(a)
Generally.
The water rates as provided herein shall
be collected for water services furnished by the city for customers
within and without the corporate limits of the city.
(b)
Residential rates.
Residential customer defined as a
single-family living unit where one water meter serves one single-family
household unit.
(c)
Commercial rates.
Commercial customer defined as a single
business or industrial unit, serviced by one or more water meters.
This customer class includes but is not limited to: commercial establishments,
restaurants, hotels, motels, bed and breakfast, hosted; short-term
rental residential unhosted; short-term rental commercial establishments,
short-term rentals and homeowners associations. In addition, multi-unit
residential duplex, quadplex, triplex, trailer park, apartment complex,
offices, or any other use where one or more unit is serviced by one
water meter shall be considered "commercial" and shall be subject
to the commercial minimums and rates.
(Ordinance 19-78, adopted 11/19/19; Ordinance
22-32 adopted 7/5/2022)
(a)
The water distribution department shall install and maintain all service connections in the streets, alleys or easements within the corporate city limits of the city and shall charge for the installation and maintenance of all such service connections in accordance with section 1.50.514 of this code. Rates and charges required in this section are provided for in article 1.50 fee schedule, of the Code of Ordinances of the city.
(b)
Should the estimate of the final cost of the work exceed the fee,
a statement showing the amount of the excess will be immediately furnished
to the party having paid the fee, and a copy of the same constituting
notice that the excess amount is due shall be furnished the contractor
or owner of the property to which service is being extended. Upon
failure to receive payment of the excess amount due on such estimates,
the utility customer service office may refuse or discontinue water
service to the property until full payment has been made for the work
performed.
(c)
The foregoing flat rate charges and the estimates of costs of all
service connections larger than two inches (2") in diameter shall
include costs incident to making the installation of the service connection
required, including the said service connection. Upon notification
by the utility customer service office, the public works department
will make the necessary pavement repairs, the cost of same to be included
in the cost figures herein enumerated.
(d)
The city will maintain at its own expense, and their original sizes,
all services from the main to the meter, or from the main to the property
line, whichever is the shorter distance, so long as the consumer continues
the use thereof. Whenever use of a service is abandoned by the consumer,
this obligation to maintain the service shall cease.
(e)
In no event shall the city be required, where payment of the estimated
cost is made, to make any surveys, street grading or staking off on
the ground of the applicant’s subdivision for the purpose of
making his installation, but all of such work shall be done by the
developer at his own cost and expense and shall be done to the satisfaction
of the director of public works.
(f)
It shall be unlawful to service or connect any lot, tract or plat
of land, or any part thereof, for the use of the owner or purchaser
of said land, or any part thereof, with a water connection unless
and until such plan, plot or replat of such lot or tract of land shall
conform to the platting requirements of the city and has been approved
by the planning and zoning commission of the city.
(g)
For all such water service connections installed and maintained outside the corporate city limits by the water distribution department, a charge as provided for in article 1.50 fee schedule, of the Code of Ordinances of the city, shall be charged in addition to the charges hereinabove prescribed.
(h)
On all commercial water service connections larger than two inches (2") in diameter, and for all fire protection service connections, an inspection fee as provided for in article 1.50 fee schedule, of the Code of Ordinances of the city, shall be charged.
(i)
Water meter relocation fees and charges shall be the actual costs
of labor and materials at the time of relocation.
(Ordinance 19-78, adopted 11/19/19)
(a)
A consumer shall be held responsible for loss of water due to breakage
in pipe or plumbing on the discharge side of the meter. If this water
is not paid for according to the established rates when the billing
for such use becomes due, the consumer’s water service will
be subject to termination until all charges are paid. A consumer may
request billing adjustments for leaks. To qualify for such an adjustment,
the consumer must present to the city proof of repairs for the leak.
The adjustment shall not exceed fifty percent of the metered or estimated
water loss. The amount of estimated water loss shall be limited to
100,000 gallons. Consumers shall be limited to one adjustment per
year.
(b)
Should any meter fail to register correctly, the city reserves the
right to estimate a consumption amount using an average of any three
month’s consumption.
(Ordinance 19-78, adopted 11/19/19)
