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ORDINANCE N0. 1050
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF LYNWOOD REPEALING SECTIOPd 32-55
AND AMENDING SECTION 32-21 OF THE LYNWOOD
CITY CODE RELATING TO WATER CHARGES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD HEREBY DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 32-55 of the Lynwood City Code hereby is
repealed in its entirety.
SECTION 2. Section 32-21 of the Lynwood City Code hereby is
amended by revising subsection (a) thereof to read as follows:
(a) Water service shall be discontinued on all
flat rate accounts remaining unpaid two (2) months
after the account first becomes due and payable.
Service shall be discontinued on all water meter
accounts remaining unpaid fifteen (15) days after
the account becomes due and payable. However, if there
is a deposit to secure payment of water charges, water
service shall be discontinued on meter accounts and flat
rate accounts immediately upon the deposit being exhausted
and water service shall not again be re-established until
all current and arrears are paid and the required deposit
made. An additional charge of seven dollars and fifty
cents ($7.50) for the expense of discontinuing and re-
establishing the water service shall be made for each
disconnection made by the water department, and a charge
of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for the expense of dis-
continuing and re-establishing water service in each
instance when it becomes necessary to discontinue and
re-establish water service as aresult of a nonauthorized
use. In the event that city discontinues water service
pursuant to this section and the water service is re-
established without the payment of the fees or without
due authorization from the city, the owner or user of
any such water or water service shall be presumed to have
effected or authorized such unlawful re-establishment of
water service until the contrary is satisfactorily estab-
lished.
SECTION 3. 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, sub-
division, 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 4. The City Clerk hereby is authorized and directed
to cause a copy of this ordinance to be published in the LYNUdOOD
PRESS, a newspaper of general circulation in the City, within
fifteen (15) days after the adoption hereof.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of
said City held on the Julyday of 18 1978, and finally
adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting of said
Council held on the 1st day of August 1978 by the following
vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN BYORK, GREEN, MORRIS, HIGGINS.
NOES: COUNCILMEN NONE.
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN ROWE.
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GEORG HIGG S
Mayor of the City of Lynwood
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of
Lynwood, and ex-officio clerk of the Council of said City,
do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy
of Ordinance No.ln~n 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 ~n~ day of A„n~ G± 197.
City Clerk, City 'of Lynwood
deputy