HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 71-19 - Amended Industrial Waste ORD252
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR A UTILITY REMATE TO SUBDIVIDERS
WITHIN THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, AND PROVIDING FOR
PROCEDURE TO QUALITY FOR PAYMENT.
Subdivders installing water lines and sewer lines in recorded subdivisions
of land located within the City of Georgetown, Texas, shall be entitled to receive
a utility refund in the amount of $75.00 for each connection or hook-up to a home
located within said subdivision to water, sewer and electrical power provided by
said City of Georgetown. An additional rebate of $75.00 shall be paid to such
parties if the home so connected to said utilities is an "all electric" home without
any gas service, including but not limited to natural gas and liquid petroleum
gases.
As a condition precedent to the vesting of the right to receive such rebates
the developer of said land shall request to the City Manager not later then 45
days after such hook up and such developers of land shall be entitled to receive
such rebate, either the $75.00 or the $150.00 at the first billing of the occupant
of said home for such utilities. In order to qualify for such rebates, the utilities
installed by such subdivider shall be in compliance with City of Georgetown codes
and ordinances setting forth standards, plans and specifications.
July,
1971.
READ, PASSED AND ADOPTED by unanimous vote on first reading the Sth day of
1971, and passed by unanimous vote on-VWL1Yqd reading the 26th day of July,
ATTEST:
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING INDUSTRIAL WASTE ORDINANCE ADOPTED
MARCH 22, 1971 AND PROHIBITING THE DISCHARGE OF HEAVY
METALS AND TOXIC MATERIALS INTO THE SEIYER SYSTEM,
AMLNDING DE'F'INITION OF UNPOLLUTED WATERS AND PROVIDING
FOR PERIODIC REVIEW OF BASIC SEWE11 SERVICE CHARGES AND
SURCHARGE RATES.
WHEREAS, the City Council of Georgetown, heretofore on the 22nd day of March,
1971, passed and adopted an ordinance establishing regulations covering industrial
wastes, reference to said ordinance being hereby made for all purposes as if copied
herein at length; and
WHEREAS, it is desirable to amend said ordinance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGE-
TOWN, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. No heavy metals or toxic materials of any character nor descript-
ion shall be discharged into the sanitary sewer system of the City of Georgetown.
SECTION 2. That portion of SECTION 1 definitions reading as follows:
Unpolluted water or waste means any water or waste containing none of the
following: free or emulsified grease or oil; acid or alkali; phenole, or other
substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution, and noxious or odorous
gases. It shall contain not more than ten parts per million each of suspended
solids and B.D.D. The Color shall not exceed fifty parts per million.
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Is hereby amended and hereafter shall read as follows:
Unpolluted water or waste means any water or waste containing none of the
following: free or emulsified grease or oil; acid or alkali; phenole, or other
substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution, and noxious or odorous
gases. It shall contain not more than ten parts per million each of suspended
solids and B.O.D. The color shall not exceed fifty units as defined by the stand-
ard Platinum -cobalt method of determination."
SECTION 3. Review of service charges and surcharge rates.
The City Council, City of Georgetown, shall review on an annual basis and
more frequently if desired by the Council, the basic sewer service charges and
the surcharge rates. In making such reviews attention shall be given to changes
in waste water treatment costs of the previous years and if deemed advisable
based on such reviews periodic adjustments of such rates shall be adopted.
SECTION 4. Severability.
If any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase or provision of
this ordinance shall be judged invalid or held unconstitutional, the same shall
not in any manner be so construed as to effect the validity of the remainder
of this ordinance as a whole or any part or provision thereof, other than the
part so decided to be invalid or unconstitutional.
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APPROVED AND PASSED by unanimous vote by first meeting on this 26th day
of July, 1971, and approved and passed at the second reading on the 9th day
of August, 1971.
ATTEST:
Jay C. Sloan, Mayor
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Joe B. McMaster, City Attorney