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ORDINANCE NO. 7553
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 5451, ORDINANCE
NO. 5978 AND ORDINANCE NO. 6441; FIXING JUST AND
EQUITABLE RATES AND CHARGES, FOR THE USE OF AND
SERVIQE RENDERED BY THE IiY OVEMENTS FOR THE SANITARY
SEWER,SY8TEM'OF THE CITY'OF'LTTTLE 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 Nei. 6441 amending Section 1
of Ordinance No. 5978 whiah.amended Section 3 of Ordinance No.
5451 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 connected with and use the Municipal Sanitary.
Sewer System of said City or otherwise discharge sewage, indus-
trial wastes, water, or other liquids, either directly or indirec-
tly into the Municipal Sanitary Sewerage System, a sewerage service
charge or rental payable as hereinafter 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 discharges sanitary sewage, industrial wastes, water, or
other liquids, either directly or indirectly into the Municipal
Sanitary Sewerage System, said monthly charge or rental shall;.ie
based upon the average of the.quantity of water used during the
calendar year, 1947, 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 19 per cent of the auu�-rage monthly
water bill charged by the Little Rock Municipal Water Works for
the calendar year 1947, excluding the months June, July, August
and September; provided, however that the minimum monthly sewer
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"charge for any user will be 20 cents per month, and the maxi-
mum sewer charge will be $100.00 per month.
"(b) In the event that the building or premises of any
landowner discharging sanitary sewage, industrial waste, water or
other liquids into the Municipal Sanitary Sewerage System, either direc`
tly 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 Sani-
tary Board shall estimate the amount of water used during the -
calendar year 1947 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 supplied 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 Ordinance No. 5978 as amended by 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 indirec-
tly, in which premises water is so utilized in manufacturing,
industrial or other processes, 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 Sanitary Board
may permit such owner to install a separate meter or metars under,
conditions satisfactory to said Board, to measure the water
entering the premises but not discharged to the "Sewer System and
the amount of water not discharged into the Municipal Sanitary
Sewerage System as so determined shall not be included in the
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"water consumption to which the sewer service charge or rental as
herein 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 Sn`tbe
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 consumption
for the calendar year 1944, and whereas the individual consumption
of water has changed to the point that many of our citizens are being
discriminated against because of the inequity of the present charge,
an emergency is hereby declared, and this ordinance being necessary
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:
March 19. 1949
ATTEST:
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