Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-411

ORDINANCE NO. 379. AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTIONS 3 AND 4 OF ORDINANCE NO. 364 OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE IMPOSITION AND COLLECTION OF RATES, FEES AND CHARGES FOR THE USE OF THE SERVICES AND FAC­ILITIES OF THE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS: AUTHORIZING AND EMPOWERING THE CITY TO REQUIRE CONNECTION WITH SANITARY SEWERS SERVED OR WHICH MAY BE SERVED BY SAID DISPOSAL SYSTEM; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE FAILURE AND REFUSAL TO MAKE SUCH CONNECTION ; AND PLEDGING THE NET REVENUES DERIVED FROM THE IMPOSITION OF SUCH RATES, FEES AND CHARGES AS ADDITIONAL SECURITY FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE LAS VEGAS SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANT BONDS, SERIES OF MAY 1, 1948," AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section 1. Section 3 of the above entitled Ordinance No. 364 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 3. The following schedule of rates for service rendered by or through said system is hereby es­tablished: SEWER RATES (Monthly) SCHEDULE A: One-family residence one dollar ($1.00) per month. SCHEDULE B: Two-family residence one dollar and forty cents ($1.40) per month. SCHEDULE C: Motels, auto courts, and hotels eight cents ($.08) per month for each fixture, provided however, that the minimum charge for each such motel, auto court, or hotel shall be one dollar ($1.00) per month. SCHEDULE D: Multiple dwellings, up to and including four (4) units, seventy cents ($.70) each unit per month. All units over four (4) and up to and including seven (7) units twenty cents ($.20) each additional unit; all units over seven ten cents ($.10) each additional unit. SCHEDULE E: For commercial and industrial businesses, the monthly charge to be paid by these users of the sewer service furnished by the Municipal Sewer System shall be as follows: (a) For the first two fixtures a monthly charge of One Dollar ($1.00) per month. (b) For all fixtures over two, up to and including twelve (12) additional fixtures a charge of ten cents ($.10) each for each additional fixture per month. (c) For all fixtures over twelve (12), there shall be an additional charge of three cents ($.03) for each additional fixture per month. (d) In addition to the above commercial rates there shall be charged for each commercial wash rack, the sum of seventy-five cents ($.75) per month. (e) In addition to the above commercial rates there shall be charged for each commercial dishwashing machine an additional charge of one dollar ($1.00) per month. In addition to the above commercial rates there shall be charge for each floor drain an additional charge of seventy-five cents ($.75) per month. The City Engineer and the City Manager are hereby authorized and directed to establish the charge for any use of the municipal sewage disposal system not covered by the above schedule. The above schedule of rates shall be effective upon the publication and final passage of this Ordinance, said publication to be made immediately following the first reading and approval of the Ordinance. The City covenants and agrees that while any of said bonds are outstanding, it will from time to time revise and adjust said schedule of rates to the end that the revenue and income derived from the operation of the system will be sufficient to pay all opera­ting and maintenance charges and both the principal of and the interest on the bonds authorized by Ordinance No. 353, duly adopted on the 23rd day of April, 1948, as amended and supplemented. The City further covenants that no free service shall be furnished by the system provided, however, that no charge will be made to the United States of America, the State of Nevada, the County of Clark or any charitable institution for the direct use by it of said system. Section 2. Section 4 of the above entitled Ordinance No. 364 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 4. All bills for services rendered by or through said system shall be rendered quarterly in advance on the first days of January, April, July and October of each year. In the event said bills are not paid in full within twenty days (20) after the date when rendered, service shall be discontinued and thereafter no sewer connection which has been disconnected for the non-payment of charges shall again be reconnected while the property is in the same ownership until all costs incurred in the actual physical disconnection and recon- nection have been paid and all delinquent sewage service charges have been paid to the City of Las Vegas. Pay­ment of all bills rendered shall be made into the City Treasury and such bills may be paid annually in advance and provided further that no license shall be granted for the conducting of any business requiring a city license in any multiple dwelling or place of business unless the quarterly charge for the sewer service is paid in advance. The sewer service charges fixed by Section 3 hereof shall be payable quarterly in advance, and shall constitute a debt and obligation of the owner of the improved property, whose industrial, business or residential establishment is connected to the Municipal Sewage Disposal System, to the City of Las Vegas, and said owner shall be liable therefor in any action commenced by the City for the recovery of said charges in any court of competent jurisdiction. Section 3. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed to the extent only of such inconsistency. This repealer shall not be construed to revive any ordinance or part of any ordinance heretofore repealed. Section 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its publication, as in the next section provided, and final passage. Section 5. The City Clerk and Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas shall cause this ordinance to be published once a week for two successive weeks immediately following its first reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas. S/ E. W. Cragin_______ ATTEST: Mayor S/ Shirley Ballinger City Clerk