HomeMy WebLinkAbout1965-747 ORDNANCE NO. '74
AN ORDINANCE relating to the domestic water services of the City of
Yakima; enabling the City Council of the City of Yakima
to authorize the transfer of water consumers from pri-
vate domestic water supply companies to the municipal
domestic water system; restricting such transfers; and
creating a new chapter, to follow existing Chapter 7,76,
of the City of Yakima Municipal Code, said n1.4 chapter
to be numbered and entitled "Chapter 7.78 TRANSFER OF
DOMESTIC WATER SERVICE FROM PRIVATE DOMESTIC WATER
SUPPLY COMPANIES TO THE CITY OF YAKIMA SYSTEM".
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. That there is hereby created a new chapter, to follow
existing Chapter 7.76, of the City of Yakima Municipal Code, which
said new chapter shall be numbered and shall read as follows:
"Chapter 7.78
TRANSFER OF DOMESTIC WATER SERVICE FROM PRIVATE DOMESTIC
WATER SUPPLY COMPANIES TO THE CITY OF YAKIMA SYSTEM
SECTIONS:
7.78.010 Purpose of Chapter.
7.78.020 Transfer of Water Service Authorized
7.78.030 Restriction on Transfer
7.78.010 PURPOSE OF CHAPTER. It is the purpose of this
Chapter to provide for the orderly transfer of domestic water
service, to consumers presently served by a private domestic
water supply company, from such private company's system to
the City of Yakima Municipal domestic water system; and to
enable the Yakima City Council to exercise its discretion in
authorizing such transfers of service by examining each pro-
posed transfer and by establishing conditions and requirements
applicable to any such transfer, as those conditions and re-
quirements are determined by the City Council to be necessary
and in the public interests, depending on the circumstances
surrounding each such proposed transfer of service.
7.78.020 TRANSFER OF WATER SERVICE AUTHORIZED. Any
domestic water consumer served by a private domestic water
supply company may discontinue such private domestic water
service and connect to and be served by the City of Yakima
domestic water system upon the approval, by resolution of the
Yakima City Council, of an application to the City Clerk of the
City of Yakima, by the owner of the property served, for such
transfer of service. The City Council may authorie the
execution of a contract, or contracts, with any private domestic
water supply company providing for such transfer of service to
domestic water consumers within an area or along routes speci-
fied in such contract. The City Council's approval of such
transfer of service, whether pursuant to individual application
or to a contract with a private domestic water supply company,
may be conditional and subject to requirements which the City
Council may specify in any particular instance, and mav be
approved by the City Council either with or without a require-
ment that the consumer pay a connection charge for water main
construction or meter service installation charge, notwith-
standing any ordinance of the City of Yakima which may other-
wise require such fees to be paid.
7.78.030 RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER. No consumer served
by a private domestic water supply company shall be trans-
ferred and connected to the City of Yakima domestic water
system without the consent of the responsible officers of
any such private domestic water supply company."
Section 2. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect
010 thirty days after its passage, approval and publication as prJvided
by law and by the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this day
of , 1965.
K= .
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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