Superinten-
dent shall require such a deposit of money with the Town Treasurer
as in his judgement shall be necessary to protect the Town against
any and all delinquent and unpaid charges for water, or other charges
on account of such service.
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. All water used for any purpose shall be supplied
by meter. Provided that the Town Council, in case of emergency, when-
ever the public safety, health, or the equitable distribution of
water so eiemands, may direct the Superintendent to change, reduce, or
limit the time or discontiue the use of water if in its judgement
public necessity demands.
Whenever thereis, in the opinion of the Superintendent, an
insufficiency of water to supply the consumers living within the
limits of the Town, said Superintendent shall shut off the water
supply from consumers living outside the Town limits in order to
make up such insufficiency. In shutting off water from the outside
consumers referred to, those who have used said water for the long-
est period shall be given the preference and, to effect said pre-
ference the Superintendent shall shut off the water from said out-
side consumers commencing with the last connected with the Town
water supply.
SECTION 18. It shall be unlawful for any person willfully to
place any automatic sprinkling device or wilfully 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 premises upon which such violation is made, and
shall charge two(2.00) dollars for shutting off and again turning
on such water.
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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 person
violating such order shall have his water shut off by the Superin-
tendent and shall pay a charge of two dollars(2.00) 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 fixtutes, 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 within the
Town limits, unless otherwise authorized by the Superintendent,
shall be and remain the property of the Town and will not be remov-
ed unless the use of water on the premises is to be entirely stopped
for sixty(60) days or longer. In all cases where meters are lost,
injured or broken by carelessness or negligence of owners or occu-
pants, and in the case of non2ayment, the water shall be shut off
and will not be turned on until such charge and the charge for turn-
ing on the water are paid. In event 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, 4 2.25.
PROVIDED: Where two(2) or more separate buildings or premises are
supplied by the same meter the minimum rate shall be 42..25 per
month for each building or premises, as long as the meter remains
on the service through which the water is supplied.
PROVIDED: that out buildings such as barns, chicken houses, garag-
es and such shall not be construed as separate buildings or premises.
For all water in excess of seven hundred (700) cubic feet, six-
teen (16) cents per hundred (100) cubic feet. All rates due for
water are to be subject to a discount of twenty- five(4.25) 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 wager at rates herein stated:
For the first seven hundred(700) cubic feet or less per month
or fractional part, 4p2.25.
For all water in excess of seven hundred (700) cubic feet,
arid- np,to and including ten thousand (10,000) cubic feet, sixteen
(4.16) cents per hundred cubic feet. For all water in excess of
ten thousand (10,000) cubic feet, thirteen (4).13) cents per hundred,
cubic feet.
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
(4)
SECTION 25. The rates for water supplied to premises not
within the Town limits shall be as follows: For the first seven
(700) hundred cubic feet or less per month or fractional part,2.25
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 dis-
tricts and all other meters for ,measuring water to outside con-
sumers shall be installed within the Town limits or within the
limits of easements, franchisee 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 disc
count will be allowed if tree water bill is paid on the next succeed
ing day. In all cases when the water bill becomes delinquent the
Superintendent may shut off the water to the premises and shall not
turn it on again until all arrearages have been piad. All arrearages
shall bear interest at the rate of 8% per annuil from the time of
delinquency until the full amount due the Town is paid. All bills
will became 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 failur to pay rates when due* change of owner-
ship of property and change In mailing ac.dress :Host be filed in
writing with the Superintendent.
SECTION 23. It shail be unlawful for any person, unless duly
authorized by the Superintendent, to disturb, interfere with or to
damage ang 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 im-
pounding dams of the idur_icipal dater System of the Town of Tukwila.
SECTION 30. It shall be unlawful for any person to rtake con-
nections with any fixtures or to connect any pipe with any water
main or water pipe belonging to the eater System or to open pr 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 decide
any question which may arise and which is not fully covered ib 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.
ShOTION 32. Any person violating any of the provisions of t es
ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con
viction thereof, shall be punished by a fine in any sum not exceed-
ing one hundred(0100.00) dollars or imprisoned for a term not ex-
ceeding thirty (30) days, or by both fined and imprisoned.
SECTION 33. 0rdinaecea Wo.123, 136, 145, 172, 130 and 137
are hereby repealed.
(5)
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its passage, signing and posting as provided by law.
PASSED he Town Council and approved by the Mayor this4'� -day
of$.�. 1949.
Chas. 0. Baker, I;ayor
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Lois T. Newton, Clerk
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