19791003 1979-19ORDINANCE NO. 1979-
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND REENACTING
SECTION 26-2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF
FAIR,AX, VIRGINIA, PROVIDING FOR WATER
AND SEWER SERVICE RATES AND AMENDING
AND REENACTING THE CONNECTION FEES,
AVAILABILITY AND FRONTAGE CHARGES.
WHEREAS, the City of Fairfax, Virginia provides certain
and sewer services inside and outside the corporate limits of the
City; and,
WHEREAS, prior hereto, the City has established different
water and sewer service rates, connection fees, availability and
frontage charges for consumers inside and outside the corporate
limits of the City; and,
WHEREAS, the City and the County of Fairfax have entered into
a Memorandum of Understanding providing, among other things, for
the equalization of water and sewer service rates, connection fees
availability and frontage charges for consumers inside and outside
the corporate limits of the City;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of
Fairfax, Virginia, that section 26-2 and the connection fees,
availability and frontage charges of the Code of the City of
Fairfax, Virginia, be, and they hereby are, amended as follows:
1. Section 26-2 is hereby amended to read in its entirety
as follows:
"Sec. 26-2. Water service and sewer service --
Service rates
(a) The rates for water service furnished by the City
shall be as follows:
(1) Residential consumers: Eight dollars and
twenty cents for the first nine thousand gallons or
less per quarter and eighty-eight cents per thousand
gallons for all water in excess of nine thousand
gallons.
(2) Commercial consumers: Five dollars and fifty
cents for the first five thousand gallons or less per
month and eighty-eight cents per thousand gallons for
all water in excess of five thousand gallons.
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(b) The rates for sewer service furnished by the
City will be two hundred and forty percent of the computed
water service rate; provided, however, that apartment
buildings will be billed at a minimum sewer rate of eight
dollars and ninety-eight cents ($8.98) per dwelling unit
per month."
This amendment shall be effective as of September 1, 1979, and
County citizens who are users of the City systems will receive
a credit upon the next statement rendered to them after the date
hereof for amounts paid by them for then current water and sewer
services as shown upon the statements rendered to them in
September 1979, in excess of the amount of service fees which
would have been billed to City citizens for similar water and
sewer services as of September 1979. There shall be no credit
received for service fees paid for water and sewer services for
which statement had been rendered prior to September 1979.
2. The Connection Charges are hereby amended to read in its
entirety as follows:
"Connection Charge
Meter Size
3/4" x 5/8" $ 250.00
1" 400.00
1-1/2" 600.00
2" Compound 1,100.00
3" Compound 1,530.00
4" Compound 2,460.00
6" Compound 3,795.00"
3. Subsection (a) excluding Tables I and II, is hereby
amended to read in its entirety as follows:
"Connection Charge
Type of Premise
(a)
Single family
dwellings,
townhouses,
apartments,
hotels and
motels
Measure
Dwelling
unit
$1,000.00
(b)
Commercial or (See tables I and II
industrial uses and following)
all other uses except
those premises specifically
set forth in subsection (a)
hereinabove.
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For fixtures or equipment discharging continuously or
semi-continuously to a drainage system, the fixture units
for such premises shall be increased to two for each
gallon per minute of discharge. Continuous or semi-
continuous discharge may be such as certified by manu-
facturer of the fixture or equipment involved or as shall
be estimated or otherwise established by the director of
water and sewer services."
Tables I and II are retained without amendment or modification.
4. The amendments contained in sections 2 and 3 hereof
shall be effective upon the adoption of this ordinance. The
amendments to section 26-2 contained in section 1 hereof shall
be effective as set forth therein.
Introduced: October 2, 1979
Adopted: October 9~ ]979
Mayor
ATTEST:
C~y ~lerk