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ORDINANCE NO. 1043
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LYNWOOD ADDING SECTION 32-2 THROUGH 32-7
TO THE LYNWOOD CITY CODE ESTABLISHING SEWER
SERVICE CHARGES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD HEREBY DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Sections 32-2 through 32-7 inclusive, hereby are
added to the Lynwood City Code to read as follows:
SECTION 32-2. Service Char es The city furnishes to the
residential, commerical, business and manufacturing community
thereof, services and facilities in connection with its sani-
tation and sewerage system. In consideration of such services
and facilities, the following charges hereby are established:
(a) Residential users: One dollar ($1.00) per
month for each single-family dwelling and fifty cents
($.50) per month for each dwelling unit within a
duplex or multiple-family residential building; and,
(b) Others users: Five dollars ($5.00) per month
per lateral for each sewer lateral which is 4 inches
less in diameter, and fifteen dollars ($15.00) per month
per lateral for each sewer lateral greater than 4 inches
in diameter.
SECTION 32-3. Collection Responsibilities It shall be
the duty of the City Clerk to collect all charges herein pro-
vided for.
SECTION 32-4. Manner of Billin and Collection The
charges established herein shall be billed and collected in
the same manner as provided for the collection of fees for
refuse collection set forth in Section 13-38.
SECTION 32-5. Failure to Pay Char es 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 (10) per cent
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 amount
otherwise payable (including the aforesaid penalty) an additional
penalty equal to one-half of one (1/2 of 1) per cent of said
amount otherwise payable.
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.
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SECTION 32-6. Charqes for Non-Residents Where the city
furnishes to nonresidents, or to businesses located outside its
boundaries, services and facilities in connection with its sani-
tation 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 here-
inabove.
SECTION 32-7. 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 used only for such purposes as are permitted by law.
SECTION 2. 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 com-
petent 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, sentences, clauses, phrases, or
portions, or the application thereof to any person or place,
be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk hereby is authorized and directed
to cause a copy of this ordinance to be published in the LYNWOOD
PRESS, a newspaper of general circulation in the City, within
fifteen (15) days after the adoption hereof.
First read at an adjourned regular meeting of the City
Council of said City held on the 23rd day of June, 1978, and
finally adopted and ordered published at an adjourned regular
meeting of said Council held on the _29 of June, 1978, by the
following vote:
AYES:
NOES
ABSENT:
ATTEST:
COUNCILMEN BYORK, MORRIS, ROWE, HIGGINS.
COUNCILMEN NOD?E.
COUNCILMEN GREEN.
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GEORGE~W. HIGGINS /
Mayor of the City of Lynwood
k~;~„~ City Clerk.-
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
ss.:
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of
Lynwood, and exLOfficio clerk of the Council of said City,
do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy
of Ordinance No. 1043 adopted by the City Council of the
City of Lynwood, and that same was passed on the date and
by the vote therein stated.
Dated this 30th day of _ ,T„nP , 197..
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