HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973-1593 COMPUTING CHARGES FOR DOMESTIC WATER & SANITARY SEWER FOR AN EQUITABLE SHARE OF THE COST OF UTILTIY SYSTEM. ORDINANCE NO. /593
AN ORDINANCE relating to public services and utilities; imposing
and specifying the manner of computing charges for
connections to existing domestic water and sanitary
sewer lines to serve property not previously assessed
or otherwise charged for an equitable share of the
411 cost of the utility system; amending Sections 7.56.010,
7.56.020, 7.56.030 and 7.56.060 and repealing Sections
7.56.050 and 7.68.045, all of the City of Yakima
Municipal Code.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA :
Section 1. Section 7.56.010 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7.56.010 Purpose of chapter. The purpose of this
chapter is to facilitate connections to existing domestic
water and sanitary sewer systems to serve lots, tracts
or parcels of land where no local improvement district
assessment was levied on the property to be served or where
an equitable share of the cost of the system, according
to the method of computing such share as specified in this
chapter, has not been otherwise previously borne by an
owner of the property to be so served."
Section 2. Section 7.56.020 of the City of Yakima Municipal
411 Code is hereby amended to read as. follows:
"7.56.020 Connection to Existing Utility System,
Connection Charge Imposed. A connection charge is hereby
imposed on the owner of any lot, tract or parcel of property
to be connected to a then existing city domestic water or
sanitary. sewer line when an owner of the lot, tract or
parcel to be so connected has not paid an equitable share
of the cost of the system to which connection is to be
made. The connection charge shall be paid prior to the
connection to the city domestic water or sanitary sewer
line, as the case may be, with the amount of such charge
to be determined by the city in accordance with the compu-
tations specified in Section 7.56.030 of this chapter."
Section 3. Section 7.56.030 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7.56.030 Computation of Charge.
A. If the lot, tract or parcel is to be connected
to an existing domestic water or sewer line abutting along
110 frontage of the property to be served, which existing
system and line were originally financed by local, improve-
ment district assessments, the amount to be paid for con-
necting such lot, tract or parcel to the existing line
shall be derived by applying the actual rates which were
used to compute local improvement district assessments
to finance installation of the line and system, to which
amount shall be added interest computed at actual annual
rates charged on unpaid assessments levied pursuant to
the local improvement district which financed the installation
of the existing line and system to which the connection
is to be made.
111 B. If the lot, tract or parcel is to be connected
to an existing domestic water or sanitary sewer line
abutting along frontage of the property to be served,
which existing system and line were financed by means
other than a local improvement district, the amount to
be paid for connecting such lot, tract or parcel to the
existing system and line shall be derived by applying
the average rate used to compute local improvement dis-
trict assessments during the year, or for some other
representative period of time determined by the Director
of Public Works, within which the line and system was
installed, to which amount shall be added interest com-
puted annually at the average rate of interest charged
on unpaid assessments levied for local improvement dis-
trict projects constructed during the year, or for some
other representative period of time determined by the
Director of Public Works, within which the line and system
was installed.
C. If the lot, tract or parcel is to be connected to
an existing domestic water line, but is situated in an area
determined by the Director of Public Works as not adequately
411 served by then existing fire hydrants, the domestic water
connection charge shall be an amount equal to 75% of the
connection charge computed according'taSubsection A or
Subsection B, as the case may be, of tFiis. section; and the
owner of the lot, tract or parcel to be connected shall
be required, as a condition to such connection being made,
to sign an agreement containing a covenant running with the
land to participate without protesting in a future local
improvement district to finance the installation of fire
hydrants in the area of such lot, tract or parcel in the
event such a local improvement district is subsequently
created for that purpose.
D. If the lot, tract or parcel may physically be
connected to an existing city domestic water or sanitary
sewer line although such line does not then abut along
frontage of the property to be served, and where such a
connection may be made without actually extending the line,
the amount to be paid for such connection shall be derived
by applying the rates used to compute local improvement
district assessments levied to finance the then most recently
previous installation of a water or sewer line, as the case
111 may be, under comparable construction conditions, all as
determined by the Director of Public Works."
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Section 4. Section 7.56.060 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7.56.060 Extensions on Vacant Property. For exten-
sions of existing domestic water or sanitary sewer lines,
financed by means other than a local improvement district,
410 when such extensions abut vacant or unoccupied property
where no immediate water or sewer connections are to be
made, the feasibility of extending such a line will be
left to the discretion of the Director of Public Works;
provided, however, that no extension will be made which
averages more than 100 lineal feet per connection unless
the property owners desiring such extension pay, in advance,
a connection charge computed according to the provisions
of Section 7.56.030 D of this chapter for at least 507
of the total property potentially served by the extension."
Section 5. Sections 7.56.050 and 7.68.045 of the City of
Yakima Municipal Code are hereby repealed.
Section 6. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
thirty days after its passage, approval and publication as pro-
vided by law and by the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this ,
day of , 1973.
Mayor
ATTEST:
Acting City Clerk
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