51.04 New water connections – Application.
(A) Priorities. The city shall grant an application of service, should the customer comply with this subchapter and other related administrative rules and policies of the city, on the basis of the following priority schedule, should the city determine that the city will have, at the time of the application, sufficient water supply to satisfy all the customers within the group described below to which the customer belongs and all the customers within all groups having a higher priority than the customer’s group:
(1) Individual service on existing lots and parcels, at this time, on existing adequate mains within the incorporated city limits;
(2) All other services requiring main extensions or main upgrading within the incorporated city limits, including subdivisions and partitions;
(3) Individual service on existing lots and parcels, at this time, on existing adequate mains outside of the incorporated city limits, but within the city’s urban growth boundary;
(4) All other services requiring main extensions or main upgrading outside the incorporated city limits, including subdivisions and partitions, but within the city’s urban growth boundary; and
(5) All other services located outside of the city’s urban growth boundary.
(B) Connection fees. Connection fees shall be composed of two parts, a hookup or service fee and a system development charge. Both fees, when applicable, shall be paid in full before any new connection is made to the city’s water system.
(1) Hookup or service fee. This fee provides for the costs of providing a service connection, and includes the costs of the meter, meter box, service control valve, miscellaneous fittings and pipe, and the labor and equipment used to install a service connection.
(a) In addition to the above, if there is a need to having to bore or trench across a road in order to install a connection between the customer and the main, the customer shall be responsible for the cost to the city for the installation and for any repair to the road that is required.
(b) The fee in division (B)(1)(a) above will not be charged for connections in subdivisions, partitions or planned developments where the service connections have already been installed by the developer.
(2) System development charge. This charge component provides for a share of the cost of system capacity. The system development charge shall be both a reimbursement fee and an improvement fee. The system development charge reimbursement and improvement fee rates, as well as the expenditure of funds raised thereby shall be defined, set and governed by Chapter 53.
(C) Written application.
(1) Each prospective customer shall make a written application for water service. The application shall be signed by the applicant and state the location of the premises for which the service is requested, the name and address to which bills are to be sent, the name of the owner of the property, information adequate to determine and establish the customer’s use as residential or commercial and their base monthly gallons, base water rate and other fees which may apply, and other such information as the city may reasonably require.
(2) By signing the application, the customer agrees to abide by the rules and regulations of the city in regards to the water system, which include this subchapter and any other successor ordinance related to the system. The application is merely a written request for service, and does not bind the city to serve the customer.
(D) Reapplication. Customers desiring a material change in the size, character, use or extent of equipment or amount of water used must reapply for service under this subchapter. (Ord. 2010-02, passed 06/14/2010; Ord. 2022-01, passed 06/13/2022)