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AN ORDINANCE, amending Ordinance No. 7543, as adopted
September 14, 1988, and amended by Ordinance No. 8659, as adopted
May 13, 1992, and Ordinance No. 8878, as adopted February 10, 1993,
by repealing Section Three and Appendix I, and enacting a new
Section three in lieu thereof in order to eliminate The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District's Capital Improvement
Surcharges.
WHEREAS, on Tuesday, August 2, 1988 a special election
was held within The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (the
"District") at which more than a majority of the qualified voters
of the District voted in favor of a proposition to approve a
schedule of Capital Improvement Surcharges (the "Capital
Improvement Surcharges") to be collected for a period of not to
exceed seven years from all of the property served by the sewerage
facilities of the District and to be deposited in a Clean Water
Capital Improvement Trust Fund to be used for the purpose of
financing certain sewage treatment facilities and other capital
improvements required by the federal Clean Water Act and the
Missouri Clean Water Law, to remove pollutants in wastewater
discharges to the Mississippi, Missouri and Meramec Rivers (the
"Consent Decree and Compliance Projects"); and
WHEREAS, the funds necessary to complete the aforesaid
Consent Decree and Compliance Projects will have been collected by
March 31, 1995, thus eliminating the need for the Capital
Improvement Surcharges,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. Section Three and Appendix I of Ordinance
No. 7543, as adopted September 14, 1988, and amended by Ordinance
No. 8659, as adopted May 13, 1992, and Ordinance No. 8878, as
adopted February 10, 1993, are hereby respectively repealed.
Section Two. A new Section Three of Ordinance No. 7543
is hereby enacted, and shall read as follows:
"Section Three. Effective March 31, 1995, all Capital
Improvement Surcharges, as herein specified, are eliminated."
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted March 9, 1995.