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ORDINANCE NO. 1448
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ST. LOUIS PARK ORDINANCE
CODE SECTION 9-231 ENTITLED "SEWER RENTAL RATES"
THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN:
Sec. 1. Section 9-231 of the St. Louis Park Ordinance Code
entitle'Sewer Rental Rates" is hereby amended to read as follows:
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Section 9-230. Rental Charges for Use of Sewers. An annual charge
is hereby imposed upon every person, firm or corporation whose
premises are served by the sanitary sewer system of the City of
St. Louis Park, either directly or indirectly, for the use of
the facilities of the said sewer system and for connection therewith
which charge shall be as hereinafter provided in Section 9-231 of
this ordinance. Said charge shall be payable as hereinafter
provided in Section 9-232 and shall be subject to the penalties
set forth in Section 9-231 hereof if not paid within twenty days
after the billing date. Such charges for sewer service shall be
a charge against the owner, lessee, occupant, or all of them of the
premises served, any of whom shall be charged and billed for the
said services, and all such charges which have been billed and not
paid within thirty days after the due date stated on said bill shall
be certified to the County Auditor of Hennepin County as an assessment
against the property served for collection as other taxes are not
collected.
The obligation to pay the charges herein specified shall be incurred
as of the time of connection of any private sewer disposal system
to the City sewer, and such connection shall be deemed to be made
if a sewer connection is made to the City sewer at the curb line,
whether or not the connecting sewer is then in operation in
connection with the private sewer system on the adjacent premises.
Effective October 1, 1968 every person, firm or corporation whose
premises can be served by the sanitary sewer system of the City of
St. Louis Park, either directly or indirectly, shall pay an annual
sewer rental charge as hereinafter provided in Section 9-231 and
9-232 of this ordinance.
Section 9-231. Sewer Rental Rates. Charges for sewer service
to residential and nonresidential users within the City provided
in Section 9-230 hereof shall be: fifty-five cents ($.55) per
100 cubic feet of water consumption as measured during the winter
quarter (or as otherwise determined in Section 9-231 (1) or a
minimum of $9 per quarter per dwelling unit.
(1) All sewer customer charges, payable monthly/ quarterly
shall be determined by computing the average monthly/
quarterly water consumption from the combined water
meter readings for any three of the months from November
through April. Such new change of rate shall be effective
January 1 of each year and shall be billed monthly/
quarterly thereafter. In any case where winter meter
readings are not available or appropriate, monthly/
quarterly charges shall be made on the basis of current
water consumption at which time the annual charge will
be established and an adjustment of such charges collected
will be made.
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(2) A penalty of 10 percent shall be added to the
amount due on any sewer bill if not paid within
20 days after the billing date. Payments received
by mail postmarked on or before the twentieth day
shall be deemed as paid within said period.
(3) All owners, lessees, and occupants of buildings
discharging sewerage into the City sewer while usin
water from any source other than the City of St.
Louis Park municipal water system shall install
meters or other measuring devices meeting with the
City water meter specifications to measure either
the water used or the discharge into the sewer.
(Sec. 9-231 Amended by Ordinance 1277, Mardh 1, 1975)
(Sec. 9-231 Amended by Ordinance 1406, April 17, 1978)
Section 9-232. Sewer Bills. It is hereby made the duty of the
Director of Finance to render to the owners, lessees, or occupants
of all Class A, Class B, and Class C property on the first day of
each quarter, and to the owners, lessees, or occupants of all
Class D property on the first day of each month bills for the
amount of sewer rental charge as provided in Section 9-231 hereof.
Class E users shall be billed at the same time and manner as the
users in the City. Said bills may be a surcharge upon the water
bills rendered to said persons. All such charges, when collected,
shall be placed in a separate fund. These funds shall be used
only for the purpose authorized by Section 444.075, Minnesota
Statutes, and such charges if unpaid may be collected on direction
of the City Council as authorized by Sec. 444.075, Minnesota
Statutes, as set forth in Section 9-230, 9-231 and 9-232 hereof.
Section 9-233. Revision of Sewer Rates. The City Council reserves
the right to readjust the rates and charges provided in Section 9-231
hereof from time to time.
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Sec. 2. This ordinance shall take effect fifteen
days after its publication.
Adopted by the City Council August 20, 1979.
Attest:
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City Clerk
Reviewed for a
inistration: Approved as to form and legality:
City A orney
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SUN
NEWSPAPERS
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
ST. LOUIS PARK SUN
924 Excelsior Avenue West Hopkins, Minnnesota
State of Minnesota
County of Hennepin
DON R LARSON, being duly sworn, on oath says he is and during all times here stated has been the
president and printer of the newspaper known as The St Louis Park Sun and has full knowledge of the
facts herein stated as follows (1) Said newspaper is printed in the English language in newspaper
format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed space to at least 900 square inches (2) Said
newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at least once every week (3) Said newspaper has 50% of its
news columns devoted to news of local interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not
wholly duplicate any other publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and
advertisements (4) Said newspaper is circulated in and near the municipalities which it purports to
serve, has at least 500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of at least 75%
of its total circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second-
class matter in its local post -office (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the City of St Louis Park,
Golden Valley School District No 275 and Robbinsdale School District No 281 in the County of Hennepin
and it has its known office of issue in the City of Hopkins in said county, established and open during its
regular business hours for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and
maintained by the managing officer of said newspaper or persons in its employ and subject to his
direction and control during all such regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such regular
business hours to the business of the newspaper and business related thereto (6) Said newspaper files a
copy of each issue immediately with the State Historical Society (7) Said newspaper is made available
at single or subscription prices to any person, corporation, partnership or other unincorporated
association requesting the newspaper and making the applicable payment (8) Said newspaper has
complied with all foregoing conditions for at least one year preceding the day or dates of publication
mentioned below (9) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of Minnesota prior to January
1, 1966 and each January 1 thereafter and affidavit in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and
signed by the managing officer of said newspaper and sworn to before a notary public stating that the
newspaper is a legal newspaper
He further states on oath that the printed Ordinance No • 1 448
hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed
and published therein in the English language, once each week, forsuccessive weeks,
that it was first so published on Wed the 29 day of August 19 79
and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including
the day of 19 and that the following is a printed copy
of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the size and
kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to wit
abcdefghijklmnopgrstuvwxy z
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
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(Official Publication)
ORDINANCE NO 1448
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE
ST LOUIS PARK ORDINANCE
CODE SECTION 9-231 ENTITLED
"SEWER RENTAL RATES"
THE CITY OF ST LOUIS PARK
DOES ORDAIN
Sec 1 Section 9-231 of the St Louis
Park Ordinance Code entitled "Sewer
Rental Rates" is hereby amended to
read as follows ',
Section 9-231 Sewer Rental Rates
Charges for sewer service to residen-
tial and nonresidential users within
the City provided in Section 9-230
hereof shall be fifty-five cents (9 55)
per 100 cubic feet of water comsump-
tion as measured during the winter
quarter (or as otherwise determined
in Section 9-231 (1) or a minimum of
$9 per quarter per dwelling unit
(1) All sewer customer
charges, payable month-
' ly/quarterly shall be determined
by computing the average month-
ly/quarterly water comsumption
from the combined water meter
readings for any three of the
months from November through
,April Such new change of rate
shall be effective January 1 of
each year and shall be billed I
monthly/quarterly thereafter In
any case where winter meter
readings are not available or ap-
propriate, monthly/quarterly
charges shall be made on the
basis of current water consump-
tion at which—Mme the annual
charge will be established and an
adjustment of such charges col-
lected will be made
(2) A penalty of 10 percent shall
be added to the amount due on
any sewer bill if not paid within 20
days after the billing date
Payments received by mail post-
marked on or before the twen-
tieth day shall be deemed as paid
within said period „
(3) All owners, le,§sees, and
occupants of buildingsidischarg-
ing sewerage into the City sewer
while using water . from any
source other than the City of St
Louis Park municipal water sys-
tem shall install meters or other
measuring devices meeting with
the City water 'meter specif-
ications to measure either the
water used or the discharge into
the sewer (Sec 9-231 Amended
by Ordinance 1277, March 1, 1975) ,
(Sec 9-231 Amended by Or-
dinance 1406, April'17, 1978)
Sec 2 This ordinance shall take
effect fifteen days after its publica-
tion
Adopted by the City Council August
20, 1979 1
(s) FRANK J HOWARD
Mayor
Attest L
(s) EARL E I1(tNSON
City Clerk '4 '
Reviewed for Administration
(s) JOHN W ELWELL ,
City Manager
Approved as to form and legality
(s) WAYNE G POPHAM
City Attorney
(August 29, 1979) -SLP
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day of August 19 79
MERIDEL M. HEDBLOM
NOTARY PUBLIC - MINNESOTA
HENNEPIN COUNTY
My commission expires July 2, 1986