[Ord. No. 879 §1, 5-3-1983]
The Board of Aldermen of the City of Parkville, hereby finds
and determines that the rates, fees and charges for the use and services
of the sanitary sewerage system of the City necessary and adequate
under the terms of applicable law in light of present operating costs
and other expenditures are hereinafter specified.
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Editor's Note — Ord. no. 2227 §2, adopted December 20, 2005, repealed section 700.380 "monthly rates and annual assessments" in its entirety. Former sections 700.380 derived from ord. no. 879 §2, 5-3-1983; ord. no. 922 §§1 — 2, 1-8-1985; ord. no. 1579 §1, 4-2-1996. See Section 703.040 for new provisions.
[Ord. No. 879 §3, 5-3-1983]
No sanitary sewerage services shall be furnished or rendered
free of charge to any person, firm or corporation, other than the
City itself.
[Ord. No. 879 §4, 5-3-1983]
The quantity of water used upon any premises furnished with sanitary sewerage services by the sewer system of the City shall be measured by the water meter or meter servicing the premises; provided, however, that if any occupant or owner of any premises connected with the sewerage system of the City shall not have a water meter installed on his premises measuring all water received thereon from all sources, then such occupant or owner shall, at his own expense, install and maintain on said premises a water meter or meters satisfactory to the City Building Official, which meter shall measure all water received on said premises from all sources, and in such case, the sewerage rates to be charged such customer shall be based upon the aggregate quantity of water received on such premises as measured by said meter or meters subject to the requirements of Section 703.040. The Building Official shall have access to the premises of such customer at all reasonable times for the purpose of inspecting and testing of such water meter or meters and reading the records thereof.
[Ord. No. 2701[1] §1, 8-20-2013]
A.
If
any bill for sewerage services shall be and remain due and unpaid
twenty-one (21) days following the date of its rendition, an additional
charge, in the nature of a late charge, shall be added thereto in
the amount of ten percent (10%) of the original bill outstanding,
and an additional late charge of three percent (3%) shall be charged
for each month thereafter.
B.
The
City shall retain the right, in addition to all other rights provided
for herein, to submit a written request to the water utility to disconnect
water service after a bill remains unpaid for ninety (90) days and
upon proper notice to the customer receiving sewerage services and
owner of the premises where the sewerage services are received as
specified by Platte County for payment of taxes for the previous tax
year. Service shall not be resumed until all past due bills for sewerage
services are paid in full, including the City’s actual costs
for disconnection and reconnection or any other related costs imposed
by the water utility. The City shall retain the right to charge to
the customer or owner any court costs and attorney fees incurred by
the City in effecting that collection. Following receipt of notice
to disconnect, the customer or owner may request a hearing before
the City Administrator concerning the disconnection of water services.
The request shall be filed within 15 days of the date of the notice
to disconnect, and a hearing shall be held within 15 days of the request
for a hearing. The decision of the City Administrator shall be final,
and any appeal from that decision shall be made to the Platte County
Circuit Court.
C.
In
addition to imposing late charges, the Board of Aldermen may file
with the Recorder of Deeds of Platte County a notice of delinquency,
if any bill for sewerage services shall be and remain due and unpaid
ninety (90) days following the date it is due, and those unpaid fees
shall be a lien upon the property. If and when the delinquent amounts,
plus interest and any recording fees or attorneys’ fees, have
been paid in full, the Board of Aldermen shall file with the Recorder
of Deeds a similar notice of payment. The lien created may be enforced
by suit or foreclosure.
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Editor’s Note: This ordinance also repealed former Section
700.420, Late Charges, as adopted and amended by Ord. No. 879 §6,
5-3-1983; Ord. No. 1261 §1, 11-5-1991; and provided an effective
date of 10-1-2013.
[Ord. No. 879 §7, 5-3-1983; Ord. No. 1261 §2, 11-5-1991; Ord. No. 1579 §1, 4-2-1996; Ord. No. 2701 §2, 8-20-2013[1]]
The customer for the premises receiving sewerage services and
the owner of any such premises shall be jointly and severally liable
to pay for such services rendered on such premises. The City shall
have the power to sue either the customer or the owner, or both, of
such real estate in an appropriate civil action to receive any sums
due for such services. Included in this right is the power for the
City to receive reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs associated
with any collection of outstanding bills.
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Editor’s Note: This ordinance provided an effective
date of 10-1-2013.
[Ord. No. 879 §8, 5-3-1983]
All residential dwellings within the City of Parkville, shall
be connected to the public sewer. Such connections shall be made and
constructed in conformity and compliance with all applicable ordinances
and laws of the City of Parkville.
[Ord. No. 879 §9, 5-3-1983]
All commercial and industrial establishments situated within
the City of Parkville, shall be connected to the public sewer in conformity
and compliance with all applicable ordinances and laws of the City
of Parkville.
[Ord. No. 879 §10, 5-3-1983]
The Building Official or his duly authorized representative,
possessing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted
to enter all properties at reasonable times for the purpose of inspection,
observation, measurements, sampling and testing, in accordance with
the provisions of this Chapter to aid in the enforcement of the provisions
of this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 879 §11, 5-3-1983]
It shall be unlawful to construct any private sewage disposal
system for the disposal of sewage from any property after May 3, 1983.
[Ord. No. 879 §12, 5-3-1983; Ord. No. 894 §1, 9-20-1983]
A.
Except
as hereinafter provided, all property within the City of Parkville,
must be connected to the Parkville public sewer on or before April
30, 1984, unless the public sewer is not reasonably available. The
public sewer shall be deemed to be reasonably available to any property
if it shall lie within one hundred (100) feet of the property line
on which any building lot is proposed to be built or within one hundred
(100) feet of the boundary line of any subdivision which any building
lot is proposed to be approved, provided that said distance shall
be increased by one hundred (100) feet for each residential unit proposed
to be included in said building or in the event of a subdivision for
each building lot in said subdivision, so that for example if an apartment
house was to contain ten (10) apartments the sewer line would be reasonably
available if it lay within one thousand (1,000) feet of the property
line of the land on which the apartment was to be constructed, and
as a further example, if a subdivision is composed of ten (10) building
lots, then the sewer line would be reasonably available if it lay
within one thousand (1,000) feet of the nearest boundary line of such
subdivision.
B.
In
an instance where the existing facility to be connected to the public
sewer would cause an economic hardship to the landowner, the landowner
may make special application to the Board of Aldermen to be exempted
from this Section. As an example, in the case of a landowner where
the existing residential building sits on substantial acreage, the
one hundred (100) foot property line requirement above described may
be deemed to be unreasonable by the Board.
C.
Any
private sewage disposal system shall be completely disconnected from
the public sewer by April 30, 1984, and such private sewage disposal
system shall be filled, covered, or blocked so as to prevent completely
the infiltration of fluids from such system into the public sewer.
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Editor’s Note: Former Section 700.485, Sewer Connection
Fees, as adopted and amended by Ord. No. 2277 §§1—3,
8-1-2006, was repealed 11-5-2013 by Ord. No. 2717 §1.
[Ord. No. 879 §§13 —
16, 5-3-1983; Ord. No.
1359 §1, 4-6-1993]
A.
It
shall be a misdemeanor for any person or persons to tamper with any
sewer line, or other part of the City's sewerage system, or to make
any connection to said system without written permission from the
City, or to reconnect service when service has been discontinued for
non-payment of a bill for service until such bill, including all disconnection
and reconnection charges, has been paid in full. Upon conviction,
there shall be imposed a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00)
for each violation.
B.
Any
person who shall refuse to connect his property to the Parkville public
sewer within the time provided herein shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor. Any such violation shall be punished by a fine of not
more than two hundred dollars ($200.00). The owner of any residential,
commercial or industrial establishment found to be violating any provisions
of this Chapter shall be notified in writing by the Building Official,
and such writing shall state the nature of the violation and provide
for a reasonable time limit for the correction thereof. The owner
of such establishment shall permanently cease all violations from
the period of time stated in the notice, and shall certify to the
Building Official that the corrections have been accomplished. Any
owner of such establishment who shall continue such violation(s) beyond
the time limit provided herein shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction therefor shall be fined an amount not to exceed two
hundred dollars ($200.00) for each violation.
C.
Each
day that any violation of this Chapter continues shall be deemed a
separate offense, punishable as provided herein.
