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ORDINANCE NO. 497
AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING CERTAIN RATES TO BE
CHARGED BY THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS, FOR
19ATER SUPPLIED BY CITY AND CONSUt.ED OR USED
BY PERSONS IN SAID CITY; PROVIDING A SEVER -
ABILITY CLAUSE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR
PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, G
PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOimi:
Section 1: That, subject to the minimum rates set out in Section Trio,
all persons, firms or corporations, using water supplied by the City of Bay-
town, and whose use or consumption of such water is now and hereafter meas-
ured by water meters, shall be charged for and shall pay for such water used
or consumed each month, according to the following schedule:
Gallons of Plater Used
Per ilonth
First 3,000
Next 3,000
Next 10,000
Next 20,000
Next 30,000
All over 66,000
Amount Or Rate To Be
Charged
(Cents per 1,000 gallons)
.66 -2/3
.45
.35
.25
.20
.18
Section 2: That the minimum monthly rate for water service to any such
consumer having a meter shall be the sum of Two ($2.00) Dollars per month.
Where there is more than one dwelling unit, as hereinafter defined, to a single
meter, the minimum rate shall be increased by Two ($2.00) Dollars for each such
unit receiving water service through said single meter.
Section 3: The charge for water service by the Pater Department of the
City to each dwelling unit not connected to a meter shall be the sum of Two
and 50/100 ($2.50) Dollars per month.
Section 4: No flat rate connections shall hereafter be made to thg water-
works system of the City of Baytown, and it is herein specifically provided,
that every dwelling unit hereafter constructed in the City shall be separately
metered for water service. The provisions of this section shall apply to the
remodeling or altering of any existing house, garage, or other building where
an additional dwelling unit or units are added, or where the cost of such re-
modeling or alteration exceeds fifty (50' /) percent of the original cost of such
house or building.
Section 5: The term "Dwelling Unit" as used in the preceding sections
shall include any of the following:
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(a) One- family dwelling house consisting of a detached building
having accomodations for and occupied or designed to be oc-
cupied as a residence by only one family;
• (b) Each unit of a tcvo- family dwelling consisting of a detached
building having separate accomodations for and occupied or
designed to be occupied as a residence by two families;
(c) Each unit of a multi - family house or apartment house consist-
ing of a building occupied or designed to be occupied as the
residence of families living independently of each other.
The word "family" as used in this section shall mean one person living
alone or a group of two or more persons living together as a single housekeep-
ing unit.
Section 6: The preceding section shall not apply to hotels, boarding
houses or tourist courts as those terms are commonly understood.
Section 7: Meters shall be read monthly and each customer shall be billed
monthly. If a water account is not paid within fifteen (15) days after same
becomes due and payable, the City reserves the right to cut off and discontinue
water service to such account. If a water account is not paid within forty -fiv:
(45) days after same becomes due and payable, the Director of the Water Depart-
ment shall cut off and discontinue water service to such account; provided, how•
ever, that the City Manager may authorize that water service be continued after
an account is forty -five (45) days delinquent if, in his opinion, .a hardship
exists which justifies such continuance.
Section 8: That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after the date of its passage.
Section 9: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the
• terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided however, that such repeal
shall be only to the extent of such inconsistency and in all other respects thi:
ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances regulating and governing the
subject matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 10: If any section or provisions, or parts thereof in this ordin-
ance shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconsti
tutionality shall not affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole or of any
other section or provision or part hereof.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of a majority of the
City Council of the City of Baytown on this the 10th day of July, 1958.
11. Pruett, ilayor
ATTEST:
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Edna Oliver, City Clerk