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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 337ORDINANCE NO. .3�_�_ AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,.AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 255 OF SAID CITY OF AZUSA, RELATING TO WATER RATES AIdD WATER CONNECTIONS. The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as follows: Section 1'. That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 255 of the City of Azusa, without disturbing, changing or amending any of the other sections or provisions of said ordinance, shall be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: Section 1. The furnishing of water service by the City of Azusa, and tla rates to be charged and collected by the City of Azusa for water furnished by it, from and through its water system to con- sumers, shall be in accordance with the provisions of this section, wherever such provisions are applicable. (A) DOMESTIC RATE WITHIN THE CITY For each separate tenement occupied by a single family, where no meter is installed, there shall be charged a flat monthly rate of . . . . . .$k1.00 (A tenement shall be construed to mean any premises occupied by any person or persons or family who are living together under the same roof and boarding at one and the same table.) The City of Azusa shall have the right and option of installing a water meter for any consumer,whereupon meter rates for domestic water shall be charged as follows: For the first 1400 cubic feet or less supplied per month . . . . . . $1.00 For the next 700 cubic feet supplied per month, $.08 per hundred cubic feet. For the next 3,000 cubic feet supplied per month, $A per hundred cubic feet. For all over 5,100 cubic feet supplied per month, $.05 per hundred cubic feet. The minimum monthly charges shall be as follows: For water served through a meter smaller than 1 inch . . . .$1.00 For water served through a meter of 1 inch . . . . . . . . . $1.25 For water served through a meter of lz inches . . . . . . . .$1.50 For water served through a meter of 2 inches . . . . . . . . $2.00 For domestic water served through each, every and all meters of a larger size than 2 inches, the minimum monthly charge shall be $2.00 plus $1.00 additional for each additional inch over two inches. In all instances where a main is tapped for domestic water purposes or service lines are run for such purposes from the main to the point of delivery or a meter or meters are set to measure such water furnished or to be furnished by the city, the tap or taps at the main as well as the service line or lines to the point of delivery and also the meter or meters set by the city, shall be and remain at all times the property of the city and not the property of the private owner, regardless of any charges made by the city for tapping the main or running the service lines or setting meters. The charges of the city for tapping the main for domestic water purposes, for running its service line to the point of delivery and for setting its meter, shall be as follows: 3/4 inch tap 1 inch tap . . . . $15.00 20.00 Larger than one inch tap Time and materials Plus 150 (B) IRRIGATING AND WHOLESALE RATE WITHIN THE CITY Any person desiring to use water for irrigating, industrial or agricultural purposes in the City of Azusa shall make application to the City Council of said city for a permit therefor, specifying the place and nature of said intended use and said City Council, if satisfied that such is for such purposesand that such permit may be granted with— out detriment to said city, may, in its discretion, grant a permit therefor, and the rate for such water so supplied is hereby fixed as follows: For the first 1000 cubic feet per month, $.10 per hundred cubic feet. For all in excess of 1000 cubic feet per month, $.04 per hundred cubic feet. All water sold under this irrigating and wholesale rate shall be supplied through a separate meter. No mater for domestic purposes shall be used through said separate meter. The right to at any time revoke or rescind any permit for irrigating and wholesale rate water is hereby reserved to the City Council of the City of Azusa. The minimum monthly charges for service under such separate irrigating and wholesale rate meters shall be as follows; For water served through a one Inch meter or -smaller $1.25 For water served through a 1� inch meter . . . . . . . $1.50 For water served through a 2 inch meter . . . . . . . . . $2.00 For all irrigating and wholesale rate water served through each and every meter of a larger size than 2 inches, the minimum monthly charge shall be 2.00 plus $1.00 additional for each additional inch over 2 inches. Said minimum charges shall be paid by the consumer for each of the twelve months of the year whether water is used or not. In all instances where a main is tapped for irrigating, Industrial or agricultural water purposes or service lines are run for such purposes from the main to the point of delivery or a meter or meters are set to measure such water furnished or to be furnished by the city, the tap or taps at the main as well as the service line or lines to the point of delivery and also the meter or meters set by the city, shall be and remain at all times the property of the city and not the property of the private owner, regardless of any charges made by the city for tapping the main or running the service lines or setting meters. The charges of the city for tapping the main for irrigating, industrial or agricultural water purposes, for running its service line to the point of delivery and for setting its meter, shall be time and materials plus -15%. (C) GENERAL,PROVISIONS The City of Azusa may from time to time rent the use.of its water stock in water companies, or the water it may be entitled to receive from any such companies, on such terms and conditions as shall be fixed by the City Council at the time of renting the same, and such action shall be reported fully in the minutes of said Council at the time of granting such rental privilege; provided, however, that said City of Azusa hereby declares that all water which it now has or may hereafter acquire shall first be held and used for the present and future domestic water supply of the inhabitants of said City of Azusa, but that said city may, in the manner hereinbefore pro- vided, thus rent the use of any such water stock or water which it may be entitled to receive from any water company, for limited periods only, when not required for its domestic water supply. Whenever the amount of any billing of the City of Azusa,for water service rendered by it, is not an exact multiple of 5 cents, such billing shall be reduced or increased to the nearest multiple of five cents as the case may be. Whenever a meter fails to register during any period of water service furnished by the city, and the reading from such meter would ordinarily be required in order to determine the proper charge of the city for the furnishing of such water service, then and in that case a reasonable charge shall be made by the city covering the period within which the meter failed to register, which reasonable charge may be based upon prior experience or prior readings.. The City of Azusa reserves the right to meter or to require the consumer to meter any and all water furnished or supplied by said city. The City of Azusa reserves the right to at any time discontinue water service to any consumer upon non-payment of the city's charges for such service. Whenever and if ever water service is furnished by the city to any consumer who uses or consumes outside the city the water so supplied by the city, the rates or charges for the rendering of such water service and the supplying of such water,shall be double the applicable rates and charges established by said city for water or water service within the city. Section 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances (excepting Section 1 of Ordinance No. 255, which Section 1 is amended by the provisions of this ordinance) heretofore passed and adopted by the.City of Azusa or by the City Council or Board of Trustees thereof shall be, and the same are, hereby repealed in so far only as said ordinances or parts of ordinances conflict or are inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance, which said repeal of said ordinances or parts thereof in so far only as same conflict or are inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance,shall be effective as of the effective date of this ordinance. Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force on November 19,1938 and from that date thence forth. Section 4, The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City Clerk shall attest and certify to the gaassage, adoption and publication of the same, and shall cause the same to be published once, within fifteen days after its passage, in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a weekly newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the said City, which newspaper is hereby designated for that purpose, and thereupon and thereafter more than thirty days after its passage viz on November 19,1938 said ordinance shall take effect and be in force. ROY C./ARNOLD, Mayor of -the City of Azusa. Passed, adopted and approved this 3rd day of October,1938. ATTEST; Na, IME •, City C er of the Cit of Azusa. STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ) SS COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the, City of Azusa, County of Los Angeles, State of California, duly and regularly held on the 19th day of September,1938, in the regular Council Chambers in said City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California; that said Ordinance was regularly passed and adopted by said City Council, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk of said City at a regular meeting of said Council so held in the regular Council Chambers on the 3rd day of OCt6ber,1938, and that the same was passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: r Ayes: Councilmen &Lee/'✓, &,vv, Noes: Councilmen- '' nv— Absent:Councilmen o? ff&— I, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, State of California, further certify that I caused said Ordinance to be published on the 6th day of October,1938, in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said City of Azusa, and that the same was published in accordance with law. n MAE A.•HYN , City Clerk of the City of Azusa.