Ordinance No. 80-00-62 v • ORDINANCE NO. 80-00-62
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH,
FLORIDA AMENDING CHAPTER 22 ARTICLE II
WATERWORKS SYSTEM SECTION 22-20. FEE TO RE-
ESTABLISH SERVICE AFTER CUTOFF OR TRANSFER TO
REQUIRE PAYMENT OF A TURN ON FEE FOR NEW
SERVICES, SECTION 22-27. CHARGES FOR WATER
SERVICES TO INCREASE CHARGES FOR WATER
SERVICE,SECTION 22-27.1.UTILITY DEPOSITS TO SET A
DEFINED DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR RESIDENTIAL
DEPOSIT; TO AMEND ARTICLE III WASTEWATER
SYSTEM DIVISION SEVEN SECTION 22-166
ESTABLISHMENT OF A MONTHLY BASE CHARGE TO
INCREASE THE BASE CHARGE FOR SEWER SERVICE,
SECTION 22-167 SCHEDULE OF WASTEWATER VOLUME
CHARGES TO INCREASE THE VOLUME RATE FOR
SEWER SERVICES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY;
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
• ATLANTIC BEACH, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1. Section 22-20 is amended as follows:
Sec. 22-20. Fee to establish service or re-establish service after cutoff or transfer.
A turn-on-fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) will be charged to turn on service for all new
customers. If water service is turned off, either because of delinquency or upon the request of the
customer, a cut-on-fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) shall be charged and paid prior to restoring
water service. If water service is transferred to another residence, a fifteen-dollar($15.00)
transfer fee shall be charged.
SECTION 2. Amend Section 22-27 charges for water service as follows:
Sec. 22-27. Charges for water service.
The reasonable rates, rentals, fees and other charges for the use of the services and
facilities of the city waterworks system are hereby found and determined to be and are hereby
fixed and established as follows:
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(1) Customers within city:
• a. Single units. The minimum bill for a single unit shall be four dollars am}
twenty-four eents-(-$4724-) five dollars and eighty cents ($5.80) per month
for up to three thousand (3,000) gallons of water.
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The effective rates will be amended for all billings, beginning October 1,
2001 to six dollars and twenty six cents ($6.26) per month for up to three
thousand (3,000) gallons of water. . • . • . - .
with the schedulc in Appendix A.
During each monthly billing period, each monthly bill shall also include an
additional charge of one dollar and fifty eight cents ($1.58)per one
thousand (1,000) gallons of water used in excess of three thousand (3,000)
gallons during the previous month. Gallons used shall be determined by
monthly meter readings.
The effective rates will be amended for all billings, beginning October 1,
2001 to one dollar seventy one cents $(1.71)per one thousand gallons of
water used in excess of three thousand(3,000) gallons during the previous
month.
b. Multiple units. For multiple units served through the same meter, the rates
and minimum charges shall be ' . . . ••' . . ••'
billed at seventy-five (75)percent of the single-unit
rate for each unit, regardless of occupancy:
�3nits Gallons Mininium Bill
Pet-Month
2 4,500 $ 6.36
6,750 9.54
4 9;W0 12.72
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• 5 -11,250 x-5.96
6 137500 19.08
750 22.26
For each additional unit over there will be a minimum charge of$3.18
four dollars and thirty five cents ($4.35) for two thousand two hundred
fifty (2,250) gallons per unit.
• •• • • • . All excess gallonage shall be charged at the
same rate per one thousand (1,000) gallons as provided for single units
above. _ . . •. • , , • . • . . • • . ••
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The effective rates will be amended for all billings, beginning October 1.,
2001 to four dollars and seventy cents ($4.70)per month for up to three
• thousand (2,250) gallons of water.
(2) Customers outside the city: The rates applicable to customers outside the city shall
be one and one quarter(1.25)times the above rate applicable to customers inside
the city.
SECTION 3. Amend section 22-27.1 (a) Utility deposits as follows:
Sec. 22-27.1. Utility deposits.
(a) A deposit of one hundred twenty five dollars ($125) will be required for all new single
family residential accounts. A deposit representing two (2) months' average charges for utility
services, i.e., water, sewer, storm water and garbage, will be required for all other new utility
accounts. Upon termination of utility services, the customer's deposit will first be applied to any
balances owed on his account. Any balance remaining will be refunded to the customer or
transferred to another account upon request of the customer.
SECTION 4. Amend Article III Division Seven 22-166 Establishment of a monthly
• base charge as follows:
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• Sec. 22-166. Establishment of a monthly base charge.
User charges will be levied monthly as follows:
(a)Monthly base charge. A monthly base charge of ': •-
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-($8 6)eleven dollars and eighteen cents ($11.18) per equivalent residential unit will be levied
upon each connection in accordance with the following:
An equivalent residential unit(ERU) is defined as a wastewater connection that delivers
three hundred (300) gallons per day (gpd) of typically domestic wastewater flow to the waste
stream, or equivalent to a residence serviced by a three-fourths-inch water meter.
The monthly base charge is levied as follows:
Single-family residential and single-family $8.36$11.18 per account
individual-metered mobile homes
Multifamily residential 0.75 x $8.36 $11.18 per unit
Master-metered mobile homes 0.75 x $8.36 $11.18 per unit
• Travel trailers 0.60 x $8.36$11.18 per site
Hotel/motel 0.50 x $8.36$11.18 per unit
With kitchen 0.60 x $8.36$11.18 per unit
Master-metered commercial $8.36 $11.18 per unit
Restaurants, laundries, and car wash $8.36$11.18 x ERU factor
connections
All other commercial customers $8.36$11.18 x ERU factor
where the ERU factor for the commercial classification is based upon meter size
as follows:
• Meter Size ERU Factor
(in inches)
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• 5/8 x 3/4 $1.00
1 1.28
1 1/2 2.08
2 2.88
3 5.60
4 10.00
6 20.00
The monthly base charge effective rates will be amended for all billings,
beginning October 1, 2001 to twelve dollars and seven cents ($12.07) per
• equivalent residential unit.
(b) The rates applicable to customers outside of the city shall be one and one quarter
(1.25)times the rates above.
(c)A monthly base surcharge for revenue generation system as required by the Federal
Environmental Protection Agency and the state department of environmental regulation is as
follows:
A surcharge of one dollar and eighty-four cents ($1.84)per equivalent residential
unit shall be levied upon each connection except in the Buccaneer Water and
Sewer District in accordance with the following:
Usage Classification ERU Factor
Single-family residential and single-family $1.00 per account
individual-metered mobile homes
Multifamily residential 0.75 per unit
• Master-metered mobile homes 0.75 per unit
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Travel trailer site 0.60 per site
Hotel/motel 0.50 per unit
With kitchen 0.60 per unit
Master-metered commercial, more than one 1.00 per unit
unit on one meter
Commercial 1.84 x ERU Factor
Restaurants, laundries, and car wash 1.84 x ERU Factor
connections as provided in(a) above.
SECTION 5. Amend Article III Division Seven 22-167 Schedule of wastewater volume
charges as follows:
Sec. 22-167. Schedule of wastewater volume charges.
(a) There is hereby established a uniform volume charge per one thousand (1,000) gallons
of water as follows:
(1) Single-family residential and single-family individual-metered mobile homes,
$2.46 three dollars and thirty seven cents ($3.37)per 1,000 gallons of actual
residential water consumption in excess of ,
.. • . . _ :,::: _ . . . 3,000 gallons per month.
(2) Restaurants, laundries and all other classifications, $2.46 three dollars and thirty
seven cents ($3.37)per one thousand (1,000)gallons of actual water consumption
in excess of Three thousand (3,000) gallons per month.
(3) The monthly volume charge effective rates will be amended for all billings,
beginning October 1, 2001 to three dollars and sixty four cents ($3.64)per one
thousand (1,000) gallons of actual residential water consumption in excess of
three thousand (3,000) gallons per month.
(b) The rates applicable to customers outside of the city shall be one and one-quarter
• (1.25)times the rates above. • • ••• • . . . • •• • _ , • _• •
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• January 1 of each year in-acc. . ••• • . .•• .M.
SECTION 6. Severability. If any section, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is held to
be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, then said
holding shall in no way affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
ordinance.
SECTION 7. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its final passage and adoption.
Passed by the City Commission on first reading this // Day of September, 2000.
Passed by the City Commission on second and final reading this o26. ay of September,
2000.
ATTEST:
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MAUREEN KIN U
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110 City Clerk
Appr 1 ed as to form and correctness:
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• 'AN C.dE irN, ESQUIRE
City Attorn
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JOIN S.MESERVE
Mayor, Presiding Officer
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