60-90 ORDINANCE NO. 60-90
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING TITLE V, "PUBLIC
WORKS", CHAPTER 54, "SEWERS", SUBHEADING "RATES AND
CHARGES", OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, BY AMENDING SECTION 54.31,
"CONNECTION CHARGES; EXCEPTION", SUBSECTION (A) (1),
TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASE IN THE SEWER CONNECTION
CHARGE FOR EACH SEPARATE RESIDENTIAL UNIT 'OR COMMERCIAL
UNIT; BY AMENDING SECTION 54.32, "SERVICE RATES AND
CHARGES", SUBSECTION (B), TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASE IN
SEWER SERVICE RATES AND CHARGES FOR RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING UNITS AND NONRESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL UNITS,
BOTH.INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE CITY, BASED UPON CERTAIN
CAPACITY AND COMMODITY CHARGES TO INCREASE SAID
CAPACITY AND COMMODITY CHARGES; BY REPLACING THROUGHOUT
THE CHAPTER REFERENCE TO DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC UTILITIES
WITH DIRECTOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES; PROVIDING A
SAVING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A GENERAL REPEALER CLAUSE;
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That Section 54.31, "Connection Charges; Exception",
Subsection (A), "Connection Charges", (1), of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Delray Beach, Florida, is hereby amended to read as follows:
(A) Connection charges.
(1) In addition to the rates set forth in Section 54.32,
there is established a sewer connection charge for each connection to the
city sewage collection system. The sewer connection charge shall be
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~/~//~//~ $1084 for each separate residential unit or per
Equivalent Residential Connection for non-residential units.
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more families are living on the same premises, each shall be considered to
be a separate residential dwelling unit. In apartment buildings,
condominiums, cooperatives, duplexes, resort dwelling unit complexes,
motels or hotels, and the like and for each trailer space in a trailer
park, each living unit shall be considered a separate residential dwelling
unit. ~/~/~6~6~/~f
Section 2. That Section 54.32, "Service Rates and Charges",
Subsection (B), of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Delray Beach,
Florida, is hereby amended to read as follows:
(B) The following rates and charges shall be collected from the
users of the city sewerage system:
(1) Residential dwelling units. A monthly sanitary sewer-
age service charge is imposed upon each residential dwelling unit, as more
specifically set forth hereinafter, to which sanitary sewerage service is
available through the facilities afforded by the municipally-owned sewerage
system, according to the following schedule:
Inside Outside
Residential Cit~ Clt~
(a) Capacity charge (per
residential dwelling unit) $/7f~¢ $ 9.10 ~/~fT~ $11.38
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Inside Outside
Residential City City
(b) Commodity charge (based
on metered water with maximum
of 15,000 gallons):
City (per 1,000 gallons) f~ ,81 ~ 1.01
(c) Customer charge 1.78 2.23
(d~) South Central Regional Waste-
water Treatment Disposal Board
(per 1,000 gallons) ~//~ .71 ~/~f~ .88
Note: Where no water service is provided, there shall be a monthly custom-
er charge of ~Zff6 .$5.00 per residential dwelling unit, and the commodity
charge shall be based on the maximum of ~ 12,000 gallons.
(2) Nonresidential/commercial units. A monthly sanitary
sewer service charge is imposed upon each commercial and nonresidential
unit to which sanitary sewage service is available through the facilities
afforded by the municipally-owned sewerage system, according to the follow-
ing schedule:
Inside Outside
Nonresidential/Commercial City City
(a) Capacity charge (per
meter):
3/4-inch meter ~//~f~ $ 9o10 ~//~f~ $ 11.38
1-inch meter 7f~ 15.19 ~fT~ 18.99
1-1/2-inch meter ~fT~ 30.30 ~9f6~ 37.88
2-inch meter Z~f~ 48.49 ~f~ 60.61
3-inch meter ~f~ 106.17 ~f~ 132.71
4-inch meter ff~f~ 191.06 f~f~ 238.83
6-inch meter Z~fT~ 424.60 ~f~f~ 530.75
(b) Commodity charge ~
City (per 1,000 gallons) f~ .81 f~ 1.01
(c) Customer charge 1.78 2.23
(d) South Central Regional Waste-
water Treatment Disposal Board
per 1,000 gallons) ~///f9~7~ .71 $//~f~6~ .88
Note: For those nonresidential/commercial units where water service is not
available, the capacity and commodity charges shall be determined by unit
classification standards for water usage.
(3) Sewerage flow determination. The number of gallons of
monthly sewerage flow for residential and nonresidential/commercial units
shall be based upon the water usage for those units as indicated by a water
meter, unless a customer installs at no cost to the city a separate meter
to measure the actual sewerage flow from the subject unit. A separate
meter may be used to measure actual sewerage flow for the calculation of
charges only when the location, installation, and type of meter have been
approved by the City Manager or his designee,
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(4) When effective. The initial rates for charges shall be
effective the first day of the month following the date when the system is
constructed, certified for use by the consulting engineer, and accepted by
the city.
Section 3. That throughout Chapter 54, "Sewers", reference to
Director of Public Utilities shall be replaced with Director of
Environmental Services.
Section 4. That should any section or provision of this ordi-
nance or any portion thereof, any paragraph, sentence, o~ word be declared
by a Court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not
affect the validity of the remainder hereof as a whole or part thereof
other than the part declared to be invalid.
Section 5. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in
conflict herewith be, and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 6. That this ordinance shall become effective immediate-
ly upon its passage on second and final reading. That' the rates will
become effective with the first water bills prepared after January 1, 1991.
PASSED AND ADOPTED in regular session on second and final reading
on this the llth day of December , 1990.
ATTEST:
City Clerk ~'- ~
First Reading December 4f 1990
Second Reading December 11, 1990
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BOCA RATON NEWS
DELIa, AY BEACH NEWS
BOYNTON BEACH NEWS
Published Daily
Monday thru Sunday
Boca Rat~n, Palm Beach County, Florida
Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF PALM BRACX
AN ORDINANCE O~ ~ c~
Before the undersigned authority personally ~ss~o~ o~ ~.t OTV 0F
appeared NANCY WA~ who on oath says that she T~ v, 'Pundit ~.~,
~, ~EWERS', SUBH~DING
is the Classified Advertising Manager of the Boca 'RATES AND CHARGES", OF T~
CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE
Aaron News and the DeMay Beach News, da~y c,, OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORI-
CA, BY AMENOING SECTION ~,
newspapers published at Boca Raton in Palm .co..~c~,o~ c~s;
Beach County, Florida; that the at~ched copy of ~ov,o~ ~o~ ~,. ,,c~s~ss
THE 5EWER CONNECTION
advertisement was published in said newspapers c,,,o~ F~ E~H SEPARATE
R~51DENTIAL UNIT Ce C~Ee.
in the issues of: c~A~ UNIT; eY ~[NDING SEC-
TION ~.~, "SERV)CE RATES AND
CHARGES", SUBSECTION (B),
'RESIDENTIAL ~WEELING UNITS',
SEWER SERVICE RATES AND
' ? CHARGES FOR RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING UNITS AND
DENTIALICOMME RClAL UNITS,
BOTH IHSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE
CITY, BASED U~N CERTAIN CA-
PACiTY AND CO~ODITY CHAR~
ES TO INCRE~E SAID CAPACITY
ANO C~OOlTY CHARGES;
REPLACING, THROUGHOUT THE
CHAPTER REFERENCE TO OIREC-
TOR OF PUBLIC UTILITIES WITH
Affiant further says that the smd Boca ~on DIRECTOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL
SERVICES; PROViDinG A
News ~ De~&y Beaoh New8 are ~ewsp~Der8 ~ub- C~USE; PROVIDING A GENERAL
REPEALER ~LAUSE; PROVIDING
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Florida, Monday through Sunday, and have been T~e a~ve ordi.ance is 9Ub,i~
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entered as second class matter at the post office in T~. ~r~o~ ordinance may
s~t~ at I~ ~ice of the Ci~
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Tied of one year next preceding the f~st publica- ,~ ~:~ P.~., ~, ,,,~,~
exc~t ~liUays. The Ci~ C~mi~
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affiant fu~the~ says that abe has neither paid nor ~, ~., r:~ Pmk. (~''
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pose of securing this advertisement for publication .~v~ that if a ~ ~ ~S
in said newspapers, the Ci~ C~m~i~ with r~t
any ma~ c~i~ ~t t~is
Sworn to ed before me this
(Seal, Notary Public/S~~lorida at large)
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