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AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 1830 AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 2296 REPEALED BY ORDINANCE NO. 2412 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1097
AN ORDINANCE, providing revenue for the operation and
general purposes of the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; establishing a schedule of
charges effective January 1, 1964, to be collected from all the
real property, whether public or private, served by the public
sewer systems and facilities in the Mississippi River Subdistrict;
prescribing the manner in which and time at which such charges are
to be paid; with an emergency clause.
WHEREAS, the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is without revenue and has
been dependent on loans of surplus general funds from the District
in order to pay for its operation and for the accomplishment of
its general purposes, and
WHEREAS, the District will be unable to advance further
sums of money in the substantial amounts expected to be required
by such Subdistrict,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. It is declared that independent revenue
for the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District is necessary for the protection of the public
health and welfare, such Subdistrict having been created to
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control and to abate the pollution of the Mississippi River by
collecting and treating the sewage flowing in such Subdistrict;
and that such revenue shall be derived from charges to be
collected from all the real property, whether public or private,
served by the public sewer systems and facilities in such
Subdistrict.
Section Two. For the purposes stated in Section One,
the charges established herein shall be collected from all real
property, whether public or private, served by the public sewer
systems and facilities in the Mississippi River Subdistrict
according to the classification of each lot or parcel, as set
forth below. Such charges shall constitute a lien on the real
property charged on the date a bill therefor is rendered. Charges
against public property shall be paid as provided in Section 3.020
(16) of the Plan of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District.
CLASS A:From each lot or parcel improved with a single-
family residence, a charge of $9.00 shall be
collected for each twelve months period
beginning January 1, 1964.
CLASS B:From each lot or parcel improved with a multi-
family dwelling, a charge of $6.75 per
dwelling unit shall be collected for each
twelve months period beginning January 1,
1964.
CLASS C:From each lot or parcel improved with other
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than a single family residence or multi-
family dwelling, a sum shall be collected for
each six months period beginning January 1,
1964, to be fixed according to water
consumption thereon during the preceding six
months or equivalent period at the rates set
forth hereinafter. Water Consumption Class C Subdistrict Charges Previous Six Months Each Six Months Minimum Charge $9.00 First 500 Ccf $0.080 per Ccf Next 2,000 Ccf $0.070 per Ccf Next 7,500 Ccf $0.060 per Ccf Next 90,000 Ccf $0.050 Per Ccf Over 100,000 Ccf $0.040 per Ccf
An improved lot or parcel of real property, whether
public or private, shall be deemed to be served within the meaning
of this ordinance when it has an active sewer connection with the
sewer systems and facilities in the Mississippi River Subdistrict
or if it otherwise discharges sewage, industrial wastes, water, or
other liquids or solids directly or indirectly to said systems and
facilities or if the discharge of such substances therefrom
ultimately enters said systems and facilities.
Section Three. In case a lot or parcel of land subject
to the charges provided hereinabove is supplied either wholly or
partly with water from wells or any source other than a Public
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Water Supplier then such wells or other source of supply shall be
registered with the Executive Director of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District on or before April 1, 1964, and if the supply
is not measured by a water meter, or is measured by a water meter
not acceptable to the Executive Director, then in such case, the
owner or other interested party, at his own expense shall install
and maintain water meters meeting the standards of meters used by
the City of St. Louis or the St. Louis County Water Company and
otherwise satisfactory to the Executive Director on all supplies,
and the quantity of water used to determine said Subdistrict
charge shall be the quantity as measured by the single meter or
the sum of the quantities measured by the several meters.
Whenever a new well or other source of water other than
a public water supply shall be put into use after the effective
date of this ordinance by any lot or parcel of land subject to the
charges provided hereinabove, such source of water shall be
registered with the Executive Director of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District within thirty days.
Section Four. Where it can be shown to the
satisfaction of the Executive Director that a portion of the water
as measured by the water meter or meters does not enter said
sewerage systems and facilities, then and in that event the
Executive Director is hereby authorized to determine, in such
manner and by such method as he may deem practicable, the
percentage of the water measured by the meter which enters the
sewerage systems and facilities. In such case the charges and
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rates shall be based upon the percentage of the metered water so
determined by the Executive Director. The Executive Director may
require or shall permit the installation of additional meters at
the owner's or interested party's expense in such manner as to
measure the quantity of water actually entering the sewerage
systems and facilities from the premises of such owner or
interested party, and the quantity of water used to determine said
Subdistrict charge shall be the quantity of water actually
entering the sewerage systems and facilities as so determined.
Applications from industries or businesses, requesting
consideration for a reduction in the Subdistrict charge because of
water not entering the sewerage systems and facilities, shall be
made to the Executive Director of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District, in writing, giving: name of account, firm, industry or
business; the address; the particular water department or account
number; the water meter number or numbers; and supporting data for
requesting reduction of the charge, together with a sketch to
approximate scale showing the plan of the property, water
distribution, sewer layout, the existing meters and proposed
meters in the scheme to determine the quantity of flow entering or
not entering the sewerage system and facilities. This should be
supplemented with a flow diagram to indicate the destination of
the water supply and the wastes.
Section Five. lt shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation to furnish any false reports of information to
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District which would tend to
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reduce said Subdistrict charge.
Section Six. The funds received from the collection of
said Subdistrict charges shall be deposited daily as received by
the Secretary-Treasurer of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District, and shall be deposited into an account known as the
General Fund of the Mississippi River Subdistrict, and such moneys
shall be appropriated and used for the operation and general
purposes of said Subdistrict.
Section Seven. The Executive Director shall establish
collection offices at convenient locations throughout said
Subdistrict, and may change the location of such collection
offices from time to time. He is hereby authorized to enter into
contracts with the owners or operators of business establishments
to provide collection service of said Subdistrict charges at such
locations as are selected by him and may provide in such contracts
for the payment by said Subdistrict to the collection agency for
rendering such collection services a fee, in no event to exceed
three cents per bill for each bill collected and remitted to the
District. Such contracts shall provide that that collection
agency shall, at intervals in no case longer than one week, remit
all collections to the District.
Section Eight. If the charges provided hereinabove in
Section Two are not paid within fifteen (15) days after the date
any bill therefor is rendered then an additional delayed payment
charge equal to fifteen per cent (15%) of the amount of the bill
rendered is hereby imposed and shall be a lien on the real
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property and shall be collected along with said basic charges.
Section Nine. When the charges set forth in Section
Two and Section Eight are unpaid after ninety (90) days from the
date the bill for the basic charges was rendered then the amount
overdue may be collected by either or both of two procedures: (A)
by suit or other proceedings in any court of competent
jurisdiction; and (B) by enforcement of the lien provided
hereinabove in Section Two. Proceedings for the enforcement of
said lien shall be begun by the filing of notice thereof in the
Office of the Recorder of Deeds within and for the City of St.
Louis or St. Louis County, as may be appropriate. If the
Executive Director so directs, a copy of such notice may be mailed
to the reputed owner of the land charged and the filing of such
notice in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds may be deferred as a
matter of grace for not more than fifteen days from the mailing
date.
Whenever such notice of lien has been so filed, the
owner of the property thereby charged may secure the release of
said lien upon payment to the District of all unpaid charges and
penalties on such property, plus interest thereon at the rate of
six per cent (6%) per annum on each of such charges from the
penalty date set hereinabove in Section Eight to the date of
payment, and plus the fees of the Recorder of Deeds for filing
such notice of lien and releasing the same.
Section Ten. Where any Subdistrict charge provided
herein has not been paid and has been delinquent for a period of
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six months, The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District shall have
the right to order the water supply to be shut off for the
premises for which such charge is delinquent or to remove or close
any sewer connections, or both, until payment of such delinquent
Subdistrict charges together with the reasonable costs involved in
shutting off and turning on the water or closing and reopening the
sewer connection as the case may be, have been paid.
Section Eleven. Any person violating any of the
provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not
less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00, and each day's violation
shall constitute a separate offense. The imposition of such
penalty shall in no wise restrict or deprive the District of its
right to pursue any other remedy it may have for the collection of
any delinquent bill for such Subdistrict charges.
Section Twelve. The Board of Trustees hereby declares
that if any section, part, sentence or clause of this Ordinance is
held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remainder of
this Ordinance, the Board of Trustees hereby declaring that it
would have enacted the remainder of this Ordinance without regard
to that part hereof that may be held invalid.
Section Thirteen. The words "the sewer systems and
facilities in the Mississippi River Subdistrict" as herein used
shall mean and include the public sewers of all sizes and classes
within said Subdistrict, including the public interceptor and
collecting sewers, pumping stations, and the sewage treatment
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system for said Subdistrict under construction and to be
constructed.
Section Fourteen. Since this is a revenue ordinance
and such revenue being necessary for the preservation of the
public health, as recited above, an emergency exists within the
meaning of the Plan. Accordingly this Ordinance shall take effect
immediately upon its adoption. The foregoing Ordinance was adopted December 19, 1963.