Ordinance No. 181WJML:RJH:gbb 10/16/68 25c
ORDINANCE NO. 1 8
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING AND FIXING CONNECTION
CHARGES FOR CONNECTIONS TO THE U-1 TRUNK SEWER
MAINS OF THE
SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
BE IT ENACTED by the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe
Public Utility District, E1 Dorado County, California, as follows:
lo Purpose: To establish conditions of equality between
properties within the boundaries of Improvement District No. U-1
of the South Tahoe Public Utility District, by proViding for re-
tirement of a portion of the cost of the U-1 Trunk Sewer Main
from payments based on and proportionate to the use or availabil-
ity for use of said mains, the public interest, convenience and
necessity require the establishment of connection charges to be
paid bY the owner or owners of property within said Improvement
District to be connected to or able to connect to the sanitary
sewage system of said Utility District.
2o Initial Connection Charge: Prior to connection to the
sanitary sewerage system of said Utility District of any parcel.
of property that can and will be served by anY U-1 Trunk Sewer
Main~ whether connected thereto directly or indirectly, there
shall be collected in addition to all other charges established
by the ordinances, rules and regulations of said Utility District,
a connection charge computed as follows: $
times the number of units to be connected from such parcel of
property~ provided always that the minimum charge shall be
3o Manner and Time of Payment: Charges payable pursuant
to this Ordinance shall be paid in cash, unless paid by means of
inclusion in the costs of a system of collection lines financed
by assessment district proceedings. If special circumstances
exist by reason of which an undue burden would be placed on a
property owner as a result of cash payment, then upon approval
of the District Manager appropriate arrangements may be made for
payment of said charges in installments, provided only that such
installments shall not extend for a period of more than one year
from the date of connection.
Where said charges are included in assessment district
proceedings, the charge so included shall be based on the mini-
mum amount provided in Section 2 hereof, unless the property
owner requests that a larger amount be so included, in which
event at the itme of connection there shall be payable any addi-
tional amount due by reason of units in excess of the number cov-
ered by the charge so included in the assessment district pro-
ceedingso In the event a parcel of land for which the charge
has been included in an assessment district proceeding~i~di+~
vided into two or more separate parcels of land prior to the time
of a connection from such parcel, then the charge so included
shall be deemed to have been paid with respect to each such sep-
arate parcel in proportion to areas of the separate parcels.
All or any portion of the charges payable pursuant to
this Ordinance which have not been paid at the time a sewer con-
nection permit is obtained shall be paid at that time.
4o Subsequent Charge: At any time units are added to any
parcel of property for which the initial connection charge has
been previously paid in an amount which did not include such
units~ as a condition of such parcel of property remaining con-
nected to the sanitary sewage system of said Utility District
there shall be payable a sum computed as follows: $ ~dPo O~
times the number of units so added.
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5o Duty of Property Owner to Report: It shall be the duty
of the owner of property connected to said &anitary sewage sys~-
tem to report to the District Inspector all facilities discharg-
ing waste into said sanitary sewage system. As to any facilities
which are not so reported, they shall be deemed to have been
connected to said sanitary sewage system from the effective date
of this Ordinance or from the date the property was first con-
nected to said sanitary sewage system, whichever date is the
later°
6o Definitions: For purposes hereof:
(a) "U-1 Trunk Sewer Mains" include any sewer main
which forms a part of the trunk sewer system which serves prop-
erty within the boundaries of Improvement District No. U-1 and
the installation of which was financed either by (1) proceeds of
bonds constituting a general obligation upon property within
said Improvement District No. U-l, Or (2) contributions made by
said Improvement District to the cost of any system of~sewage
collection lines with respect to which a portion of the lines
serve both as a collector line and as a Part of said U-1 trunk
sewer system°
(b) ~'Number of Units" refers to the schedule of units
contained in Section B.O2 of Ordinance No. ll4 of said Utility
Districto
7~ Use of Funds: Sums collected pursuant hereto shall be
credited to a special U-l'Connection Charge Fund, from which
fund sums may be transferred to the fund for payment of princi-
pal and interest on the bonds referred to in clause (1) of Sec-
tion 6(a) hereof or to such other fund as shall be useful or
necessary for the financing, operation or maintenance of said-il
trunk sewer system, as determined from time to time by said Board
of Directors°
8o This Ordinance shall be posted in three (3) public
places in said Improvement District No. U-I, and shall be pub-
lished once in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, a newspaper of general
circulation printed and published in the District.
' PreSident
South Tahoe Public Utility District
ATTEST~
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and
correct copy of an Ordinance adopted by the Board of Directors
of the South Tahoe Public Utility District, E1 Dorado County,
California~ at a meeting thereof duly held on the l?th
October ~ 1968~ by the following vote:
AYES~ and in favor thereof, Directors:
NOES., Directors: None
ABSENT~ Directors: None
Wakeman
Kortes
Fesler
Hegarty
Ream
day of
&~l~lerk and Ex-officio Secreta~y~
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