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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #78 ORDINANCE NO. 78 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 I , 1911, AND ENDING JUNE 30 , 1912. The Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach do ordain as follows: Section 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 for consumption or use to said City, or the inhabitants thereof, are hereby fixed for the fiscal year commencing July 1st 1911, and ending June 30th„ 1912, as follows; Paragraph 1. For every dwelling house or four rooms or less, occupied by one family - $1.00. Paragraph 2. For every dwelling house of four rooms or less, occupied by one family, having bath or toilet, or both bath and toilet- $1.25 Paragraph 3. For every tenement or dwelling house of more than four rooms, occupied by one family having bath or toilet or both bath and toilet, there shall be in addition to the above charge, for each additional room, a charge of- - 05 Paragraph 4, For every house occupying a yard of not exceeding one hundred fifty (150)feet in depth, the charge shall be one cent(10)per front foot, and a proportionate rate for additional area provided that the charge for any house for yard use shall not be less than $,25 Paragraph 5. For Hotels and rooming houses for the first six rooms , , 1,50 each additional room 105 Bath tubs and urinals— each 50 Toilets 25 Paragraph 6, For restaurants and boarding houses, regular store rates, and in addition, a charge based on daily average of people, for every ten people fed, - 25 Paragraph 7, For Barber shops in addition to store rates, for each bath tub, - 25 Paragraph 8, For stores, shops and ware-houses, including toilet- - 1,00 ORD. 078 1 Paragraph 9, For each horse kept for private use, including water for washing vehicle - - ,10 Paragraph 10,For livery stable, including water for washing vehicle, for each horse 25 Paragraph 11,For feed and sale stables, without water for washing vehicles, for each horse - - 20 Paragraph 12,For each water trough in public street- - - - - ,50 Paragraph 13,For steam or gas engines, for each horse power- - - - 25 Paragraph 14,For building purposes, foundation and concrete or plaster work, for each barrel of lime or cement, ,10 Paragraph 15,For building purposes, for each 100 yards of plaster, - 25 Paragraph 16,For building cement walks, for each 100 square feet, ,10 Paragraph 17,for building cement curbing, for each 100 lineal feet, 20 Paragraph 18,For each 1000 brick laid including wetting of brick and slacking of lime - - - - - - ,10 Paragraph 19,For butcher shops, confectioneries bakeries, halls, photograph galleries, printing offices, book binderies, and for all other purposes, not included in the above or hereinafter provided for 1,00 Paragraph 20,For water measured by Meter the consumer shall pay monthly according to the following schedule: For the first 500 cubic feet or less, per, 100 cubic feet, - - - 120 For the next 4,000 cubic feet, per, 100 cubic feet 110 For all water over 4,500 cubic feet, per, cubic feet, - - - - 106 Section 2, Any consumer upon application, shall have the night, at his own expense to place upon his premesis, a meter of make satisfactory to the person, association, firm or corporation supplying water and such consumer shall pay the rates set forth in paragraph 20 of Section one of this Ordinance Section 3, Any consumer may at any time, on payment to the person firm, or association, or corporation supplying water, of the actual cost of installing and removing ORD. 078 2 a meter, demand that the said person firm association, or corporation provided a meter for the measurement of water so furnished; and the said person firm association or corporation shall within thirty (30) days thereafter furnish such meter to such consumer and install the same, Section 4: Any person, firm, association or corporation supplying water under this ordinance, shall have the right at any time and in any case to attach a meter to the service pipes of any consumer, at the expense of the person, firm, association or corporation supplying water, and be 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 any amount no exceeding 75 per cent of the estimated, quantity of water consumed monthly: provided that nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to prevent the person, firm, association or corporation supplying such water from charging a penalty, not to exceed twenty five th cents (25 cts), for failure to pay the water rates, herein, specified, on or before the 10 day of the month in which the same may become due, Section 6, Any person, firm, association, or corporation furnishing water to the City of Huntington Beach, or the inhabitants thereof, who shall, either as owner, agent, employe, collector or employer, knowingly demand, charge, collect or receive any rate of compensation for water furnished, in excess of the rates fixed by this Ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdeameanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not to exceed Fifty ($50.00)Dollars nor less than One ($1.00)Dollar. Section 7, The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published by one insertion in the Huntington Beach, News, a weekly newspaper, published and circulated in said City of Huntington Beach, and thereupon and thereafter it shall take effect and be in full force, Passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, this 1st, day of May, 1911, M.E. Helme—President Pro Tern, of The Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, California, Attest: C.E. Lavering City Clerk and Ex-Officio clerk of the Board of City Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, California. ORD. 078 3 State of California ) County of Orange ) SS. City of Huntington Beach, ) I, C.E. Lavering, City Clerk, and exofficio Clerk of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, do hereby Certify that the foregoing Ordinance was read to the Board of Trustees of said City of Huntington Beach, on the 17th day of April, 1911, and was passed and adopted by them at their regular meeting held on the 1st, day of May 1911, by the following vote, Ayes: Helme, Seely, French, Noes: None, Absent: Stewart, Manning. C,E, Lavering, City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of City Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, California. I C.E. Lavering City Clerk, and Ex-Officio Clerk, of the Board of City Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, hereby certify that the foregoing is true and correct copy of an ordinance of the City of Huntington Beach, numbered 78, 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 1st, 1911, and ending June 30, 1912, and that the same was published once in the Huntington Beach News, a weekly newspaper, printed and published in the City of Huntington Beach according to law on the 25th day of May 1911 C,E, Lavering. City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of City Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, California. ORD. 078 4 phis Ordinance was reproducedfrom a lool lool handwritten original in its exact form to maintain its historicaCtntegrity. 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