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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 10583.~ ~` ORDINANCE N0. !~/"~`~ AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 35-58, OF CHAPTER 35 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH (1986), AS AMENDED, BY REVISING CERTAIN WATER CHARGES; MAKING THIS ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE OF PRIOR ORDINANCE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PROVISIONS OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Section 35-58, Front Footage Charges for Service Connections of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986), as amended, be and the same i s hereby amended and, after having been so amended, shall hereinafter read and be as follows: "Sec. 35-58 Front Footage Charges for Service Connection. (a) In addition to other connection charges provided in this chapter, a front footage charge shall be paid for all service connections made from `and after the effective date hereof to all water mains constructed or purchased after October 1, 1961, except connections to on-site mains for which the City has previously received payments from a developer and except for reconnection of single customers to a water main enlarged to provide adequate water service. (b) In addition to other connection charges provided in this chapter, a front footage charge shall be paid for all sewer connections made from and after the effective date hereof to sanitary sewers authorized for construction after October 1, 1964, except service connections to sanitary sewers for which the City has previously received payment from a developer. (c) The following definitions shall be used in interpreting this section: (1) Single Customer. An existing occupied residential establishment or an existing commercial establishment. (2) Developer. Any type of new customer other than 'single'. 1 (3) Commercial Establishment. Any establishment other than a one or two-unit residence. (4) Front Footage. The number of linear feet in that portion of a property boundary abutting a street, alley or easement containing a sanitary sewer or water main for which front footage charges are collected for connection. In the case of an easement containing a sanitary sewer for which footage charges are collected for connection, which sewer crosses through the property served, the "boundary" on which the front footage charge is to be based shall be the length of the sewer within the limits of such ,property measured along the center line of such sewer. Front footage to be used in application of front footage charges shall be determined as follows: (a) The front footage charge shall apply directly to property platted into the usual rectangular lots or tracts of land. (b) Where the property served as irregular in shape, the front footage shall be computed as one-sixth (1/6) of the perimeter of such property. The payment of front footage charges by the customer shall be the lesser amount as calculated above, or as calculated by the number of linear feet of property abutting a street, alley or easement containing a sanitary sewer or water facility. A front footage charge will be due each time a connection is made to a different water or sewer main from such irregular shaped lot or tract. (c) On property which is rectangular in shape and has more than one boundary abutting a street, alley or easement containing a sanitary sewer or water facility serving the property, only that boundary across which a connection is effected will be used in determining front footage. (d) The amount of the front footage charge to be made for each service connection to a water main under this section shall be ten dollars and twenty-five cents ($10.25) per front foot. (e) The amount of the front footage charge to be made for each service connection to a sanitary sewer main under this section shall be eight 2 .. ~= dollars and seventy-five cents ($8.75) per front foot. (f) The front footage charges prescribed herein shall become effective January 1, 1990, and shall apply to all developer projects on which construction bids have not been opened by that date. (g) The applicable front footage charges required hereunder for water or sanitary sewer service connections shall be paid before plumbing permit can be issued." SECTION 2. That this ordinance shall repeal every prior ordinance and provision of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1986), as amended, in conflict herewith but only insofar as any portion of such prior ordinance or provision shall be in conflict, and as to all other ordinances or provisions of the Code of the City of Fort Worth not in direct conflict herewith, this ordinance shall be and is hereby made cumulative. SECTION 3. The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the caption in the minutes of the City Council and by filing the ordinance in the ordinance records of the City. SECTION 4. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. SECTION 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage, and it is so ordained. 3 APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: 6~TY ATTORNEY DATE • ~ ~/~O ADOPTED: ~~ EFFECTIVE• ~~cJr`~~ 4 MAS CE FILE ~~ { '-ACCOUNTING T sl' TRAR~PORTATION~PUBUC .WOR 1•• MA1~R ApNVINIS1RATiuN ~ t.AW1 DATE REFERENCE SUBJC-CT AMENDMENT TU PAGE NUMBER S-IS-90 **G-8603 CITY ORDINANCE NUMBER 10463 , of_.1..__ RECOMMENDATION_ It ls' recommended that. the City Counc 1 adopt the attached ordinance amending Ordinance No ,~-fl~4-93'" ~®~~3 DISCUSSION' On December 1L, ati89 (M&C G--8355), the City c~ouncll authors zed the adoption of City Ordinance No 1040,3 for proposed chances ~.n front foot charges for wai_et and sanitary sewer connections Ordinance No 1.0463 inadvez:~tently omitted the language The ordinance before City Counr.il today corrects that omission Attachment ~/ l APPROVED 8Y CITY COUNCIL AS CORRECTED MAY l~ 1990 ~~ ~dc city Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas SUBMITTED FOR IFtt CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE BY Ramon Guajardo 6191 DISPOSITION BY COUNCIL. ~~ APPROVED PROCESSED BY GRIGINATING ,- OTHER (DESCRIBE) DEPARTMENT HEAD Richard Sawe 8246 CITY SECRETARY FOR ACDITtONAL INFORMATION A~1ontP~} Ordinance Na cDNrACr Pete Petersen 8240 . 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