HomeMy WebLinkAbout1997-056 - Repeal Chapter 16.7 of the Municipal CodeB_TLL NO. ~.
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ORDINA2JCE NO. ~ 'U
A.*7 CRDINA:`1CE RE-pF~r.TNG SECTT_ON 16.7 OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES~OF TH_° CITY OF R_VERSIDE, MISSOURI A.~D ENACTING A
NEW SECTION 10".7 REGA.ZDING PUBL_TC SEWERS, AND THL' R.\T ES TO BE
C;-?~RCEJ FCR ^_'.`-i_° USE n:ID SE:2VTCE "_`:!ERE'OF.
gE IT CRDA=NED BY T:iE BCA.ZD OF ?•=.DFZ.M-:7 CF `^::E C_TTY OF
RIVERST_DE, MISSOL'R_T, AS FOLLOWS:
Section. 1. Section 16.7 of the rod ea~ed Oin ~i s entiretyhe
City of Riverside, Misscuri is hereby ep
Section 3. A n~:'~+ Section 16.7 of t::e Code of Ordinances of
the C~ty of Riverside, Missour_ is hereby enacted and shall
read as follows
"Section 16.7 PUBLIC SEWERS - RTES TO BE CH.~ZGED FOR
THE USE AND SE~:VICE OF
Sect'an 1.~ SEWER SERVT_CE C.H~ZGi. There is hereby
levied a~chare to be known as a sewer and vassociation
against each person, firm or partnership
occupying or evening prcpErty having a sewer connection with
the sewer system of the ~=ty ursuant~v to yas~reciprocal
(including thosa sewers bu-mot p ,- on Au ust
r'~ie Cit of Kansas City, Missou.. i, g
agreement with Y
16, 1965) or ~s-.rving s Ova es anda industrial waste Ovate or
otherwise disc...3_g_ng g
liquid into t~:o sewer system, said charge to be as follows:
(a) Fcr
which was
g 14.90pe-
(b) For
connected
month.
each single family residential sewe a charge 1of
connected pricy to May 1, 1991,
r month.
each single family r19~~ena'cha 9e of S 30n35tper
subsequent to May 1,
(c) For each apartment house, mobile home park or other
multiple family residential sewer coeneoft~o0n 93 perk h n dyed
$5.00 per unit p'_us a commodity chlus a service charge of
cubic feet of water purchased. p
84.2.0 per water meter and 81.77 per water meter, per
monthly sewer statement.
(d) Fer ccmmercial establishments ar.d industrial
establishments. a charge of $10.00 per month, a commodity
charge or $ 1.31. per hundred cubic feet of water purchased
and a service charge of 3 4.20 per month per water meter and
$1.77 per water meter, per month'_y sewer statement.
Notwit.'~standing any other provision of this ordinance, the
raters are suhject to Kansas City increases as set forth in
subsection (~) below.
(e) For waste from each ccmmercial and industrial
establishment containing suspended solids in excess of 360
parts per m~.'_lion by weight or having biochemica 1 oxygen
demand in excess cf 300 parts per mil'_ion by weight, there
shall Y:e add~:d tc this charge a surcharge equal to that
surcharge chargod to the City of Riverside by the City of
Kansas City, Missouri, pursuant to the reciprocal sewer
service agreem^_nt.
(f) The City of Kansas City, Missouri treatment charges in
the fern of surcharges, service charges and volume charges
as set forth in subsections a-e above may from time to time
be amended by tine City of Kansas City, Missouri and any
increase or decrease in said charges shall be added to or
deducted from the foregoing raters when adopted and
imp'_emented by the City of Kansas City, Missouri.
Section 2. SEWER DEE.`~tED ~VaIL?.BLE. A sewer is deemed
available whet. it is within 500 feet of the dwelling,
mult'_p1e family dwelling, ccmmercial or industrial
establishment with e levation capable of serving property
and when the. connection does not require the crossing of
privately owned property. Nothing in this section shall be
deemed to be annlicab'_e to an interceptor sewer nor shall
the presence rt a service line within 500 fee*_ of a
dwelling, mu~tiple family dwelling, commercial or
industria'_ establishment be deemed to b~ an available sewer
under this section of the ordinance.
Section 7. RATE E:CE`4PTT_CNS. No sanitary sewer
ser•/ice shall :~° furnished or rendered free of charge to
any person, firir. or corporation, other than the City itself.
SECTION 4. WATER METER REQUIRED. The quantity of
wa*_er used nn any premises furnished with sanitary sewer
services by the sewer system of the City shall be measured
by the eater meter or meters serving the premises,
provided, however, that if any occupant or owner of any
premises connected with the sewer system of the City shall
net have a water meter installed on his premises measuring
a'_1 water received thereon from all sources, then such
occupant or owner shall, at his expense, install and
maintain on said premises a water meter or meters
satisfactory to the City Engineer or other designated
re resentative of the City, which meter shall measure all
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water received on said premises from all sources. The City
Engineer or such other representative or the City shall
have access to the premises of such customer at all
saadowater met r orometerspandoreading the r c rdsnthereofng
Section 5. BILLING PROCEDURE. The City Engineer, the
City Clark, or such other officers, representatives or
collecting agenc~es of the City as may be designated from
time to time,shall cause al'- bills for sewer services to be
rendered menthl~• as services accrue. All bills shall be
due and payable from and ar'ter the date of the bills are
rendered, at the office of the City Clerk or other place
designated by the Beard of Aldermen, during regular hsuch
of business. The City's representatives preparing
bills shall calculate the amount of each bill far sewer
services and render such c~.~stomary bill for such sewer
services.
Section 6. CONNECTION FEE. Application for sewer
services to premises not connected with the City sewer
system shall be made to the City Engineer accompanied by a
connection fee of $250.00 for each sewer connection. If
the application is for premises upon which a duplex is
located, and only one sewer connection is required for both
units in the duplex, then a single connection fee of
$250.00 shall be submitted•rovPdedlaor eacoheunit infthe
separate sewer connection is p
duplex, then a connection fee of $250.00 must be submitted
for each such connection. This tee is a non-refundable
connection charge.
Section 7. PREVIOUS RATES. If the sewer charges set
forth in this ordinance are found by a court of law to be
unconstitutional, the previous Section 1 °lassade of tang
16.7, which was in effect prior to the spell return to
ordinance found to be unconstitutional,
full legal force and effect.
SEVERABILITY. Should any Section,
Section $-
sentence or clause of this ordinance be declared invalid or
unconstitutional, such declaration shall not affect the
validity of the remaining Sections."
Section 3. This ordinance shall become effective May 1,
2997.
Section 4. A11 provisions of the Code of the City of
Riverside, Missouri which are inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed and deemed amended to conform with this ordinance.
The City Clerk is directed to incorporate the provisions of this
ordinance into the appropriate Sec ions of the City Code.
PASSED THIS ~O~ DAY OF ~~, ~ 137
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CITY CLERK ,
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APPROVED THIS,'-7~/~~ DAY OF
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MAYOR