Hallsville User Charge Rates ordinance (§ 710.140)

A. Each user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on a flat-rate depending on which one (1) of three (3) categories a user belongs: 1) residential; 2) low usage commercial, public authority, and industrial, or 3) high usage commercial, public authority, and industrial.

B. Low usage commercial, public authority, and industrial customers are customers that use less than twelve thousand five hundred (12,500) gallons per month. High usage commercial, public authority, and industrial customers are customers that use more than twelve thousand five hundred (12,500) gallons per month based on average yearly water usage for the year immediately preceding. If a customer has no months of usage for the year immediately preceding, his/her monthly charge shall be based on water used during the current month. If a customer uses water which is not returned to the wastewater collection system, the user charge for that contributor may be based on a wastewater meter(s) or separate water meter(s) installed and maintained at the customer's expense and in a manner acceptable to the City.

C. The flat sewer charge per billing period for residential customers shall be thirty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents ($38.75). The flat sewer charge per billing period for low usage commercial, public authority, and industrial customers (less than twelve thousand five hundred (12,500) gallons per month) shall be forty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents ($48.75). The flat sewer rate charge per billing period for high usage commercial, public authority, and industrial customers (more than twelve thousand five hundred (12,500) gallons per month) shall be one hundred fifty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents ($159.75). The charges shall be revised from time to time in accordance with Section 710.180.

D. For those contributors who contribute wastewater, the strength of which is greater than normal domestic sewage, a surcharge in addition to the normal user charge will be collected. The surcharge for operation and maintenance including replacement is seventeen cents ($0.17) per pound BOD; fifteen cents ($0.15) per pound SS. These charges shall be revised from time to time in accordance with Section 710.180.

E. Any user which discharges any toxic pollutants which cause an increase in the cost of managing the effluent or the sludge from the City's treatment works, or any user which discharges any substance which singly or by interaction with other substances causes identifiable increases in the cost of operation, maintenance or replacement of the treatment works, shall pay for such increased costs. The charge to each user shall be as determined by the responsible plant operating personnel and approved by the Board of Aldermen.

F. The user charge rates established in the Article apply to all users, regardless of their location, of the City's treatment works.