HomeMy WebLinkAbout1978-2220 SEWER SERVICE CHARGE & FIXING SEWER SERVICE RATES & CHARGES. ORDINANCE NO. 42;1424
AN ORDINANCE relating to public services and utilities; imposing a
sewer service charge and fixing sewer service rates
and charges; amending Sections 7.60.010, 7.60.020
and 7.60.030, and enacting new Section 7.60.031,
all of the City of Yakima Municipal Code.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
• Section 1. Section 7.60.010 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7.60.010 City to fix and collect sewerage rates
and charges. The public health, safety and welfare
require that the City of Yakima fix and collect sewerage
rates and charges upon, and measured by water served
to, premises in the City of Yakima and areas outside
the corporate limits of the City, for the carrying
and discharge of all sewage and drainage into the muni-
cipal sewer system of the City of Yakima as presently
410 maintained and operated, together with additions and
betterments thereto and extensions thereof, which rates
and charges are fixed by this chapter; provided, that
the specifying of service rates and charges by this
chapter shall not affect the financing of construction
of sewers and trunk sewers pursuant to the local improve-
ment district process, the imposition of a Sanitary Sewer
Capital Cost Recovery Charge, or other alternate means
of financing such construction; provided, further, the
adoption of rates fdr service to property outside the
corporate limits of the City does not constitute an
undertaking by the City to serve any or all such property
without compliance with other laws, regulations and
policies of the City pertaining to the furnishing of
city sewer service outside city corporate limits."
Section 2. Section 7.60.020 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7.60.020 Sewer service charge.
• A. Rates--Minimum charge. There shall be charged
to and collected from all premises within the City served
by the city sewer system a sewer service charge composed
of a ready-to-serve charge and a volume charge based
on domestic water consumption; provided, in no event
shall the total sewer service charge be less than $2.00
per month for premises inside the city limit boundary
nor less than $3.00 per month for premises outside
the city limit boundary. The sewer service charge shall
be calculated and charged according to the following schedules:
1. Ready-to-serve charge:
For all customers other than multiple-unit
• residential customers:
Water Meter Monthly Bimonthly
Size (Inches) •Charge Charge
3/4 $ 2.00 $ 4.00
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4.10 8.20
1 1/2
7.60 .
15.20
2 12.00 24.00
3 22.00 44.00
4 36.00 72.00
6 71.00 142.00
8 127.00. 254.00
10 204.00 408.00
For multiple-unit residential customers, the 411
monthly ready-to-serve charge shall be $0.60
per account plus $1.40 per dwelling unit.
2. Volume charge:
For all customers, the volume charge shall be 1
$0.41 per 100 cubic feet of water consumption.
B. Rate to property outside City. For customers
located outside the City, a 1.5 multiplier shall be applied
to the billings calculated in accordance with the rates
for inside-City customers, except that such 1.5 mul-
tiplier shall not be applied to the strong-waste surcharge.
C. Strong waste surcharge. For industrial customers
discharging wastewater which contains more than 300 parts
per million of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) or more
than 300 parts per million of Suspended Solids (SS),
there shall be a surcharge, in addition to the ready-to-
serve charge and the volume charge, which shall be
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calculated as. follows:
Monthly Surcharge = (Unit costs per pound of BOD or SS) times
(Weight of one gallon of water) times
(Customer's flow in million gallons per
month) times
(Customer's concentration of BOD or SS in
parts per million minus 300)
In the foregoing formula: Unit cost per pound for BOD = $0.0704
Unit costs per pound for SS = $0.0303
Weight of one gallon of water
= 3.34 pounds'
Section 3. Section 7.60.030 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7.60.030 Sewer charge added to and payable with
water bill. The sewer service charge provided for in
this chapter shall be payable at the office of the iqp
Treasurer of the City of Yakima, and shall be billed
for and payable at the same time as the water bill for
the premises is payable; and payment for water service
shall not be accepted unless payment of the sewer ser-
vice charge is made at the same time. The same shall
be payable bimonthly and shall be added to city water
bills as a separate charge thereon."
Section 4. Section 7.60.031 is hereby enacted as a new section
of the City of Yakima Municipal Code to read as follows:
"7.60.031 Rate for premises not connected to sewer.
All property owners within the area served by the city
sewer system shall connect their private sewers with
the city system; provided, in the event any property
within the area served by the city sewer system is not
so connected to the system, a penalty is hereby imposed
against the owner, occupant or other person responsible
for that property in an amount equal to the minimum
sewer service charge applicable to that property, as
provided by Section 7.60.020 of this chapter."
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411 Section 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and
effect thirty days after its passage, approval and publication
as provided by law and by the City Charter.
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PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this
day of Od , 1978.
JE—W .
f Mayor
ATTEST:
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