[Ord. No. 338 §4, 8-12-1991]
It shall be the duty and obligation of the Public Works Director (under the coordinating authority of the City Administrator as per Section
105.110, et seq. of this Code) to manage, control, and operate the City Utilities.
[Ord. No. 311 §§1 —
7, 9-11-1989; Ord. No.
338 §4, 8-12-1991]
A. In
the first regular session of the Eightieth General Assembly, Conference
Committee substitute for House Committee for Senate Committee substitute
for Senate Bills Nos. 218, 235, 298, 340, and 398 was enacted designed
to exempt certain sales from the State sales tax.
B. Section
144.030 (23) of the new Statutes specifically states that "all sales
of metered water service, electricity, electrical current, natural,
artificial or propane gas, wood, coal or home heating oil used for
non-business, non-commercial or non-industrial purposes, (in short,
residential utilities) shall be exempt from the State sales tax.
C. Section
144.030 (2) of the same act provides that any municipal sales tax
on such utility sales will be terminated, unless the municipality
involved specifically reimposes its municipal sales tax on residential
utilities.
D. It
is the intent of this City to re-enact such tax, as it appears to
be in the best interest of the City and its citizens.
E. The
municipal sales tax on all sales of metered water service, electricity,
electrical current, natural, artificial or propane gas, wood, coal
or home heating oil, used for non-business, non-commercial or non-industrial
purposes within the corporate limits of this City is hereby increased.
F. The
rate of taxation shall be increased to one and one-half percent (1.5%),
for the Capital Improvements Sales Tax.
G. The
City Clerk is hereby directed to provide copies of this Section to
all of the utilities which provide service within the corporate limits
of the City, and to the Director of Revenue for the State of Missouri.
[Ord. No. 99 §§1 —
4, 11-21-1966; Ord. No.
338 §4, 8-12-1991]
A. The
word "person" when used in this Section shall include
any individual, firm, co-partnership, joint partnership, joint venture,
association, corporation, estate, business trust, trustee, receiver,
syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, in
the plural as well as the singular number.
B. Every
person now or hereafter engaged in the business of supplying electricity
and power, telephone service or water for compensation for any purpose
in the City shall pay to the City as a license tax sixteen hundred
dollars ($1,600.00) annually; payable on the first days of December,
March, June and September in the amount of four hundred dollars ($400.00)
per payment.
C. The tax herein required to be paid shall be in lieu of any other occupation tax required of any person engaged in any of the businesses described in Subsection
(B) hereof, but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to exempt any such person from the payments to the City of the tax which the City levies upon the real or personal property belonging to any such person, nor the tax required of merchants or manufacturers for the sale of anything other than electricity, telephone service or water, nor shall the tax herein required exempt any such person from the payment of any other tax which may be lawfully required, other than an occupation tax on any of the businesses described in Subsection
(B).
D. Any person engaged in any of the businesses described in Subsection
(B) who shall violate any of the foregoing provisions shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Each day's violation of these provisions shall constitute a separate offense. The City may also, by civil action in accordance with the Statutes of Missouri, proceed to collect all sums due and for each month's delinquency one percent (1%) accumulative penalty shall be added thereto, together with reasonable attorney fees.
[Ord. No. 443 §1, 6-12-1997]
The City of St. Robert, Missouri is hereby authorized to enter
into the Joint Contract with other municipalities for the purpose
of joining a separate legal entity known as the Municipal Gas Commission
of Missouri in order to provide for the financing, acquisition and
operation of natural production, transmission and distribution facilities
and resources and for the joint purchases of natural gas as required
to meet the natural gas requirements of their respective municipal
natural gas utility systems. The joint contract is in the form of
the Joint Contract which is Exhibit A of this Ordinance 443, a copy
of which is on file in the City offices. The Mayor and City Clerk
are hereby authorized to execute and deliver the Joint Contract in
the form submitted as Exhibit A hereto.
[Ord. No. 748 §§1 —
2, 9-27-1999]
A. No
person shall, without a written permit previously obtained from the
Board of Aldermen, or a franchise granted by ordinance of the Board
of Aldermen:
1. Own, erect, construct, operate, maintain, utilize, extend, or improve
a water, sewer, or electrical system within the corporate limits of
the City of St. Robert; or
2. Own, erect, construct, operate, maintain, utilize, extend, or improve
a water, sewer, or electrical system which is designed to, or does
in fact, provide electrical service to itself or any other person;
or
3. Utilize, occupy, cross above or below, or in any way encroach upon
any public street, alley, easement or right-of-way with any component
or aspect of its water, sewer, or electrical system; or
4. Own, utilize, operate or maintain a water, sewer, or electrical system
which utilizes a source of electrical power and energy other than
the municipal water, sewer or electrical system.
5. Sell utility services provided by the City of St. Robert to persons
or organizations for a sum greater than that charged for those utility
services by the City of St. Robert.
[Ord. No. 2871 §2, 2-16-2016]
A. The following shall be required to establish new utility services
in the City of St. Robert:
1.
Proof of right to occupancy, which shall be one (1) of the following:
a copy of the front page of rental agreement, including lease; deed
or contract for deed; proof of ownership; or written consent of owner
to occupy the residence. (The tenant identified in the right to occupancy
shall be the same person identified in the photo ID and utility application.)
3.
Completed utility application.
4.
Utility deposit (for services to be provided at the residence
or place of business listed in the utility application and identified
in the proof of right to occupancy).
[Ord. No. 1820 §§1 —
2, 8-22-2005]
A. Buildings
constructed in the City of St. Robert which have interior supply plumbing
so configured that the supply line to the exterior hose bibs is separated
from all other water supply lines and provision made for the installation
of a secondary meter measuring the amount of water flowing to the
outside of the building shall be allowed to install a secondary meter
with an installation fee charged by the City for said installation.
B. The
secondary meter shall be read monthly and a credit shall be given
on the sewer charged for that month for the amount of water which
has passed to the outside of the house. No credit shall be allowed
hereunder in the event that the water flowing through said secondary
meter ultimately is disposed of in the City sanitary sewer system.