O79-05CITY OF KENNEDALE ORDINANCE NO. 79-5
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SUBDIVISION (a), OF SECTION 14-3, OF
ARTICLE 1, AND SECTION 14-11, OF ARTICLE 2, BOTH IN CHAPTER
14 ENTITLED "PUBLIC UTILITIES", OF THE KENNEDALE CITY CODE
1977, THIS AMENDMENT ADDING FEES FOR STREET CUTS TO TAP
FEES FOR CONNECTIONS TO THE KENNEDALE WATER SYSTEM, AND IN-
CREASING FEES FOR STREET CUTS FOR CONNECTIONS TO THE KENNE-
DALE SEWER SYSTEM, SUCH CHANGES TO BE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENNEDALE, TEXAS:
1. That Section
Kennedale City Code 1977,
separate services; etc.,"
(a) only of said Section
Sec:-14-3, Art. 1,Chap.14,
after read as follows:
14-3, of Article 1, of Chapter 14, of the
said Section being entitled "Water taps;
be amended with respect to Subdivision
14-3, so that said Subdivision (a), of
Kennedale City Code 1977, shall here -
"(a) Placement and connection to the City water
main may only be made by City employees. Charges for con-
nections to the City water system and setting of meters
are:
3/4 inch meter or smaller - $75.00;
1 inch meter - $145.00;
1-1/2 inch meter - $325.00;
2 inch meter - $425.00.
Larger meters or compound meter installation will be based
on labor and meter costs as deteLmined by the City Admin-
istrator. In addition to the foregoing meter connection
or tap fee, if it is necessary to cut the surface of a
street to make a connection to the City water system,
the applicant for service or connection shall also pay
for the street cut at the rate of $6.00 per square foot
of surface cut on streets improved with any type of
paved surface (that is, asphalt, concrete, hot top, or
any surface other than dirt and/or gravel), and $4.00
per square foot of surface cut on streets having only a
dirt or gravel surface. Repair of street surface when a
cut is made shall be according to plans and specifica-
tions of the City of Kennedale, and subject to approving
inspection by the City."
2. That Section 14-11, of Article 2, of Chapter 14, of the
Kennedale City Code 1977, said Section being entitled"Tapping, etc.,"
be amended so that said Section 14-11, of Article 2, Chapter 14,
Kennedale City Code 1977, shall hereafter read as follows:
"Sec.: 14-11. Tapping, etc.
"Each person, firm or corporation making application
for connection to the municipal sanitary sewer system of
the City of Kennedale, Texas, for property or premises not
previously connected with the sewer system, shall pay the
City an installation, tap or connection fee of Ninety ($90)
Dollars. In addition thereto, if it is necessary to cut
the surface of a street to make such connection to the
City sewer system, the applicant for service or connection
shall also pay for the street cut at the rate of $6.00 per
square foot of surface cut on streets improved with any
type of paved surface (that is, asphalt, concrete, hot top,
or any surface other than dirt and/or gravel), and $4.00
per square foot of surface cut on streets having only a
dirt or gravel surface. Repair of street surface when a
cut is made shall be according to plans and specifications
of the City of Kennedale, and subject to approving inspec-
tion by the City. Monthly sewer service charges shall be-
gin to accrue immediately upon connection of any property
to the Kennedale municipal sewer system if the main to which
connection is made is then in operation, and if not,
then immediately upon such main being put into oper-
ation."
3. The
for street cuts
Kennedale Water
System shall be
and approval of
additional and increased charges herein provided
in connection with connections to the City of
System and the City of Kennedale Sanitary Sewer
in full force and effect immediately upon passege
this ordinance.
4. Except as hereinabove expressly amended with respect
to said Article 1, Section 14-3, Subdivision.(a), and said Article
2, Section 14-11, all of said Chapter 14, of the Kennedale City
Code 1977 shall continue in full force and effect as heretofore
existing - that is, as originally adopted in said Kennedale City
Code 1977, and heretofore amended.
ATTEST:
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 12th day of April, 1979.
may,`
Evely Templeton, CEity Secretary
APPRO. D :
Steve Rada.ovich, Mayor of the City
of Kennedale, Texas
(CITY SEAL)
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