ORD 2017-20 Adopted ORDINANCE NO. 2017-20
ESTABLISHING WASTEWATER SERVICE CHARGES
BY REVISING SECTION 14-68, TITLED
"SCHEDULE OF MONTHLY WASTEWATER SERVICE CHARGE,"
OF THE CITY CODE OF THE
CITY OF NORTH AUGUSTA, SOUTH CAROLINA
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NORTH AUGUSTA, SOUTH CAROLINA, IN MEETING DULY ASSEMBLED AND
BY THE AUTHORITY THEREOF, THAT:
I. Section 14-68, titled "Schedule of Monthly Wastewater Service Charge," is hereby
amended and when amended shall read as follows:
Sec. 14-68. Schedule of monthly wastewater service charge.
The schedule to be utilized for the computation of monthly charges for wastewater
service is as follows:
(1) Each residential or commercial customer of the city's system, whether inside or
outside the city, must pay such customer's proportionate share of the costs for
operation and maintenance of the system. In addition, each customer of the
city's sanitary wastewater system must pay an amount to share the costs of debt
service and to provide for special reserve funds. The operation and
maintenance, debt service, and special reserve funds shall be paid on a monthly
basis as follows:
a. Rates for the first 15,000,000 gallons/month:
Inside City Outside City
Base + Per Base + Per
1,000 1,000
Gallons Gallons
Operation and maintenance $8.19 $2.28 $ 9.19 $2.32
Debt Service 2.53 0.87 5.06 1.49
Monthly Charges $10.72 $3.15 $14.25 $3.81
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b. Rates for additional usage:
Inside City Outside City
Per Per
1,000 1,000
Gallons Gallons
Operation and maintenance $1.81 $1.81
Debt Service 0.70 0.70
Monthly Charges $2.51 $2.51
(2) All charges for wastewater service are to be made in one-hundred-gallon
increments.
(3) Six (6) months following the date of availability of wastewater service, or at
such time as a customer actually connects to the City's wastewater system,
whichever event occurs first, the wastewater service charges as set forth herein
shall be due and payable.
(4) Customers who have service available but who have not connected to the
system shall be charged the minimum base monthly service rate for inside City
and outside City customers as shown in Section 14-68 (1) a above.
II. This ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its adoption on third and
final reading for all bills rendered on or after January 1, 2018.
III. All ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such
conflict, hereby repealed.
DONE, RATIFIED AND ADOPTED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COUNCIL OF THE cIITY OF NORTH AUGUSTA, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THIS
0 DAY OF 0-ineA, , 2017.
First Reading: Gc,f4 /, o/, '
Robert A. Pettit, Mayor
Second Reading: -n OI \
Third Reading: Xick-V ' / 07/7 ATTEST:
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Donna B. Young, City Clerk