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The minimum size of an ordinary street water line within the City in the various zones within the City shall be as follows:
Residential and commercial zones - 8 inches in diameter
Industrial zones - 12 inches in diameter
The cost of the above minimum sizes of an ordinary street water line shall be the basis of assessment against benefited properties. (Ord. 27-66. Passed 3-14-66.)
All meters will be read on a schedule to be established by the Director of Public Service and which schedule may be amended from time to time. No charge will be made for any measured water flow resulting from the use of water for fire fighting or fire inspection purposes, when such fire has been reported to the City Fire Department or when a request in advance has been made to the Water Department to test or inspect the lines and equipment. When a reported fire necessitates the use of an undetermined quantity of water for fire fighting, the charge to be made for normal usage will be the average of the monthly charges for the two months immediately preceding the month in which the fire occurred.
(Ord. 89-66. Passed 8-7-67.)
(a) Definitions. As used in this section:
(1) "Air conditioning system" means any system using refrigeration to maintain air temperature 60º F, or over, in an air conditioned space.
(2) "Ton of refrigeration" means the amount of heat required to melt a ton (2,000 lbs.) of ice in twenty-four hours, and corresponds to heat removal of 12,000 btu per hour or 200 btu per minute.
(3) "Nonconserving air conditioning equipment" includes any air conditioning equipment which uses water as a cooling agent and does not recirculate the water.
(b) Installation Permits; Fee. No person, firm or corporation using City water shall install or use for air conditioning purposes any equipment which uses water supplied by the City Water Department without having procured a permit from the Superintendent of Water, and the payment therefor, shall be ten dollars ($10.00), nor shall any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of installation of air conditioning units, install for air conditioning purposes any equipment which uses water supplied by the City Water Department without having inquired of the owner or his agent and ascertained that a permit has been procured for such installation.
(c) Registration of Water Using Units; Fee. All air conditioning units using City water installed prior to the date of this section shall be registered with the Superintendent of Water of the City on or before January 1, 1956, and the fee for registration shall be ten dollars ($10.00).
(d) Nonconserving Type Units; Additional Fees.
(1) A special charge of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per ton of capacity will be added to the regular water bill of the users of all nonconserving type air conditioning equipment using City water for each of the months of June, July, August and September each year. This charge does not apply to refrigerative types of equipment which do not use water or to water cooled units provided with cooling towers of sufficient capacity. Owners of existing nonconserving units may avoid this charge by installing cooling towers.
(2) The Superintendent of Water of the City shall receive all applications and/or registrations, and shall issue permits for the installation and/or use of such air conditioning equipment, and shall make all inspections of such installations for the purpose of determining their compliance with the requirements of all City ordinances applicable thereto.
(Ord. 42-55. Passed 9-13-55.)
There is hereby established a Water Capital Improvement Fund. The Fund is to maintain the long-term integrity of the water distribution system. Expenditures from this Fund shall meet the same criteria as established in other capital improvement funds of the City. The Water Capital Improvement Fund shall not be used for existing debt nor shall it be used for the retirement of bonds for the Water District #1 elevated water storage tank. Future capital debt may, as Council provides, be funded out of the Capital Improvement Fund. All interest earned by this Fund shall be prorated to the Fund on an annual basis.
The charge for the Water Capital Improvement Fund shall be based on meter size and billed on a monthly basis as follows:
Meter Size (Inches) | Bills Rendered Jan. '09 (3%) |
5/8 | 5.10 |
3/4 | 5.10 |
1 | 8.53 |
1½ | 17.07 |
2 | 27.30 |
3 | 54.56 |
4 | 85.28 |
6 | 132.15 |
8 | 231.29 |
10 | 234.50 |
12 | 319.74 |
In the case of a compound meter, the water capital improvement fund charge shall be based on the largest line in use. Fire service lines, as defined in Section 919.08, shall be excluded from this charge.
(Ord. 200-08. Passed 11-10-08.)
(a) After proper notification, the Service Director or duly authorized representatives, shall have the right to enter at any reasonable time any property served by a connection to the public water supply or distributing system of the City for the purpose of inspecting and repairing the water meter, the water meter remote and/or water meter pit and any piping connected to any type of metering device thereof. On demand, the property owner, lessee or occupant of any property so served, shall furnish to the Service Director any information which he may request regarding the water metering, the water meter remote and/or water meter pit and any piping connection to any type of metering device on such property. The refusal of such information when demanded shall be deemed evidence of the presence of improper connections and such property shall be subject to discontinuation of water service.
(b) Posting notice on a building located on the property itself, notification by certified mail or notification in the local newspaper shall be considered proper notification for the need to access a particular property for the reason of inspection or repairing of the meters.
(c) The Service Director is hereby authorized and directed to discontinue, after proper notification to the property owner and occupant thereof, the water service to any property wherein a request to enter premises is refused or ignored by the property owner or occupant thereof. In the event the occupant is not the owner, notice shall be served to the property owner and the occupant. The water service shall be discontinued at such property and shall not be restored until inspections or repairs are made in compliance with the provisions of this section.
(d) Any service that is shut off due to violation of the provisions of this section, shall be charged the customary service call cost stated in this chapter.
(Ord. 143-93. Passed 9-27-93.)
(a) The Service Director or designee is authorized to determine, at any time and from time to time, whether a water shortage exists to such an extent as to impair fire protection within the City or any part thereof. In connection with such determination, the Service Director or designee shall also determine the extent to which it is necessary to restrict the use of water for watering lawns, shrubbery and gardens, and the noncommercial washing of vehicles, which restriction may be for all or any portion of any day during the existence of shortage. If the Service Director determines that such a shortage exists, he shall immediately make proclamation thereof, and give public notice by newspaper, radio or television broadcast, or by any other means which he may find practicable, of the existence of the shortage and the extent of such restrictions.
Upon the termination of such shortage, the Service Director or designee shall proclaim and give public notice thereof.
(b) During the existence of any water shortage so determined and proclaimed, no person shall use, or allow to be used on any premises in this City under his charge or control, any water furnished by the City of Medina, for watering any lawn, shrub or garden, or the noncommercial washing of vehicles at any time such use is restricted.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 89-97. Passed 5-12-97.)
Any utility customer scheduled for disconnection when the COVID-19 related service disconnection suspension expires as of July 31, 2020 shall be permitted a twelve (12) month payment plan for the delinquent portion of the amount due. The following stipulations shall apply:
(a) Customers must contact the Finance Department and agree to the payment plan in order to be granted a payment plan.
(b) Penalties will not apply to the payment plan amounts.
(c) The full amount shall become due immediately if the account is terminated three times during repayment.
(d) If payments are not made under payment plan, customer is still subject to shutoff and termination of payment plan.
(Ord. 134-20. Passed 7-13-20.)
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