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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1947-046 ~{( t ..r ~ ~ . couNTY of xAwAII TERRITORY OF HAWAII ORDINANCE N0. 46 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHING OF WATER RATES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE WATER WORKS A1QD WATER WORKS SYSTEMS OF THE VARIOUS DISTRICTS OF THE COUN'PY OF HAWAII, AND REPEALING ALL SECTIONS AND PARTS OF SECTIONS OF ORDINANCES OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. B~ IT ORDAINED BY 'PfiL BOARD UP' SUPERVISOiYa OF 'PHE COUNTY OF' HAWAII: Section 1. Management: The County Engineer of the County of Hawaii shall, in addition to his other duties, assume the duties of the Genarel Manager of the Bureau of Water Works of the Countycf Hawaii, and shall have full charge of the design, •peration and maintenance of the water works systems of the County of Hawaii, under such rules and regulations as may be established from time to time by the Board of Supervisors of the County oP Hawaii. The General Manager may delegate tc his Superintendent or other authorized agent, authority to grant and sign permits for water privileges; make agreements in connection therewith; send out bills; ] it ~~ ~'~"' .. collect moneys; cause to put into effect and enforce regulations required from time to time, especially in periods of emergency, drought or scarcity of water; maze rules regarding the use of water for lawn, garden or agricultural purposes as well es for other large water demand. uses; and shall give reasonable notice to privilege holders of such rules and regulations. Section 2. Pay of Superintendents: The Superintendent: of each district water works shall receive such salary and/or allowances es may be fixed by the Board of Supervisors. Section 3. Bonds: The General Manager and each Superintendent of district water works shall furnish to the County of Hawaii, a bond for the faithful accounting of all moneys received and the faithful performance of his duties, end the amount of such bonds shall be X5,000 for the General Manager and $p1,000 each for the Superintendents. ~ I'1_J 4, k' .:,. Section 4. Application for water: Any parson, firm or corpora- tion desiring to be supplied with water from any of the County of Hawaii water works systems shall make application therefor on a printed form. obtainable at and furnished by the various district water works offices, which application shall be signed by such applicant. Every privilege granted upon such application shall ba subject to the rules and regulations herein provided for. Section 5. Water: Each applicant for water shall sign an application end make a deposit of Fifteen (~p15.00) Dollars for which a temporary deposit voucher shall be issued to the applicant•~ The Fifteen Dollars shall be used to pay for the connection from the main to the meter adjacent to the property line, and shall include all material and labor, a mater-box if a meter is to be instal}.e d, and street or road repairs if any are needed. Should the deposit be insufficient to pay all the charges, the amount over Fifteen Dollars shall be charged to the privilege holder on his first water bill there- after. There shall be returned to the applicant by the Water Vilor.ka within. seven days after the completion of the connection, any unused portion ~. of the temporary deposit. Sec ti on 6. Connecti®na & Cut-offs: No person other than the duly authorized employees of the Waterworks shall make conriectiona to water lines of the County of Hawaii Water Systems, and any person or persons, firm. or corporation connecting, or. attempting to obtain water without permission, or tampering with the water mater or breaking the seal thereon, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred (500.00) Dollars, in the discretion of the Court. The duly authorized employees of the Waterworks shall, at all reasonable hours, be permitted to enter upon the premises of a privilege holder for the purpose of connecting, inspecting, turning-off or turning-on the water, qr for the purpose of making repairs to the water lines, stop cocks or meters, and to see that the provisions hereof and the rules and regulations of the Waterworks of the County of Hawaii -2- are being complied with. Privilege holders who are delinquent for 60 days shall be shut-ofP, and if the privilege is a metered one the meter ahrll be removed, and service not resumed until. all back charges together with penalties and a Five 05.00) Dollar labor charge for reinstalling the meter and/or turning on the water, is paid. Privileges may be granted only to owners of property or to those having leases with at least a one year term. Privileges other than the delinquent one but held by the delinquent privilege holder may also be shut-off. No privilege shall be given. to any delinquent privilege holder. Section 7. minimum charge: There will be a minimum charge for each meter at the following rates per month. Size of Meter Delivery Gallons Service Charge Inches per minute per muter per month 5/8 20 1.00 34 1.25 1 53 1.50 1~ 80 2.00 1~ 100 2.50 2 160 3,00 3 315 5.00 4 500 7.50 6 1000 15.00 8 1525 25.00 S®etion 8. Rates - Meters: All Water furnished by the Nater Works Systems of the County of Hawaii thru meters to privilege holders may be sold at the following rates in cents per thousand gallons, except to shipping and other Special privileges; Honokan South Hilo, Papaikou, System Kapaeu & Laupahoehoe, Kaahuhu Kamuele, Syatams. Kawaihae and Other Systems For the first 25,000 gallons of water pax month, or any part thereof, the rate of ........................................ 15 10 8 For water in excess of 25,000 gallons end under 250,000 gallons per month, the rate of ........................................ 14 9 7 For water in excess of 250,000 gallons per month, the rate of .................... 13 8 6 -3- All water furnished to ships or weasels shall be sold at the following rates per thousand gallons: (e) Foreign and other weasels, including weasels engaged exclusively in inter-island trade, 50~ per thousand gallons. Section a. Rates - Flat and/or Specisl: All water .furnished by the Water Works System of the County oP Hawaii, other than that furnished thru meters, to privilege holders, may be sold at the following flat rates and/or special rates per annum: SOUTH HILO SYSTEM DWELLING RATES Base Rata 1 House 2 Houses 3 Houses 4 Houses Over 4 Houaea X18.00 X18.00 X33.00 $45,00 X54.00 X9.00 each 15.00 15.00 27.00 36.00 42.00 6.00 each 12.00 12.00 21.00 27.00 33.00 6.00 each COM[VfERCIAL RATr~S Bakery ..................>..............$ 32.00 Bank .. ................................ 28.00 Barber~Shop... ... ................ 16.00 Barber Shop and dwelling ............... 33.00 Bath House . ........................... 32.00 Blacksmith Shop ........................ 12.00 Carpenter Shop ......................... 12.00 Chicken Ranch .......................... 12.00 Chop Sui House.. .................... 60.00 Church Hall or Club .................... 12.00 Olothes Cleaner ........................ 32.00 Cr®matory .............................. 20.00 Dairy.. ......................... 40.00 Dentist'a~Office ........................ 25.00 Doctor's Office ........................ 16.00 Drug Store. ... ....,...... 32.00 Drug Store with~Soda Fountain.......... 48.00 Factory ................................ 40.00 Fish Pond .............................. 12.00 Fish Stall ............................. 16.00 Garage. .. ................. 30.00 Garage with~Wash~Rack .................. 48.00 Gea Plant. . .................. 40.00 Gasoline Service~Station.. ... 30.00 Gasoline Service Station with Weah rack 48.00 Hospital........... ................. 60.00 Hotel - 20 rooms orsless ............... 48.00 Hotel - over 20 rooms .................. 72.00 Laundry - small, hand .................. 32.00 Laundry - Large ........................ 60.00 Lumber Mill..... ................... 25.00 Meat Market - small .................... 25.00 Meat *V(arkat - large ......... ......... 40.00 Meat Market with water coolad~ itefrigeration Plant ............... 80.00 Office - general ....................... 15.00 _4_ Paint Shop ..........................#12.00 Photographer ........................ 25.00 Plumbing Shop ....................... 12.00 Poi Raetory ........... ............. 25.00 Poi Factory and dwelling............ 43.00 Restaurant.. ..................... 36.00 -s'~foo Restaurant - Large .................. 60.00 Rooming & Lodging House ............. 36.00-Soo School .. ........................... 40.00 Sode Works... .................... 60.00 Store - general ..................... 12.00 Tea House.. .... ............. 12.00 ... Tenements -for each 6~rooms........ 18.00 Tofu Factory ........................ 25.00 Trimming Shop .. ................... 12.00 Undertaking Parlor.. .......... 12.00 Vegetable and Fruit Stand........... 12.00 Warehouse ........................... 12.00 PAPAIKOU, LAUPAHOEHOE, KAM[TEI.A KAWAIIi~E, HAWI, KOKOIKI AND WAIOHINU SYSTEMS DWELLING RATE ~F15.00 KAPAAU AND KAAUHUHU SYSTEMS DWELLING RATE X18.00 COMMERCIAL RATES Bakery ............................. Bank ............................... Barber Shop ........................ B09rding Houa e ..................... Church . ........................... Clothes~Cleaner....... ............. Dairy .............................. Garage . ........ ................. Garage with Wash Rack .............. Hospital.. ..................... Hotel - small, 20 rooms or less.... Hotel - large, morn than 20 rooms.. Meat Market.. ......... ..... Meat Market with water cooled. refrigeration plant........... Office .. .......................... Poi Factory ........................ Power Plant.. .... ..... Power Plant with water cooled engines ...................... Railways. ..... .. ... Ranch cattle, small--75 head~or.leas Ranoh cattle, medi~zm--76 to 1.50 heed Ranch cattle, large--more than 150 head ..................... 30.00 24.00 24.00 30.00 6.00 24.00 36.00 24.00 40.00 60.00 40.00 50.00 20.00 48.00 16.00 36.00 20.00 48.00 120.00 24.00 48.00 72.00 -5- Ranch, Chicken .......................12.00 Ranch, Pig ........................... 36.00 Restaurant . ......................... 36.00 Rooming and Lodging House............ 24.00 School .. ............................ 36.00 Soda Works ... ...................... 60.00 Stores--general.. ............. 20.00 Store with soda fountain.. .. .. 30.00 Store with water cooled refrigeration plant ............................ 48.00 Warehouses ........................... 16.00 Where business establishments are also used as dwellings, the flat rate may be increased by the minimum flat rate specified for dwelling for the System concerned. The General Manager of the Water Works is directed to install Meters, if and when funds permit, on all flat rate privileges, where deemed necessary in best interests of the Ccunty of Hawaii. Section 10. Meters: The Mater shall be furnished free to the privilege holder, but shall be the property of the Bureau of Water Works of the County oP Hawaii. It shall be installed adjacent to the property line in an approved type of mates box. The safe maximum delivery of the meter used in each privilege shell be greater than the maximum capacity and requirements of the privilege. Should a privilege holder believe that his meter is not registering correctly, he may request to have it tested. Should the test show it to be in error, a new meter shall be put in its place and an adjustment made in the charges affected; but should the meter be found to be registering correctly, it shall be replaced and the entt.re cost of testing and that incidental thereto, shall be paid by the privilege holder. The privilege holder shall be responsible far the proper care and safety of the water meter, and any damage that is done to it shall be repaired by the Water Works division and the cost of such repairs shall be added to the current water hill of said privilege holder. If a privilege holder requests to have a different sized meter installed from the one already in his privilege, or to have the location of the meter changed, it shall be done provided the changes do not operate as a hardship to or a loss of revenues against the Water Works, -6- and that all costs incident thereto shall be paid by the privilege holder requesting such change. Section 11. Billing and Collecting: Water rates shall be charged to and payable by the privilege holder for all premises whether occupied or not, until such time as the water is ordered ^shut-off^ in writing, or in person or is shut-off by Authority. The owner of the premises wt71 be he:Ld responsible for the settlement of water rates in cases whore said rates have not; been paid by the tenants. All metered water rates shall be paid. monthly, except; for vessels which have no local.. agents, under whir,h circumstances payment shall be made by the ship's officers upon presentation of an officis]_ numbered water bill and receipt by a duly authorized representative of the Water Works;, otherwise, water rates shall be due on the first daY of each month, shall be payable at the district water works office, except that Por South Hila they shall be payable at the Office of the Treasurer of the County of Hawaii., end shall become de]inquent thirty days after due. Flat rates and/o.r special rates for water shell be due and payable quarterly in advance, on the first day of January, t;he first day of April, the first day of July and the first day of October of each year, at the district water works office, except that for South Hj.1o they shall be payable at the office of the Treasurer of the County of Hawaii, end shall become delinquent thirty days after due. Should these; privilege holders desire to, they may pay the rates semi-annually, or annually, in advance. A bill and Notice to pay water rates shall be sent out to each privilege holder by mail end/or delivered by a representative of the Water Works, not less then ten days before such rates becomes due and payable. Section 12. Penalties: In all cases of non-payment of water rates for two months after due date, there shall be added ten per cent in addition to the regular rate as the amount due and payable by said privilege holder. As stated in Section ti, privilege holders who become delinquent -~- and cause their water to be cut-of P, shall pay a penalty of Five 0 5.00) Dollars to cover costs of cutting-off and turning-on water before service will be resumed. Section 13. All sections and parts of sections of Ordinances of the County of Hawaii, in conflict herawith, be and the soma are hereby repealed. -~-