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Water Superintendent
Bremerton Sun
ORDINANCE NO. ~
AN ORDINANCE mending Section 3(AB)
of ordinance 3147 which is codified
as BMC 15.04.290 relating to cons- ~
truction of new water mains.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES HEREBY ORDAIN:
SECTION 1: Section 3(A~) of Ordinance 3147 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Ao When the inhabitants or property owners of any
specified area desire to connect directly with the municipal
water supply, aha water mains or main extensions are necessary
in order to connect to such municipal water supply, they may
petition the city to construct such new mains and/or main
extensions providing they jointly and severally agree to reimburse
the city for the cost~/thereof at the following rates per front
foot of property abutting such new mains and/or main extentions:
1. Properties situated on corners with abutting water
mains on two sides shall have the footage charge computed by using
the average footing of the two sides;
2. Areas within the city limits - Per front foot, four dollars
3. Areas outside the city limits - Per front foot,
six dollars.
B. For owners of irregular shaped area, the charge shall
be two dollars per hundred square feet of area within the city
limits and three dollars and twenty-five cents per hundred square
feet of area outside the city. If the properties to be served
are no% abuk%ing %he wa%er main, %he owners of such properties
shall be required to pay one hundred dollars within the city, and
one hundred fifty dollars outside the city to apply on the
constructions of permanent mains to serve such area at some future
date.
C. If sixty percent of the property owners of any
specified area have signed the petition as provided in subparagraph
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A of this section, the city ma~ enter into agreements with them
providing for such new main construction and the payment therefor
either in cash or at the rate of ten dollars or more per month
with interest at six percent per year on unpai~ balances;
provided, that at least twenty percent shall be paid as a down
payment at the time of installation and that the term of such
installations shall not exceed thirty-six months from the date of
the 'initial installemnt. Such payments shall be in addition to
all other rates, tapping fees and other charges established by this
or any other ordinances for water service now in effect.
D. All mains constructed under the provisions hereof
shall be of ~a~ iron pipe or other approved material not less than
six inches in diameter; provided, pipe four inches in diameter may
in discretion of th water department, be installed of such length
that any given point on the same is not more than three hundred
fifty feet from a main whose diameter is six inches or more;
and further provided, if in the discretion of the water department
temporary mains would be more advantageous for a time, in that
event, such temporary mains may be installed by the city; and,
in that event, the property owners who contributed to the cost
of the permanent mains shall not be required to pay any additional
cost involved in the abandonment, retirement and the replacement
of such temporary mains with the permanent mains at some future
date. In the event at a later date it should be decided to install
such permanent mains by formation of a local improvement district,
then, in such event, all payments made by reason of any contract
as herein provided shall be credited toward the paylnent of any
assessments levied by the local improvement district.
E. When mains are installed, as provided herein, and
not all property owners, or property, shall contribute towards
the cost of such construction at the time they are constructed,
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they and the property so omitte~ shall be required to pay four
dollars per front foot of property within the city limits fronting
such mains before they will be premitted to connect to said mains.
F. In the case of property outside ~ne city limits,
the front footage charge shall be six dollars per front foot.
G. The front footage charge herein p~ovided shall be
in addition to rates, tapping fee~ and other charges established
for water service.
APPROVED by the City Council On the first reading this
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton,
signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication
of such passage this ~ J day of ~accmbcr,-1~7~.
ATTEST:
OH~ Ro ROSS~ Deputy C±t:y Clerk
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