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<br /> COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII <br /> BILL NO 3sa <br /> ORDINANCE NO. <br /> AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 21, OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 <br /> (1995 EDITION), RELATING TO SEWER SERVICE CHARGES. <br /> BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: <br /> SECTION 1. Purpose. Presently, the County Department of Environmental <br /> Management charges its customers based upon the water drawn through it meter. This <br /> procedure unfairly charges customers for water not disposed of in the public sewer system. <br /> This bill allows customers to document accurate readings of discharge into the county sewer <br /> system and allows for customers to be charged only for the amount actually discharged into the <br /> county system. <br /> SECTION 2. Chapter 21, article 4, section 21-29, of the Hawaii County Code 1983 <br /> (1995 edition), is amended to read as follows: <br /> Section 21-29. Sewer user charges for nonresidential customers. <br /> Sewer user charges for nonresidential customers, including those connected to <br /> gang cesspools, shall be assessed to all lots accessible to a public sewer whether <br /> connected or not. User charges for sewer service to nonresidential customers, which <br /> include industrial, commercial, agricultural, governmental and miscellaneous services <br /> users, hotels, and service stations shall be based on water volume usage based on water <br /> meter reading and shall be assessed according to the schedule shown under section <br /> 21-36.1; provided that water consumed for the purpose of coolers or swimming pools <br /> shall not be included in water consumption totals on which these rates are based. No <br /> sewer charges shall be levied on water used for irrigation or other uses [only when <br /> separate water meters are installed for such purposes and the water drawn through such <br /> meters is not discharged into the sanitary sewage system.] when the water is not <br /> discharged into the sewer svstem and a separate metering system is installed to provide <br /> a method of accounting for the amount of water which is or is not subject to the sewer <br /> use charges, as the case may be. A minimum monthly charge shall be applicable and <br /> shall be equal to the schedule under section 21-36.1. Unoccupied units will be assessed <br /> a monthly maintenance fee equal to the current minimum monthly charge. <br /> SECTION 3. Material to be repealed is bracketed. New material is underscored. In <br /> printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed material and underscoring need not be included. <br /> <br />