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ORDINANCE NO. 768
AN ORDINANCE relating to the municipal water supply system
of the City of Auburn, creating a department for the City of Auburn to be
known and designated as "Water Department," creating a fund in the treasury
of the City of Auburn to be known and designated as "Water Fund " creating
the office of Water Superintendent, regulating the use of water 'from the
municipal water supply system of the City of Auburn, providing for the sale
of same, fixing the price thereof and providing a method of collecting rates
~~l therefor, providing penalties for violations of this ordinance, and repealing
Ordinances numbered 413, 492~~1 50, 635, 708, 743, and all other ordinances
of the City of Auburn in conf ict with the provisions of this Ordinance.
The City Council of the City of Auburn do ordain as
follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby created for and as a
part of the government of the city of Auburn a department to be known and
designated as "Water Department."
Section 2. That there is hereby created in the treasury
of the city of Auburn a fund to be known and designated as "Water Fund".
All moneys due the city of Auburn for water servioe of any kind or as
penalties for violation of the provisions of this ordinance or of any
other ordinance of the city of Auburn relating to the municipally owned
water supply system of said city shall be paid to the city treasurer, who
shall receipt in proper form therefor, and shall be covered into said
water fund. Said water fund shall not be co-mingled with any other fund
or funds of the city of Auburn and shall be disbursed only upon warrants
drawn by the order of the city council against said fund.
Seotion 3. That the mayor of the city of Auburn shall
appoint, subject to confirmation by the city council, a superintendent of
said water department to be known and designated as "Water Superintendent" ,
who, after his qualification as such and until his successor is appointed
and qualified, shall be the executive head of said water department and
shall have the custody of all property used or to be used in connection
with the municipal water supply system of the city of Auburn and shall
have the detail management and control of said municipal water supply
system, subject to the direction and control of the city council. Before
entering upon the duties of his office the water superintendent shall
execute a surety bond to the city of Auburn, to be approved by the city
council, in the penal sum of one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, conditioned
upon the faithful performance of the duties of his office as such water
superintendent. The water superintendent shall receive such compensation
for his services as the city council may fix from time to time, pay"ble
monthly by a warrant drawn on the water fund of the city of Auburn, on or
before the 7th day of the month next succeeding the month in which such
services were rendered.
Section 4. The word "Superintendent", wherever used in
this ordinance, shall be held and construed to mean the water superinten-
dent of the city of Auburn, and any act in this ordinance required or auth-
orized to be done by the superintendent may be done on behalf of the
superintendent by an authorized officer or employee of the water department.
The word "person", wherever used in this ordinance, shall be held to
mean and include natural persons of either sex, associations, co-partner-
ships and corporations, whether acting by themselves or by a servant, agent
or employee: the singular numbersh~l be held and ~o~strued to include the
plural and the masculine pronoun to ~nclude the femln~ne.
Section 5. Any person desiring to have premises conneoted
with the water supply system of the city of Auburn shall present at the office
of the water department a copy of building permit, where such permit is
required by ordinance, along with description of lot, block and addition
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and the official house number of the premises on which water is desired
and shall make application therefor upon a printed form to be furnished'
for that purpose, which application shall contain the descriptionrof the
premises where such water is desired, and shall state fully all the pur-
poses for which the water is to be used, the number of families to be
supplied and the number of water closets, water power washers and water
ejecting or pumping devices on said premises to be connected with the
water supply, the size of the service pipes, and shall be signed by the
owner of the premises to be served or his duly authorized agent, and shall
be filed in the office of the superintendent, and at the time of filing
such application the applicant shall pay the city treasurer and take his
receipt therefor, the fees for installation of water service hereinafter
provided.
Section 6. The application provided for in the preceding
section shall contain a contract on the part of the person making the same,
to pay for the water applied for at the rate and in the manner specified
in such contract, and shall reserve to the city of Auburn the right to
charge and collect the rates and enforce the penalties provided for in this
ordinance, in the manner herein provided, to change the rates at any time
by ordinance, to temporarily discontinue the service at any time without
notice to the consumer and to install a meter or meters to register the
water consumed, and shall specify that said contract is subject to all the
provisions of this ordinance and of any ordinance of the city of Auburn
relating to the subject, hereafter passed, and shall provide that the city
of Auburn shall not be held responsible for any damage by water or other
oause resulting from defective plumbing or appliances on the premises
supplied with water, installed by the owner or occupant of said premises,
and that the fact that the agents ef the city have inspeoted the plumbing
and appliances shall not be pleaded as a basis of recovery in case of
damage to premises from defective plumbing or appliances installed by the
owner or occupant of such premises, and shall provide that in case the
supply of water snal1 be ihterrupted or fail by reason bf accident or any
other cause whatsoever, the city shall not be liable for damages for such
interruption or failure~nor shall such failures or interruptions for any
reasonable period of time be held to constitute a breach of contract on
the part of the city or in any way relieve the consumer from performing the
obligations of his contract.
Section 7.
day they are signed and rates
are connected with the city's
All contracts shall take effect from the
shall be charged from the day the premises
water supply and the water turned on.
Section 8. Upon the presentation at the office of the
superintendent, of thetreasurer's receipt for the installation fees and
the execution of the contract hereinbefore provided for, the superintendent
shall cause the premises described in the application, if the same abut
upon a street upon which there is a city water main, to be connected with
the city's water main by a servioe pipe extending at right angles from the
main to the property line and including a stop cock placed 4 1/2 feet from
the property line, or about six inches within the outer edge of sidewalk,
which connection shall thereafter be maintained by and kept within the
exclusive control of the city. In case of application for water service
on premises not abutting upon a street upon which there is a city water main,
the city will lay its connection from the ~in toward the ~remise~ fo~ the
distance equal to the distance from the maln to the curb 11ne, sald dlstance
in no case to exceed 50 feet, and permit conneotion therewith by means of a
union and pipes laid at the expense and maintained by the owner of the
service or may in the discretion of the superintendent, upon the payment
of the ~ctual cost thereof, extend the service to the premises of the appli-
cant along and beneath any public street or avenue of the city of Auburn,
but not otherwise.
Where there is a water main in front of any premises every
house supplied by city water must install its own separate servioe connect-
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ion with the city main, and the premises/so supplied will not be allowed
to supply water to any other premises, except temporarily where there are
no mains in the street; provided that such restrictions shall not apply
to services already installed unless in the judgment of the superintendent
for the good of the service or to settle disputes, it is found necessary ,
to enforce such provisions as to connections already made. Provided
further, where two or more buildings are supplied by one service thr~ugh
a meter not less than the minimum rate for premises supplied by meter here-
inafter provided for, shall be assessed for each separate building or
premises so supplied.
Section 9. All persons connecting to city services,
or laying their own private pipe shall be required to use only standard
galvanized iron pipe up to and including two inches in size, and all
pipe shall be laid not less than 18 inches below the surface of the ground,
except that in ungraded streets where the grade is already established,
said services and pipes shall be laid at least 18 inches below said estab-
lished grade. The superintendent will maintain private services from city
mains in streets which are being graded or regraded, or where.water mains
are being changed, and will have such acdess on private property as shall
be necessary to maintain such pipes during the work, and shall as soon
as practicable upon the completion of such work, relay said pipes in
street. Except for above cause owners shall maintain their private pipes
from the end of the city servioe to and into their property, or in case the
superintendent finds it necessary to maintain same the owner shall relin-
quish all rights to said pipes.
Section 10. The tees for the installation of water
service as hereinbefore provided shall be as follOWS:
For a three-fourth (3/4) inch oonnection -- -- -- -- $12.00
For a one (1) inch oonnection -- -- -- -- - -- -- -- 16.00
For sizes larger than one (1) inch, or where it becomes
necessary to open a paved street, the actual cost of labor and material
in laying such a service and replacing thelPavement shall be charged. In
such cases, and in cases of connections extending along a street on which
there is no main, the cost of material and labor shall be estimated by the
superintendent and the estimated cost shall be paid to the city treasurer
by the person applying for such installation before the work of conneoting
the main with the property is begun; provided, that whenever the estimated
cost is not sufficient to cover the total expense for labor and material
the deficit shall be charged to the property for which such installation
was made and to the owner thereof; and provided further, that any excess
payment shall be returned to the person applying for the installation.
No service larger than three-fourths (3/4) of an inch shall be installed
where a meter is not to be used.
Seotion 11. Before water will be turned on to any
premises conneoted with the city's mains, the servioe pipes upon suoh
premises must be made to conform to the following regulations: The
servioe pipes m\l.st be so located that the supply for each separate
house or premises shall be controlled by separate stop and waste oocks of
the best standard make, approved by the superintendent, with extension
handle, properly protected from the frost, and so placed within the
premises that all servioe pipes and fixtures may be thDroughly drained
during the freezing weather, In oases where no fixtures are plaoed
between the property line and the basement, the stop and waste oook may
be plaoed in the basement, provided said basement is not less than six (6)
feet in height and is provided with stairways or other means of acoess
thereto. The conneotion between the cityts pipes at the property line and
the service pipes on the premises must be made with a union. Every exist-
ing servioe or branoh servioe not already equipped as required in this
section must be so equipped at the owner's expense as soon as the defeot
is noted.
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I Seotion 12. Whenev3r the owner or oooupant of any
premises ~onneoted with the city's water supply system shall desire to
use the water he shall notidy the superintendent and request that the
water be turned on to the said premises. The owner shall leave his
portion of the servioe exposed in the trench until the water is turned on
by the superintendent, when he shall immediately properly cover the pipe.
Section 13. It shall be unlawful for any person whose
premises are supplied with water, either at a fixed rate or through meter
to install additional fixtures on said premises whioh would affeot the '
rate, or to furnish water to additional families or premises or
fixtures unless he shall first make application in writing s~ to do upon
a printed form furnished for that purpose, and in the same manner as an
original application for the installation of water servioe.
Seotion 14. When additional fixtures or premises are
oonneoted without the application prescribed in the preceding seotion
suoh fixtures or premises may be charged at double the rate for the time
they are in use, and the service shall be shut off by the superintendent
and a oharge of fifty oents (50~) made for turning on suoh servioe. In
case water shall be turned off as provided in this seotion, the same
shall not be turned on again until all rates and charges against suoh
premises have been paid in full.
Seotion 15. When new buildings are to be erected on
the site of the old ones and it is desired to increase the size or ohange
the location of the old service oonnection, or where a service oonneotion
to any premises is abandoned or no longer used, suoh connection shall
remain with the property. When service oonnection of any premises on an
unpaved street does not exoeed one (1) inoh in size and the same does not
come from the main in front of said premises the superintendent shall,
when a main is laid in tront of said premises; after/notifying the owner
or tenant thereof transfer the service oonneotion to the new main without
charge, and at the same time out out the old servioe oonnection. When a
new main is laid inan~ street, owners ~ premises on said street, or
within one-half block on side streets, who are being supplied with city
water from a private main or a conneotion to a private servioe shall make
applioation for tap and shall conneot up with a separate servioe oonneot-
ion to the main in front of premises.
Section 16. It shall be unlawful to allow city water
to run for oooling purposes other than sprinkling, and then only in the
manner and at the times as provided by Section 28 of this ordinance.
Seotion 17. It shall be unlawful for any owner ellf any
premises oonneoted with the city's water supply system to disoonneot the
water on said premises unless he shall first file in the office of the
superintendent on a printed form to be furnished for that purpose, a
written request that the service of water to said premises be disoontinued.
When water has been shut off from any premises upon applioation of the
owner thereof, or for non-payment of water charges, or for any other,
oause, it shall be unlawful for any person again to oonneot suoh prem~ses
with water exoept when authorized so to do by the superintendent.
Seotion 18. When water has been shut off for any oausel
and is turned on again or allowed or oaused to be,turned,on by the owner,
no remission of rates will be made on aooount of ~ts hav~ng been shut off,
and the superintendent may then shut off the water at the main, or remove
a portion of the servioe connection in the street and shall oharge the
aotual oost of cutting out and reinstating the water supply.
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Seotion 19. Remission of oharges for periods of a
duration of lone-half month or more may be allowed for premises vacant
for suoh period, provided that notioe in writing of suoh vaoanoy shall
have been given to the water department on the day when such premises
first became vaoant. When servioe is discontinued on or prior to the
15th day of the month, servioe will be oharged for one-half month.
Vlhen suoh disoontinuanoe ooours on or later than the 16th day of the
month, servioe will be charged for suoh entire month. Vlhen resumption
of such servioe is desired, a charge of fifty oents ($.50) will be made
in addition to the regular charge for service.
Section 20. All water rates will be charged against the
premises for which the servioe was installed. All cha.rges for water,
when the same becomes delinquent and unpaid, shall be a lien against the
premises to which the same has been furnished. In oase any oharges for
water shall become a lien against any premises the water shall be shut off
until such oharges are paid. All applioations for turning on water shall
be in writing and shall be signed by the owner of the property or his,
her, their or its duly authorized agent.
Seotion 21. When several houses, buildings or premises
are supplied or to be supplied with water through one service oonneotion
with the oity main the superintendent may in his disoretio~ either
deoline to furnish water until separate services are provided, or the
servioe metered, or in oase anyone of the owners or ocoupants beoome
delinquent or violates any of the provisions of this ordinanoe, the
superintendent may shut off the original or main servioe until all
delinquent and unpaid charges and other charges are paid and the premises
supplied by the main servioe shall be held responsible for all delinquent
and unpaid oharges against anyone or all of the separate owners or users.
No ohange of ownership or oooupation shall effect the applioation of this
seotion.
Seotion 22. Water for oonstruction purposes shall be
seoured in\the regular manner and may be oharged for at the regular fixed
rate or pl~oed on a temporary meter at the discretion of the superinten-
dent. All water for building and oonstruotion purposes shall be oharged
against the property and the owner thereof, and all delinquent and unpaid
oharges therefor shall beoome a~lien upon the premises supplied, and be
collected in the same manner as other delinquent and unpaid oharges for
water.
Seotion 23. If any person other than an authorized
plumber or an employee of the water department shall turn the water on or
off at the oity's stop cook for any reason whatever, the superintendent
shall oause the water to be shut off, and the water will not be turned
on again until all delinquent oharges against the property have been
~aid and until there has been paid an additional charge of fifty cents
{50~) for turning on of suoh water servioe.
Seotion 24. It shall be unlawful for any person to oarry
on the business of plumbing, make any connections with any service or
branch pipe thereof, or make any repairs, additions or alterations of any
pipe stop and waste, water oloset, or any other fixture conneoted with
or d~Signed to be connected with the city water system, exoept in oom-
pliance with this ordinanoe. He shall first deposit ten dollars ($10.00)
with the oity treasurer as a guarantee of the proper performanoe of his
work and to indemnify the city for any charges or penalties that may be
imposed for work done on his aocount.
The superintendent may then furnish said person with a
service key, which he shall keep in his possession and with whioh he
may shut eff the curb cook for the purpose of making repairs within the
premises. No person other than plumbers who have oomplied with the
above requirements shall use this key, and the plumbers shall leave ourb
oook shut off on all premises which are newly conneoted, and on all other
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premises the curb cock shall be left in the condition in whioh it was
found, and on the completion of any work which would affeot the water rate
they shall notify the superintendent. This shall not be construed as in
any way relieving any plumber from making applioations and complying with
all the requirements of this ordinanoe. On failure to perform work in a
proper manner, or in accordance with the requirements of this ordinance
the superintendent may remedy er cause the same to be remedied, and cha~ge
the cost, together with any penalties which may attach to the plumber
or deduct from his deposit: and in this. latter event s~id plumber shali
make whole his deposit before he will be allowed to do any of the work
above specified. No private person will be allowed to'do any of the
above work unless by special permission of the superintendent and the
deposit of such sum as he may designate.
Section 25. Any plumber or other person who shall violate
any of the provisions of the preceding section shall forfeit his deposit
to the water department, and may be prohibited from performing any of the
work prescribed in the preceding section for a period of one (1) year
from the date thereof.
Section 26. The use of water for sprinkling or irrigat-
ing lawns, gardens, flower beds, plants, trees, shrubs, or parking strips,
except during such hours as hereinafter provided, is prohibited.
Section 27. The City Council may at any time and as often
~s it ,shall deem necessary divide the city into irrigation distriots, with-
ln WhlCh districts water may be used at the times in this ordinance author-
ized for sprinkling or irrigating lawns, gardens, flower beds, plants,
trees, shrubs, or parking strips in each of such districts respectively, and
shall cause notice thereof to be published in the official newspaper for
one week, and from and after the official publication of sucnrnotice it
shall be unlawful for any person to violate any of the provisions thereof
by using water for the purposes specified at any other time or in any
other manner than is prescribed in such notioe.
Section 28. Water used for any of the purposes mentioned
in the preceding section from any service not connected with a meter and
delivered through a hose, must be delivered through a nozzle, the orifice
of which is in no case greater than one-fourth of an inch in diameter,
and no hose having an inside diameter greater than three-fourths of an
inch shall be used for delivering water for such purposes, and no water
shall be delivered through a hose unless the same has a nozzle attached
thereto as hereinbefore provided, or has a sprinkling device attached
thereto. Such sprinkling device attaohed thereto, however, shall not
permit a greater flow of water than is hereinbefore permitted through
one orifice as hereinbefore provided. Irrigation shall be permitted on
a lmt used as a lawn or garden and occupied by a building used as a dwell-
ing, together with the right to use not more than one set of hose. Water
may be delivered daily through such hose and nozzle or sprinkling device
between the hours of six and nine o.clock A. M. and the hours of six and
nine o'clock P.M., provided that the oity council, in case of an emergency,
whenever the public safety, healt. or the equitable distribution of water
so demands may change reduce or limit the times above stated or dis-
continue the use of water for the above purposes for such times and in
such localities as in its judgment public safety demands.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use water for any
purposes mentioned in the preceding section through any o~her size of
hose or nozzle or sprinkling device than is herein prescrlbed, or through
any leaky or defective hose or nozzle, or through more than one set of
hose or sprinkling device, ~r through a hose with a ~ozz~e deta~hed or
through such hose with or wlthout such nozzle or sprlnkllng devlce/
attached at any time or times other than herein authorized except from
any service connected with a meter and water paid for at meter rates as
fised by ordinance.
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It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully plaGe any
automatic sprinkling deviGe or wilfully to plaGe or hold any hose in
SUGh position or manner that water therefrom falls on any person while
on any public street or sidewalk.
SeGtion 29. If any person shall violate any provision of
the preceding seGtion, the superintendent shall shut off the water
furnished to the premises upon whiGh SUGh violation is made and shall
charge fifty cents (50~) for again turning on such water. Water shall
not again be turned on any SUGh premises until a meter shall have been
first installed for service of water to such premises and all unpaid or
delinquent Gharges for water, and other Gharges, have been fully paid, and
thereafter water shall only be furnished to such premises through a meter
and at meter rates.
Section 30. It shall be unlawful for any person to use any
water for irrigation or sprinkling during the ~rogress of any fire in the
Gity, unless for the proteGtion of property, and all irrigation and
aprinkling shall be immediately stopped when an alarm of fire is sounded
in any part of the city, and shall not be begun again until the fire is
extinguished.
SeGtion 31. The city reserves the right at any time,
without notiGe, to shut off the water supply for repairs, extensions,
non-payment of rates, or any other reason, and the Gity shall not be
responsible for any damage, SUGh as bursting of boilers, supplied by
direct pressure, the breaking of any pipes or fixtures, stoppages or
interruption of water supply, or any other damage resulting from the
shutting off of water.
SeGtion 32. Employees of the water department shall
have free aGoess at all proper hours of the day to all parts of buildings I
in whioh water may be delivered from the oity mains, for the purpose of
aSGertaining the number of rooms and families in the building, or inspeGt-
ing the Gondition of the pipes and fixtures and the manner in whioh the
water is used. It shall be the duty of the water department to inspeGt
all buildings or premises in or on whiGh water may be delivered from the
oity mains, partioularly buildings or premises which are being served
at fixed rather than meter rates, for the purpose of disoovering leaky
pipes or fixtures or other conditions oausing waste of oity water, and
to serve, or oause to be served, upon the occupants or owner of any
building or premises in or on which leaky pipes or fixtures or other
conditions Gausing or permitting the waste of Gity water are found to
exist, a written or printed notioe, speoifying the faulty pipes, fixtures
or other oonditions, and requiring that suoh faulty pipes, fixtures or
other oonditions be properly repaired or oorreoted within the period of
seven (7) days from and after the service of such notice.
No owner or person having charge of any building or
premises shall refuse or prevent the free aooess and inspeotion to and of
such building or premises as in this seotion provided, and for any viola-
tion of this rule a penalty of one dollar (01.00) shall be imposed and
taxed against the person and premises supplied, and the water shall be
turned off and so remain until said penalty and all other oharges due
are paid.
If the leaky or faulty pipes or fixtures or other oon-
ditions to be mentioned in the written or printed notioe to be served as
hereinb~fore specified, shall not be properly repaired or correGted within
the period of seven (7) days from and after the date of servioe of suoh
written or printed notioe, then and in bhat oase the water shall be
turned off and so remain until such repairs shall be made or oonditions
oorrected, and a charge of fifty oents (50~) for turning on water shall
be paid.
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Seotion 33. Servioes for fire proteGtion must be metered
and fitted with suoh fixtures only as are needed for fire proteotion
and entirely disGonneoted from those used for other purposes. Persons
having such servioes shall be Gharged not less than the minimum rate,
oharged for a metered servioe. No oharge will be made for water used in
extinguishing fire if the owner or oGoupant of premises where suoh fire
ooours give~ written notioe to the offioe of the superintendent within
thirty (30) days from the time of SUGh fire. In no Gase shall any tap
be made upon any pipe used for fire servioe purposes, or any tank
oonneGted therewith, nor shall the use of any water be permitted through
any fire servioe nor through any pipes, tank or other fixtures therewith
connected for any purpose exoept the extinguishing of fire on the premises,
or for fire drill, or testing the hose or servioe.
Seotion 34. That the City of Auburn be and hereby is
divided into Distriot No.1 and Distriot No.2, for the purpose of faGili-
tating the Golleotion of water servioe rates as follows: All that portion
of the City of Auburn east of Auburn Avenue and "F" Street S. E., be and
is designated as Distriot No. l, and all that portion of the City of Auburn
lying west of Auburn Avenue and "F" Street S. E., be and is designated as
Distriot No.2.
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SeGtion 35. Payment for water servioe shall be due and
payable monthly, for all olasses of serviGe. For serviGe at fixed rates,
payments shall be due and payable in advanoe, as follows: In Distriot
No.1, on the first day of each month, and if paid on or before the 12th
day of eaoh month, a discount of twenty-five (25~) oents shall be given,
and in Distriot No. 2 on the 15th day of eaoh month, and if paid on or
before the 27th day of the month, a disoount of twenty-five (25~) cents
shall be givenj for metered servioes payments shall be due and payable
on the 10th day of the month next suooeeding the month in which service
was rendered.;
Seotion 36. All water servioe furnished at a fixed rate
in Distriot No.1 shall be due and payable on the first day of eaGh month,
and delinquent on the 12th of the month, and if not paid on or before the
15th of the month, the said water serviGe shall be disGontinued, and in
District No. 2 all water servioe furnished at a fixed rate shall be due
and payable on the 15th of the month and delinquent on the 27th of the
month, and if not paid on or before the 30th of the month, the said water
servioe shall be disoontinued.
Failure to reoeivemail will not be reoognized as a valid
exouse for failure to pay rates when due. Change in ownership of property
and ohange in mailing addresses must be filed in writing at the offioe
of the Superintendent on forms provided for that purpose. The Superinten-
dent ~ require payment in advanoe or satisfaotory seourity for all
water'tone furnished by meter, and if suoh payment be not made, or
seourity furnished within the time fixed by the Superintendent, water
shall be shut off from the premises.
It shall be the duty of the City Treasurer or suoh other
offioial of the City of Auburn whose duty it shall then be to oolleot
for City Water Servioe, to give to the Water Superintendent on the 13th
arid 28th day of eaoh month, in Distriot No.1 and No.2, respeotively,
a written list of all unpaid water servioe, giving the tap number, the
name, address and amount due, and upon reoeipt of such list! the Wa~er
Superintendent shall immediately prooeed to enforoe oolleot~on o~ d~s-
oontinue water servioe.
Seotion 37. The monthly rate for use of water, other
than measured by meters, shall be known as fixed rates, and shall be as
follows: Domestio use -- -- -- $1.75.
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Seotion 38. A water meter may be plaoed on any servioe
in the city at the disoretion of the city oounoil.
Seotion 39.1' All meters, unless otherwise authorized by
the superintendent, shall be and remain the property of the oity and will
not be removed unless the use of water on the premises is to be entirely
stopped or the service oonneotion disoontinued or abandoned. In all oases
where meters are lost, injured or broken by oarelessness or negligenoe of
owners or oooupants of premises, they shall be replaoed or repaired by or
under the direotion of the superintendent and the oost oharged against
t the owner or oooupant, and in oase of non-payment the water shall be
. shut off and will not be turned on until such oharge and the charge for
turning on the water are paid.
Seotion 40. No oharge shall be made fo~ t~e original
installation of any meter unless suoh installation shall be of a temporary
nature, when the superintendent may require a deposit to oover the oost
of installation and removal; PROVIDED that should any person desire a
meter larger than the 5/8 inoh size, for domestio servioe or on any
servioe whioh does not average 1500 cubio feet per month, he shall pay
into the water fund the differenoe in oost between that of the meter
desired to be used and that of the 5/8 inoh size.
When it is desired to have a meter removed or reinstalled
the owner of the premises supplied or to be supplied by suoh meter shall
file an applioation at the office of the superintendent on forms provided
for that purpose, and shall pay the oost in full for suoh removal or
reinstallation. Premises supplied by meter will not be reopened on a
fixed rate.
Seotion 41. Any user of metered water who may olaim
that the water meter through whia~ suoh user is obtaining water is not
registerin~ oorreotly may make applioation to the superintendent to have'
suoh meter tested, and upon the deposit of $1.00 by SUGh user with the
superintendent it shall be the duty of the superintendent to test suoh
meter to the end that suoh user/may be served through a oorreotly regis-
tering meter. In oase suoh test shall show that the meter was not
registering correctly, such deposit of 01.00 shall be' returned by the
superintendent to the user, but in oase suoh test shall show that the
meter oomplained of was registering Gorreotly, then suoh deposit shall
be at onoe paid into the water fund of the City of Auburn.
Seotion 42. All business houses shall be supplied by
meter only.
Seotion 43. All servioes where water is used wholly or
in part for power purposes shall be metered.
Seotion 44. All servioes outside the oity limits shall
be metered.
Seotion 45. There shall be no restriotions as to the
use of water on meter rates, exoept in oase of fire or by speoial order
of the city oouncil in Gase the Gity oounoil deem a water shortage to
exist.
Seotion 46. There shall be and is hereby established a
manufaoturer's meter rate: said rate to apply only to suoh establish-
ments as are using maChinery for the purpose of ~anufaoturing a~d are
employing not less than five (5) persons; and sa~d rate to be e~ghty
(80) per oent of the regular meter rate prescribed by ordinance.
Seotion 47. Where water is supplied by meter for manu-
faoturing purposes, and is then used in part for other than manufa?turing
purposes, suoh as store, families, barns, etc., all water so suppl~ed
shall be oharged at the regular meter rate and the reduction provided
for manufaotories will not be allowed.
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meter~ shall be as follows:
Minimum o~arge through one inoh meter or less
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for eaoh one-half inoh, or fraotional part thereof,
in addition to one inoh meter.
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order and failing to register properly the oonsumer shall be charged
at/the average consumption as shown by the meter for the last preceding
three months when the meter was in order.
~eeticR 19. The meRtRly pates for water eupplied ey
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M~n~mum cnar~g --
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Provided that where two or more separate buildings
or premises are supplied by the same meter the
minimum rate shall be in<<reased $1.25 for eaoh
extra building or premises.
First 1000 ou. ft. or fraotion thereof, minimum oharge - $1.50
Next 1000 ou. ft. $.10 per 100 ou. ft.
Next 1000 ou. ft. .09 per 100 GU. ft.
/Next 2000 ou. ft. .08 per 100 ou. ft.
Next 5000 ou. ft. .07 per 100 ou. ft.
Next 10000 ou. ft. .06 per 100 ou. it.
Allover 20,000 ou. ft. .04 per 100 ou. ft.
Provided, however, that twenty-five (25) per Gent shall
be added to all rates for water delivered outside the oity limits.
Provided further that in oase suoh oharge shall be paid
on or before the 20th day of the month when payment shall be due a
discount of twenty-five oents (25~) will be allowed.
In oomputing meter rates as above provided, results
ending in one and two oents will be oounted "0"; results ending in three,
four, six or seven cents will be oounted "5"; and results ending in
eight or nine cents will be oounted "1011.
Seotion 50. In order to enoourage the maintaining of
parking strips in a oondition whioh will add to the general attractiveness
of the oity, there will be allowed a deduotion of 1 cubio foot per front
foot per month from the meter readings for the months of June, July and
August. In order to seoure this allowanoe, applioation must be made in
writing to the water department and the parking strips must be kept in
such oondition as to justify the allowanoe. The decision of the superin-
tendent subjeot to appeal to the oity oounoil, as to whether or not an
allowanoe, and if so, what allowance, is justified, shall be final.
Seotion 51. It shall be the duty of the employees of the
polioe, fire, engineer1s and streets and sewers departments to give
vigilant aid to the superintendent in the enforoement of the provisions of
this ordinance, and to this end they shall report all violations thereof
whioh may oome to their knowledge to the superintendent.
Section 52. A oopY of this ordinanoe may be obtained
by all owners of property and oonsumers of water, and shall be oonsidered
a part of the Gontract made between the oity and every suoh owner and
oonsumer.
Seotion 53. It shall be unlawful for any person exoept
when duly authorized by the superintendent, or who shall be a member of
the fire department, to open, operate, olose, turn on, turn off, inter-
fere with, attaoh any pipe or hose to or conneot anything with any fire
hydrant, stop valve or stop oook belonging to the city.
Any person, other than employees of the fire department,
requiring the use of any hydrant, stop oock or valve belonging to the
oity must make written applioation for the same in advanoe to the super-
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intendent. The superintendent shall then send a hydrant inspector to
open suoh hydrant, stopGook or valve, and the time of suoh inspeotor
shall be Gharged to the person making applioation for the use of such
hydrant, stopoook or valve. Should it be necessary for the inspector to
remain at the hydrant, stopoock or valve until the person using the same
has secured the neoessary supply of water, the full time so consumed
by the inspeotor shall be oharged to the person seouring SUGh service,
but in no oase shall the ohargebe less than one dollar ($1.00). The
superintendent may require a deposit in advanoe as a oondition for
supplying suoh water.
Seotion 54. It shall be unlawful for any person, unless
duly authorized by the superintendent, to disturb, interfere with or
damage any water main, water pipe, maohinery, tools, oeters, or any
other applianoes, buildings, improvements, lawns, grass plots, flowers,
vines, bushes or trees belonging to, oonneoted with or under the oontrol
of the munioipal water supply system of the oity of Auburn.
Seotion 55. It shall be unlawful for any person to bathe
in, fish in or throw any substanoe into any reservoir, or place any
foreign substanoe upon any grounds belonging to, oonnected with or under
the oontrol of the munioipal water supply system of the city of Auburn.
Seotion 56. It shall be unlawful for any person to
obstruot the aGoess to any fire h~drant by plaoing around or thereon
any stone, brick, lumber, dirt or other material, or to open or operate
any fire hydrant, or draw or attempt to draw water therefrom, or to
wilfully or Garelessly injure the same.
Seotion 57. It shall be unlawful for any person to
make oonneotions with any fixtures or conneot any pipe with any water
main or water pipe belonging to the munioipal water supply system,
without first obtaining permission so to do from the superintendent.
Seotion 58. Any person violating any of the provisions
of this ordinanoe shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
oonviotion thereof shall be punished by a fine in any sum not exoeeding
one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or imprisoned for a term not exoeeding
thirty (30) days, or be both so fined and imprisoned.
Seotion 59. The superintendent shall cause a reward
not to exceed ten (10) dollars to be paid to any person seouring the
oonviotion of any person for violation of any of the provisions of this
ordinance.
Seotion 60.
anoe shall be, for any reason
such holding shall not affeot
or any other part thereof.
If any provision or section of this ordin-
held to be invalid orunoonstitutional,
the validity of this ordinanoe as a whole,
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Seotion 61. Ordinanoes numbered 413, 492,^550, 635,
708 and 743 of the ordinanoes of the city of Auburn, and all other
ordinances in oonfliot with the provisions of this ordinanoe, are he:eby
repealed; provided, however, that suoh repeal shal~ ~ot affect any :~~hts
or liabilities aoquired or inourred under the prov~slons of t~e ord~n
ances so repealed, whioh rights or liabilities shall be in ex~stanoe at
the time this ordinanoe shall take effeot.
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Section 62. This ordinanoe shall take effect and be
in foroe on January 1, 1936.
INTRODUCED Deoember 17,1935
PASSED Deoember 17,1935
APPROVED December 17, 1935
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