City of Troy, Kansas                                  Created Jan 14, 2011

CITY OF TROY,KANSAS

                                                 ORDINANCE NO. 688

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TROY, KANSAS, ESTABLISHING RATES FOR USERS OF WATER, PROVIDING FOR TAPS AND CONNECTIONS TO THE CITY=S WATER MAINS AND ESTABLISHING THE RATES THEREFORE, PROVIDING FOR THE INSTALLATION OF WATER METERS AND FOR SECURITY DEPOSIT, PROVIDING FOR APPLICATION OF WATER SECURITY DEPOSIT TO THE SATISFACTION OF UNPAID CHARGES OR BILLS, PROHIBITING THE MAKING OF INSTALLATIONS, TAPS AND CONNECTION BY CERTAIN PERSONS, PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE, FIXING DATES FOR THE PAYMENT OF WATER BILLS, PROVIDING FOR THE BILLING AND PAYMENT OF CHARGES, PROVIDING FOR THE IMPOSITION OF A DELINQUENCY CHARGE AND FOR THE DISCONTINUANCE OF WATER SERVICE FOR FAILURE TO PAY BILL, PROVIDING FOR INCREASES TO RATES AND CHARGES ON MAY 1, 2015, 2016 AND 2017, REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 677 AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OFTROY,KANSAS:

SECTION ONE: From the date this ordinance is passed until April 15, 2015 all rates and charges which become applicable on July 1, 2014 shall remain applicable and in full force and effect.  Effective April 15, 2015 the rates and charges to users of water supplied by the City of Troy, Kansas, shall be as follows:

(A) Each user of water having a water meter serving property situated entirely or partially within the limits of the City of Troy, Kansas, shall be assessed a monthly base charge of Seventeen Dollars ($17.00) per water meter.  This base charge shall not entitle the user to or constitute payment for any water.

(B) Each user of water having a water meter serving property situated entirely or partially within the limits of the City of Troy, Kansas, shall, in addition to the base charge provided for in sub-section (a) of this section pay for all water used at the rate of $0.00575 per gallon.

(C) Each user of water having a water meter serving property situated entirely outside the limits of the City of Troy, Kansas, shall be assessed a monthly base charge of Twenty-Four Dollars and Ninety Cents ($24.90) per water meter.  This base charge shall not entitle the user to or constitute payment for any water.

(D) Each user of water having a water meter serving property situated

entirely outside the limits of the City of Troy, Kansas, shall, in addition to the base charge provided for in sub-section (c) of this section pay for all water used at the rate of $0.00701 per gallon.

(E) Each user of water obtaining water directly from the City=s mains without the installation of the usual meter shall pay for such water at the rate of Twenty-Five Cents ($.25) for each fifty (50) gallons or fraction thereof.

(F) All other users not included in sub-sections (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) above obtaining water from the City of Troy, Kansas, shall pay for the same at the rate of $0.00701 per gallon.  This rate shall also be applicable to Rural Water District No. 5 ofDoniphan County,Kansas, should it, be granted permission to obtain water from the City.

(G) In situations where a water meter has been installed for a user of water and users in addition to the one for whom the meter has been installed are receiving water therefrom, an additional charge of Seven Dollars ($7.00) per month for each additional user shall be made with such charge to be billed to and paid by the water meter user.  For the purposes of this sub-section, Aadditional user@ shall be defined as any business, household, trailer house, mobile home or other separate water user supplied water by the City of Troy for whom/which no separate water meter has been installed, it being the intention of this sub-section to impose an additional charge for water in circumstances where several separate uses of water are being made, but where only one water meter has been installed, examples of such uses being but not limited to, mobile home and trailer parks, two-business establishments receiving water from one meter, or a home and a separate business receiving water from one meter.

SECTION TWO: All rates and charges referenced in Sub-Sections (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F) of Section Once of this ordinance shall be increased by three percent (3%) on April 15, 2016; on April 15, 2017 the rates and charges which become applicable on April 15, 2015 shall be increased by three percent (3%); on April 15, 2018 the rates and charges which become applicable on April 1, 2017 shall be increased by three percent (3%); and on April 15, 2019 the rates and charges which become applicable on April 15, 2018 shall be increased by three percent (3%).

SECTION THREE:  Any user or prospective user of water requesting the City of Troy, Kansas, to make any connection with the water mains of the City of Troy shall, in addition to the deposit required in Section Five of this Ordinance, be required first to pay to the City of Troy the sum of Seven Hundred Eighty-Seven Dollars and Fifty Cents ($787.50) for each three-fourths (3/4) inch tap to be made.  For any larger tap an appropriate and proportionately greater additional charge shall be made to cover the costs to the City of the installation of the tap and meter.  All taps and connections to the water system of the City ofTroyshall be made by the City and its duly authorized employees and agents, and it shall be unlawful for any other person or persons to make such taps or connections.  All taps to the water system of the City shall be made at the water main nearest to the property of the user or prospective user.  The City shall lay pipe from the main only to the edge of the street or alley nearest to the property of the user or prospective user, and in no event will provide more than fifty (50) feet of pipe.  Any additional pipe used to effect a connection shall be at the expense of the user or

prospective user, and an additional charge to cover the costs of the same shall be made by the City.