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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #11 ORDINANCE NO. 11 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING WATER RATES AND FIXING THE COMPENSATION FOR PURE WATER FOR FAMILY USES, FOR PRIVATE PURPOSES, AND MUNICIPAL PURPOSES, AND FOR ALL PUBLIC USES, IN AND FOR THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA, FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING DULY 1, 1909, AND ENDING JUNE 30, 1910. The Board of Trustees of the city of Huntington Beach do ordain as follows. Sec. 1. — The maximum monthly rates to be charged and collected by any person, company, association or corporation supplying the City of Huntington Beach, or the inhabitants thereof, with water, and for water furnished to said city or the inhabitants thereof, are hereby fixed by the fiscal year commencing July 1st. 1909 and ending June 30th. 1910, as follows. Paragraph. 1. For tenements and dwelling houses occupied by a single family, One dollar($1.00) and for each additional family fifty cents (500); provided that this shall include for each such family, water, without charge, for two horses and one cow kept for private use. Paragraph 2. Each consumer shall have free of charge, water for sprinkling lawns, gardens and flowers, on a lot 50 by 117 '/z feet, upon which said consumer resides. For each additional lot 25 by 117 '/z feet so used, fifty cents (500) Paragraph 3. The rates set forth in paragraph 1. to 19 of this section shall include, free of charge, water for sprinkling to the center of the streets abutting on the property for which the rate is paid; provided, that no charge shall be made for water used in extinguishing fire, or that used in public drinking fountains. Be it further provided that the City shall furnish and pay a reasonable charge for the installation of all fire hydrants. Paragraph. 4. For restaurants and boarding houses, One dollar($1.00) to Five dollars ($5.00) each. Paragraph. 5. For hotels, Three dollars ($3.00)to Five dollars. ($5.00) Paragraph. 6. For stores, shops and warehouses, from Twenty five cents (250)to One dollar($1.00) .Paragraph 7. For bath tubs in bath houses, Twenty five cents (250)for each tub. .Paragraph 8. For public water closets, One dollar $1.00 each. ORD.0tt 1 .Paragraph 9. For each horse or cow kept for private use, except as specified in Paragraph 1. of this section, including water for washing vehicles, ten cents (100.) .Paragraph 10. For livery, boarding feed and back stables, including water for washing vehicles, for each horse Twenty cents (200). .Paragraph 11. For feed and sale stables, where no wash rack is used for each horse, fifteen cents (150) .Paragraph 12. For each water trough in public street, fifty cents (500) .Paragraph 13. For bakeries, including water for use of one family when residing upon premises, One dollar($1.00) .Paragraph 14. For each steam engine, for each horse power, Twenty five cents (250) Paragraph 15. For building purposes for each 100 yards plastic, fifteen cents (150) Paragraph 16 For building cement walks, for each 100 square feet, ten cents, (100) Paragraph 17. For building cement curb, for each 100 lineal feet twenty cents, (200) Paragraph 18. For each 1000 brick laid, including wetting of brick and slacking line, ten cents, (100) .Paragraph 19. For butcher shops, confectionery shops, halls, photograph galleries, printing offices, book binderies, and for all other purposes not included in the above or hereinafter provided for, according to the estimated quantities of water used, fifty cents (500) and upwards, to be ascertained by the collector of water rates under the direction of the Board of Trustees. .Paragraph 20. For water measured by meter, the consumer shall pay monthly according to the following schedule. If the consumer uses 2000 feet of water or less, 10 cents for 100 cubic feet used. If the consumer uses over 2000 cubic feet of water, and under 5000 cubic feet, 9 cents for 100 cubic feet. If the consumer uses 5000 cubic feet of water and under 10,000 cubic feet 7 '/z cents per 100 cubic feet used. ORD.011 2 If the consumer uses 10,000 cubic feet of water, or more, 6 cents per 100 cubic feet used. Sec 2. Any consumer upon application, shall have the right, at his own expense, to place upon his premises a meter of make satisfactory to the person, association, firm or corporation supplying water, for the purpose of measuring the water consumed thereon, under the supervision of the person, association, firm or corporation supplying the water; and such consumer shall pay the meter rates set forth in paragraph 20 of section 1 of this ordinance. Sec. 3. Any consumer may at any time, on payment to the person, firm, association or corporation supplying water of the actual cost of installing and removing a meter, demand that the said person, firm, association or corporation provide a meter for the measurement of the water so furnished; and the said person, firm, association or corporation shall within 30 days, there after furnish such meter to such consumer, and install the same. Sec. 4. Any person firm, association or corporation supplying water under this ordinance shall have the right at any time in any case to attack a meter to the service pipes of any consumer, at the expense of the person, firm, association or corporation supplying the water, and he, they or it may thereafter collect the meter rates as set forth in Paragraph 20 of section 1 of this ordinance. Section 5. All rates, except meter rates, are due and payable in advance on the first day of each and every month; and all meter rates are due and payable at the end of the month, excepting that a deposit may be required thereon in an amount not exceeding 75% of the estimated quantity of water consumed monthly. provided, that nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to present the person, firm, corporation, or association supplying such water from charging a penalty, not to exceed twenty five cents (25-0)for failure to pay the water rates here in specified, and or before the tenth day of the month in which the same may become due. Sec. 6. An person, association, firm or corporation furnishing water to the City of Huntington Beach or the inhabitants thereof, like shall, either as owner, agent, employe, collector, or employer, knowingly charge, demand, collect, or receive any rate or compensation for water furnished, in excess of the rates fixed by this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not to exceed $50.00, nor less than $1.00. .Sec. 7. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and cause the same to be published once in the"Huntington Beach News," a newspaper published and printed in the said City of Huntington Beach, and thereupon and thereafter it shall take effect and be in full force. Ed Manning President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Bch. M. D. Rosenberger ORD.011 3 City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Trustees. I, M. D. Rosenberger, City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was passed at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, held on the 5th- day of April 1909, by the following vote: Ayes. C. W. Warner, D. O. Stewart, M. E. Helme, Ed Manning. Noes. None. Absent. C. H. Howard. M D Rosenberger City Clerk. I, M. D. Rosenberger, City Clerk and Ex officio Clerk of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance is a true and correct copy of an ordinance of the City of Huntington Beach Numbered 11 and entitled," "An Ordinance establishing water rates and fixing the compensation for Pure water for Family uses, for Private purposes, and municipal purposes and for all Public uses in and for the City of Huntington Beach, California, for the year commencing July 1 1909 and ending June 30, 1910," and that the same has been published in the Huntington Beach News a newspaper published and printed in the City of Huntington Beach according to law. Date published. April 9th 1909 MD Rosenberger City Clerk. ORD.011 4 phis Ordinance was reproduced from a handwritten original in its exact form to maintain its historicaCtntegrtty. This typewritten format allows for keyword searching. the handwritten originaCs can be vie wed in the City Clerks office on request.