HomeMy WebLinkAbout1958-0263 - Ordinance - 04/28/1958ORDINANCE NO. 263
AN ORDINANCE FIXING TI -IE SCHEDULE OF UTILITY RATES; GOVERNING PAYMENT OF
BILLS; PROVIDING FOR DISCONNECTIONS AND RECONNECTIONS; AND REPEALING
ORDINANCES OR PORTIONS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE,
3E IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of College Station,
Texas:
Section I. Schedule of Rates. The monthly rates to be charged
consumers for public utility services --namely, electricity, water and/or
sewerage connections --shall be in accordance with the schedules as follows:
(A) Rates for Electricity
For domestic, commercial and/or industrial consumers
using electricity within the corporate limits of the city:
First 25 KWH 60 per KWH
Next 75 KWH 3z0 per KWH
Next 80 KWH 221¢ per KWH
All over 180 KWH 2 per KWH
Minimum monthly charge $1.00
(B) Rates for Water
For domestic, commercial and/or industrial consumers
using water within the corporate limits of the city:
First 2,000 gallons 500 per Pd
Next 3,000 gallons 400 per M
Next 10,000 gallons 350 per M
Next 35,000 gallons 25¢ per M
Excess of 50,000 gallons 200 per M
Minimum monthly charge $1.00
(C) Rates for Sewerage Service
1. For consumers using sewerage services for household
purposes within the corporate limits of the city:
Monthly charge per family
$1.50
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2. For consumers using sewerage services for apartment
houses and rooming houses within the corporate limits
of the city:
1 water closet connection $1.00
Each additional water closet connection... .50
3. For consumers using sewerage services for commercial
and/or industrial business establishments within the
corporate limits of the city:
First 7,000 gallons or fraction thereof
of water used $1.00
Each additional 7,000 gallons or fraction
thereof of water used .50
Where it can be shown that any considerable part of the water
used by commercial and/or industrial consumers does not reach the sewers,
the city council may make such adjustments in their rates as shall be
deemed just and equitable.
Section II. Payment of Bills:
CA) All charges due the city from consumers of public utilities
services shall be based on bills rendered by the city to
the consumer, and such bills shall be due and payable not
later than the 15th day of the month next succeeding the
month during which these services were rendered.
(B) Bills which are not paid by the 15th day of the month in
which they are due shall be subject to a penalty of ten
percent (10%) of the total utility bill due for that period.
Section III. Disconnections and reconnections:
(A) All electric, water and sewerage connections shall be severed
for any consumer of public utilities who fails to pay all or
any part of his total bill for such services within 15 days
after the same shall be due and payable as provided above.
(B) When connections for public utilities services have been
severed, the same shall be restored only when all amounts
due the city shall have been paid in full, and an additional
fee of $2.00 shall also have been paid to partially -cover
the expenses of the restoration for any or all services to be
reconnected.
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Section IV. Any ordinance or portion thereof in conflict with
this ordinance is hereby repealed, and the provisions of this ordinance,
in case of conflict, shall govern. If any portion of this ordinance
shall be declared invalid, such declaration shall not affect the other
portions thereof.
Passed, approved and ordered published this the 28th day of April,
1958.
ATTEST :
City Secretary
APPROVED:
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