HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 712 ORDINAI:CE NO. 712
AN ORDT_NA�NCE AA'EAT C O4DINAA?CE KO. 711
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The Board of Directors of County Sanitation District No. 7,
of Orange County, California, does ordain as follows :
ARTICLE 1
Article 2 of Ordinance No. 711 is hereby amended by adding
thereto the following sections :
(o) Assessment Charges. Are those charges paid directly
by the property owner for the construction of street sewers.
(p) Assessment District Sewers. Shall mean those sewerage
facilities owned or controlled and maintained by County Sanitation
District No. 7 which were constructed or acquired by means of
special assessment district proceedings in accordance with the
provisions of Health and Safety Code Section 4771.
(q) District Connection Charge. Is a connection charge
imposed directly by County Sanitation District No. 7 as a charge for
the use of the District's sewerage system and falls into the
following categories:
(1) Regular Connection Charge. Is the charge imposed
on all property owners for connection to a sewer owned
by the District or a sewer discharging into a District
sewerage facility.
(2) Trunk Connection Charge. Is the charge imposed
on the owner of real property for a direct connection
of that real property to a trunk sewer owned or maintained
by the District.
(3) Assessment District Connection Charge. Is the charge
imposed on real property not assessed within an assessment
district that connects to an assessment district sewer.
She above categories are further categorized as to
use as hereinafter set forth in Article 6 (a) .
(r) District Sewerage Facility. Shall mean any property
belonging to County Sanitation District No. 7 used in the treatment,
transportation or disposal of sewage or industrial wastes.
(s) Sewerage Facilities. Are any facilities used in the
collection, transportation, treatment or disposal of sewage and
industrial wastes.
(t) Street Sewers. Are those constructed as a result of
local initiative and financing in tracts, subdivisions, commercial
and industrial developments or other built-up areas by developers
or real property owners excepting those constructed by special
assessment districts.
(u) Trunk Sewers. Are interceptor, trunk and subtrunk sewer
lines owned or maintained by the District as distinguished from
street sewers and assessment district sewers.
ARTICLE 2
Section (a) of Article 6 of Ordinance No. 711 is amended to
read as follows:
(a) District Connection Charges. No application for a
permit for a connection to a District sewerage facility or to any
sewerage facility which discharges into a District sewerage
facility shall be considered until a District connection charge
is paid by the applicant, provided, however, that such fee shall
not be payable when a permit is issued for the re-connection or
alteration of an existing connection for the same use made by the
District or at the request of the District. No connection permit
- shall be issued unless there is an established use of the property
to be served or a valid building permit issued which establishes
the use of said property.
The following District connection charges are hereby
established and shall be paid to the District or to an agency
designated by the District:
(1) ht&ular Connection Charge, Residential Buildings.
$100 per dwelling unit with kitchen or $50 per
dwelling unit without kitchen.
Commencing on July 1, 1971, said charges will be
increased to $150 and $75 respectively and annually
on, July 1 for the succeeding £our years, said
charges shall be increased by $25 and $12.50 respectively.
(2) Regular Connection Charge, Commercial or Industrial
Establishments. $250 per acre of area (computed to
nearest 1/10th acre) provided that such charge shall
not be less than $100. The term "commercial or
industrial establishments" as used herein shall
include property owned or occupied by governmental
agencies and non-profit organizations.
Commencing on July 1, 1971, said charge per acre
and minimum charge shall be increased to $375 and
$150 respectively and annually on July 1 for the
succeeding four years, said charges shall be in-
creased by $62.50 per acre and $25.00 respectively.
(3) Trunk Connection Charge, Residential Buildings.
$6 per front 'foot for the real property fronting
on and connecting to a trunk sewer, provided that
no such charge shall be less than $400. If said
property contains more than one dwelling unit,
said charge shall be said front foot charge or
minimum charge, plus $100 for each dwelling unit
with kitchen or $50 per dwelling unit without
kitchen, greater than one contained in said property.
Commending on .July 1, 1971, said charges for
additional dwelling units will be increased
to $150 and $75 respectively and annually on July 1
for the succeedin,; four years, said charges shall
be increased by $25 and $12.50 respectively.
(4) Trunk Connection Charge, Commercial or Industrial
Establishments. $10 per front foot for the real property
fronting on and connecting to a trunk sewer, provided
that no such front foot charge shall be less than $500,
plus $250 per acre of area (computed to nearest 1/10th
acre) contained in said property. Commencing on July
1, 1971, said acreage charge shall be increased to
$375 per acre and annually on July 1 for the succeeding
four years, shall be increased by $62.50 per acre of
area.
(5) Assessment District Connection Charge. The regular
connection charges provided in Subsections 1 and 2 of
this Article, plus a sum of money equal to the
assessment charge without interest, or Treasurer' s -
charge, would have been made against the real property
on which said improvements are located had said real
property been assessed within the Assessment District
which constructed or acquired the Assessment District
sewer to which connection is made.
ARTICLE 3
Section (b) of Article 6 of Ordinance No. 711 is amended by
adding thereto Section (3) to read as follows:
(3) When an excess capacity connection charge is payable
by a user, as hereinabove provided, a credit equal to the connection
charge paid by the user, if any, shall be allowed against such excess
capacity connection charge.
ARTICLE 4
Article 21 is hereby added to Ordinance No. 711 to read
as follows :
There is hereby established the Facilities Revolving
Fund of t'ne Di.strict. All District connection charges as established
by ARTICLE 3 hereof, when collected, shall be deposited in said
fund. Said fund shall be used only for the acquisition, construction,
reconstruction, maintenance and operation of sewerage facilities
and other purposes described in Section 5474.9 of the California
Health and Safety Code.
ARTICLE 5
Article 22 is hereby added to Ordinance No. 711 to read as
follows :
Ordinance No. 709 and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances
inconsistent with this ordinance are hereby repealed to the extent
that they are inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance,
effective January 1, 1971.
ARTICLE 6
Except as herein amended, Ordinance No. 711 is ratified, reaffirmed
and is to become effective January 1, 1971, as amended by this ordinance.
ARTICLE 7
The Chairman of the Board of Directors shall sign this Ordinance
and the Secretary of the Districts 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 circultation,
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 January 1, 1971.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of County Sanitation
District No. 7, of Orange County, California, at an adjourned regular
meeting held on the lhth day of July, 1970.
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of County anita ion District No. 7,
of Orange County, California