83-012 ORD ARTICLE III SEWER USE ORDINANCE

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court costs, court reporters' fees and other expenses of litigation by appropriate suit at law against the person found to have violated this ordinance or the orders, rules, regulations, and permits issued hereunder. I. FALSIFYING INFORMATION Any person who knowingly makes any false statements, rep- resentations or certifications in any application, record, report, plan or other document filed or required to be maintained pursuant to this ordinance, or wastewater contribution permit, or who falsifies, tampers with, or knowingly renders inaccurate any monitoring device or method required under these provisions, shall be subject to the laws of the State of Texas prohibiting the same. SECTION .37 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS A. SAVINGS CLAUSE A user contributing wastewater and/or wastes to the POTW prior to the effective date of this enactment may continue to do so without penalty so long as he complies with the followings: 1) no increase in the quantity or decrease in the quality of the discharge will be allowed without written permission of the Superintendent; 2) prior to the effective date of the ordinance, the user must have contributed waste to the PQTW for a minimum of eighteen (18) months; 3) a wastewater contribution permit is applied for and granted within one hundred fifty (150) days after the effective date of this ordinance. B. INDUSTRIAL AllVISORY COMMITTEE The City Council may appoint an Industrial Advisory Committee to propose changes or review proposed changes in the Sewer Use Ordinance. It shall be made up of five industrial users at least two of which shall be significant industrial users. C. SEVERABILITY It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council of the City of Paris, Paris, Texas, that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordi- nance shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid by the valid judg- ment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any unconstitutional or invalid phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs or sections. D. CONFLICT All ordiriances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby expressly repealed. 28