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Home My WebLink About02307 ORD - 06/29/1948AN ORDINANCE ,c. 3 () ESTABLISHING RULES, REGULATIONS AND FEES APPLICABLE IN C014THOL AND ADLIINISTRATION OF UTILITY TAPS OR SERVICE CONNEOTIONS FOR CITY O'.MD UTILITIES, REPEALING ALL OTHER ORDI2:ANCES IN CONFLICT EERVOTM AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF .CARPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That the following rules and regulations concern- ing the control, operation and administration of utility taps or service connections of water, gas and sewer utilities owned by the City of Corpus Christi, and regulations prescribing fees for utility taps or service connections is hereby adopted and approved and said rules and regulations are as follows, to-wit- 1. UTILITY TAP APPLICATIONS Applications for water, gas or sewer taps may be accepted from anyone holding a valid plumbing permit issued by the City of Corpus Christi for taps to be made inside or outside the city limits. 2. UTILITY TAP FELL' PAYENT Utility tap fees will be paid in cash upon application for utility taps. 3. UTILITY TAP FEES DEFINED Utility tap fees are separate and distinct from any plumbing permit or inspection fees and will not be construed as being a part of or as including such fees. 4. UTILITY TAP FEES EXTRA CHARGES No charges will be made in addition to utility tap Pees for street cuts; however, for taps outside the city limits, which cannot be readily made to existing lateral lines provided for such services or for taps which involve major highway crossings or taps to major mains or trunk lines and similar cases, charges will be made to cover entire cost of all work and material including meters, if any, as estimated by the City. 5. UTILITY TAP FEE PRICE STBUCTURE A. Inside City Limits SIZE STREET ME EASElaNT FEE (1) GAS 1 -1 ' 12.50 12.50 2° 35.00 25.00 Over 2a special * Special ► Loops - $510.00 Meter Moves - $10.00 (2) 4- 30.00 15,00 6m 10.00 20.00 8" 50,00 25.00 J 3 cl-� 5- UTILITY TAP M STRUCTURE (continued) SIZE' STREET FEE EASEMENT FEE (3) RATER 5/8" $ 15.00 6 15.00 3/" 25.00 20.00 1" 45.00 35.00 1¢'!' 85.00 75.00 2" 100.00 go.00 Over 2" Special + Special s Loops - $10.00 lister Moves - $10100 B. Outside City Limits (1) CAS 4 12.50 12.50 2 35.00 25.00 Over 2°1 Special * Special r_ Loops, - $10.00 1bter doves - $10.00 (2) SEWER 4" 40.00;5 ! 20.00 hr 6 "L 50.00 0 j 25.00 e" 6o.00'I-IV 30.00 ab. (3) WATER 5/e" 35.00 30.00 3/411" 45.00 40.00 17 65.00 60.00 1-P 145•oo 140.00 2e. 195.00 190.00 Over 2" Special * Spacial * Loops - 010.00 Mister Moves - $10.00 *Denotes costs to be specified by the Director of Public Utilities, based on circumstances. 6. DEFINITION OF STREET TAPS AN'D EASEMENT TAPS A. Street tap fees will apply to all tape made to laterals or mains in front or at the side of the property to be served, regardless of whether the line to be tapped is in the street, behind the curb or in some similar position. B. Easement tap fees will apply to all taps made to mains or laterals in the rear of the property to be s r ved. wha re such lines are in dadio.ted or esteblishedease- ments or alleys. 7- SERVICE TO BE PROVIDED FOR raES Gas, sewer and water taps will be made and services in- stalled to a standard location. Necessary meters and regulators will be installed. The entire installation will remain the property of the City and will be main- tained by the City for as long as services available from the City are desired on the property by the occupant. Maintenance of privately owned service lines, or parts of service lines, on private property will be the responsibility of the owner, occupant or Failure to maintaia such service line. will .ubjeot the service in question to discontinuance by the City. 8. AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE The existence of mains or trunk lines, or even lateral lines, near a property will not constitute an obliga- tion for the City to tap such lines on request for tape, where such lines are inaccessible due to necessary crossings of major highways. or major streets due to excessive cost or excessive distance. These special cases must be arranged for with the Director of Public Utilities well in advance of the desired service date, to permit necessary extensions, crose- ings, or similar construction. SECTION 2. This Ordinance shall take effect and all fees set out herein shall be collectible on and after the—(—day of A. D. 1948. SECTION 3• All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby expressly repealed. SECTION 4. The necessity for providing adequate rules and regulations governing the oontrol and administration of utility tape or service connections for the public utility ayatems owned by the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, creates a public emergency and public imperative necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the lkyor having declared that such public emergency and imperative necessity azist, and having requested that such Charter rule be suspended, and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED. PASSED AND APPRO -VED this -;"'7 of June, A. D. 1948• ATTEST: City ry S r APPRO AS TO LEGAL FORM: wity 7 � �- .4 ,, f:; f� City of Corpus Christi, Texas. Corpus Christi, Texas June, 1948 TO THE MMMS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Gentlemen: For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or solution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I. therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, nrA o City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote; 47es1ey B. Seale George I.R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. henry Joe T. Dawson The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Wesley E. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. henry Joe T. Dawson a-�) ()-1