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15- ORDINANCE NO. B -1890
AN ORDINANCE relating to the municipal sewerage system and additions and better-
ments thereto and extensions thereof; and the financing, maintenance
and operation thereof as a public utility; providing for rates and
charges; for the creation of a special "Sewer Fund" into which shall
be paid all revenues and out of which shall be paid all expenses of
said system; and for the administration and enforcement of this ord-
inance; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. That 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 for the carrying and discharge
of all sewage and drainage into the municipal sewerage system of the City of Yakima
as presently maintained and operated, together with additions and betterments there-
to and extensions thereof, which rates and charges are hereby fixed in the following
section; provided, that the local improvement district method of providing for the
construction of sewers and trunk sewers to serve abutting property shall be contin-
ued in the manner provided by law.
Section 2. From and after July 1, 195 there is hereby charged to
all premises, both residential, multiple residential, commercial and industrial,
served by water within the corporate limits of the City of Yakima, a sewer service
charge which is hereby fixed at 20% of the water charge for domestic water furnish-
ed to said premises, but in any event not less than thirty cents (30¢) per month.
Section 3. The sewerage charge provided in this ordinance shall be
payable at the office of the city treasurer at the same time as the water bill
for the premises is payable; - and payment for water shall not be accepted unless
payment of the sewerage charge is made at the same time. The same shall be pay-
able bi- monthly and shall be added to city water bills as a separate charge there-
on. The same shall be payable in all cases where a sewer is available, irrespective
of whether or not said sewer is actually used for the benefit of said premises.
Section 4. In addition thereto fruit and vegetable cannery plants
and other industrial waste sewerage users shall pay such additional industrial
sewerage service charges as may be hereafter fixed by ordinance of the City of Yakima.
Section 5. The amount of said sewer service charges for occupied or
improved premises served by water within said city which do not receive city water
for domestic purposes, shall be fifty cents (50/) per month payable bi- monthly for
each single family residence or apartment.
Section 6. Where the use of water is such that a portion of all
water used is lost by evaporation, irrigation, sprinkling or other cause, or is
used in manufactured goods and commodities, and the person in control provides
proof of this fact and installs a meter or other measuring device approved by
the City Water Superintendent to enable measurement of the amount of water so
used or lost, no charge shall be made for sewerage because of water so used or
lost, except that in no case will the minimum charge be adjusted or reduced.
Direct discharge of sewerage or industrial waste to fresh water or to points other
than the city sewer system shall not be cause for adjustment or reduction of the
sewerage service charge.
Section 7. It is the intent of this ordinance that that portion of
water used exclusively for sprinkling be not charged correspondingly for sewerage.
Upon application, where it can be shown to the satisfaction of the City Water
Superintendant th t the higher charges for sewerage during the summer months are
due to water usedrgrinkling, the sewerage charge for summer period may be adjust-
ed to the winter months! charges.
Section 8. Where sewerage is provided to premises outside the city
limits, the sewerage charge shall be computed on the same basis as premises located
inside the city, except that a surcharge of fifty per cent (50%) shall be added.
Section 9. All sewer service charges shall be due and payable at
the office of the city treasurer on or before the 10th day after bill has been
issued, and if unpaid shall become delinquent after said 10th day, and said date
of delinquency shall be indicated on said bill. Any sewer service charge which
becomes delinquent shall immediately become a lien upon the premises, and if un-
paid for sixty (60) days after delinquency, shall bear interest at the rate of 8%
per annum, and such lien may be foreclosed by the city as provided by state law.
Said lien shall be superior to all other liens and encumbrances except general
taxes and local and special assessments.
Section 10. As an additional and concurrent method of the collection
of any such delinquent sewerage rate or charge, the water superintendant may but
off the water service or supply from the premises to which such rate or charge for
sewerage has attached until such rates and charges are paid.
Section 11. There is hereby created in the city treasury a special
fund to be known as the "Sewer Fund ". Any and all revenues received for the use
of sewers and for sewerage as herein set forth, or in connection therewith, shall
be credited to said fund, and all expenses for the operation and maintenance of the
existing sewerage system of the City of Yakima, and for the servicing of bonds and
the cost of operation and maintenance of the sewerage plant and system of said city
as constructed or added to, and to maintain such sewerage utility in sound finan-
cial condition, shall be charged to said fund in the manner and to the extent
provided by ordinance. Such expenses shall include the cost of billing and collect-
ion of said charges.
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Section 12. If any part of this ordinance shall be held unconstitut-
ional or otherwise invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions hereof.
Section. 13. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety,and an emergency
is declared to exist, and this ordinance shall be in full force and'effect immed-
iately upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and the City
Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COMMISSION, signed and approved this 28th day of
May, 1956.
ATTEST: PEARL BENJAMIN ( S E A L) G. W. BURNS
City Clerk Mayor
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of Ordinance
No. B -1890 entitled "AN ORDINANCE relating to the municipal sewerage system and
additions and betterments thereto and extensions thereof; and the financing, maint-
enance and operation thereof as a public utility; providing for rates and charges;
for the creation of a special "Sewer Ftnd" into which shall be paid all revenues
and out of which shall be paid all expenses of said system; and for the adminis-
tration and enforcement of this ordinance; and declaring an emergency." as passed
on the 28th day of May, 1956, and that same has been published as required by law.
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