HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981-2537 TEMPORARY DOMESTIC WATER SERVICE & CONDITIONS FOR FURNISHING IT. ORDINANCE NO. 4537
AN ORDINANCE relating to public services and utilities; providing
for temporary domestic water service and specifying
conditions for furnishing such service; and amending
Section 7.68.300 of the City of Yakima Municipal
• Code.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Section 7.68.300 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7.68.300 Temporary Domestic Water Service.
A. Conditions of use. Temporary domestic water service
through an existing fire hydrant or by means of other existing
water lines will be furnished to a customer on the following
conditions:
• 1. Application for such service shall be made
in person to the Customer Service Office at Yakima
City Hall;
2. Water furnished through the temporary ser-
vice shall be measured by a meter assembly, to be
furnished by the City, for the use of which the
customer shall pay to the City the amount of $1.00
for each day the meter assembly is charged out to
the customer, regardless of the number of days the
meter assembly is actually used. The minimum meter
assembly use charge shall be $1.00.
3. When the meter assembly is. installed by
City employees, and the customer shall pay to the
City the actual labor cost incurred by the City,
based on the then applicable payroll charges, in-
cluding overhead, for actual hours of labor in-
volved, all as determined by the Customer Services
Office of the City, with a minimum 1 hour charge.
411 4. The customer shall pay the City the
actual cost for equipment used in making such
installation, based on the then current City
rental rates for the actual hours of equipment
usage, all determined by the Customer Services
Office of the City, with a minimum 1 hour charge.
5. The customer shall pay for water fur-
nished through a temporary service at the then
current rate as provided by the applicable City
ordinance.
6. The customer shall return the water
meter assembly in the same state of repair as
when furnished to the customer by the City, or
shall be responsible to the City for the actual
cost of any meter assembly repair, or the actual
total cost of the meter assembly in the event of
its destruction or loss.
7. The customer shall give notice to the
• Yakima Fire Department of the location of hydrants
to be used for temporary service, and the duration
of such use.
B. Billing. Bimonthly billings will be rendered by the 0
City to temporary water use customers, for the applicable
charges as specified in Sub Section A of this Section, with
payment therefor to be due within the same time as other
billings for City utility services; provided, if the tempo-
rary service is furnished for a period of time less than
the two month billing period, payment shall be due at the
time such temporary service is discontinued and the meter
assembly returned to the City.
C. Customer to sign agreement. Prior to the instal-
lation of the meter assembly by which a temporary water
service will be furnished, the applicant for such service
shall sign an agreement to comply with the provisions, terms
and conditions of this Section.
D. The provisions of this Section do not require or
authorize temporary domestic water service by or through
any other than the water lines or fire hydrants existing
at the time application for such service is made; and
neither this Section'nor any agreement signed pursuant to
it for temporary water service shall be construed to require
the installation or extension by the City of any water line
or facility to furnish temporary water service, either within
or outside the corporate boundary of the City."
Section 2. 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.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this.
day of g'e7a , 1981.
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