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each of the winter average months will have their winter average calculated <br />based on the residential class average of 640 cubic feet. <br />Monthly commercial and industrial customers' wastewater volume shall <br />be based upon one hundred (100) percent of the actual metered potable <br />water consumption, except those customers whose wastewater is metered, <br />and their volume shall be based upon one hundred (100) percent of the <br />metered wastewater. The former shall be billed for one hundred (100) <br />percent of the metered potable water and the latter shall be billed for one <br />hundred (100) percent of the metered wastewater. <br />(c) Users desiring to discharge sewage into the City's sewerage system, the <br />strength of which sewage exceeds two hundred fifty (250) parts per million <br />biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), two hundred fifty (250) parts per million <br />of total suspended solids, (TSS), or thirty (30) parts per million of ammonia <br />(NH3), and which is acceptable under article III of this chapter, may do so <br />upon written permission of the city and by paying a monthly treatment <br />charge in the amount of ninety -five cents ($0.95) per pound of biochemical <br />oxygen demand (BOD) in excess of the allowable biochemical oxygen <br />demand (BOD); fifty cents ($0.50) per pound of total suspended solids (TSS) <br />in excess of the allowable total suspended solids (TSS); and thirty -eight cents <br />($0.38) per pound of ammonia (NH3) in excess of the allowable ammonia <br />strength. The city shall make the necessary tests of the user's sewage <br />strength to determine this charge. The charge prescribed by this <br />subsection shall be in addition to the charges prescribed in subsection (a) <br />hereof." <br />Section 4. That water and sewer rates established in Sections 2 and 3 above shall <br />be effective with October 1, 2014 consumption. <br />Section S. All provisions of the ordinances of the City of Paris, Texas in conflict with the <br />provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed, and all other provisions of the ordinances of <br />the City of Paris not in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance shall remain in full force <br />and effect. <br />Section 6. The repeal of any ordinance or part of ordinances affected by the <br />enactment of this ordinance shall not be construed as abandoning any action now pending <br />under or by virtue of such ordinance or as discontinuing, abating, modifying, or altering any <br />penalty accruing or to accrue, or as affecting any rights of the municipality under any section or <br />provisions of any ordinance at the time of passage of this ordinance. <br />Section 7. It is the intention of the City Council of the City of Paris that this <br />ordinance, and every provision hereof, shall be considered severable, and the invalidity or <br />partial invalidity of any section, clause, or provisions of this ordinance shall not affect the <br />validity of any other portion of this ordinance. <br />Section 8. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be <br />guilty of a Misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined in accordance with Section 1 -6 <br />Page 3 of 4 <br />