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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-188ORDINANCE NO. NS-188 Ai,gENDING CHAPTER 4 OF ARTICLE VII OF TX SANTA AMA ~UNICIPAL CODE REGARDING WATER SERVICE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAI~TA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLL0¥VS: SECTION 1. That Chapter 4 of Article VII of the Santa Ana Muni- cipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 7400. Connection Charges. Applications to have water services installed shall be made to the Department of Public Works. The City shall charge and collect in advance for each tap and attachment made with its system of water works as follows, to-v~t: For each 3~4 inch service in new subdi- visions, complete, ~0.00; for each 3/4 inch service on paved streets, complete, ~0.00; for each i inch service, complete, ~0 00. For all larger sizes of service and all fire lines, actual costs of labor, equipment, material, and overhead used for the service. Section 74Ol. Rates to be Charged. The following rates and compensation are hereby fixed and es- tablished as the bimonthly rates and compensation to be charged and collected by the Finance Department for stand-by and for water furnished within the City. A minimum charge shall be made as a base rate, stand-by or readiness-to-serve charge for each size of service connection for each period of two months, and all charges shall be billed at the end of each two-month period, as follows: Minimum Bimonthly Meter Rates For each ~/8" or 3/4" service For each 1" service For each l-l/2" service . For each 2" service For each 3~ service For each~" service . For each " service . $ 2.?0 .00 12.00 20.00 0.00 .oo When the charge for the amount of water actually used exceeds the foregoing minimums for a bimonthly period, the actual amounts to be charged shall be computed and billed for each period of two months as follows: Bimonthly ~eter Rates For the first 1,~00 cu. ft. or less at $0.18 per 100 cu. ft. For the next 6,000 cu. ft. or less at ~0.16 per 100 cu. ft. For the next 42,000 cu. ft. or less at ~0.1~ per 100 cu. ft. For the next ~0,000 cu. ft. or less at ~0.10 per 100 cu. ft. For all over 100,000 cu. ft. . at ~0.07 per 100 cu. ft. Section 7402. Service Outside City. No service connections shall be made with the water system of the City for the rendering of water service in any area not within the City limits, and no service to any area within the City limits shall supply water to any area outside of the City limits, even though such area outside of the City limits may stand of record as ow-ned by the same person or persons receiving water service on adjacent land within the City limits. However, when the rec- ord owner of any parcel of land has signed a petition requesting that said land be annexed to the City, and filed the same with the Clerk of the Council, temporary connection may be made with the water lines of the City for use on said land, and water may be served from the City water lines for use on said land under such temporary connection during the annexation proceeding. If, for any reason, said land is not annexed to the City, such tem- porary service shall be terminated upon the termination of annex- ation proceedings, and the water lines shall be physically dis- connected and no Further water served to said land until a further petition has been filed as herein provided for. Any land outside of the corporate limits receiving water service from the City on the effective date of this Ordinance may continue to be served, subject to all of the provisions of this Chapter and all other rules of the City, at double the rates, charges, an~ penalties herein specified for service within the City limits. Section ?403. Applications for Service. All applications to have the water turned on or to transfer responsibility for water charges shall be made to the Finance De- partment on the forms, and in conformity with the procedure, es- tablished by the Director of Finance, and all such applications must be signed by the record owner of the land, or if said land stands in an ownership showing two or more names, then by one of said record owners, or by an agent for such record owners. Said application shall show the names of the record owners and the manner in which title is held. Section 740~. Real Property Owner Responsibility. The owners of real property shall~be responsible for the pay- ment of water consumed on said property, together with all pen- alties and charges in connection therewith. Delinquent water accounts, including charges and penalties, are hereby declared to be a lien against the real property on which the water service was rendered, and said lien shall not be affected by any change of ownership of the real property. Section 7405. Payment of Water Rates - Penalties. All water rates are due and payable at the Finance Depart- ment in the City Hall on the date of billing thereof, and become delinquent fifteen days after the date of such billing. A penalty of ten per cent shall be charged on all unpaid water bills thirty days after the billing date. If the bill remains unpaid thirty-five days after the bill- ing date thereof, the water shall be shut off from the premises and shall remain off until all charges, penalties and fines shall have been paid. When the supply of water has been turned off for a viola- tion of any ordinance, regulation, or requirement of the City governing consumers of water, such supply of water shall not be turned on again except upon payment of all charges, penalties and fines due, together with an additional charge of one dollar for restoration of service. -2- Section 7406. Unauthorized Turn On. No person other than a duly authorized amployee of the City shall turn on water at any metered service. Violation of this provision shall be a misdemeanor. It shall be the duty of the Director of Finance to report any violations of this Section to the City Attorney, who shall institute appropriate legal proceedings forthwith. Section 7407. Meter Box and Hydrant Obstruction. No person shall place trash, dirt, building materials, or other objects or obstructions on meter boxes or around or adjacent to City hydrants, and no person shall allow the same to become obstructed or obscured by vines, trees, shrubs, or other plants in any manner so as to make their location difficult to determine, or to in any way interfere with or render difficult free access to, or use of, said meter boxes and City hydrants. In the event of such obstruction or obscuring, notice shall be given by the Finance Department to the property served by such meter, or ad- Jacent to such hydrant; such notice shall contain the requirement that the obstruction, whether a growing thing or otherwise, be removed within twenty-four hours. In the case of a meter box being obstructed or obscured, a penalty charge of One Dollar shall be placed upon the water bill and charged to the consumer to defray the cost of the meter reader's return to read the meter. Such penalty shall be added to the water bill and col- lected in the same manner and under the same condition as water rates are collected. Section 7408. Circuses, Shows, etc. All circuses, shows or exhibitions using water from the mains of the City shall make application for such water at the office of the Department of Public Works, and shall pay in ad- vance therefor the stun of Forty Dollars per day. Section 7409. Change of Location. Any person desiring to change the location of any water service that has been installed, shall make application to the Department of Public Works for such change, and said Department, if in its Judgment it deems such change to be necessary or ad- visable, will cause such change to be made. The applicant res questing such change shall become liable to the City for the cost of all labor, equipment, materials, and overhead used, in- cluding the cost of any heavy cast iron meter box where it be deteEnined that the installation of the same is necessary. Said charges are due upon the completion of the work herein referred to. Unless such charges are paid within ten days of mailing a statement thereof to the applicant requesting the same, the supply of water will be shut off from the premises and the same shall remain shut off until all charges, rates or penalties have been paid, including One Dollar for again turnin~ the water on. The Department may demand a cash deposit in an amount estimated to be the cost of the work before any work is started. Section 7410. Fire Hydrants. City fire hydrants are provided for the sole purpose of ex- tinguishing fire and shall be opened and used only by the Water -3- Division and Fire Department, or such persons as may be author- ized to do so by the Department of Public Works. No person shall draw water throu~ any fire hydrant without the use of a standard fire hydrant wrench and an auxiliary valve, such auxiliary valve to be placed on fire hydrant opening with the auxiliary valve closed before any fire hydrant valve is opened. No person shall draw water through any fire hydrant, or other hydrant owned or controlled by the City without first obtaining a permit so to do from the Department of Public Works. No such per- mit shall be issued to any person who has violated any of the pro- visions of this Chapter, or who has not paid the City for water used, or damage to hydrants. Such permit shall show the date of issuance, the number of the hydrant to be used, and the location thereof. All such permits shall expire at the end of construction period, or six months after issuance, whichever occurs first, and shall not be trausferred. It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to return to the Water Division any fire tools issued under such permit on or before the expiration of said permit. Upon granting any permit under this section, the Department of Public Works shall require a fifty dollar deposit from the ap- plicant, said deposit to be returned upon the return to the Wate~ Division of any tools issued to such applicant under such permit, and upon payment to the Department of Public Works for all water used under such permit. Deposit shall be forfeited upon failure to report water used monthly, make payment for use of water within sixty days, or return tools within thirty days of completion of Job. Water drawn from any fire hydrant into a tank shall be charged for at the rate of ten cents for each 2~0 gallon tank or fraction thereof, and the rate of pa~ent for larger tanks shall be mul- tiples of said rate, with the exception that water used for sub- division construction purposes shall be paid according to rate schedule of Section 7412. Section 7411. Fire Service. No fire line shall be used for any purpose other than for the extinguishment of fire. All fire lines shall be equipped with a Detector check valve. With the exception of the Detector check no meter shall be installed on a fire line. ~ll necessary maintenance and repairs of fire lines from the water main to curb shall be paid for by owner. Upon failure to pay said charges, water will be shut off until such charge is paid. Section ?~12. Subdivision Construction Water. Water used for construction purposes within subdivisions of five or more lots shall be paid for at the flat rate of Six Dollars per lot for each lot in the subdivision. This payment shall cover all water needed for curbs, sidewalks, concrete pavement, pavement sub-grade, plastering, bricklaying, and other normal construction uses excepting only flooding sewer ditches. Water used for floo. ding sewer ditches shall be paid for at the rate of One Dollar for each one hundred linear feet of ditch, and this-payment is in addition to the per lot charge next hereinabove referred to. Said Six Dollar per lot charge shall provide water for the construction hereinabove set out, and for any other use such as developing lawns and watering plantings on the lot, for a period of six months from the time said payment is made, or said water use is started, or until the Certificate of Use and Occupancy for the house or building is issued, whichever occurs first. There- after, all water used shall be charged at the regular rates. Section 7413. Meters to Remain Property of the City. All water meters and meter boxes installed by the City Water Division shall remain, at all times, the property of the City, and where replacements, repairs, or adjustments of any meter are rendered necessary by the act, negligence or carelessness of the consumer, any expense caused the City thereby shall be charged against, and collected from, the consumer. If consumer or owner fai~ to pay such charges, the water may be shut off until such charges are paid. Each separate pipe connection in any meter box shall be separately metered. Section 7414. Failure of Meter. If a meter fails to register during any period, or is known to register inaccurately, the consumer shall be charged for an average daily consumption at same season as sho~n by the meter when in use and registering accurately. Section 7415. Installing Meters. The City shall have the right at any time, and at any point, to put in a water meter, and may force the collection for the amount of water that shall be used, in accordance with all Ordinances, rules and regulations of the City governing the consumption of water, and for that purpose, at any time, go upon the premises of the consumer of water. Section 7416. Curb Cocks. There shall be a curb cock or valve in every attachment Just inside the curb, at a point to be designated by the City, which said curb cock and its box shall be supplied by the City and shall be for its exclusive use and under its exclusive control. Section 7417. Damages. The City will not be responsible for damages to buildings or their contents, from any break beyond the street service box; the water consumers are hereby required, for their own protection, to provide at their own expense another valve to be placed at the first suitable point beyond said City valve. Section 7418. Application for Water ~iains in New Subdivisions. Owners of a new subdivision or tract of land, who are re- quired to install water mains and hydrants as provided for in the Subdivision Ordinance, shall make application to have said water mains and hydrants laid in tracts. Such mains and hydrants shall be of such size, kind and location as the Department of Public Works shall determine will properly supply said tract, having due regard to the requirements of adjacent lands and growth of the City. The Department of Public Works shall charge and collect in advance for such water main and hydrants as it deems necessary, at the rate established by the City Council by Resolution. In cases where the applicant requests a main larger than deemed necessary by the Department, the applicant shall pay the entire cost of labor, equipment, material, and overhead. It is understood that all mains installed become at once, and remain, the sole property of the City. Section 7419. General Regulations. In all cases where water is supplied to several tenants from one connection or tap, the City contracts only with the owner of the property or his authorized agents, and on failure to comply with these regulations and pay the rate, the services will be disconnected until regulations are complied with and the rate paid. Consu~ers must prevent all waste of water, and keep their service pipes, fixtures, stop cocks and other apparatus (but not the service put in and owned by the City) in good repair, and free from leakage at their own expense, and they will be liable for all damages which may result from their failure so to do. Water rates will be charged for premises vacated in every instance, until the City shall have been notified in writing of the discontinuance of the use of water, and is requested to turn the water off. Any authorized employee of the Water Division shall be ad- mitted at all reasonable hours, to all parts of the premises supplied with water, to see that the regulations are observed. No one except an authorized employee ~f the Water Division or the Finance Department shall turn ~e water on or off from any building or premises at City curb cock, or connect or dis- connect or in any way tamper with any pipes in the meter boxes or with any other part of the water system of the City. No user of water supplied by the City shall supply water to users on a piece of property held by another owner. All faucets, sprinklers, hose nozzles or other continuous streams must be shut off promptly upon the alarm of fire, or other emergency or major disaster, the water not to be turned on again until the fire is known to be extinguished. The City reserves the right at any time to shut off the water in its mains for the purpose of making extensions or re- pairs, or for other purposes, and all persons having boilers within their premises not supplied with tanks or cisterns, but depending upon the pipes of the City to keep them supplied, are hereby cautioned against danger of collapse. Section 7420. Drilling for Water. No person shall drill for water within the corporate limits of the City without first obtaining a permit therefor from the Council. Section 7421. Cross Connections Prohibited. In order to prevent any pollution of the water or water system of the City, no cross-connection from any source, of any kind or nature shall be installed in the City water system, except as provided for and approved by the State of California Department of Public Health, and approved by the Department of Public Works. -6- Section 7422. Theft of ',rater. No person shall permit occupancy of any building or house, or occupy and use the same, until a water meter has been in- stalled and the Finance Department has been notified that said property is ready for occupancy and had the meter read. No person shall take water from ~e City lines in any manner ex- cept as in this Chapter provided for, and any attempt or act of connection to City lines without complying with the provisions of this Chapter is hereby defined as theft of water. SECTION 2. The Clerk of the Council shall certify to the pas- sage of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published within 15 days after its adoption in one issue of the Santa Ana Inde- pendent. This Ordinance shall take effect at 12:00 P.E. on July 31, 1956, and all water bills rendered after said date shall be computed at at ATTEST: CI~JRK OF TItE COUNCIL the rates established hereby. PASSED A~D ADOPTED by the City Council of the its regular meeting held on the ~8th day of City of Santa Ana June , 19~6. STA'I~. OF CALIFORiqIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS CITY OF SAi'~TA ANA ) ~, ERISA HUN'I~ER, do hereby csrtify that I am the Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana, California; that the foregoing Ordinance was regularly introduced at the regular meeting held on the ~th day of June ~ 19~6 and was again considered by said Council at its regular meetzng held on the ~th day of June , 19~6 and was at sa~d meeting regularly passed and adopted by said Council by the following vote, to-wit: AYES, COUNCIL~¢~EN: Dale Ho Heinly, J. Ogden Markel, William Jerome, Courtney R. Chandler NOES, COUNCIL~.~EN : None ABSENT, COUNCII2.~N: Milford W. Dahl ~ ~ CLERK (F THE ~OUI~IL -7-