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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 8122`-, .. y,. n ;8e ~? t ORDINANCE NO ~~pZ oL,. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 37-26 1 OF CHAPTER 37 OF THE FORT WORTH CITY CODE (1964) AS AMENDED BY REVISING CERTAIN CHARGES MAKING THIS ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE OF PRIOR ORDINANCES REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PROVISIONS OF THE FORT WORTH CITY CODE IN CONFLICT HEREWITH PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE PROVIDING A SEVERABILTTY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE BE iT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH TEXAS SECTION 1 That Section 37-26 1 Front Footage Charges for Service Connections of Chapter 37 of the Fort Worth City Code (1964) as amended, be and the same is hereby amended and, after having been so amended shall hereafter read and be as follows Sec 37-26 1 Front footage charges for service connections (a) In addition to other connection. charges provided in this chapter, a front footage charge sha11 be paid for all water service connections made from and after the eff"active date hereof to all water mains constructed or purchased after October 1 1961 except connections to on--site mains for which the City has prev~~usly received payment 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 sealers authorised for construction after Qctober 1, 1964 except service connections to sanitary sewers for which the City has previously received payment from ~ developer (c) The following definitions shall be used in inter- preting this section (1) Single customer An existing occupied residential. establishment or an existing commercial establishment (2) Developer A.ny type of new customer other than a single customer (3) Commercial establishment Any estab]ishment other than a one or two-unit residence (4) F'ron't footage The number of lineal 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 (1) The front footage charge shall apply directly to property platted into the usual rectangular lots or tracts of land (2) Where the property served is 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 (3) 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 charges (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 Cents ($10 20) 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 Seven Dollars and Fifty Cents ($7 50) per front foot (f) The applicable front footage charges required here- under 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 Fort Worth City Code 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 Fort Worth City Code not in direct conflict herewith this ordinance shall be and is hereby made cumulative SECTION 3 That all rights or remedies of the City of Fort Worth Texas are expressly saved as to any and all violations of Chapter 37 or of any amendments thereto of the Fort Worth City Code (1964) as ~.. ~ r ~a ,~ amended which have accrued at the time of the effective date of this ordinance and as to such accrued violations the Court shall have all of the powers that existed prior to the effective date of this ordinance 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 That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the date of July 1 1980 and it is so ordained AgF'ROVED TZ7 FO D/6~~TY i a a - (/J/y ~ ,, i City Attor~hey Adopted by the City Council ~~/~~~ f Mayor tend ~oa,~n~il Com~,~,c~a,~~cct~.o~, DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT men ing eCtlOn - O PAGE NUMBER Chapter 37 of the Fort Worth City Code 7/1/80 G-x+608 Defin ng the Application of Front Foot.: 1 of 1 arges It is proposed that the City Code be changed so that front footage of rectang- ular haped lots would be r_alculated upon the actual footage measured across the lot or tract for which ervice connections are to be made Where property is irregular in shape {such as a triangle ) the front footage shall be computed as 1/6 of the perimeter of such property The payment of the< front footage rharge 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 Basemen containing a sanitary sewer or water main Rec-ommendation Zt is recommended that 1 An ordinance amending Section 37-2fi 1 of Chapter 37 of the Fort Worth City Code which sets the front footage charge based on footage measured across the lot or tract for wh ch service connection are made if it is a regular lot and to pro de fox a method of payment of front footage charge for irregular lots be approved and 2 The Water and Sanitary Sewer Installation Policy be amended to incorporate the changes made by the ordinance VS cl Attachment APPROVED ~Y CITY COUN~I1~ ° sup ~ ~~~a ~~: SUBMITTED FOR TMt CITY MANAGER'S ~ ~~ DISPOSITION BY COUNCIL: PROCESSED BY OFFICE BY - _, p APPROVED ORIGINATING AQ®~~~~ DEPARTMENT HEAD: J I, ZZOb,~.n~On ~~~ElrE~,~~R (DESCRIBE) ~r wt CITY SECRETARY FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT ,J, j~,o 1~0~?;1.nSG5'It E::?{t 822,0 DATE