Ordinance No. 6,836931014 -19
ORDINANCE NO. 6836
• AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 31 -56(g) "VOLUME USERS,"
OF CHAPTER 31, "UTILITIES," OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES TO
INCREASE RATES FOR VOLUME USERS; AMENDING SECTION
31-65. 1 (B) (2) (a) "SEWER SERVICE CHARGE FOR USERS WITHOUT
WATER OR OUTSIDE CITY," OF CHAPTER 31, "UTILITIES," OF
THE CODE OF ORDINANCES TO INCREASE MINIMUM RATE;
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 -56(g) "Volume Users," of Chapter
31, "Utilities," of the Code of Ordinances, City of Baytown, Texas,
is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 31 -56. Water rates.
(g) Volume users. A user of water within the
corporate limits of the City of Baytown that (1)
qualifies for tax abatement under the city's tax
abatement policy or is located within an
established Industrial District, and (2) uses a
minimum of 400,000 gallons of water per day shall
be charged $1.19 per thousand gallons of water.
The minimum usage shall be determined by dividing
the total consumption during the billing period
by the number of days in said billing period to
determine the daily usage. Any user or customer
who does not pay the amount due by the due
date indicated on their statement shall be
charged a penalty, as hereinafter provided.
Section 2: That Section 31-65.1(B) (2) (a) "Sewer Service
Charge for Users Without Water or Outside City," of Chapter 31,
"Utilities," of the Code of Ordinances, City of Baytown, Texas, is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 31 -65.1. Sewer service charge for users without water
or outside city.
(B) Users outside the city limits.
(2) Monthly service charges.
(a) Persons outside the city limits and receiving water
and sewer service from the city shall pay a monthly
sewer service charge equal to the city's minimum
charge plus seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50)
and one and one-half (1 1/2) times the rate for any
additional usage charged to a user situated within
the corporate limits of the City of Baytown.
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Section 3: 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inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed;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 4: 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 5: This ordinance shall become effective beginning
with the first billing for the month of October 1993.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the
City Council of the City of Baytown, this the 10th day of October,
1993.
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PETE C. AL FARO, Mayor
ATTEST:
ILEEN.P. HALL,, City Clerk
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ACID RAMIREZ, R., City Attorney
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