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(a) System Capacity Rate. The charges enacted under Section 949.02 shall be determined in accordance with the following:
The system capacity charge established under Columbus City Code, 1959, Section 1105.17 "System Capacity Rates Contract Areas", as amended to the effective date of this section, or as hereafter amended in the most recent edition.
The fee shall be paid at the time a permit is issued for the service tap. No person shall make a service tap of any part thereof, unless he has been issued a permit therefor by the Director of Public Service.
In the event a tap is subsequently enlarged, the difference between the charges for the two sizes shall be paid.
If the Director of Public Service is satisfied, after proper investigation, that a water tap would in no way be harmful to the community, he may issue a permit for such tap.
For all taps used to supply fire protection only, the rate shall be one-half the rate specified in this section.
In addition to the rates as set forth above, a charge of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) a unit shall be charged to service a mobile home, multi-family dwelling, motel, hotel, hospital room and commercial units served by a master meter.
Any portion of the rates set forth in this section, with the exception of the amount which shall be paid to the City of Columbus pursuant to the contract for water supply, may be waived at the recommendation of the Mayor and upon approval by motion of Council.
(Ord. 162-92. Passed 12-14-92.)
(b) Application and Inspection Fee. The owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the Service Director. A permit and inspection fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for a water permit shall be paid to the Municipality at the time the application is filed.
(Ord. 115-89. Passed 9-25-89.)
When the application for a water main tap pursuant to Section 949.01 is filed for a water line that has been constructed privately under a private water line agreement between the City and a private land owner, the Director of Public Service shall charge the applicant, in addition to the fees provided in Section 949.02, a sum in conformity with the following schedule:
Pro rata costs as computed from the cost statement as provided in the private water line after the cost statement has been filed with the Director of Public Service. An additional ten percent shall be added for each subsequent five-year interval for a total period of twenty years after filing the statement, after which all rights to collect the fee are terminated.
(Ord. 15-70. Passed 2-10-70.)
(a) Upon application being made for a permit to tap any feeder water main or any lateral water main built or acquired by the City within the corporation limits for the use of any property abutting thereon, or in the vicinity thereof, not already supplied, and provided that such property has not been especially assessed for the cost of the construction of such feeder water mains, before issuing the permit for tapping there shall be exacted by the Director of Public Service the sum of twenty-two dollars ($22.00) per front foot of the property to be served if located within the City in addition to the permit fees as specified in Section 949.02.
(b) Lots or parcels of ground having the same width at the front and rear and the same depth on each side shall be charged the fee provided in subsection (a) hereof on the basis of the actual frontage. However, if a lot or parcel of ground abuts on a street or other public way and the owner elects to construct a building fronting on the street or public way abutting such depth, the fee shall be exacted for such depth.
(c) Lots or parcels of ground which are of irregular shape shall be charged the fee provided in subsection (a) hereof on the basis of the width of such property, as measured on a line forty feet from the front lot line and parallel to the centerline of the street upon which such property is to face, except that for lots or parcels of ground having curved frontage, the widths to be charged for shall be measured on a line parallel to and forty feet distant from a line tangent to such curved frontage at a point midway between the sides of the lots or parcels of ground.
(d) The number of feet to be charged the fee which is required by subsection (a) hereof shall be determined by the use of an engineer's scale applied to the record drawings for the water mains sought to be tapped, on file in the office of the City Engineer, and the widths so determined by the Service Director issuing the permit shall be final.
(Ord. 64-89. Passed 5-22-89; Ord. 106-02. Passed 11-12-02.)
If any person applies for and is granted permission to tap for distribution of water on private property through private water distribution lines, the distribution lines, exclusive of those within buildings on the premises, shall be built to the specifications of and subject to inspection by the City. All private distribution lines shall be maintained in a good, adequate and sanitary condition and maintenance shall be the obligation and at the expense of the property owner, and the property owner shall indemnify and save harmless the City from any and all loss it may sustain by reason of the property owner failing to comply with the maintenance provisions of this section.
(Ord. 194-66. Passed 7-25-66.)
When a permit is issued for a water service connection or a change in meter size, the meter shall be installed by the City on all meters up to and including one and one-half inch. Where the meter is two inches or larger, the meter shall be installed by the applicant, under the inspection and approval of the Water Department. The fees on the meters shall be:
Size of Meter (inches) | Fee |
5/8 x 3/4 | Cost plus 50 percent |
1 to 1 1/2 inclusive | Cost plus 38 percent |
2 to 12 inclusive | Cost plus 20 percent |
All water meters, shall be maintained by and remain the property of the City.
(Ord. 4-84. Passed 1-9-84; Ord. 113-17. Passed 10-9-17; Ord. 154-2022. Passed 12-12-22.)
There shall be a thirty dollar ($30.00) charge for removing, shock testing and reinstalling water meters wherever the accuracy of the meter is found to be within a range of accuracy of two percent (2%). No charge to customer if meter is measured outside of the two percent (2%) accuracy immediate replacement of water meter will result.
(Ord. 64-89. Passed 5-22-89; Ord. 113-17. Passed 10-9-17.)
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