8785ORDINANCE NO. 8711515
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 75539 AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE
NO. 8153, FIXING JUST AND EQUITABLE RATES AND CHARGES, FOR THE USE
OF AND SERVICE RENDERED BY THE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE SANITARY SEWER
SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES
IN CONFLICT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF.LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1 of Ordinance No. 7553 passed March 15, 1948,
as amended by Section 1 of Ordinance No. 8153, passed November 21, 1949,
is hereby amended to read as follows:
"For the purpose as provided in Section 2, there is hereby levied
and assessed upon each landowner whose buildings or premises are con -
nected with and use the Municipal Sanitary Sewer System of said City
or otherwise discharge sewage, industrial wastes, water, or other
liquids, either directly or indirectly into the Municipal Sanitary Sew -
erage System, a sewerage service charge or rental payable as herein-
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after provided, and in an amount determinable as follows:
"(a) For any landowner whose building or premises are connected
with and use the Municipal Sanitary Sewerage System or otherwise dis-
charges sanitary sewage, industrial wastes, water or other liquids,
either directly or indirectly into the Municipal Sanitary Sewerage
System, said monthly charge or rental shall be based upon the average
of the quantity of water used during the calendar year, 1951, thereon,
or therein as the same was measured by the City water meter there in
use, and there shall be charged a rate for all users, whether domestic:
commercial, or otherwise of the Municipal Sanitary Sewerage System on
the following basis:
"A sum equal to 18 percent of the average monthly water bill
charged by the Little Rock Municipal Water Works represented by meter
readings made during the calendar year 1951, excluding the months of
June, July, August and September; provided, however, that the minimum
monthly sewer charge for any user will be 20 cents per month, and the
maximum charge will be $100.00 per month.
! "(b) In the event the building or premises of any landowner dis-
charging sanitary sewage, industrial waste, water or other liquids into
the Municipal Sanitary Sewerage System, either directly or indirectly,
is a user of water not supplied by the Water Department of said City,
and also is a user of water supplied from source other than the Water
Department of said City; then, the Sanitary Board shall estimate the
amount of water used during the calendar year 1951 from all sources
other than the Water Department of said City, and shall compute the
water bill that would have been paid thereon had the water been sup -
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plied by the Water Department of said City, and the user shall pay a
charge as set out in sub - section (a) of Section 1 of this Ordinance
just as if the water so used had actually been supplied by the Water
Department of said City.
"(c) Any owner of any building or premises, discharging sanitary
sewage, industrial waste, water or other liquids into the Municipal
Sanitary Sewerage System either directly or indirectly, in which prem-
ises grater is so utilized in manufacturing, industrial or other pro-
cesses, that some of it after use is not - discharged into the Municipal
Sanitary Sewerage System either directly or indirectly, may apply to
the Sanitary Board to have the water entering into the premises and
not discharged to the sewerage system, deducted from the aggregate of
water consumption on which the sewer rental charge is determined. In
the event of such application by the owner of such premises, the San -
itary Board may permit such owner to install a separate meter or
meters under conditions satisfactory to said Board, to measure the
water entering the premises but not discharged into the Municipal San-
itary Sewerage System as so determined shall not be included in the
water consumption to which the sewer service charge or rental as here-
in provided shall be applied.
"(d) The Landowner of vacant, unoccupied property not actually
using the Municipal Sanitary Sewerage System shall not be subject to a
service or rental as herein provided.
"(e) The sewer service charge or rental provided in the ordinance
shall be payable monthly at such place as will be designated in said
City by the Sanitary Board. ".
SECTION 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. WHEREAS, the present rate is based on water consump-
tion for the calendar year 19499 and whereas the individual consump-
�;ion of water has changed to the point that many of our citizens are
being discriminated against because mf the inequity of the present
charge, an emergency is hereby declared, and this Ordinance being nec-
essary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and
safety, the same shall be in full force and effect from and after its
passage, approval, and publication.
PASSED: 114 ve fiber 19, 1051
ATTEST:
City Clerk
APPROVED:
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