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
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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
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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.
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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.
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