HomeMy WebLinkAbout0125_124Commercial Rates
Rates vary according to amount of garbage. Minimum commercial rate is $4.00 per month
or any portion thereof. Rates above $4.00 to be set at City Hall by City Secretary.
Waste from Cleanup or Building Operations
$10.00 per load or proportionate charge for partial load if waste is hauled by city.
If service is rendered during any portion of any month the customer will be required to pay
a minimum bill for this service.
H. PAYMENT AND COLLECTION
If the payment is received prior to the tenth of the month following the month in which the
service was performed, rendered, or available, or if such payment bears a postmark within
such limit, or received in the overnight depository by 8:00 A.M. the following day, such
payment shall be considered timely and not delinquent. When the said tenth day falls
on a Sunday or a legal city holidy such time for payment shall be extended to the next
business day. When payment is made after the tenth of the month 10% will be added
to the net bill. Second notices will be sent to all accounts not paid by the tenth of month.
I. FAILURE TO PAY CHARGES
If a third notice is required, utility service will be discontinued. Account balance plus a
$6.00 service charge must be paid before service will be restored. The customer will be
required to pay the service charge whether utilities have been disconnected or not.
_SECTION II. That there shall be a $25.00 Utility Deposit required on each dwelling unit.
There s hal no deposit required on any dwelling unit occupied by its owner.
All commercial establishments shall be required to post a Utility Deposit equal to at least
twice the average monthly bill of that establishment or a similar establishment of its
kind. The minimum commercial deposit shall be $50.00.
SECTION III. That all ordinances, resolutions, and orders heretofore passed, adopted
and made, or any part of the same, affecting rates, charges and policies for sales made
or services rendered by the Electric, Water, Wastewater, or garbage systems of the City
of Georgetown, which are in conflict with this Ordinance, shall be and the same are
hereby in all things repealed, provided, that those provisions of the Garbage and Trash
Ordinance passed on the 10th day of March 1975, as amended on the 8th day of March, 1976,
which are not in conflict herewith are not repealed.
SECTION IV. The urgent need for prescribing appropriate adjustments in the rates and
charges so t at the revenues derived from the affected accounts will provide additional
revenue for the urgent needs of improvements in the Water and Sewer Systems of the City
of Georgetown creates an emergency for the immediate preservation of order, health,
safety, and general welfare of the public that requires this Ordinance to become effective
from and after the date of its passage as made and provided by the Charter of the City
of Georgetown, and it is so ordained.
READ, PASSED AND APPROVED by the City Council on first reading as an emergency
at a meeting held at the City Hall in the City of Georgetown, this 8th day of February
1977.
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ATTEST: J n C. Doerf er, Jayor
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney