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HomeMy WebLinkAbout520 - Water Charges0 • • • • • ORDINANCE NO. 520 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 479 OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH. The City of Newport Beach, by and through its City Council, does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of Ordi- nance No. 479 of the City of New- port Beach is hereby amended to read as follows: "The following charges shall be paid by all consumers in the City of Newport Beach, of water fur- nished to them by the municipal water syst -m of the City of New- port Beach, as follows, to -wit: Meter Rates The monthly rate for water consumed through meters shall be as follows: For 5 -8 inch meters, first 1200 cu. ft or less ...... .----- $ 1.20 For 3 -4 inch meters, first 1200 cu. ft. or less ................ 1.20 For 1 inch meters, first 1700 cu. ft. or less ................ 1.50 For 11 -2 inch meters, first 2500 cu. ft. or less ................ 1.98 For 2 inch meters, first 3200 cu. ft.; or less ................ 2.40 For 3 inch meters, first 4200 cu. ft or less ................ 3.00 For each additional 100 cu. ft. and up to 7700 cu. ft., per 1.00 cu. ft ......................... .06 For all over 7700 cu. ft. per 100 cu. ft ................... ...... A5 Water used for commercial or industrial purposes shall be sub - iect to special rates to be fixFd by the City Council under separ..tc written agreement with the con- sumer, Flat Rates When water is furnished not through a meter, a charge for each connection shall be made of $1.50 per month; provided that when the water is paid for annu- ally in advance the charge shall be $15.00 per annum. Provided further, the City of Newport Beach shall have the right to install water meters on any and all water services and when meters are installed on water services, the charges for water used through said meters shall be in accordance with the meter rates hereinbefore set forth. When water is to be furnished for a limited period of time and for any special purpose, the charg- es shall be the subject of special contract between the consumer and the City Council of the City of Newport Beach. Whenever the distribution line or lines of the municipal water system shall be duly connected with the premises of any person natural or artificial, and the wa- ter turned on to such premises the charges for water shall be a charge against the premises, as well as against the person in pos- session of the premises who used the water, and in case of default in payment all charges for water and penalties shall attach to the premises and particular connection through which the water was fur- nished. And the charges shall con- tinue so long as the water is turn- ed on to said premises, whether the same is actually used or not, provided that upon written order of the owner of the premises, if all charges and penalties to date of said order have been paid, the water will be turned off and no charges made therefor during the time the water is turned off from the premises. All charges for water shall be payable on the first day of each month succeeding the month in which the water was furnished; every charge for water that is not paid by the hour of five o'clock P. M. of the tenth day of the month in which it becomes due shall be deemed delinquent and a penalty of five cents for each day thereafter that the same re- mains unpaid shall be added to t'ae delinquent charge, until the same is paid, or the water turned off from the premises. The superintendent of the mu- nicipal water system shall. on or before the first day of each month, mail to each consumer whose premises are connected with the municipal water system, a true and accura'e statement of the un- paid charges due the City of New- port Beach for water furnished to such premises, setting forth that unless said charges are paid on or before the tenth day of the month that the above prescribed penal- ties will be added, and that unless the delinquent charges and penal- ties are paid prior to the twenty - fifth day of the month the water will be turned off from said prem- ises, without further notice, and will not be turned on again until all said charges and penalties to- gether with a turn -on cost of $1.50 has been paid. A.t the close of business on the twenty -fifth day of. each month the person in charge of the books of the municipal water system shall furnish to the Superintend- ent of the water system a list setting forth the premises, and name of the owner, upon which the water charges and penalties remain unpaid, together with the amount thereof, and it is hereby made the imperative duty of the superintendent of the water sys- tem, on the next business day, to turn the water off from said prem- ises, and not to turn the same on again until all charges, penalties and a turn -on cost of $1.50 shall have been well and truly paid. Whenever the owner or occu- pant of any premises previously connected with the city water sys- tem desires to be connected for water, he shall make application for renewal of water service and pay therefor the sum of $1.50 be- fore the water shall be turned on. The water herein agreed to be furnished at the rates herein spec- ified. shall only be to consumers within the corporate limits of the City of Newport Beach. As to all others to whom water may be fur- nished outside of the city limits, and in accordance with the ordi- nance and statutes in such cases made and provided, said outside consumers shall pay the same charges and rates as are being paid by them at the present time, and under the terms and condi- tions of their written contracts herein on file. All water furnished to consumers outside of the cor- porate limits of the city of New- port Beach shall be by contract in accordance with the statutes and ordinances in such cases made and provided, and in addition thereto, the meter rates and other rates shall be the subject of a special contract between said outside con- sumer and the City of Newport Beach. SECTION 2. The above and fore- going ordinance shall be publish- ed once in the NEWPORT -BAL- BOA PRESS, a newspaper print- ed, published and generally cir- culated in the city of Newport Beach, and shall take effect and be in force thirty (30) days aft- er its passage. The above and foregoing ord- nance was introduced at a regu- lar meeting of the City Council of the City of Newporlt Beach held on the 4th day of January, 1943, and was finally passed and adopt- ed on the 1st day of February, 1943, by the City Council at a regular meeting thereof, by the following vote, to -wit: AYES, COUNCILMEN: Allen, Kirk, Isbell, Reed, Hall. NOES, Councilmen: None. ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: None ATTEST: FRANK L. RINEHART, City Clerk. The above and foregoing ordi- nance is signed and approved by me this 1st day of February, 1943. CLYAN H. HALL, Mayor of the City of Newport Beach.