HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1973-016 ORDINANCE NO. 73-1,6
AN URDINANCE PROVIDING FOR INSTALLMENT PAY�MENT
OF WATER AND/4R SEWER PRO RATA CHARGES AND TAP
FEE; PROVU�ING DE�'INITION (JF NATURAL PERSONS;
� PROVIDING FOR INTEREST; PROVIDING FOR DIS-
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CONNECTION OF SERVICE; PROVIDING FOR STANDARD
CONTRACT; PR(�VIDING FOR A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS:
SECTION l. The charges to natural persons owning lats used
only for residential purposes and desiring services enumerated in
(�rdinance �3-15 known as the Water and Sewer Pro Rata
` Qrdinance, may be paid by installment or in lump sum. If the owner
�- elects ta pay by installment, the hereinafter stated schedule shall be
fallow�d:
A. WATER AT�D SEWER PRQ RATA PLUS TAP FEE
Principal and interest shall be paid in twenty-
r three (23) equal monthly installments and the
balance paid on the final and twenty-fourth (24th)
payment.
B. WATER PR4 RATA ANU TAP FEE ONLY
Principal and interest shall be paid in fourteen
(14} equal monthly installments and the balance
, paid on the final and fifteenth {15th) payment.
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C, SEWER PRQ RATA AND TAP FEE ONLY
Principal and interest shall be paid in fourteen
(14} equal monthly installments and the balance
paid on the final and fif�eenth (1Sth) payment.
SECTIC}N 2, Natural persons shall not include a corporation, firm,
partnership or assc7ciation of persans.
SECTIC}N 3, Interest provided in Sectian 1 hereof shall be at
one and ane-half percent �l-1/2j) per month on the unpaid balance.
� SECTION 4. Payment shall be made within ten (10} days after
receipt of billing.
SECTIQN 5. Failure ta make timely payment an the installment
account and/ar failure to timely pay water and/or sewer bills shall authorize
the City o� Grapev�ne to immediately discontinue service.
SECTION 6. The Office of City Attorney shall prepare a standard
form cantract for all installment accounts which must be executed by the
owner of the property to be served.
SECTIt�N 7. If any section, sentence, p��rase, word, paragraph
or provisions of thi� ordinance or the application of that section, sentence,
phrase, word, paragraph or provision to any person, situation or circum-
`� stances is for any reason adjudged invalid, the adjudication �hall not affect
�` � any other section, �en�ence, phrase, word, paragraph or provisit�n of thi�
ordinance or the application of any other section, sentence, phrase, word,
paragraph or provision to any other person, situatzon or circumstances,
nor shall such adjudication affect any other section, sentence, phrase, word,
paragraph or provisian of the Grapevine City Code. The Czty Cauncil
declares that it wauld have adopted the valid portions and application� af
this ardinance without the invalid part, and to this end the provisions af this
ordinance are declared ta be severable,
SECTIQN 8. The fact that the present ordinanees and regulations
of the City of Grapevine, Texas, are inadequate to pravide immediate
water and sewer service to those unable to make lump sum payment of the
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water and sewer pro rata in the City of Grapevine, Texas, creates an
emergency for the immediate preservation of the public bu�ines�, property,
health, safety and general welfare of the public which requires that this
ardinance shall became effective from and after the date of its passage as
provided by the Charter of the City af Grapevine, Texa s, and it i� accordingly
:, so grda i ned,
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PASSED AND APPRQVED BY THE CITY COLTNGIL 4F THE CITY
aF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, this the ls�,day of May A.D. 1973.
ATTEST:
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APPRCIVED AS TO FORM:
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