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Home My WebLink About80-2412 ordORDINANCE NO. 80-2412 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 76-19'79: PRESCRIBING POLICIES OF THE CITY OF PLAINVIEW IN RE~ARD TO THE FURNIS]HING OF WATER AND SEWER UTILITY SERVICES; PROVIDING REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO THE CONNECTIONS OF USERS OF THE CITY'S WATERAND SEWER SYSTEMS; PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO THE OPERATION OF THE CITY'S WATER AND SEWER SYSTEMS; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY: WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 76-1979 establishes the City of Plainview Utility Department and its standard method of operation; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the Cii~ of Plainview, Texas has determined that it would be in the best interest of the public to amend said Ordinance No. 76-1979 by adjusting the turn off rate for discontinuing water services: NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE! CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLAINVIEW, TEXAS: Ordinance No. 76-1979 of the City of Plainview, Texas shall be the same and hereby amended as follows, two-wit: Section 1: Section 14 is hereby amended as follows: Section 14: BILLS; DELINQUENCY; CUTTING OFF SERVICE; FEE FOR COLLECTION SERVICE. The charges provided for by this Chapter for the various classes of service shall be payable monthly upon bills rendered by the waterworks depart- mens of the City of Plainview and shall be paid to the City of Plainvew, Utility Department. The charges provided for herein shall become delinquent ten (10) days after said bill is rendered ano as printed on the face of the bill. The bill as rendered shall be the net amount of the bill. All bills shall be considered rendered when sent to the customer by the accounting and collections division of the Utility Department and the failure to receive any such bill by any consumer shall in no manner relieve such consumer of the duty and necessity of paying for water or sewer service furnished under the terms herein specified. It shall be the duty of the Director of Municipal Services, upon the failure of refusal or any person, firm or corporation to promptly pay within ten (10) days from'date of delinquency any charge or charges levied and assessed under the terms of this Chapter, to discontinue such water or sewer service and refuse further service to such person, firm or corporation until said charges are paid or satisfactory arrangement, s for payment have been made. Provided, however, the Director may at his option, extend the time for payment folr one (1) additional month before discon- tinuing such water or sewer service. In addition, the sum of $8.00 is hereby assessed forma~ing.a service call for the purpose of cutting off service for failure on the part of the consumer to pay water or sewer service or installment charges or for the purpose of collecting a delinquent account, or for both if both purposes are accomplished in one service call. ~e account at the premises where service is cut off are paid in full or until t~e Cu'stomer or his agent has made arrangements satisfactory with the Director of Municipal Services to pay said amounts in fully In the event service is reinstated upon the promise of the customer to pay and i~ust again be cut off because of failure on the part of the customer to pay, an additional charge of $10.00 may be assessed. Should collection be required for .the purpose of collecting a check given by the customer in payment of a water bill, said check having been presented to the bank and the bank having not honored said check, a charge of $7.00 may be assessed.- SECTION 2: Section 46 is hereby amended as follows: SECTION 46: TURN-ON CHARGE AFTER DISCONTINUANCE TO ENFORCE PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE. In any case where it becomes necessary to discontinue service in order to enforce any of the provisions of this Ordinance other than those provisions relating to Collection of amount due the waterworks department, a charge of $10.00 will be made and collected before the water is turned on again. This charge shall be in addition to any other charges due. SECTION 3: REPEAL OF ORDINANCE IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. This Ordinance shall repeal every prior Ordinance and provision of the City of Plainview Code in conflict herewith but only insofar as the portion of such prior Ordinance or provisions shall be in conflict, and as to all other Ordinances or provisions of the City of Plainview Code not in direct conflict herewith, this Ordinance shall be and is hereby made cum- ulative. SECTION 4: SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. If any part or parts of this Ordinance shall be held to be invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining parts of this Ordinance. The City Council hereL~ declares that it would have passed the remaining parts of this Ordinance if it had known such part of parts thereof would be declared invalid. SECTION 5: DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. The fact that this is a public necessity to provide adequate water and sewer service, and refuse collection and disposal service to the citizens of the City of Plainview, and to provide for sufficient funds to furnish said services creates an emergency · ~and imp~e~%~¥e public necessity for immediate preservation ofp~blic peace, health, safety and general welfare and because of the necessiq¥ to publish notice of this.Ordinance prior to i~ts effective date and all rules requiring more than one reading are hereby suspended; and this ordinance shall be passed and taken effect as an emergency measure and be in full force and effect from and after the first day of October, 1980 and it is hereso ordained. PASSED AND APPROVED this the 23rd day of'~eptember, 1980 by unanimous vote of the City Council. ATTEST: