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ORDINANCE 5644
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 31, "UTILITIES," OF THE
CODE OF ORDINANCES TO REVISE TAPPING FEES, AND TO
ESTABLISH RATES FOR VOLUME USERS; PROVIDING A REPEALING
CLAUSE; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR
THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section 1: That Section 31 -65(A) of the Code of Ordinances
of the City of Baytown, Texas, is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 31 -65. Sewer service charge.
(A) Rate schedule:
(1) Minimum monthly rate ........................$6.50
(2) Standard rate (per 1,000 gallons in
excess of minimum monthly) ..................$1.20
Section 2: That the Code of ordinances, City of Baytown,
Texas, is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered
31- 65(E), which section reads as follows:
(E) Volume users. A sanitary sewer service customer
within the corporate limits of the City of Baytown
that (1) qualifies for tax abatement under the
City's tax abatement policy and (2) uses more than
400,000 gallons of water per day, shall be charged
and owe each month a sewer service charge based
upon 1) the consumption of water attributed to it
as determined by the provisions of this Code
relating to water charges, or 2) the actual waste
water flow as determined by a metering system
approved by the City of Baytown. Such charges
shall be applied as follows:
(1) If all of the user's water is purchased from
the City of Baytown, the sewer service charge
shall be $.89 per thousand gallons of water
used per month, or $.89 per thousand gallons
of waste water delivered to the City if the
waste water is metered as provided herein.
(2) If the user is not purchasing all of its water
from the City of Baytown, the sewer service
charge shall be $1.00 per thousand gallons of
water used per month, or $1.00 per thousand
gallons of waste water delivered to the City
if the waste water is metered as provided
herein.
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Section 3: That Section 31 -67(a) of the Code of Ordinances
of the City of Baytown, Texas, is hereby amended to read as
• follows:
Sec. 31 -67. Sewer tapping fees.
(a) The water billing department shall assess and
collect a two hundred fifty ($250.00) dollar sewer tap
fee for each and every four -inch sewer tap made within
the city limits, and shall assess and collect a four
hundred ($400.00) dollar sewer tap fee for each and
every finished sewer tap made outside the city limits.
All other taps (six (6) inches and larger) and other
special connections shall be made by a plumbing
contractor or, at the City's option, at the estimated
actual cost as determined by the utility office manager
with consultation of the director of public works or
his designee.
Section 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances
inconsistent 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 this
ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances regulating and
governing the subject matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 3: If any provisions, section, exception,
subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this
ordinance or the application of same to any person or set of
circumstances, shall for any reason be held unconstitutional,
void or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of
the remaining provisions of this ordinance or their application
to other persons or sets of circumstances and to this end all
provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 4: This ordinance shall become effective beginning
with the first water and sewer billing for the month of October,
1990.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the
City Council of the City of Baytown, this the 27th day of
September, 1990.
TO, Mdyor
ATTEST:
EILEEN P. RALL, City Clerk
RANDALL B. STRONG y Attorney
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