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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #90 ORDINANCE# 90 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, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE ST YEAR COMMENCING DULY I , 1912 AND ENDING JUNE 30, 1913, 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, are hereby fixed for the fiscal year commencing July 1st, 1912 and ending June 30th, 1913, as follows: Paragraph 1. For every dwelling house of 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$0.05 Paragraph 4. For every house or dwelling occupying a yard of not exceeding one hundred and fifty (150)feet in depth, the charge shall be one cent per front foot and a proportionate rate for additional area, provided that the charge for any house for yard shall not be less than $0.25 Paragraph 5, For hotels and rooming houses, for the first six rooms, $1.50; each additional room, $0.05, bath tub and urinals, each, $0.50; toilets, $.25. Paragraph 6. For restaurants and boarding houses, regular store rates, and in addition to 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 warehouses including toilet, $1.00. Paragraph 9. For each horse kept for private, used, including water for washing vehicles, $.10. For each cow for private use $.05. ORD. 090 1 Paragraph 10. For livery stable, including water for washing vehicles, 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, confectionaries, bakeries, hall, photograph galleries, printing officers, 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, per 100 cubic feet $.20. for the next 4000 cubic feet, per 100 cubic feet, $.10. For all water over 4500 cubic feet, per 100 cubic feet$.06, provided, however that the monthly minimum upon any meter shall be $1.00, and provided further that in no case shall the monthly minimum be less than 50% of the scheduled rate., Also provided that where more than one house is situated on one lot, all owned by the same person, but in such cases only, only one meter shall be required otherwise each house or lot, so supplied shall be considered separate and shall pay the rates providing for the use of water without meter as hereinbefore set forth. Section 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, company, association, firm or corporation supplying water, for the purpose of measuring water consumed thereon under the supervision of the person, association, firm or corporation supplying water, and such consumer shall pay the water rates set forth in paragraph 20 of Section 1 of this ordinance. ORD. 090 2 Section 3. 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 he they or it may thereafter collect the meter rates as set forth in Paragraph 20 of Section 1, of this ordinance. Section 4, 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 the 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 $.26 for failure to pay the water rates herein specified, on or before the tenth day of the month in which the same becomes due. Section 5, 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 misdomeanor 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 — The City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, shall certify to the passage of the ordinance and shall cause the same to be published by one insertion in the"Huntington Beach News," a weekly news paper published and printed in the said City of Huntington Beach, and thirty days thereafter it shall take effect and be in force. Passed and adopted this 1st. day of April 1912 Ed Manning. President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, Cal, Attest: C.E. Lavering. City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of City Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, California State of California } County of Orange } SS. City of Huntington Beach. } I, C.E. Lavering, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, do hereby certify that the foregoin�u ordinance was read to the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, on the 5 , day of February, 1912, and that ORD. 090 3 the same was passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said Board held on the 1st. day of April, 1912, by the following vote: Ayes: Helme, Seely, Stewart, Manning. Noes: None, Absent: French, C,E, Lavering City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of City Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, California. Date of Publication April 5, 1912, 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 90, 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, the State of California, for the year commencing July 1st 1912, and ending June 30, 1913. 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 5th day of April 1912 C. E. Lavering City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of City Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, California. ORD. 090 4 phis Ordinance was reproduced from a handwritten original in its exact form to maintain its historicaCtntegrtty. 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