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Home My WebLink About16449 ORD - 08/12/1981AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 55-71 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 1976 REVISION BY AMENDING THE CHARGES FOR SEWER TAP FEES; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE;. PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Section 55-71 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Corpus Christi, 1976 revision, be amended, to hereby read as follows: "Section 55-71. Sewer Tapping Fees. The city shall install and maintain all house service lines from the city sewer mains to the nearest property or easement lines, both inside and outside the city, and shall charge a tap fee for the installation of any such house laterals in a sum sufficient to cover the average cost thereof. Such sum is to be determined and collected by the department of public utilities and shall be at the following rates or basis: House service line tap charge: Street or easement .... 4" line tap - $100.00 All other house service line taps over 4" shall be billed at cost as determined by the department of public utilities. For sewers in streets of new subdivisions where house services are already installed to the property lines, a tap charge of twenty dollars ($20.00) will apply. For business areas, or where deep cut connections are involved, esti- mates of cost will be furnished upon request. Such estimated cost must be deposited with the department of public utilities before work is done. The above charges shall include the cost of tapping the city sewer main, the installation of wyes and placing house service line to the nearest street right-of-way or utility line. They shall include all costs incident to necessary repairs to pavement of any kind or character involved in making the house service line connection. Where sanitary sewer house service lines have been installed ahead of paving, the above cost for such shall include extension of the line to the nearest property line, if not already thus extended. The MICROFILMED SEp 27 116449 IMF department of engineering and physical development shall make the pavement repairs as part of the installation job. Costs as set out herein shall apply for connections to property inside the city. For connections to property outside the city, the actual cost of construction shall govern, with a minimum charge according to the above schedule. The pro rata charges fixed on the basis hereinabove provided shall be collected at the time of collecting tap fees applicable to the specific property for all extensions made, for which cost is chargeable on a front -foot basis under the provisions of this section." SECTION 2. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose. SECTION 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith shall be and are hereby repealed to the extent of conflict herewith. SECTION 4. The fee established by this ordinance shall be effective immediately following its passage. SECTION 5. Publication shall be made one time in the official publica- tion of the City of Corpus Christi by publishing the caption of this ordinance, stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance. That the foregoing ordinance was read dyfor or second reading on this the _41201___ day vote: Luther Jones Betty N. Turner Jack K. Dumphy Bob Gulley Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr. Dr. Charles W. Kennedy Cliff Zarsky first tiiee�and passed to its , by the That the foregoing ordinance was read for second time a passed to its third reading on this the day of �, 191L___, by the _ following vote: Luther Jones Betty N. Turner Jack K. Dumphy Bob Gulley Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr. Dr. Charles W. Kennedy Cliff Zarsky That the foregoing ordinancecwas -r ad for the -t iry, of and passed finally on this the �_ Y �� (�� —�L_ Luther Jones Betty N. Turner Jack K. Dumphy Bob Gulley Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr. Dr. Charles W. Kennedy Cliff Zarsky PASSED AND APPROVED, this the _day of ATTEST: Ci y Secretary APPR VED.: 1902$4' -DAY OF J. BRUCE AXC� K, R TY ATTORNEY nt City Attorney MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 1_6449 PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT v.261707 CITY OF C.C. STATE tlIF County of Nueces. J Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came. BILLIE J. HENDERSON who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the .ACCOUNTING CLERK of the Corpus Christ! Caller and The Corpus Christi Tunes, Daly Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of _NnTIrw OF PitaaAaL_Di ORDINANCE NO. 16449 of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in CQRPIIS CHRISTI CALLER -TIMES 4* on the.i.i.t...hday QfQUST 19 81and once p,wb . day thereafter for 0116 days consecutive. one Times IP— 24.60 BILLIE J. Subscribed and and sworn to before me this - day of AUGUST 81 19— LOIS WINN /1 ) Notary Arc; Nue-...*".gesrormty, Texas IRIMpalar12-4,4&.:T-.1 Vag OF ORDINANCENo. 16449AMENDING SECTION 55-- 71 OF THE CODE OF WWI- I siANCE1u CITY OF COR- IPUS CHR 1ST', 1976 RE - 'VISION BY AMENDING!THE CHARGES FOR SEW- ' ER TAP FEES; PROVID- ING FOR AN EFFECTIVEDATE; PROVIDING FORREPEAL OF ALL ORDI- NANCES IN CONFLICT;I PROVIDING FOR •SEVER - I FOR PUBLICATION.I Was passed and approvedI hy the City Council of the'City of Corpus Christi on the112th day of August, 19131.qhe'full text of sold ordinance isI available to the public In the'Office of the City Secretary.Witness my hand th,s-13thday of August, 1981.4 -Bill G. Read,City SecretaryCorpus Christi,Texas i