HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 5342 ORDINANCE NO, 5432
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 37 OF THE FORT WORTH CITY CODE
(1964) , WHICH CHAPTER REGULATES THE FURNISHING OF WATER AND SEWER
SERVICE, BY INCREASING CHARGES FOR WATER AND/OR SEWER SERVICE,
PROVIDING FOR CHARGES TO BE PAID BY MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENTS OF THE
CITY FOR WATER AND SEWER SERVICE, PROVIDING CHARGES FOR THE SALE
OF RAW WATER, INCREASING MINIMUM CHARGES FOR CONNECTIONS WITH WATER
MAINS OR SEWER MAINS, REQUIRING DETECTOR-TYPE CHECK VALVES IN FIRE
PROTECTION SYSTEMS, REGULATING THE SIZE OF METERS, AND REQUIRING
MINIMUM CHARGES FOR SEPARATE METERS USED FOR SEASONAL PURPOSES ;
MAKING THIS ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE OF PRIOR ORDINANCES ; REPEALING ALL
ORDINANCES AND PROVISIONS OF THE FORT WORTH CITY CODE IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH ; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS :
SECTION 1 .
Sec. 37-25 of Chapter 37, Article III , of the Fort Worth City Code
is hereby amended, and, after being so amended, same shall be and read as
follows :
Sec. 37-25. Water and sewer rates within City.
(a) The following schedules of rates per month, or fraction there-
of, shall be the charges to all persons, as herein defined, for
furnishing water to water consumers and for rendering sanitary sewer-
age service to premises located within the City:
Schedule A.
Rates for water and sewerage service:
CUBIC FEET RATE
First 200 or less cu. ft. of
water used per month $2.00 Minimum
For the next 1 ,800 cu. ft. of
water used per month 0.370 per 100 cu. ft.
For the next 8,000 cu. ft. of
water used per month 0 .340 per 100 cu. ft.
For the next 40,000 cu. ft . of
water used per month 0.320 per 100 cu. ft .
For the next 75,000 cu. ft. of
water used per month 0.290 per 100 cu. ft.
For the next 125,000 cu. ft. of
water used per month 0.200 per 100 cu. ft.
For all in excess of 250,000 cu. ft,
of water used per month 0. 150 per 100 cu. ft.
Where a customer is furnished both water and sewerage service,
the Director of the City Waterworks is authorized to combine such
billing under the symbols xWTR// or //W ' or such symbols as may be
necessary to designate the applicable charge.
Schedule B.
Rates for water service only:
CUBIC FEET RATE
First 200 or less cu. ft. of
water used per month $1 ,50 Minimum
For the next 1 ,800 cu^ ft, of
water used per month 0.280 per lOO cu, ft.
For the next 8,000 cu, Ft, of
water used per month 0.370 per lOO cu, ft.
For the next 40,000 cu. ft. of
water used per month 0.260 per 100 cu. ft.
For the next 75,000 cu. ft. of
water used per month 0.250 per 100 cu. ft.
For the next 125,000 cu. ft. of
water used per month 0, 165 per 100 cu. ft.
For all in excess of 250,000 cu. ft.
of water used per month 0. 120 per 100 cu, ft .
Schedule C.
Rates for sewerage service only:
CUBIC FEET RATE
First 200 or less cu- ft. of
water used per month $0.90 Minimum
For the next | ,UOO cu, ft' of
water used per month 0.090 per lUO cu- ft.
For the next 8,000 cu, ft- of
water used per month 0.070 per 100 cu' ft'
For the next 40'000 cu' ft. of
water used per month 0.060 per |OO cu . ft.
For the next 75,000 cu. ft' of
water used per month 0.040 per \OO cu . ft.
For the next 125,000 cu' ft. of
water used per month 0,035 per 700 cu. ft.
For all in excess of 250'000 cu. ft.
of water used per month U.O]O per lUO cu- ft.
The service charges set out in the foregoing Schedules A, B and C
are based upon the amount of water used as measured by meters'
(b) For sanitary sewerage service customers whose water is not
measured by a meter, a flat rate of $1 .75 per month shall be charged
for each dwelling unit to which service is provided directly or
/c\ For each business, commercial or industrial unit to which
sanitary sewerage service is furnished directly or indirectly and
whose use of water is not measured by a meter, the Director of the
Waterworks is authorized to apply Schedule C, based upon an
estimated water use to determine such monthly charge. The minimum
monthly charge for each such customer shall be $3.00,
(d) The monthly charge to be made for each industrial waste
producer for rendering service in connection with the treatment
of industrial waste shall be based on the Five-Day Biochemical
Oxygen Demand content of such waste. The relative strength or base
factor of industrial waste introduced into the sanitary sewerage
system shall be computed using the Five-Day Biochemical Oxygen
Demand content for domestic sewage of three hundred parts per million
by weight for comparison- The billing factor shall be the Five-Day
Biochemical Oxygen Demand content of the industrial waste as expressed
in parts per million by weight divided by the figure three hundred.
The monthly sewage service charge for an industrial waste producer
shall be computed using the applicable rate schedule above, multi -
plied by such billing factor. The Director of the Waterworks is
authorized to determine or cause to be determined the Biochemical
Oxygen Demand content of industrial waste not less than once each
year.
(e) Charges paid by municipal departments of the City for water
service only shall be:
55% of Rate B beginning October | , 1965,
70% of Rate 8 beginning October l , 1966,
85% of Kate B beginning October | , 1967, and
l00% of Kate 8 beginning October | , 1968.
Charges paid for sewerage service shall be at rates in effect,
(f) The following schedule of rates per month shall apply for
furnishing raw water to consumers located within the City:
GALLONS RATE
First 1 `000,000 gallons $0. 12 per 1 ,000 gallons
All over 1 ,000,000 gallons 0.04 per 1 ,000 gallons
SECTION 2.
Section 37-26 (a) of Chapter 37, Article | | | , of the Fort Worth City
Code is hereby amended, and` after being so anended, same shall be and read
as follows :
Sec, 37-26. Minimum charges and connection charges,
'
(a) A min/mum charge per month, or fraction thereof, shall
be made for each connection with the water mains or sewer mains
of the City Waterworks. This charge shall be based on the size
of the meter through which water is furnished, regardless of
source, and shall be as follows:
Size of Cubic Feet A-Water B-Water C-Sewer
Meter Allowed & Sewer Only Only
5/811 x 3/41/ 200 $ 2.00 $ 1 ,50 $ 0.90
l// 710 3.90 2,70 2,00
1-1 /211 1 , 730 7.80 5.40 4.0O
21' 2,850 l | .8U 8,20 6. \O
311 6'820 25,00 20.00 10.00
41/ 14, 170 49.00 37.00 23.00
611 28,020 44.00 65.00 49.00
81' 45,6|U 153-00 104.00 82.00
lO// 52, 76O 194.00 130.00 lO6.00
The amount of water allowed for water and sewerage service for
the respective size of the meter is shown above. Charges for
water furnished through meters shall be made at rates in effect,
and each meter shall be read and billed separately.
(| ) Fire Line Meters. The monthly charges for connections
to unmetered automatic sprinkler systems or other fire lines
installed and used for fire protection only shall be $1 . 15 per
inch of diameter of the fire service connection. When it is
determined that water has been or is being used through or from
an unmmtered automatic sprinkler system for purposes other than
for fire fighting, the consumer shall pay the full cost of a
meter installation on the fire l |ne.
All fire protection systems used exclusively for fire-
fighting purposes and provided with outlets other than standard
closed sprinkler heads shall be provided with detector-type check
valves at customer' s cost before connection with the water mains
of the City. In case it is determined that water is used through
such detector check valves for purposes other than for fire-
fighting, the detector check valve installation shall be replaced
with a standard meter with the consumer paying the full cost of the
meter installa1;on.
(2) Meter Sizes. Only one 5/81/ x 3/4'/ meter shall be attached
to and served by / tap, No more than two 5/81/ x 3/4'' or one
I" mater shall be attached to and served by a |// tap. Not more
than one l -| /2// or three 5/8// x 3/41/ or three l// meters shall be
attached to and served by a 1-1 /2// tap. Not more than one 2//'
four l// or six 5/81' x 3/411 meters shall be attached to and served
by a 2// tap.
(3) Seasonal Meters. Customers using a separate water meter
for one or more seasonal purposes (such as lawn watering` but not
being limited thereto) shall pay the minimum monthly charge
prescribed herein for such meter throughout the year, whether
such service is active or not. If such service 7s disconnected
at the request of the customer and the customer requests that
the service be reconnected within the next twelve months, a
reconnection charge shall be paid equivalent to the monthly
minimum charge times the number of months that such service has
been disconnected.
SECTION 3.
This ordinance shall repeal every prior ordinance and provision of the
Fort Worth City Code in conflict herewith but only insofar as the portion
of such prior ordinance or provision shall be in conflict, and as to all
other ordinances or provisions of the Fort Worth City Coda not in direct
conflict herewith, this ordinance shall be and is hereby made cumulative.
SECTION 4.
If any section, part of a section or provision of any section of this
ordinance shall be held to be void, ineffective or unconstitutional by a
court of competent jurisdiction, the holding of such section, part of a
section or provision of any section to be void, ineffective or unconstitu-
tional for any cause whatsoever shall in no way affect the validity of the
remaining sections and provisions of this ordinance, which shall remain in
full force and effect. The City Council would not have passed any sections,
parts of sections or provisions of any section of this ordinance that were
unconstitutional , void or ineffective if it had known that they were uncon-
stitutional , void or ineffective at the time of adopting this ordinance.
SECTION 5.
A violation of any of the above rules and regulations of the City
Waterworks as set out herein, or a doing or causing to be done by any
person or persons, firm or associat|on, of any of the things or acts for-
bidden or made unlawful in any of such rules and regulations, shall be
deemed to constitute n violation under the terms of this ordinance and an
offense, and shall be punishable as such; and for each and every violation
of the terms of this ordinance, the person, firm, association or corporation
shall, upon conviction thereof in the Corporation Court, be fined not to ex-
ceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) , and each violation and each day there is
a failure to comply with the terms of this ordinance shall constitute o
separate offense.
SECTION 6,
The rates prescribed in this ordinance shall be placed in effect with the
October, 1965 billing, after the date of its passage and publication as
required by law, and it is so ordained .
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
City Attorney