(A) (1) The minimum charge shall be $3.00 per month except for customers whose water usage is either not metered or not connected to the water system of the municipality, the minimum charge shall be $25.00 per month.
(a) Minimum charge:
Size of meter | Rate per month |
Size of meter | Rate per month |
inch | $ 3.00/Month |
¾ inch | 4.00/ Month |
1 inch | 5.00/Month |
1½ inch | 6.00/Month |
2 inch | 11.00/Month |
3 inch | 16.00/Month |
4 inch | 21.00/Month |
Service outside corporation | 31.00 extra per Month |
(b)
Year | Rate
|
2009 | $4.45 |
2010 | $4.68 |
2011 | $4.92 |
2012 | $5.17 |
2013 | $5.43 |
(2) The foregoing charges are minimum charges, not maximum charges, and the municipality reserves the right and is obligated to increase the same at any time should the revenues of the waterworks system prove insufficient to pay the operating and maintenance expenses and the debt service charges of the bonds issued to extend and improve the waterworks system. The municipality shall review the scheduled consumption charges during the month of July, beginning in 2010 and at least every other year thereafter.
(3) There shall be an assessment of $1.75 per month due from each water consumer for a period of one year commencing January, 2009 and continuing through December, 2009.
(4) There shall be an assessment of $5.00 per month due from each sewer consumer for a period of one year commencing January, 2018 and continue through December, 2018.
(Ord. 887, passed 10-17-78; Am. Ord. 83-8, passed 7-19-83; Am. Ord. 92-25, passed 1-19-93; Am. Ord. 93-21, passed 1-6-94; Am. Ord. 98-41, passed 11-17-98; Am. Ord. 2002-18, passed 9-3-02; Am. Ord. 2008-13, passed 12-2-08; Am. Ord. 2008-14, passed 12-2-08; Am. Ord. 2017-05, passed 12-19-17)
(B) The Manager may enter into special contracts for the waterworks system with the Board of Education, large commercial and industrial consumers, and trailer parks, as may be authorized or approved by the Council.
(C) Charges for services furnished the municipality and its inhabitants and other users by the waterworks system shall be rendered monthly by the Director of Finance and Records and shall be paid at the same time.
(D) The owner of private property which is served by the waterworks system by pipes connected with the system to convey water therefrom, as well as the lessee of the premises, shall be liable to the municipality for all water used for the premises.
(‘80 Code, § 50.03) (Ord. 543, passed 7-17-62; Am. Ord. 83-8, passed 7-19-83; Am. Ord. 96-17, passed 5-21-96)