5892 Utility Tap ChargesORDINANCE NUMBER 5892
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AN ORDINANCE prescribing charges to be made for the tapping of water mains of the
Water Department of the City of Salina, Kansas, and regulating the utilization
by consumers of existing mains and mains that may hereafter be constructed or
installed and amending Section 28-110 of the Revised Ordinances of the City of
Salina, Kansas, 1948, and providing for the repeal of the original of said section.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. 28-110 AME DN WT. That Section 28-110 Revised Ordinances of the
City of Salina, Kansas, 1948, be and it is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. 28-110 Taps and Charges
(a) The phrase, "lineal feet" where hereinafter used shall be deemed to refer
to the foot frontage of the private property that may be served from any existing
water main or water mains that may hereafter be installed by the Water Department
of the City of Salina, Kansast
In the event any such property is carved into lots irregularly shaped, then
the lineal footage shall be deemed to refer to the mean width of any such
irregular lot.
(b) That whenever any person, firm, or corporation desires to obtain water service
to any property --to or upon or for any property --not heretofore served with water
by the Water Department of the City of Salina, Kansas, that as a condition precedent
to the installation of such service, in addition to all other charges, a sum equal
to $1.50 multiplied by the front footage of the property to be so served shall be
paid unto the Water Department. The Department shall tap all mains or distribution
lines, inserting a corporation cock and furnishing the union for the connection to
the service line. A charge shall be made for each tap in addition to the sums
aforesaid in the amount of $10.00 for 3/4 -inch corporation cocks and $12.00 for
each one -inch corporation cocks. Larger sizes of corporation cocks may be authorized
by the superintendent and the charges therefo$ shall be actual cost of installation
plus 15% to be paid be to the Water Department when the service is izatn3tud applied
for or the tap ordered.
(c) No charge shall be made to property that can be served from paralleling
installations in the event that the property to be so served has been a consumer
of water from said Department antecedent to the effective date hereof.
(d) It shall be the duty of any person applying for the provision of new service
j of water from and after the effective date hereof to correctly state the lineal
front footage of property to be thereby served. In the event of failure so to
do the superintendent of the Waterworks is hereby direct to forthwith discontinue
water service to any such property where the lineal front footage was misrepresented.
Section 2. That Section 28-110, Revised Ordinances of the City of Salina,
Kansas, 1948, be and it is hereby repealed.
Section 3. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its adoption and publication once in the official city paper.
Introduced: August 30, 1954
Passed: September 13, 1954
Mayor
Attest:
City Cler