1756 ORD AMENDING ORDINANCE NO 1248 AND ORDINANCE NO 1388ORDINANCE NO, 1756 •
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORD:[NANCE NO, 1248 AND ORDINANCE NO.
1388; FIXING RULES AND REGULATIONS WITH RE_FEtZEI4CE TO T2-iE USE OF
WATER AND SEWER OF TIiE CITY OF PARIS; FIXING RATES AND PROVIDTNG
FOR CHARGES; ESTABLISHING BILLING CYCLE AND A MZNIMUM BILL; RE-
GULATING THE DISCONTINUANCE OF WATER AND SEWER FOR DE.LINQUENT
ACCOUNT5; PRJVIDT NG FOR RECONNECT CHARGE IN C?,SE OF DISCONNEG-
TION FOR NON-PAYMEN'I' OF BILLS FOZ WATER .AND SEWER; REQUIRING
THE PROPE R T Y OW NER TO CO'VNEC T TO SEW ER 'W ITHIN THE SEW ER DIS -
TRICT; CLASSIFYINATE U. ED PROVID NG OR AN EFFECTIOED
THEAM(~U DATE; AND
=~T OF V1T
REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLTCT HEREW ~TH,
BE AT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY 4F PARIS:
Section l. That Ordinance No. 1388 be amended as follows:
Water rates for users furnished by the City of Paris are hereby fixed at
the following rates per cubic foot per month for both domestic andcommercial
users as registered by the userts water meter:
Cabic Feet Used
Per Month
Rate
p
$0.60 M:_nim-zm Bill, No water (5/8" meter)
First
200
0.60 per
100 c. f.
Next
400
0.50 per
100 c, f.
Next
1,900
0.40 per
100 c. f.
Next
17.1500
0.25 per
100 c. f.
Next
802000
0.16 per
100 c. f.
Next
2000000
0. 12 per
100 c. f.
Next
700,000
0.10 per
100 c. f.
Next
3,000,000
0.08 per
100 c. f.
AIl Over
400002000
0.06 per
100 c. f.
Section 2. The followi.ng minimum bills for various size meters or taps
are hereby fixed as follows:
Meter or tap size
Inches
5/g,r
3/4't
1"
3rf
4"
6"
gft
10"
1Z"
14't
16"
18"
20"
Minimum Bill
$
o.60
2.00
3.00
6.00
10.00
16.00
25.00
45.00
80.00
130.00
180.00
240.00
300.00
375.00
475.00
Section 3. That the above rates shall be and become effective with Cycle
3 billing on November l, 19659 which billing date for said cycle is D-cember 1,
1965, as fixed by Ordinance No. 1363, and shall be due ten (10) days from the
billing date of each cycle, thereafter.
Section 4. Hereafter, if any person, firm or corporation shall fail to pay
the bill of the City of Paris for water service or for sewer service rendered to
such person, firm or corporation, on or before the expiration of ten (10) days
after the date from which such bill is due and payable, the water service of such
person, firm or corporation shall be discontinued, and such service shall not
again be resumed until such person, firm or corporation shall have paid such de-
linquent water or sewer bill in full, together with thereconnection fee of $1.00.
Section 5. That Ordinance No. 1248 be, and the same is hereby amended
as follows:
1. That Section 5 of Ordinance Number 1151-A heretofore passed by the
City Council of the City of Paris on February 22, 1947, entitled "An ordinance to
amend an ordinance entitled £An ordinance prohibiting, within certain territory,
the use of privies, cesspools, closets or other equipment or things used for the
disposal of sewage matter when not connected with the sanitary sewerage system
of the City of Paris, and requiring the same to be removed or abated; requiring
property owners to connect such privies, cesspools, closets, or other equipment
or things used for the disposal of sewage matter with the said sewerage system;
fixing charges for sewerage service; and fixing penalties for violation of this
ordinance; and declaring an emergency,' 'being Ordinance No. 1151 of the City of
Paris, passed by the City Council of the City of Paris on the 13th day of January,
1947" be and the same is hereby changed and amended so that Section 5 of said
Ordinance Number 1151-A sha11 hereafter read and be as follows:
"Section 5. It is hereby determined and declared to be necessary for the
City of Paris, Texas, to levy and collect charges from all persons, firms and
corporations that are using the sanitary sewer system and lines of the City for
the purpose of improving, extending, maintaining and operating,, constructing, re-
constructing and adding to the sanitary sewer system, including treatment plants,
and the water system of the Gity of Paris. "
Section 6. Sewerage rates for users furnished by the City of Paris are
hereby fixed at the following rates per cubic foot per manth for both domestic
and commercial users, based on the water used by said user as registered by the
user'°s water metero
SCHEDULE OF RATES
Cubic Feet of W ater
Used Per Month
R ate
0
First
200
Next
400
Next
1,900
Next
172500
Next
80,000
Next
200, 000
Next
7001000
Next
3,000,000
All Over
4f000,000
$0.30 Minimum Sill, no sewage
0. 30 per
100 c. f.
0, 25 per
100 c, f.
0. 20 per
100 c. f.
0, 125 per 100 c, f.
0. 08 per
100 c. f.
0. 06 per
100 c. f.
0. 05 per
100 c. f.
0. 04 per
100 c. f.
0, 03 per
100 c. f.
That the above rates shall be and become effective with Cycle 3 billing on
Novemlaer l, 1965, which billing date for said cycle is December 1, 1965, as
fixed by Ordinance No. 1363, and shall be due ten (10) days from ~he billing date
of each cycle, thereafter.
The sewerage charge on all single family residences shall not exceed
$5. 00 per month, regardless of inetered water consumption.
Single family residence sewerage customers, who are not also water cus-
tomers of said City, shall pay a flat rate charge of $5. OO per month for sewerage
service. All other sewerage users, who are not also water users of the City of
Paris, will pay a flat monthly rate to be determined by the City of Paris.
Commercial and industrial users, exclusive of domestic customers,
shall not be charged for water registered by their water meter, which is con-
sumed and not returned to the sewerage system by the user in a product or
process. The amount of water so consumed by said product or process shall
be deducted from t-he userts total monthly water consumption to determine his
sewerage useage. It shall be the sole obligation and responsibility of the cominer-
cial or industrial user to furnish the City of Paris with the necessary information
to reasonably determine the amountof water so consumed in said product or pro-
cess,
Section 7. The schedule of rates as set forth above in Section 6 are for
customers, whose sewage strength does not exceed 250 p. p. m. 5 day BOD and/or
300 p. p.m. of suspended solids. Users desiring to discharge sewage into the
Cityls sewerage system in excess of the above average strength, and which is
acceptable under the City of Paris Industrial W aste Ordinance No. 14819 may do
so upon written permission of the City of Paris and by paying a monthly treatment
surcharge in the amount of $0. 20 per one million gallons of sewage flow for each
one p, p. m. in excess of the allowable BOD and/or suspended solids. The City of
Paris shall make the necessary tests of the userts sewage strength to determine
this charge.
Section 8, The charges for water and sewerage shall be due and payable
monthly in connection with and as a part of the water account for the current
month of the user and shall be chargeable as a lien and legal charge against the
deposit made for securing the payment of water bills. That the failure to pay any
sewer bill or water bill shall make the user of sewer or water subject to be dis-
connected from the water service and before service may be restored the user
shall pay a fee of $1.00 for reconnection charge, plus all delinquent bills of water
and/or sewer provided for in Section 4.
Section 9. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
Section 10. This ordinance shall become effective November 19 1965.
Passed and adopted this 8th day of Noverr,~e A. D„ ? 1965.
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ATTEST:
City Clerk
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