HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 1731
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ORDINANCE 30, 173
AN ORDIM'AACE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA, ESTABLISHING THE RATE TO BE CHARGED BY TRP, CI'T'Y OF
AZUSA FOR WATER AND WATIMR OM"WITIONS, AND PRESCRIBING RULES
AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE USE OF WATMv AND FIXING A
PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF, AND R&PRALING ALL FORM
ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT WITHBTHIS ORDINANOM,
The Board of Trustees of the City of Azusa do ordain
as follows:
Section 1. That the monthly rate to be charged and
collected by the City of Azusa for the water supply from its
water works to consumers, shall be as follows:
DMSTIC RATE..
1. Flat Rate: $.75 per 1000 cubic feet; rates to be
adjusted by the Superintendent on said scale on basis of
assumed consumption, but no charge shall be less than $.75.
Tenement occupied by a single family, the minimum rate shall
be 0,75. (A tenement shall be construed to mean W person
or persons or family who are living together under the same
roof, and boarding at one and the same table).
2. }dor stores of less than 360 square foot, not
having bath, toilet, urinal, sink, or stationery wash -stand
in use, the minimum monthly rate oh,611 be *,.50.
3. All places of business not above olassified, the
minimum rate shell be x`.75. Where a person or persons reside
in -a place of business, family rates shall be charged.
1. 4. The City of Azusa shall have the right and option
Of installing a water motor for any consumer, whereupon meter
rates will be charged as follows:
Fox any quantity used, each month up to 3.000 cubic
feet, x".50.
For each 100 cubic feet, or fraction thereof, over
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the first 1000 cubic feet, $.04.
Provided that, if the amount of any bill shall not
be an exact multiple of five cents, such bill shall be reduced
or increased to the nearest multiple of five cents, as the
case may be.
There shall be no charge less than fifty cents where
a meter is used. That where a meter fails to register during
any period, a charge shdll be made upon an. estimate based upon
the reading of the preceding month, or where a meter has not
been set for a month, then during such period as such meter
shall have registered.
IRRIGATIBG RAT'B.
That the rate to be charged and collected by the City
of Azusa; for all the water to be supplied hereafter by said
City for irrigating purposes, is hereby fixed as follows:
$.02 per miner's inch per hour, continuous flow, pro-
vided however, that all water the City shall supply for ir-
rigating purposes shall be supplied by said City only through
and by the rental, for a limited period, of the water stook
of the Azusa ttrIS&trL%g Company and owned by the City, each
share of said water stook entitling the user thereof to the
same amount of water as is provided for in the by-laws of
said Azusa Tirtga+Lng Company, a corporation.
The City of Azusa hereby declares that all water,
which it now has or may reasonably acquire from its present
water system, is needed for the present and future domestic
supply for the inhabitants of the City of Azusa.
Section 2. The charge for each tap or attachment made
with its system of water works, shall be as follows:
For each 1/2 inch corporation stop, using 1/2 -inch service
pipe, $10.00.
For each 5/8 inch corporation stop, using 3/4-inoh service
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pipe. $10.00.
For sash .3f4 inch corporation stop, using 1-inoh service
Pipe, 01£.0o.
The City reserves the right, at any time{ without
notice; to shut off the water in its mains or services, for
the purpose of making repairs or extensions, or for other
necessary purposes, and all persons having boilers on their
premises are hereby cautioned against direct connection with
the main.
All pipes or extensions oonnoot.ing with the City mains
afid laid by any person on any public street, place or alley,
shall at ones become the Property of the City, and ouch person
shall not have any jurisdiotion over them, nor may such pipes
or extensions be removed by such person.
And there shall be a stop cook in every attachment on
the side walk, just inside of the curb, at a point to bo
designated by said City, which said stop cook and its box shall
be supplied by the City and shall be for its exclusive use and
under its exclusive control.
The City will not be responsible for damages to any
buildings or their contents from any break beyond the street
service box or meter; and water consumers are hereby required
to provide, at their own expense, another stop cock to be
placed at the first suitable point beyond the stop or meter
of the City,
trhen more than one service ripe is supplied from one
attachment, there shall be as many protection stop cooks as
there are service pipos.
Section , No consumer of water from the City, or arq
other person, shall under any circumstances run or convey by
any means azU water from hie service on any lot or proporty,
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or ecrose any street or alley, or supply tooter to other
persons or families, for which such other persona or families
are not paying to the City the rate or rates prescribed by
the City, and all water furnished to consumers in the City
of Azusa shall be charged to the owner of the premises upon
which the pater shall have been used, and the owner of said
premises shall be held responsible for the payment of the
water rates used upon the premises owned by him.
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Provided that the water superintendent may permit
more than one tenement or person to connect on to a aingle
tap leading from the main with the proper stop cook at onoh
point on any public street or alley as he may deem proper,
and the City may contrast with each or with one for all in
such osaes, each party so connected to pay not lose than $.50
per month, and in oase any one of each persons fail to pay the
rate provided, one or all of such persona or tennnts in common
shall be out off as may be deemed right by the water superin-
tendent:
A consumer, in the meaning of this ordinance, is
one who has the privilege or. opportunoty to use voter from a
pipe or service on the promises occupied by him or (by per-
mission from the water superintendent) from some line or tap
on property near him. And in all cases the city will assume
that water has been used where,amg person or persons or tenanti
in common have had the opportunity to use the same. and even
though anoh person or persons may not have used any water
during any month, they will not no entitled tc,any rebate from
the regular rate provided in such oases unless they to ve
notified the Water Superintendent in _writing to out off such
service, and where it is not practical, to turn off said
service or person, either owner or occupant, must provide a
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line on the street or alley with service 000ks, so that such
service may be out off, otherwise water will be charged to
all said tenants in common or persons until the whole service
Is out off.
The Fater Superintendent shall out or cause to be
out off the water in all oases where this Ordinanoe shall have
been violated and it shall not be turned on again until all
charges due the City, up to the time the water was shut off,
including the penalty for delinquency, are paid.
Section 4. All rates for water used in any
month are due and payable on the third day of the succeeding
month.
All water rates are payable at the office of
the City Auditor, and it not so paid by the 15th of the
month, there shall be added ten per cent penalty for delin-
quenoy, and the City Auditor shall give notice to the delin-
quent by mailing to him a statement of the amount due and the
penalty thereon.
If the said water rate and the penalty for delin-
quency is not paid within five days thereafter. the City
Auditor ahall notify the Water Superintendent, who Ehall im-
mediately, without further notice, shut, off the water from
the premises of the delinquent, and the water shall nota gain
be turned on ;for them, except upon the payment of the whole
amount due to the City for water used up to the time the
water is so shut off, Including the penalty for delinquenay.
Section 5. The Water Superintendent or any other
authorized officer of the.City shall be admitted at all reas-
onable hours to all parts of the premises supplied with water
to see that the regulations are obeyed and observed,
170 one except the Water Superintendent, or someone
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expressly authorized by him shall turn the water on or off
from any building or premises. No person shall tap arw water
main or in any manner whatever meddle or interfere with any
part of said water works without written permission of the
water Superintendent.
Consumers shall prevent all waste of water and no
water faucet or hydrant shall be allowed to remain out of re-
pair, or water be allowed to ran therefrom when not in actual
use for irrigation or domestic purposes.
Section 6, Water rates will be charged for premises
vacated in every instance until the City shall have been noti-
fied by the owner or his agent in writing, filed with the
Superintendent, of the disoontinuance of the use of water and
to turn the water off.
,Section 7. All faucets, hydrants, hose, sprinklers,
nozzles, irrigation heads or other continuous streams must be
shut off promptly upon the alarm of fire, the water not again
to be turned on until the fire is known to be extinguished,
Section 8. Any parson, firm or corporation violating
any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon oonviotion in a Court of competent
jurisdiction shall be fined not less than five, nor more than
fifty, dollars, or be punished by imprisonment in the City Jail
not exoeO ing twenty-five days or by both such fine and impris
menta
Section 9. .,The office of Water superintendent shall
be and. is hereby created and all appointments to such office
shall be made by Resolution of the Board of Trustees o4 the
City of Azusa, duly passed at a regular meeting thereof, which
said Resolution shall also fix the salary or compensation to
be paid the appointee therein named and suah appointee shall
hold office during the pleasure of said Board of Trustees.
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1 Section 10. That such Water Superintendent before enter -
2 ing upon the duties of such office, shall take and subscribe
3 to the constitutional oath of office.
4 Section 11. That such !Vater Superintendent shall have,
5 subject ,to the control of the Board of Trustees, general charge,
6 supervision and control of the water works system of the City
7 of Azusa, and he shall read or cause to be read all the meters
8 on.the 25th, 26th and 27th days of each month and at such times
9 as may be renuired.
10 He shall have general supervision over all repairs, tappings
11 and additions to the system, and out off or c ause to be cut
12 off the water from any consumer upon the written report of the
13 City Agditor, or upon the violation of any of the provisions of
14 this Ordinance, and generally to do and perform every duty, as
15 Water Superintendent,.required by him by law or by any ordinance
16 of the City of Azusa or rule of the Board of Trustees.
17 It shall also be the duty of the Superintendent to keep all
18 accounts relating to the said water works system, and to make
19 out and deliver for collection to the City Auditor, on the
20 third day of each month, receipts with stubs numbered the same
21 as the receipts, for all unpaid water rates for the current
22 month; and charge him therewith.
23 Section 12. The City Auditor shall then proceed at once
24 to collect all such nater rates, and tf the same are not paid
25 by the 15th of the month, he shall thereupon add ten per cent
26 penalty for delinquency to all receipts then in his hands, and
27 j charge him therewith, and the City Auditor shall thereupon pro -
28 i coed as directed in Section 4 hereof.
29 It shall also be the duty of the City Auditor to pay over
30 to the City Treasurer on or before Saturday of each week all
31 water rates collected by him, taking the City Treasurer's re -
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oeipt therefor, which he shall file with the City Clerk, and
1 and the City Auditor shall report the amount thereof, togethc
2 with the amount delingient, to the Board of Trustees at the
3 first regular meeting of said Board in each month after the
4 collections are closed.
5 Section 13. The City Treasurer shall keep all
6 moneys paid into the Treasury from the water rates An a sep-
7 arate fund, to be known as the tater Fund, anci'the said moneys
8 shall be used for no other purpose than said City Water system.
9 Section 14. Parties wishing water service, or the
10 discontinuance of the same, must sign the regular blanks pro -
11 vided by the Superintendent, giving the street number where
12 service is desired or is to be discontinued.
13 Where the prospective consumer is more ths. 150
14 feet distant from the nearest main or service pipe on the
15 street or alley next to the property to be connected or where
16 there is difficulty in getting service to said consumer$ a con -
17 tract must be entered into for extra compensation to the City
18 of Azusa, and the Superintendent shall recommend such extra
19 compa•nsation after he shall have made an examination of the
20 case.
21 Section 15. Ordinance 104, entitled"An Ordinance
22 establishing water rates to be charged by the City of Azusa,
23 and prescribing rules and regulations concerning the use of
24 water and fixing a penalty for the violation thereof. and
25 repealing all ordinances, or parts of ordinances, in conflict
26 therewith*; and Ordinance 115, entitled "An Ordinance establish -
27 Ing water rates to be charged by the City of Azusa and pre --
28 scribing rules and regulations concerning the use of water arb
29 fixing a penalty for the violation thereof,"etc; are hereby
30 repealed; and all other ordinances or
p parts of ordinances in
31 conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
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Section. 16, The City Clerk shall certify to the
passage of this ordinance, and shall cause the same to be
published once in the,,pomotropio", a weekly newspaper of
general eireulation, published and circulated in the City of
Azusa, and the same shall take effect and be in full force
thirty days from and after its said passage.
President of th-a-Boardof True ees
of the City of Azusa.
ATTEST:
City vlork.
1, W. C. Bouldin, City Clerk of the City o4 Azusa,
do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was passed by
the Board of Trustees of the City of Azusa, signed by the
President of the said Board, and attested to by the City
Clerk, all at a regular meeting held on let day of
November
xaDdobM � 1915, and that the same was passed by the follDwing.
vote, to -wit;
Ayes: Smith, Petty, Collins
Bayes` None
Absent: Barnes, Clark
alty clerk.
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