Ordinance No. 581/63
ORDINANCE NO. 581
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS,
CALIFORNIA, ADDING CHAPTER 22 TO THE CODE OF THE CITY
OF CYPRESS RELATING TO SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 22, entitled "Sewers and Sewage Disposal" hereby is
added to the Code of the City of Cypress to read as follows:
CHAPTER 22
SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL
Article I
Sanitation and Sewerage System -- Charges
Section 22 -1. Service -- Charges. The City furnishes to the residential,
commercial, business and manufacturing community thereof, services and faci-
lities in connection with its sanitation and sewerage system. In consideration
of such services and facilities, the following charges hereby are established:
(a) Residential. users -- $.50 per month for each single family dwelling
and for each dwelling unit within a duplex or multiple family residential
building; and,
(b) Commercial and industrial users -- $.50 per month for the first two (2)
water closets and $.25 per month for each water closet in excess of two (2),
for each business, transportation, professional office, amusement, or other
commercial or industrial user.
Section 22 -2. Collection responsibilities. It shall be the duty of
the Finance Director to collect all charges herein provided for.
Section 22 -3. Manner of Billing and Collection.
(a) With respect to all those users of the City's sanitation and
sewerage system who receive water service from the Southern California Water
Company, the charges established herein shall be due and payable at the same
time and in the same manner as the fees charged for water service by said
Company.
(b) With respect to those users of the City's sanitation and sewerage
system who do not receive water service from the Southern California Water
Company, the Finance Director shall prepare and render a bill for the amount
due, at least once every three (3) months, or on such more frequent basis that
he shall determine appropriate in line of the fiscal requirements of the City.
Said amount shall become due and payable upon rendering of the bill. The
handing of the bill to such user in person, or the placing of the bill in an
envelope or upon a postal card addressed to the user at the street address of
his residence or business and mailing the same, postage prepaid, shall consti-
tute "rendering a bill." Neither the non - receipt of any bill nor its mis-
placement, loss or destruction before payment shall constitute a basis for
any extension of time in which to make payment thereof. Such bills shall be
payable at the office of the Finance Director in the City Hall at 5275 Orange
Avenue, Cypress, California 90630.
Section 22 -4. Failure to Pay Charges. In the event any bill is not paid
within forty -five (45) days after the rendering thereof, there shall be added
to the amount otherwise due and payable a penalty in an amount equivalent to
ten percent (10 %) of said amount otherwise due and payable. Thereafter, for
each additional period of thirty (30) days during which a delinquent account
remains payable, there shall be added to the amounts otherwise payable (in-
cluding the aforesaid penalty) an additional penalty equal to one -half (1/2)
of one percent (1 %) of said amount otherwise payable.
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In the event that any person shall fail to pay any charge herein provided
when the same becomes due, the City may, in addition to any other remedies
available to it, cut off any of said services and facilities referred to in
this chapter, and need not resume the same until all delinquent charges and
penalties, together with any charges necessitated by the resumption of such
services and facilities, have been fully paid. As a condition precedent
to the resumption of such services and facilities, the City may require the
payment of a deposit of up to twice the estimated charges for a quarter.
Section 22 -5. Charges for Non - Residents. Where the City furnishes
to non - residents, or to businesses located outside its boundaries, services
and facilities in connection with its sanitation and sewerage system, the charges
for such services and facilities are hereby fixed at double those made for
furnishing said services and facilities to residents, as provided for hereinabove.
Section 22 -6. Sanitation Fund Created. There is hereby created a fund
which shall be known as the Sanitation Fund. All moneys collected pursuant
to the charges herein fixed shall be placed in said Fund. Said Fund shall
be used only for such purposes as are permitted by law.
SECTION 2. Severability.
If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or
portion of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or place,
is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision
of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance or its application
to other persons or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would
have adopted this ordinance, and each section, subsection, subdivision,
sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that
any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentence, clauses,
phrases, or portions, or the application thereof to any person or place,
be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. Effective Date.
This Ordinance shall take effect on October 1, 1976.
FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held
on the 23rd day of August 1976, and finally adopted and ordered posted at
an adjourned regular meeting of said Council held on the 28th day of
August 1976.
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MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK 0 THE CITY OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY CERTIFY
that the foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted at an adjourned regular meeting
of the said Council held on the 28th day of August 1976; by the following
roll call vote:
AYES: 3 COUNCILMEN: Harvey, Hudson and MacLain
NOES: 1 COUNCILMAN: Sonju
ABSENT: 1 COUNCILMAN: Lacayo
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CItY CLERK OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS