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Editor’s note–Adoption of this article was required
by the City of Fort Worth in order for the City of Lake Worth to continue
discharging its sanitary sewer into the sewer system of the City of
Fort Worth for treatment. In order to comply, the city adopted Ordinance
9853 adopted by the City of Fort Worth on May 1, 1987, except sections
7 and 8.
When used in this article, these terms shall be defined as follows:
A permit required by the city for the construction of any
new dwelling or building.
The City of Fort Worth, Texas and/or the City of Lake Worth,
Texas.
Any customer served by a single meter or meters that is engaged
in any type of business, except the processing, fabrication, or manufacturing
of any goods or products and any type of dwelling unit.
Any customer that has a single meter or meters serving more
than one (1) business per meter and/or three (3) or more dwelling
units per meter.
The director of the water department of the City of Fort
Worth, or his authorized representative (and/or the engineer of the
city, or his authorized representative).
Wastewater facilities that provide utility services and benefits
common to all customers of the utility; this includes wastewater treatment
plants, control systems and appurtenances, and all major collectors
and interceptors that are eighteen inches (18") and greater in diameter.
Any customer served by one (1) or more water meters whose
sewage contains wastewater from a product fabricated, processed, or
manufactured by the customer.
Any customer determined by the director to be a producer
of any sewage having a suspended solids or BOD content which is significantly
in excess of that found in normal sewage, but is otherwise acceptable
into the city sanitary sewerage system.
The first water or wastewater service to be provided by the
city at a specific property location.
The enclosed area of a dwelling that does not include garages,
carports, and outside patios or porches.
A device that measures the quantity of water used. The types
of meters used herein are those described in the American Water Works
Association C700 through C703 and M6 Standards.
Subdivision of land; the construction, reconstruction, redevelopment,
conversion, structural alteration, relocation, or enlargement of any
structure; or any use or extension of the use of land; any of which
requires initial water or wastewater service. New development includes
the sale of water taps resulting from the conversion of an individual
well to the city’s water utility and includes the sale of sanitary
sewer taps resulting from the conversion of an individual septic or
other individual waste disposal system to the city’s sanitary
sewer utility. New development also includes increasing the size of
the water meter serving the property.
Any person, firm, corporation, cooperative corporation, or
any combination of these persons or entities, including a municipal
corporation, water supply or sewer service corporation, or other political
subdivision of the state, or their lessees, trustees, and receivers,
owning or operating for compensation equipment or facilities for the
provision of potable water to the public or for the collection and
treatment of sewage for the public, but does not include any person
or corporation not otherwise a public utility that furnishes the services
only to itself or its employees or tenants as an incident of that
employee’s service or tenancy when that service is not resold
to or used by others.
Any customer living in a dwelling having the necessary living
facilities for one (1) unit that is served by a single water meter.
This class also includes a duplex dwelling where no more than two
(2) living units are supplied water through a single meter.
(1987 Code, ch. 10, sec. 4A; Ordinance 987, sec. 2, adopted 8/14/12; 2004 Code, sec. 13.401)
(a)
No person, firm, corporation or other entity shall be entitled to initial water or wastewater service until payment of the appropriate system facility access fee as set forth in section 13.05.003 hereof. Payment of the system facility access fee is required as a condition precedent to establishing initial water or wastewater service. All other conditions for initiating service, such as deposit requirements, tap fees, extension agreements, and service charges, as covered elsewhere in this code, are in addition to the system facility access fee.
(b)
Prior to the initial connection of any building, structure, premises, or lot after the effective date of this article to the city’s water or wastewater system, the owner of that building, structure, premises or lot shall pay the system facility access fee as established in section 13.05.003, such fee to be paid in cash prior to the issuance of the building permit.
(Ordinance 987, sec. 3, adopted 8/14/12; 2004 Code, sec. 13.402)
The system facility access fees are those imposed upon the city
by the City of Fort Worth for providing water and wastewater service
to new development contained within the incorporated city limits of
Lake Worth and to which service is provided either directly or indirectly
by the City of Fort Worth water and wastewater systems. The system
facility access fees for residential and other classes of customers
shall be the applicable system facility access fees (impact fees)
set and assessed by the City of Fort Worth pursuant to the wholesale
water and wastewater contracts between Fort Worth and Lake Worth.
(Ordinance 1078 adopted 4/11/17; 2004 Code, sec. 13.403)
(a)
If any property within or outside the city’s corporate limits
utilizes a water well, a septic tank, or an individual waste disposal
system and the property owner requests to be connected to the city’s
water or wastewater system, the customer shall be assessed the fee
established by this article before the property is connected to the
city’s water or wastewater system. Should the property owner
request only a wastewater connection while retaining a private water
well, the appropriate fee to be assessed will be determined by the
director.
(b)
A system facility access fee will not be assessed to any property
which is receiving service from a wastewater treatment plant owned
by a public utility when such public utility is acquired by the city
and connected into the city’s wastewater system.
(Ordinance 987, sec. 5, adopted 8/14/12; 2004 Code, sec. 13.404)
Where a question arises as to the classification of a customer’s
service class and/or the appropriate meter size, the director (or
superintendent) shall make the determination in accordance with the
existing city code as of the date the question arises. Any customer
shall have the right to request in writing from the director (or superintendent)
an interpretation or clarification of the basis upon which a system
facility access fee was assessed.
(1987 Code, ch. 10, sec. 4E; 2004
Code, sec. 13.405)
(a)
If a customer requests an increase in meter size to an existing service, the customer shall pay the fee difference between the new level of service and the existing level of service as set out in section 13.05.003 hereof. The additional fee shall be paid prior to the installation of the enlarged meter service.
(b)
A request for additional sewer connections for improved property
shall not result in the assessment of an additional system facility
access fee so long as no increase in the size of the water meter is
made.
(1987 Code, ch. 10, sec. 4F; 2004
Code, sec. 13.406)
No system facility access fee shall be assessed an application
for initial wastewater service provided:
(1)
All approach and on-site mains and facilities are in place and final
inspection has been conducted and accepted by the water department;
(2)
Such application for the initial wastewater service is presented
to the city on or before May 1, 1987; and
(3)
The application for a building permit for the same property as the
initial wastewater service application is presented to the city on
or before September 30, 1987.
(1987 Code, ch. 10, sec. 4G; 2004
Code, sec. 13.407)
