[CC 1983 §110.060; Ord. No. 407 §110.060, 8-2-1990; Ord. No. 03-29, 6-5-2003; Ord. No. 04-55, 10-21-2004; Ord. No. 05-12, 5-19-2005; Ord. No. 13-22, 10-17-2013; Ord. No.
15-18, 6-18-2015; Ord. No. 15-19, 7-16-2015; Ord. No. 17-05, 2-16-2017]
A.
Water installation fee within the City limits of Hollister, Missouri:
two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) plus cost of meter and materials.
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Size of Meter
(inches)
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Fee
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|---|---|
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3/4
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$680.00
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1
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$1,100.00
|
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2
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$4,150.00
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4
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$5,350.00
|
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6
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$7,100.00
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B.
Water installation fee outside the City limits of Hollister, Missouri:
two hundred seventy-five dollars ($275.00) plus cost of meter and
materials.
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Size of Meter
(inches)
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Fee
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|---|---|
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3/4
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$680.00
|
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1
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$1,100.00
|
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2
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$4,150.00
|
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4
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$5,350.00
|
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6
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$7,100.00
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C.
For any installation of meter service eight (8) inches and larger
in size, the applicant shall pay all City costs, which include materials,
labor and equipment.
D.
Water
installation fee for a commercial fire service tap, the applicant
shall pay all City costs, which include materials, labor, and equipment.
[CC 1983 §110.062; Ord. No. 407 §110.062, 8-2-1990; Ord. No. 94-54 §110.062, 11-17-1994; Ord. No. 96-07 §§A,B, 3-21-1996; Ord. No. 96-26 §§A — B, 11-12-1996; Ord. No. 03-18, 4-17-2003; Ord. No. 05-11, 5-19-2005; Ord. No. 06-41, 9-21-2006; Ord. No. 17-06, 2-16-2017; Ord. No. 18-22, 3-15-2018; Ord. No. 19-04, 3-21-2019; Ord. No. 20-04, 3-5-2020]
A.
For
all residential and commercial users of water within the City limits
of Hollister, Missouri:
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0 — 1,000 gallons
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¾ inch meter
|
$8.76
|
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1 inch meter
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$15.54
|
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1½ inch meter
|
$29.61
|
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2 inch meter
|
$57.28
|
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2½ inch meter
|
$88.51
|
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3 inch meter
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$124.93
|
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4 inch meter
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$223.86
|
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6 inch meter
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$400.86
|
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8 inch meter
|
$725.30
|
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1,001 or more gallons
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$2.51 per thousand
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B.
For
all residential and commercial users of water outside the City limits
of Hollister, Missouri:
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0 — 1,000 gallons
| |
|
¾ inch meter
|
$12.64
|
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1 inch meter
|
$23.32
|
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1½ inch meter
|
$44.41
|
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2 inch meter
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$85.93
|
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2½ inch meter
|
$132.77
|
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3 inch meter
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$183.87
|
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4 inch meter
|
$335.79
|
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6 inch meter
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$601.30
|
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8 inch meter
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$1,087.95
|
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1,001 or more gallons
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$3.77 per thousand
|
|
Rate increases will become effective on the March 15, 2020,
to April 15, 2020, billing cycle (bills mailed out April 30, 2020,
and due in May 2020).
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[Ord. No. 06-43, 9-21-2006; Ord. No. 17-07, 2-16-2017; Ord. No. 17-14, 3-16-2017]
A.
The
State of Missouri Department of Natural Resources requires public
water systems to collect fees from their customers and remit the fees
to the State. This fee went into effect September 15, 2000.
B.
House
Bill 1149 was signed into law increasing the drinking water primacy
fee, effective September 1, 2006, and in 2014, the Missouri Legislature
removed the "sunset" date for the fee in Senate Bill 642. The legislation
also gave authority to the Safe Drinking Water Commission to revise
the fee structure, which is set to expire August 28, 2024.
C.
The
annual Primacy Fee charged to the City for each meter should be divided
by twelve (12) to determine a monthly amount, depending on the size
of the meter. This amount will be included in the base rate charged
to the utility customer on a monthly basis. In addition to the Missouri
Drinking Water Primacy Fee the utility will charge a two percent (2%)
administration fee for collecting and remitting these fees for the
State.
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1,001 to 4,000 connections
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$3.12 per year billed at $0.26 per month
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Meters greater than 1" but less than or equal to 2"
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$7.56 per year billed at $0.63 per month
|
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Meters greater than 2" but less than or equal to 4"
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$42.00 per year billed at $3.50 per month
|
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Meters greater than 4"
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$84.12 per year billed at $7.01 per month
|
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The rate increase will go into effect on the February 15, 2017
to March 15, 2017 billing cycle (bills mailed out March 31, 2017 and
due in April 2017).
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Service Tap Fees: Sewer installation fee of five hundred fifty
dollars ($550.00) plus cost of materials for service installed by
City of Hollister staff. For those sewer taps that are installed by
the contractor, any associated bonds must be paid and will be refunded
when work is completed, and approved by City of Hollister staff.
[1]
Editor's Note: Ord. No. 18-43 also changed the title of this
Section from "Sewer Connections" to "Sewer Installations."
[Ord. No. 407 §110.064, 8-2-1990; Ord. No. 96-05 §700.080, 3-7-1996; Ord. No. 01-25, 4-19-2001; Ord. No. 03-19, 4-17-2003; Ord. No. 03-50, 11-20-2003; Ord. No. 06-42, 9-21-2006; Ord. No. 08-40, 11-6-2008; Ord. No. 09-07, 3-19-2009; Ord. No. 17-36, 11-16-2017; Ord. No. 18-62, 12-20-2018; Ord. No. 19-05, 3-21-2019; Ord. No. 20-05, 3-5-2020]
A.
Residential
and commercial sewer user service charge inside City limits nine dollars
and twenty-seven cents ($9.27) per month.
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Use charges:
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$3.76 for the first 1,000 gallons
|
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$0.376 per 100 gallons additional
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B.
Residential
and commercial sewer user service charge outside City limits eleven
dollars and eighty-five cents ($11.85) per month.
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Use charges:
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$5.50 for the first 1,000 gallons
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$0.550 per 100 gallons additional
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C.
Residential
And Commercial Extra Charges. The extra charge for biochemical oxygen
demand and suspended solids shall be:
1.
For five-day biochemical oxygen demand in excess of two hundred fifty
(250) milligrams per liter of sewage and waste, an additional charge
of $0.479 per pound shall be made by each such excess or fraction
thereof.
2.
For suspended solids in excess of three hundred (300) milligrams
per liter of sewage and waste, an additional charge of $0.426 per
pound shall be made for each such excess or fraction thereof.
D.
Non-Metered
Sewer Rates (City Water Not Available).
1.
For residential contributors inside City limits, the minimum monthly
flat rate (5,000-gallon average) for the collection and treatment
of sewerage shall be as follows:
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Unit
Residential
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Cost/Month
$27.60
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2.
For residential contributors outside City limits, the minimum monthly
flat rate (5,000-gallon average) for the collection and treatment
of sewerage shall be as follows:
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Unit
Residential
|
Cost/Month
$39.35
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E.
Sewer
Flow Meter (City Water Not Available). To qualify for the metered
rate, the contributor must be non-residential and shall have a City-approved
meter (contributor shall purchase, install and maintain meter on their
well unless there is already an installed meter from a water district)
and approved meter reading method (location).
1.
Commercial sewer user service charge inside City limits nine dollars
and twenty-seven cents ($9.27) per month.
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Use charges:
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$3.67 for the first 1,000 gallons
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$0.367 per 100 gallons additional
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2.
Commercial sewer user service charge outside City limits eleven
dollars and eighty-five cents ($11.85) per month.
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Use charges:
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$5.50 for the first 1,000 gallons
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$0.550 per 100 gallons additional
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F.
Wholesale
Sewer Charges.
1.
College of the Ozarks
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Use charges:
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|---|
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$3.54 per 1,000 gallons
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2.
TC Short Creek Collection System
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Use charges:
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|---|
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$2.75 per 1,000 gallons
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3.
TC Coon Creek Collection System
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Use charges:
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$2.75 per 1,000 gallons
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4.
TC Poverty Point Collection System
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Use charges:
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|---|
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$2.75 per 1,000 gallons
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5.
Missouri American Water.
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Use charges:
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|---|
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$3.54 per 1,000 gallons
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[Ord. No. 06-44, 9-21-2006; Ord. No. 15-05, 2-5-2015; Ord. No. 17-37, 11-16-2017]
The State of Missouri Department of Natural Resources requires
public sewer systems to collect fees from their customers and remit
the fees to the State. This fee went into effect September 15, 2000.
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Residential meters
|
$0.80 per connection billed at $0.07 per month
|
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Commercial meteres less than or equal to 1"
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$3.00 per connection billed at $0.25 per month
|
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Commercial meters greater than 1" but less than or equal to
4"
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$11.00 per connection billed at $0.92 per month
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Commercial meters greater than 4"
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$29.00 per connection billed at $2.42 per month
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[CC 1983 §110.070; Ord. No. 407 §110.070, 8-2-1990; Ord. No. 95-42 §A, 11-2-1995; Ord. No. 00-18, 8-17-2000; Ord. No. 02-03, 3-21-2002; Ord. No. 04-52, 10-21-2004; Ord. No. 06-54, 11-16-2006; Ord. No. 07-05, 2-15-2007; Ord. No. 09-11, 4-16-2009]
A.
Before
any utility service is furnished to any consumer he/she shall be required
to make a deposit to guarantee the payment for all services as the
bills therefor become due, for which a receipt shall be given. Such
deposit shall be as follows:
[Ord. No. 17-08, 2-16-2017]
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Residential deposit
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$110.00
|
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Commercial deposit:
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1.
On motels, hotels, apartments houses, mobile home parks:
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1 — 10 units
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$110.00
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11 — 20 units
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$220.00
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21 — 30 units
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$330.00
|
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31 — 40 units
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$440.00
|
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41 or over
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$550.00
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2.
All other commercial users (except for home occupations) shall be
based on meter size:
|
⅝"
|
$110.00
|
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1"
|
$220.00
|
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1½"
|
$330.00
|
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2"
|
$440.00
|
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3"
|
$550.00
|
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4"
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$660.00
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B.
In
the event that any consumer who has applied for any utility service
and has any outstanding delinquent bills from any prior utility hookings
in the City, the deposit shall be paid and the outstanding bill must
be paid.
C.
If
upon examination the City Clerk at any time finds the amount deposited
by any water and/or sewer user is not sufficient to cover the bills
for any two (2) consecutive months such water and/or sewer user shall,
after forty-eight (48) hours' written notice has been given, be required
to make an additional deposit in an amount sufficient to cover the
deficiency. Whenever a user of water and/or sewer shall for any reason
cease using water, upon complying with all rules, regulations and
ordinances of the City governing the furnishing and using of water
and/or sewer and the payment of all bills and charges therefor in
full, he/she shall, be entitled to have returned to him/her the amount
of deposit paid.
D.
Said
deposit shall be retained by the City until the service is discontinued.
When the final bill is paid or the deposit is applied to the billing,
the remaining deposit amount (without interest) shall be refunded.
1.
If the deposit refund is less than five dollars ($5.00), the amount
shall be retained by the City.
2.
If the deposit refund is more than five dollars ($5.00), but less
than fifty dollars ($50.00) and is returned by mail or the check has
not cleared the bank after one (1) year, the persons name shall be
posted on the City's web site under "Unclaimed Property", as an extra
attempt to return all deposits to the customer.
3.
Five (5) years from the date of the check and after the posting,
any deposits under fifty dollars ($50.00) shall be retained by the
City as a processing fee.
4.
Five (5) years from the date of the check and after the posting,
any deposits over fifty dollars ($50.00) the City shall retain a fifty
dollar ($50.00) processing fee and the remainder shall be turned over
to the State of Missouri Unclaimed Property Division.
E.
Customers
living in the unincorporated areas of Taney County using the Hollister
wastewater treatment plant for their sewage disposal shall pay the
same deposit as customers living in the incorporated areas of Hollister.
[CC 1983 §110.080; Ord. No. 407 §110.080, 8-2-1990]
A.
All
water or sewer supplied by the City shall be charged for the same
in accordance with the registration of the meters installed by the
City to record such provisions of service, and charge shall be made
in accordance with the registration of such meters and the rates established
under this Chapter and all bills will be collected therefor in full
provided that when any such meter by actual test as provided for in
this Chapter is found to be imperfect and fast in measurement of the
service by more than two percent (2%) the cost of the excess amount
of services as represented by the imperfection of such meter shall
be deducted from the total amount of the bill for the meter reading
period for which such bill is rendered.
B.
Employees
of any municipal utility may at any time and with or without the knowledge
or consent of any consumer, install an additional meter at any location
where such meter may be connected into the service to any building,
dwelling house or premises of any kind to which the City is furnishing
utility service, and when such meter shall for any period register
more utilities than are registered by the meter on the premises of
the consumer, it shall be taken as evidence that the service being
furnished to such consumer is not being properly metered by the first
(1st) meter on the consumer's premises, and the consumer shall pay
for all utilities registered over any period by the second or additional
meter so installed, instead of the amount that has been improperly
registered by his/her regular meter.
C.
All
water and sewer meters furnished by the City shall remain the property
of the City, and City employees shall at all times have access to
replace or remove any meters or accessories or other property of the
City.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Section 700.110, Meter Tests, was repealed
2-16-2017 by Ord. No. 17-03.
