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Ordinance No. 702.
An Ordinance Providing for the Levy and Collection of Fees
and Charges for the Maintenance andOperation Costs of the District.
The Board of Directors of County Sanitation District No. 7
of Orange County, California, does ordain as follows:
WHEREAS, certain areas within the territory of the District
are discharging sewage and industrial wastes through the sewerage
facilities of other County Sanitation Districts in Orange County into
the ,Jointly owned Treatment and Disposal Works of the District, and
WHEREAS, the treatment disposal charges have heretofore been
paid from a general tax levy on all of the real property in the
District, and
WHEREAS, there is no system of trunk sewers in the District
which will serve all portions of the territory in the District which
would enable each property owner reasonable access to trunk sewer
facilities:
NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Directors of County Sanitation
District No. 7 of Orange County, California, acting in the best
public interests, does ordain as follows:
ARTICLE 1.
Each owner of real property in the District, whose real
property or any portion thereof is connected to and is discharging
any sewage or industrial wastes into a sanitary sewer or similar
facility which ultimately discharges sewage and industrial wastes
into the ,Jointly owned treatment and disposal works of the District,
shall be charged and be required to pay a fee for the purpose of
defraying the costs of operation and maintenance of the sewerage
facilities of the District.
ARTICLE. 2.
The fees to be charged to each property owner shall be
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• determined in accordance with the following schedule:
(a) For each single-family dwelling unit, the sum of $2.00
a month. '
(b) For each commercial, manufacturing, or industrial use
and all uses other than private residential for which the monthly
water consumption as shown by water meter reading is more than 5,000
cubic feet, the sum of $4.50 for each 3.2,500 cubic feet or any
portion thereof consumed or used per month on said property as shown
by water meter readings. In this connection, apartments and hotels
shall be considered commercial establishments unless the tenants are
metered individually and pay their own water consumption charges, in
which event the apartment unit shall be considered a private dwelling.
In the event a commercial, manufacturing or industrial use consumes
lees than 5,000 cubic feet of water per month, the fee shall be
$2.o0 per month.
(c ) The fees and charges hereinabove provided for shall be
billed bi-monthly to the real property owners subject to said fees
and charges as hereinabove provided.
(d) The General Manager of the District is authorized and
directed to levy and collect said fees and charges, commencing and
effective on the date of September 1, 1960.
(a) All fee charges so levied shall be due and payable at
the close of each billing period, and shall become delinquent if not
paid within thirty (30) days thereafter. All delinquent fees and
charges shall bear interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum
from the due date.
(f ) The provisions of this Ordinance may be enforced by
civil action at. law.
(g) The General Manager of the District is authorized and
directed to collect all of said charges and fees and is hereby em-
powered to bring actions at law to collect delinquent accounts. Any
delinquent account of less than One Hundred and Fifty Dollars
($150.00) may be the subject of ,a small claims action on behalf of the
District, and any such action may be brought by any officer or agent
of the District upon the direction of the General Manager.
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ARTICLE 3. VALIDITY
If any article, section, subsection, sentence, clause or '
phrase of this Ordinance, or the application of any thereof to any
person, entity, public corporation or circumstance be held to be
invalid for any reason, such invalidity shall not affect the validity
of any other provision or application of any of the remaining pro-
visions or portions of this Ordinance; and to this end the Board of
Directors of County Sanitation District No. 7 of Orange County, ,
California hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance
and each and every article, section, subsection, sentence, clause and
phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more other
articles, sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases, or
the application of any thereof to any person, entity, public corp-
oration or circumstance be declared invalid.
ARTICLE 4. EFFECTIVE DATE
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of County Sanitation
District No. 7 of Orange County, California shall sign this Ordinance
and the Secretary of the District shall attest thereto and certify
to the passage of this Ordinance, and shall cause the same to be
published once in The Tustin News, a weekly newspaper of general
circulation, printed, published and circulated in County Sanitation
District No. 7 of Orange County, California, within fifteen (15 ) days
after the date of the passage of this Ordinance by said Board of
Directors, and said Ordinance shall take effect September 1, 1960.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of County
Sanitation District No. 7 of Orange County, California at a regular
meeting held on the 13th day of July, 1960.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
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COUNTY OF ORANGE )
I, FRED A. HARPER, Secretary of the Hoard of Directors of
County Sanitation District No. 7 of Orange County, California, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 702 was passed and
adopted at a regular meeting of the Board of Directors of County
Sanitation District No. 7 on the 13th day of July, 1960 by the
following roll call vote, to wit:
AYES: Directors Humeston, Cook, Hall, Meyers
Parks and Featherly
NOES: Directors None
ABSENT: Directors None
IN, WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
.the"official seal of County Sanitation District No. 7 of Orange
County, California, this 13th day of July, 196o.
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Of Orange County, California
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