[Ord. No. 16-01 § 1, 1-11-2016]
As used in this Chapter, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Any commercial facility conducting business in the Village
of Oak Grove.
Any mobile home park or facility with more than one (1) mobile
home or mobile home pad availability using only one (1) water meter.
Any facility, commercial or residential, housing more than
one (1) family using only one (1) water meter.
Any single-family dwelling using only one (1) water meter.
Any sewer user that is not on Village water and is hooked
up to the Oak Grove Village Sanitary Sewer System.
[Ord. No. 16-01 § 2, 1-11-2016]
A.
From and after the first day of the month,
beginning with the January 1, 2016, billing statement, the monthly
rates required and which shall be charged and collected by the Village
of Oak Grove, Missouri, for utilities furnished by the water and sewer
systems of said Village shall be as follows.
1.
The rates for water services shall
be based upon the total water usage of the individual customer according
to the following rates:
a.
For All Customers. Minimum charge
of three dollars ($3.00) for the first one thousand five hundred (1,500)
gallons used; twenty cents ($0.20) per one hundred (100) gallons for
everything over one thousand five hundred (1,500) gallons.
2.
The rates for sewerage services shall
be based upon the total water usage of the individual customer according
to the following rates:
a.
For Residential Customers. All gallons/month
water usage: three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) per one thousand
(1,000) gallons.
b.
For Commercial Customers:
(1)
First twenty thousand
(20,000) gallons/month water usage: three dollars and fifty cents
($3.50) per one thousand (1,000) gallons.
(2)
Next twenty thousand
(20,000) gallons/month usage: four dollars and fifty cents ($4.50)
per one thousand (1,000) gallons.
(3)
All over sixty thousand
(60,000) gallons/month usage: five dollars and fifty cents ($5.50)
per one thousand (1,000) gallons.
c.
Mobile Home Parks shall be charged
three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) per one thousand (1,000) gallons
used.
d.
Multifamily dwellings shall be charged
three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) per one thousand (1,000) gallons.
e.
Well customers shall be charged a
flat fee of eleven dollars ($11.00) per month. However, any multifamily
dwelling shall be charged a minimum of eleven dollars ($11.00) per
each family unit served by the well.
[Ord. No. 16-01 § 3, 1-11-2016]
The governing body of the Village
of Oak Grove, Missouri, hereby binds and determines that the rates,
fees and charges for the use of utilities provided by the Village
are necessary and adequate at this time to meet the requirements to
cover such costs to provide such utilities.
[Ord. No. 16-01 § 4, 1-11-2016]
All water and meter readings shall
be obtained from the Village records, and bills for utility services
shall be rendered monthly as such services accrue. The Village Clerk,
or other officer or representative of the Village designated to prepare
and render bills for utility services, shall calculate monthly the
amount of each bill and shall render monthly to each customer a bill
for such utility services. All such bills shall be due and payable
at the office of the Village Clerk during the regular hours of business
from and after the date of the rendition thereof.
[Ord. No. 16-01 § 5, 1-11-2016]
For residential, commercial, multifamily
dwelling and mobile home park customers, any bill for utility services
that shall be and remain due and unpaid after twenty (20) days from
the date of the rendition thereof, an additional charge of five dollars
($5.00) shall be added per user unit thereto.
[Ord. No. 16-01 § 6, 1-11-2016]
For residential, commercial, multifamily
dwelling and mobile home park customers, any bill for utility services
that shall be and remain past due and unpaid for as long as thirty
(30) days after the 20th of the prior month, an additional fifteen
dollars ($15.00) shall be added per user unit thereto.
[Ord. No. 16-01 § 7, 1-11-2016]
For residential, commercial, multifamily
dwelling and mobile home park customers, any bill for utility services
that shall be and remain past due and unpaid for as long as sixty
(60) days, service to such customer shall be discontinued and shall
not be reconnected until all past-due bills are paid in full, together
with a reconnection charge of twenty dollars ($20.00).
[Ord. No. 16-01 § 8, 1-11-2016]
For well only customers, any bill
for utility services that shall be and remain due and unpaid after
twenty (20) days from the date of the rendition thereof, an additional
charge of fifteen dollars ($15.00) shall be added per user unit thereto.
[Ord. No. 16-01 § 9, 1-11-2016; Ord.
No. 23-02, 7-10-2023]
A.
An
application for utility services shall be made by the owner of the
property to be served to the Village Clerk, or other person designated
by the Village, and upon the approval of such application such applicant
shall have the right to be connected to the Village water and sewer
systems. The connection to the Main Water Line and the Main Sewer
Line must be accomplished by, or witnessed by, a Village representative
with all costs of such connections to be borne by such applicant.
B.
The
owner of the property to receive utility services shall be liable
to pay for such services rendered to said premises. Any person or
entity who, or that, enters into a lease of a serviced premises, or
occupies but does not own a serviced premises, after the effective
date of this Section, shall have no liability or responsibility for
any water or service bill issued by the Village, but any person or
entity who enters into a lease, written or unwritten, with respect
to a serviced premises prior to the effective date of this Section
shall have continuing joint and several liability for water and sewer
service bills with the owner of the premises until the expiration
of the lease. The Village shall have power to sue the owner of such
serviced premises in a civil action to receive any sums due for such
services, plus a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court.
[Ord. No. 16-01 § 10, 1-11-2016]
The occupant and user of the premises
receiving utility services and the owner of said premises shall be
jointly and severally liable to pay for such services rendered on
said premises. The Village shall have the power to sue the occupant
or the owner, or both, of such real estate in a civil action to receive
any sums due for such services, plus a reasonable attorney's fee to
be fixed by the court.
[Ord. No. 16-01 § 11, 1-11-2016]
It shall be a misdemeanor for any
person to tamper with any water or sewer line, or make any connection
to either the water or sewerage system of the Village without written
permission from the Village, or to reconnect service when service
has been discontinued for non-payment of a bill for service until
such bill, including the reconnection charge, has been paid in full.
Upon conviction, there shall be imposed a fine of not less than one
hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
[Ord. No. 16-01 § 12, 1-11-2016]
The user of each premises receiving
utility services from the water or sewerage systems shall be responsible
for the proper use thereof. No grease, petroleum products, milk, whey,
paints, acids, chemicals, metals, animal wastes, food products, or
other materials detrimental to the sanitary sewer facilities or sewage
treatment processes, shall be discharged into the sanitary sewer.
