47-79 ORDINANCE NO. 47-79
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DELRAY
BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 27 OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES BY REPEALING SECTIONS 27-1 AND 27-2(c) AND
ENACTING A NEW SECTION 27-1 TO PROVIDE THAT ANY RECIPIENT
OF WATER AND SEWER SERVICE FROM THE CITY SHALL PAY THE
RATES APPLICABLE IN CHAPTER 27 UNLESS A WRITTEN AGREEMENT
IS ENTERED INTO WITH THE CITY SPECIFYING OTHER TERMS AND
CONDITIONS FOR SUCH SERVICE AND ENACTING A NEW SECTION
27-2(c) TO PROVIDE THAT ALL CHARGES TO USERS OUTSIDE THE
CORPORATE LIMITS SHALL BE SET AT TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT
ABOVE THE APPLICABLE CHARGES FOR USERS WITHIN THE CITY;
PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That Section 27-1 is hereby repealed and a new
Section 27-1 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
No water or sewer service will be furnished to
any person by the City of Delray Beach who does not agree
to accept all of the provisions of the Sections contained
herein and all of the reasonable rules and regulations
not inconsistent herewith promulgated by the City Council
for the regulation of water and sewer service; unless a
written agreement is entered into between the City and
such person specifying other terms and conditions which
agreement shall not in any event provide for less
aggregate consideration to the City, than would otherwise
be provided by the charges in this Chapter. The adoption
of this Chapter shall be sufficient notice to all persons
of the provisions hereof and the acceptance of water or
sewer service from the City shall in itself be acceptance
of the provisions hereof.
Section 2. That Section 27-2(c) is hereby repealed and a new
Section 27-2(c) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
That all charges, including connection fees, to
users wholly outside the corporate limits of the City
shall be 25% higher than for the applicable charge to
users within the corporate limits of the City.
Section 3. That should any section or provision of this
ordinance or any portion thereof, any paragraph, sentence, or 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 4. That this ordinance shall become effective ten days
after passage on second and final reading.
PASSED AND ADOPTED in regular session on second and final
reading on this the 23rd day of July , 1979.
ATTEST: LEON M. WEEKES
First Reading ,, July 9, 1979
Second Reading July 2~ ]979