(A) The City Council has the power and authority to fix the rates to be paid by the water consumers for the use of water from the Water Department. All fees shall be on file for public inspection at the office of the City Clerk/Treasurer. No flat rates for water service shall be quoted or allowed by the City Council. No water service shall be furnished to any customer at a rate that is different from other customers of the same class or type.
(B) Persons, firms, or corporations desiring to use water temporarily shall pay such rates as the Utilities Superintendent, with the approval of the City Council, shall set. Without respect to schedule of rates for other customers, the City Council may enter into special contracts with large consumers of water, but never at a rate less than the cost of production; provided, that the contract shall always provide that the large consumer shall always pay the minimum rate for other customers and the contract shall be made on the basis of water consumed in excess of the minimum. A meter shall always be attached to the water service of the contract consumer and read as in the case of other classes of water consumers.
(C) Water service furnished to the other departments of the municipality and to other governmental subdivisions of the state shall be measured and billed for at such rates as the City Council shall set from time to time without respect to the schedule of rates on file at the office of the City Clerk/Treasurer, but never at rates that do not cover the cost of providing water. One bill only shall be computed for each meter.
(Prior Code, § 52.20) (Ord. 2000-1.1, passed 3-13-2000)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. Rev. Stat. 17-540