Hallsville Exception for Large Water Users ordinance (§ 710.210)
Chapter 710: Sewer System · Article III. Sewer Rates
In short: A customer who uses more than 25,000 gallons of water in a month, and can show with open records that more than half of it never went into the city sewer, is charged sewer fees only on the water that did. The customer pays for and installs any meter needed to measure it.
Our plain-English summary, not the official text or legal advice. The ordinance below is what counts.
If any user of water shall use more than twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons of water in any month, and if as established by records kept and maintained by such user and open for inspection by the City's representative more than one-half (1/2) of the water so used by said customer was not discharged into the sewerage system of the City, then the charge hereinbefore specified in Section 710.200 hereof made to said customer for the use and services of the sewerage system of the City shall be based on the amount of water furnished said customer during said month less the amount of such water which was not discharged into the sewerage system of the City. Such water meter as may be necessary to measure the amount of water which is not discharged into the City's sewerage system shall be paid for and installed by the customer.
Official source: City of Hallsville official Code of Ordinances (online), § 710.210
Last checked November 1, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.