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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974-22 08-15 AP L k Ir CITY OF BROOKLYN Cr - ER ORDINANCE NO._ AN ORDINANCE AMEi._.NG CHAPTER 4 BROOKLYN CENTER POST • THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY (A continuation of the Brooklyn Center Press) OF BROOKLYN CENTER DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1: Chapter 4 of the City AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION Ordinances is herc:3y amedned by the repeal of the follov.dng: (Section 4 -101. FUNCTION. There shall be established in the City of Brooklyn Center, a Division of Public Utilities, which shall maintain and STATE OF MINNESOTA operate sewer and water systems for SS. the City of Brooklyn Center.) COUNTY OF HENNEPIN (Section 4 -102. SUPERVISION. The Public Utilities Division shall be under the direct supervision of the Public Utili' Cuperintendent, who shall be dir6 responsible to the City Engir,.._r. The duties of the Public Utilities Superintendent shall be as E. C. L'Herault, being duly sworn, on oath says he is and during all the times herein stated has been the President of outlined in the job description for that The Post Publishing Co., publisher and printer of the newspaper known as position.) (Section 4 -103. PUBLIC UTILITIES BROOKLYN CENTER POST (A Continuation of Brooklyn Center Press) FUND. There shall be established and hasfull knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: within the City of Brooklyn Center (1) Said newspaper is printed in the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent accounting system a separate fund to in printed space to at least 900 square inches. (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at least once each be known as the Public Utilities Fund. week. (3) Said newspaper has 50 percent of its news columns, devoted to news of local interest to the community All monies collected by the Public which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other publication and is not made up entirely of patents, Utilities Division shall be deposited in plate matter and advertisements. (4) Said newspaper is circulated in and near the municipality which it purports this fund. Said fund shall be used to to serve, has at least 500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of at least 75 percent of its meet all the expenses for operation, total circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second -class matter in its maintenance, repair, plant expansion, local post- office. (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the and administration of the Division, including those charges due under CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER contract with the City of Minneapolis and the City of Crystal for use of the in the County of Hennepin and it has its known office of issue in the City of Crystal in said county, established and open sanitary sewage system of those during its regular business hours for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and municipalities. The accounting maintained by the managing officer of said newspaper or persons in its employ and subject to his direction and control procedure shall conform to the during all such regular hours and at which time said newspaper is printed. (6) Said newspaper files a copy of each recommendations of the Public issue immediately with the State Historical Society. (7) Said newspaper has complied with all the foregoing conditions Examiner of the State of Minnesota.) for at least two years preceding the day or dates of publication mentioned below. (8) Said newspaper has filed with (Section 4 -20). RATES, FEES, AND the Secretary of State of Minnesota prior to January 1, 1966 and each January 1 thereafter an affidavit in the form METER DEPOSITS. The City Council prescribed by the Secretary of State and signed by the managing officer of said newspaper and sworn to before a shall adopt by resolution a schedule of notary public stating that the newspaper is a legal newspaper. water and sanitary sewer rates, fees, and meter deposits which schedule ✓' 1 - shall be known as the Public Utilities He further states on oath that the printed . �: 4.. �.+ 1 f .�?<. J!sr.. ?. `. �' f N ! L r .. ...................... ......... ... Division Rate Schedule. The J • Superintendent of the Public Utilities r Division together with the City Ad- ....... ........................ ...................................................... ............................... ministrative Officer shall annually review said schedule and make recommendations to the Council for hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published therein in adjustments in the rates and other changes. Such recommendations to , J, the Council regarding rate adjustment the English language, once each week, for..,. ..successive weeks; that it was first so published on..:...',t. >,n. :r.: shall be based upon annual report of the operations operations of the Division, in- cluding an accounting of all monies or the.....:`.... day of:. r. i,4' %.'.. ... ........19......and wasthereafter printed and published on every ..................... revenue received and disbursed, together with a working budget estimate of the needs of the Division. A to and including the.......... day of .............. .......... 19 ...... and that the following is a printed copy of the certified copy of said schedule shall be on ' 'n the office of the Division wh may be examined.) lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the site and kind of type used in (S._.ion 4 -202. CHARGES AND _ METHODS OF PAYMENT, Charges for water service shall be based upon the composition and publication of said notice, to wit: the metered quantity of water which a property owner or occupant draws from the municipal system. The abcdefghijklmnopgrstuvwxy7 -5 pt. Sans property owner or occupant shall be responsible for reading his own meter, recording the meter reading on a postal card provided by the Public Utilities Division, and returning the postal card to the Division within the time limit specified on the card. Fail- ure to return a meter card to the Public Utilities Division within the specified time shall result in a penalty .......................................................... ............................... being imposed on the property owner or occupant as prescribed by the Coun- cil according to Section 4 -701 of this Subscribed and sworn to before ordinance. : The Public Utilities Superintendent me this.. % '/ . > shall determine the charges for water . ..... • ... • ... day of ` D 19....:. and sewer service for each individual j connection in accordance with the rate r C , schedule adopted by the City Council .....'*.°'_ .,,�..,:.c:e.. �. ......!.... ..� ...... .>= ... .c..L'. . CE-::' I. r� ............ ............................... and the Division shall bill each con - �' netted user of the water and sanitary sewer system. Uniform billing (NOTARIAL SEAL) procedures shall be established by the City Administrative Officer. The in- dividual accounts shall become due Notary Public .................. ............County, Minnesota immediately following billing. A penalty as prescribed by the Council according to Section 4 -701 of My Commission Expires ....... .......................19...... this ordinance shall be added to the next quarterly billing for any account unpaid One (1) month after the date of billing. An additional penalty shall be added for each subsequent quarter in which such account is unpaid. All charges which are delinquent one (1) 9y ,J • • • T •• y No. ................ Affidavit of Publication OF Published in BROOKLYN CENTER POST 5617 Corvallis Ave. N. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55429 DATE OF PUBLICATION ATTORNEY FILED BROOKLYN CENTER POST 1 •., 1 ZZ year or more on September 30 of each D. Whenever any premises are J. The application for or acceptance form of a special assessment. If an year and which have been properly connected to the municipal water of any connection to the City water assessment has not been paid or levied billed to the premises may be certified supply system there shall be a com- supply system by the owner or oc- against the premises, or in the event by the City Clerk to the County Auditor plete physical separation between the cupant of the premises shalt constitute there are deferred assessments levied bet- -+ the 151 and 10th day of Occ. municipal water supply system in authorization for any authorized em- against the premises, then the ap- lol each year. In certifying such such premises and any private water ployee of the Public Utilities Division plicant shall be required to: cho the City Clerk shall specify supply system so that it is impossible, to enter upon the premises for the 1. Pay the balance owing thereon, or the amount thereof, The description of either intentionally or unintentionally, purpose of reading meters, inspecting 2. Consent to the spreading of such the {remises served and the name and for any water produced by a private facilities related thereto, or any other charge against his property in the owner thereof. The amounts so cer. water supply system to be introduced purpose reasonably necessary for the form of a special assessment for a tified, together with the service into the municipal water supply. proper operation and maintenance period of not to exceed 20 years in charges and interest at the rate of six E. Before any water is drawn from a thereof.) equal annual installments with per cent (6) per annum, shall be ex- service pipe connected to the City (Section 4 -402. REGULATIONS interest payable at the rate of six tended by the County Auditor on the water Supply system, there shall be PERTAINING TO USE OF WATER. per cent (6) per annum on the un. tax rolls against such premises in the installed a water meter which will A. The City of Brooklyn Center paid balance. same manner as taxes and shall be accn •ly measure all of the water hereby reserves The right to limit the C. No sanitary service line between paid to the City Treasurer along with dr} om the system. The Public use of water from the City water the sewer main and the plumbing taxes:) Utii.. . Division reserves the right to supply and distribution system and to system of any dwelling or other ( Section 4 -30). SYSTEM DESIGN select a meter of the proper size based prescribe the conditions for any use. building to be served shall be con. AND CONSTRUCTION. The design upon the expected maximum flow 1. It shall be unlawful for any person structed until a plumber licensed by and construction of all parts of through the service pipe. A meter in the City of Brooklyn Center or any the City of Brooklyn Center, shall the water supply and distribution deposit will be required and shall be as person owning or occupying premises obtain a connection permit from the system and all sanitary sewer fines - prescribed in the Public Utilities Rate connected to the municipal water Protective Inspection Department by including pumping stations and all Schedule. I' tki water service is system to use or allow To be used paying the fees set forth in the Public other facilities for The collection of term; aced, an amount equal to the during a fire any water from said Utilities Division Rate Schedule. The sanitary sewage in The City of deposit sh;.Il oe returned to the municipal water system except for the permit fee shall be retained by the City Brooklyn Center shall be the purpose of extinguishing said fire, and General Fund as payment for in- responsibility of The City Engineer or depositor upon receipt of The meter. If it shall be the duty of every person to spection services. In constructing said the onsibi engineer employed by there unpaid bills due at the time of the see that all water services are tightly sanitary sewer service line the the con for that purpose. termination of service, the Public closed and that no water is used except plumber shall adhere to standards The design and construction shall Utilities Division shall be entitled to for necessary household purposes regarding location, size, grade, ly with the best engineering deduct the amount of such unpaid bills during said fire. materials and workmanship as comp comp with all federal and State from the deposit. 2. The City may discontinue service determined by the City Engineer. pr s, and regulations, with The All meters shall beset at the nearest to any customer of the water system After the sewer service connection has lav n5 Of any contract to which the practicable location To the point where without notice when necessary for been accomplished the plumber shall pirk City is a party, and with any the service pipe enters the building, repairs, and upon reasonable notice, notify the Protective Inspection and shall be set in such a manner as to the City may discontinue service for Department. It shall be unlawful to specifications applicable to the type of specifications construction adopted by the City of be easily accessible for reading, nonpayment of bills or for disregar- cover the sanitary sewer service line removal, and resetting. Whenever a ding the rules and regulations per- until an inspection has been com- Brooklyn Center. physical condition exists that prevents taining to the operations of the water pleted to insure that a proper and City Upon co complmpl shall certify said on of construction, the the convenient reading, removal or distribution system. Whenever service suitable connection has been made. completion to The Public Utilities resetting of a water meter, the current has been discontinued for nonpayment D. The cost of installing the sanitary Division and shall prepare and owner of the property shall be mailed of bills or disregarding regulations, it a notice requiring him to correct the sewer service line between the maintain a complete set of plans and q shall not be resumed except upon condition within 30 days. payment of outstanding bills and in- building and main service stub shall maps of the work as constructed. No F. The water meters installed under terest thereon at the rate of 6 per cent, be borne wholly by the property connection to that portion of the water the provisions of this ordinance shall full compliance with the regulations, owner. After the initial connection to distribution system or to the sanitary remain the property of the City and and the payment to the Public Utilities the main service stub, the property sewer system so affected shall be shall be repaired by the Public Division of a fee for restoring service owner shall thereafter be liable for all permitted until such certification has Utilities Division from time to time as as prescribed in the Public Utilities maintenance and repairs to his sewer been made.) may be necessary, provided, however, Division Rate Schedule. The City or service line between the street main WATER DIVISION and the building being served. that whenever a water meter is the Public Utilities Division shall not ( Section 4 -401. WATER CON- damaged through negligence of the be liable for any damage to persons or E. The existing contracts between N E C T I O N PROCEDURES, property owner or his agent, the owner property caused to whole the City of Brooklyn Center and the REGULATIONS AND CONDITIONS. of the premises or such other persons the discontinuance of water in part by r service.) Cities M Minneapolis and Crystal are A. Any property owner desiring a desiring water shall reimburse the ( Section 4 -403. GENERAL hereby made a part of this ordinance permit to connect a dwelling or other Public Utilities Division for the ex- REGULATIONS. insofar as the same relate to the building to the public water system of pense of repairing any such meter. A. It shall be unlawful for any person proper use of The sanitary sewer the City of Brooklyn Center shall apply G. Any person, firm or corporation system and any use deemed improper therefor on a form provided b the Po to tamper with, use, alter, or damage in said contracts shall be considered fire supply pipes, private fire street valIves ves without a uthority from � Public Utilities Division. Said ap- desiring to connect fire stand pipes, any fire i, curb valve box unlawful. Upon continued violation the a plications shall include an exact hydrants, or fire sprinkling pipes to the Public Utilities Div any part Of is(on. Any City Council may cause the offending person who shall damage description of the property to be the City water system in such a premises To be disconnected at the served, the uses for which water manner that the water supplied tosaid the municipal water supply system Property owner's expense. service is requested, both general and fire system would not be metered shall including any valve or hydrant shall F. The sanitary sewer rates for all special, and The size service required. make applications t0 the Public be liable for such damages. premises which are connected to the B. The special assessment records Utilities Division. Where such per- B, It shal I be unlawful for any person municipal water system, other than of the premises shall be examined to mission is granted, no other use is to to tamper with, alter, bypass, or in any single and multiple family dwellings, - determine if an assessment for the full be made of the water taken from the manner whatsoever interfere with the shall be based upon metered winter cost of the water distribution lines and system by such a connection. A proper use and fuctioning of any water water consumption. The Council a pro rata share of the water supply detector check valve type meter or meter which has been installed. reserves the right to require that any system (including welts, tanks, etc.) other device approved by the National C. It shall be unlawful for any person connected property owner other than has been paid or levied against the Board of Fire Underwriters shall be to plant any tree, shrub, or bush within single ant multiple family shall in- premises in the form of a special installed at or near the place of con- 8 feet of any fire hydrant or to place or stall, at the property owner's expense, assessment. If an assessment has not nection to the water service pipe, erect any object which would hide or a water meter on a private water been paid or spread against the except for the case of private fire obscure such a hydrant and prevent it supply.) premises, then the applicant shall be hydrants. An annual fee as prescribed from being seen from the street.) ( Section 4 -503. RESTRICTIONS required to: in the Public Utilities Division Rate 1. Pay the balance owing thereon; or Schedule shall be paid and annual SEWER DIVISION AND REGULATIONS UPON USE OF 2. Consent to the spreading of such inspections shall be made. (Section 4 - SEWER CON- THE SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM. charge against his property in the H. The cost of install; NECTtO REQUIRED. Every A. The City Council reserves the installing all water I of a special assessment for a supply welling, building other structure to right t0 regulate the disposal Of any of not to exceed 20 ears in fixtures, Y Plumbing units, including Which plumbing e or is to be in- waste through the sanitary sewer Y outlets, valves and the supply stalled shall be connected with The City system both in quantity and character. (:,--# annual installments with lines between the building and the sanitary sewer system whenever such 1. No person shall discharge or interest payable at the rate of six curb stop shall be borne wholly by the system is provided in the street upon cause to be discharged any storm per cent (6) per annum on the un- property owner and such lumbin Paid balance. P g which such building, dwelling or other water, surface water, ground water, shall be subject To reasonable in- structure fronts or is adjacent thereto. roof runoff, subsurface drainage, C. No water service line between the spections by the Protective Inspection Such connection shall be made within cooling water, or unpolluted industrial curb stop and the plumbing system of Department. After the initial con - one year after September 26, 1960, and process waters to any sanitary sewer. any dwelling or other building to be nection to the curb stop, The property thereafter continued. If no sewer 2. Storm water and all other un- served shall be constructed until a owner shall thereafter be liable for all system was available as of September polluted drainage shall be discharged plumber, licensed by the City of repairs or grade adjustments To his 26, 1960, then such connection shall be to such sewers as are specifically Brooklyn Center, shall obtain a con- water service line between the street nection permit from The Protective made within one year after such designed storm sewers, a Inspection Department and a meter main and the building being served. sanitary sewer system is t made natural outlet approved by the City City or from the Public Utilities Division Rate The Public Utilities Division available and accepted by the City Council. Industrial cooling waters Schedule. The Superintendent shall determine when Council.) unpolluted process waters be s may be permit fee shall be such repairs or grade adjustments are (Section 4 -502. SANITARY SEWER discharged upon approval of the City retained by the City General Fund as necessary. The Superintendent shall CONNECTION PROCEDURES, Council to a storm sewer, or natural payment for inspection services. In give written notice to the property REGULATIONS AND CONDITIONS. outlet. constructing said water service line owner of the necessit the plumber shall adhere to standards Y for repairs or A. Any property owner desiring 3. Except all hereinafter provided, atljustmenisandiheTimewithi n which permit to connect a dwelling or other no person shall discharge or cause to regarding location, size, grade, they must be completed. building to the sanitary sewer system be discharged any of the following materials, and workmanship as I. Every person applying for water determined by the City Engineer. of the City of Brooklyn Center shall waters or wastes To any public sewer: After the water service line has been service and every owner of property apply therefor on form provided by a. Any liquid or vapor having a connected to the curb stop and the for which such application made the Public Utilities s Division. temperature higher than 150 meter installed, the plumber shall shall be deemed such application t0 B. The special assessment records degrees F. notify the Protective Inspection consent To all rules, s, regulations, and of The premises shall be examined b. Any water or waste which may Department. It shall be unlawful to rates set forth in this ordinance and determine if an assessment t for for the full ll contain more than 100 parts per cover the water service line until an such further rules and regulations as cost of furnishing sanitary sewer million by weight, of fat, oil, or may from time to time be adopted by service to the premises has been paid grease. inspection has been completed to the City Council consistent with this or levied against the premises in the insure that a proper and suitable ordinance. connection has been made. c. Any gasoline, benzene, naptha, fuel suitable samples taken at the control Water and sewer accounts shall be easily accessible for realing oil, or other flammable or explosive manhole. In the event that no special become due immediately following removal and resetting as determined liquid, solid, or gas. manhole has been required, the billing and shall be considered as an by the Superintendent of the Public d. Any garbage that has not been control manhole shall be considered to obligation of the respective property. Utilities Division. properly shredded. be the nearest downstream manhole in A service charge as prescribed by the hubdivision 6. Meter Ownership and 4 e. Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, the public sewer to which the building adopted rate schedule shall be added Maintenance. The water meter shall straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, sewer is connected. to the next billing on any account be purchased by the owner of the feathers, tar, plasters, paunch B. No statement contained in this unpaid one month after the date of premises from the Public Utilities manure, or any other solid or ordinance shall be construed as billing- An additional service charge Division at a price established in the viscous substance capable of preventing any special agreement or shall be added for each subsequent Public Utilities Rate Schedule. When a causing obstruction of the flow in arrangement between the City and billing period in which such account, customer sells his property, the Public sewers or other interference with any industrial concern whereby an including accumulated service Utilities Division shall repurchase the the proper operation of the sewage industrial waste of unusual strength or charges remains delinquent. All meter from the customer at the price works. character may be accepted by the City charges which are delinquent on July which the customer purchased the f. Any waters or wastes having a PH subject to designated restrictions or of each year and which have been meter. If the account is unpaid at the lower than 5.5 or higher than 9.0 or conditions.) properly billed to the premises may be time the customer sells his property or having any other corrosive (Section 4 -601. VALIDITY. If any certified by the City Clerk to the otherwise terminates water service, property capable of causing section, subsection, clause, or phrase County Auditor prior to the 10th day of the Public Utilities Division shall damage or hazard to pipe, struc- of this ordinance is held for any reason October of each year for collection deduct the amount of such unpaid lures, equipment or personnel of the to be invalid, such decision shall not from the property owner. The amounts account from the repurchase price of sewage works. affect the remaining portion of this so certified, including service charges the meter. g. Any water or wastes containing a ordinance.) and interest at the annual rate of 8 The Public Utilities Division shall be toxic or poisonous substance in (Section 4 -701. PENALTIES. percent commencing from date of responsible to maintain and repair all sufficient quantity to injure or in- A. Any person who violates any initial delinquency, shall be extended water meters in the system as may be terfere with any sewage treatment provisions of this ordinance or of any by the County Auditor on the tax rolls necessary. However; the cost of plant. regulation adopted hereunder shall be against premises in the same manner repairing water meters damaged h. Any water or wastes containing guilty of a misdemeanor and upon as special assessments and shall be through negligence of a property s suspended solids of such character conviction shall be punished by a fine paid to the City along with tax owner, his tenant, or his agent shall be and quantity that unusual attention of not more than three hundred dollars revenues. charged to the owner of the meter. The or expense is required to handle (5300) and by imprisonment not to Section 4 -201. WATER CON- Public Utilities Division shall replace such material at the sewage exceed ninety (90) days. The im- NECTION PROCEDURES AND or repair meters found to be worn or treatment plant. position of one penalty for any REGULATIONS. defective and the customer shall af. i. Any noxious or malodourous gas or violation of this ordinance shall not Subdivision 1. Permit Application. ford entry at reasonable times for such substance capable of creating a excuse the violation or permit it to Any property owner desiring a permit replacement or repair. public nuisance. continue. Violations shall be corrected to connect a dwelling or other building Subdivision 7. Service Line 4. Grease, oil, and sand interceptors or remedied within a reasonable time, to the public water system of the City Responsibility. The cost of installing shall be provided when deemed and when not otherwise specified, of Brooklyn Center shall apply all water supply plumbing units, in- necessary by the City for the properr each day during which violations exist therefor, through a licensed plumber, cluding fixtures, outlets, valves, and handling of liquid wastes containing shall constitute a separate offense. at the City Department of Planning the supply lines between the building grease in excessive amounts or any B. A penalty of $l shall be imposed and Inspection. and the curb stop, shall be borne flammable wastes, sand, and other on delinquent accounts for each Subdivision 2. Special Assessment wholly by the property owner and such harmful ingredients, except that such quarter in which an account is unpaid. Review. The special assessment plumbing shall be subject to interceptors shall not be required for C. A penalty of 50 cents shall be records of the premises shall be reasonable inspections by private living quarters or dwelling imposed upon an account for failure to examined to determine if an representatives of the City Depart- units. return a completed meter reading assessment for the full cost of the ment of Planning and Inspection. All such interceptors shall be of a card to the Public Utilities Division water supply lines and a pro rata After the initial connection to the curb type and capacity approved by the within the time limit specified on the share of the water supply system has stop, the property owner shall City Engineer, and sahlI be located as card.) been paid or levied against the thereafter be liable for all repair or to be readily and easily accessible for Section 2: Chapter 4 of the City premises in the form of a special grade adjustments to his water ser- . cleaning and inspection.; Ordinances is hereby amended by the assessment. If an assessment has not vice line between the street main and Grease and oil interceptors shall be addition of the following: constructed of impervious materials AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR been paid or spread against the the building being served. The Public applicant shall be Utilities Division Superintendent shall capable of withstanding abrupt and A PUBLIC UTILITIES DIVISION OF Premises, then the ll extreme changes in temperature. THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPART- required to: have final authority in determining They a• Pay the balance owing thereon; or when such repairs or grade ad- shall be of Substantial con- MEET OF BROOKLYN CENTER They ion, b. Consent to the spreading of such justments are necessary. The with ruction, watertight, and equipped easily removable covers which, AND PROVIDING FOR THE AO- charge against his property, in the Superintendent shall give written when bolted in lace, shall be gastight MINISTRATION, OPERATION, AND form of a special assessment fora notice to the property owner of the p g period of not to exceed 20 years in necessity for repairs or adjustments ° and Watertight. When required all REGULATION THEREOF equal annual principal installments and the time within which they must grease, oil and sand interceptors shall Section the C FUNCTION. There with interest payable at the special be completed. be installed and maintained u the shall Public in the City v Brooklyn Center assessment interest rate Subdivision 8 -Fire Connections. Any owner, at his expense, in continuously a Public Utilities Division o1 the Public established by the City Council. person, firm, or corporation desiring efficient operation at all times. Works Department, which shall Subdivision 3. Connection to connect fire stand pipes, fire supply 5. The admission into the public maintain and operate the sewer and Requirements. No water service line sewers of any water or wastes having water system of Brooklyn Center. between the curb stop and the pipes, private fire hydrants, M fire the following characteristics shall be Section 4 -102. MANAGEMENT. The plumbing system of any dwelling or sprinkling pipes to the City water subject to the review and approval of City Manager shall be responsible for other building be served shall be system in such a manner that f the City Engineer. the management of the Public Utilities a. A 5 -day Biochemical Oxygen Division. Operations shall be super- constructed until it a licensed plumber water supplied to said fire system is Demand greater than 300 parts per vised by a Public Utilities Superm- has obtained a connection perm not required to be metered, shall make it from million by weight, or tendent, who shall be directly the Planning and Inspection Depart- application to the Planning and In- per million b responsible to the City Public Works ment and a water meter from the spection Department. Where aunt b. More than 350 parts p y Po Public Utilities Division. The adopted application is granted, water shall not weight of suspended solids, or D permit fee shall be paid to the City be drawn for any purpose other than c. Having an average daily flow Section 4 -103. PUBLIC UTILITIES General Fund as payment for in- fire suppression. A defector check greater than 2 percent of the FUND. There shall be maintained spection services. In constructing valve type meter or other device average daily sewage flow of the within the City accounting system a water service lines plumbers shall approved by the Superintendent of the City. separate fund to be known as the adhere to standards regarding Public Utilities Division shall be in- 6: Plans, specifications, and any Public Utilities Fund. All monies location, size, grade, materials and stalled at or near the place of con - other pertinent information relating to collected by the Public Utilities workmanship as determined by the nection to the water service pipe, proposed preliminary treatment Division shall be deposited in such Public Works Director. It shall be except for the case of private fire facilities shall be submitted for the fund. Such fund shall be used to meet unlawful to cover the water service hydrants. An annual fee shall be paid approval of the City Engineer and of all the expenses for operation, line until inspected by a represen- as prescribed in the adopted rate the Water Pollution Control Com- maintenance, repair, plant expansion, tative of the Planning and Inspection schedule and annual inspections shall mission of the State of Minnesota, and and administration of the Public Department. A water meter shall be be made of the connection. no construction of such facilities shall Utilities Division. be commenced until said approvals Section 4 -104. RATES, FEES, AND installed prior to connecting the water Subdivision t Acceptance e or are obtained in writing. CHARGES. The City Council shall service line to the premises' system Every property owner receiving or treatment adopt by resolution schedules of water Where preliminary for consumption by the customer. applying for water service from the Subdivision 4. Separation of Sup- municipal system shall be deemed by facilities are provided for any waters and sanitary sewer rates, fees, and plies Whenever any premises are such receipt or application as con - or wastes they shall be continuously charges which schedules shall be connected to the municipal water senting to all rules, regulations, and maintained in satisfactory and ef- known as the Public Utilities Rate supply system there shall be a com- rates relating to the Public Utilitie fective operation, by The owner at his Schedules. expense. Section 4 -105. CHARGE plete physical separation between the Division and such rules, regulation: 7. The owner of any property served PROCEDURES. The City Manager municipal water supply system in and rates as may from time to time be by a building sewer carrying in- shall establish procedures for such premises and any private water established by duly constituted supply system so that it is impossible, authority. dustrial waste may be required to determining and collecting customer either intentionally or unintentionally Every person authorized to perform install a suitable control manhole in charges consistent with the adopted for any water produced by a private work on the municcpal water system the building sewer to facilitate ob- rate schedules. water supply system service line n nervatios Suc Band me le, m to be mixed with or on the property o w ment Charges for water service shall De the municipal water supply, or on the property owner's plumbing of wastes. Such manhole, when based upon a metered quantity of S Meter Installation system shall be deemed by such required, shall be accessibly and water which a property owner or Requirements. Unless otherwise authorization as consentingtoallrules safely located, and shall be con- occupant draws from the municipal authorized by the Public Works and regulations relative to the Public strutted in accordance with plans system. The property owner or oc- Director, no water shall be drawn Utilities Division. approved by the City Engineer. The cupant shall be responsible for reading The application for or continued use manhole shall be installed by the his own meter, recording the meter from the municipal water supply owner at his expense, and shall be reading on a postal card provided by system until a water meter has of any connection to the City water been obtained from the Public Utilities supply system by the owner or oc- maintained by him so as to be safe and the Public Utilities Division, and Division and installed to accurately cupant of a premise shall constitute accessible at all times. returning the postal card to the measure all of the water drawn from authorization for any authorized a. All measurements, tests, and Division within the time limit specified the system. The Public Utilities employee of the Public Utilities analysis of the characteristics Of on the card. Failure to return a meter Division shall reserve the right to Division to enter upon the premises for waters and wastes to which reference card to the Public Utilities Division select a meter of the proper size based the purpose of reading meters, fin- is made in subsections 3 and 5 shall be within the specified time shall result in select expected maximum flow spatting facilities related thereto, or determined according to methods a service charge as prescribed by the any other purpose reasonably employed by the Minnesota Depart- adopted rate schedule. through the service pipe. All meters shall n set the nearest necessary for the proper operation and ment of Health, and shall be deter- mined at the control manhole or from practicable location to the a point where maintenance of the meter and service the service pipe enters the building line. and shall be set in such a manner as to - I Ll - ZZ Section 4 -202. CONDITIONS OF Section 4.302. SANITARY SEWER USE. The City of Brooklyn Center CONNECTION PROCEDURES AND hereby reserves the right to limit the REGULATIONS. use of water from the City water Subdivision 1. Permit Application. supply and distribution system and to Any property owner desiring a permit prescribe emergency conditions for to connect a dwelling or other building use of water. to the sanitary sewer system of the The Public Utilities Division may City of Brooklyn Center shall apply discontinue service to any customer of therefor, through a licensed plumber, the water system without notice when at the City Department of Planning necessary for repairs. Upon and Inspection. I Subdivision 2. Disconnection reasonable notice, service may be Subdivision 2. Special Assessment Requirements. No sanitary service discontinued for non - payment of in- Review. The special assessment line between the sewer main and the dividual accounts or for disregard of records of the premises shall be waste system of any dwelling or other duly established rules and regulations examined to determine if an building shall be disconnected until a pertaining to the operations of the assessment for the full cost of fur. licensed plumber has obtained a water distribution system. Whenever nishing sanitary sewer service to the disconnection permit from the service is discontinued for non- premises has been paid or levied Planning and Inspection Department. payment of accounts or disregarding against the premises in the form of a The adopted permit fee shall be paid to duly established rules and regulations, special assessment. If an assessment the City General Fund as payment for such service shall not be resumed has not been paid or levied against the inspection services. in disconnecting except upon payment of outstanding premises, or in the event there are said sanitary sewer service line the bills, full compliance with duly deferred assessments levied against plumber shall adhere to standards of established rules and regulations, and the premises, then the applicant shall workmanship and disconnection the payment to the Public Utilities be required to: procedures as determined by the Division of a service restoration a. Pay the balance owing thereon; or Public Works Director. it shall be charge as prescribed by the adopted b. Consent to the spreading of such unlawful to cover the disconnection rate schedule. The City of Brooklyn charge against his property in the work until inspected by a represen- Center or the Public Utilities Division form of a special assessment for a tative of the Planning and Inspection shall not be liable for any damage to period of not to exceed 20 Years in Department. persons or property caused in whole or Section 4 -401. SEPARABILITY AND in part by the discontinuance of water equal annual principal installments VALIDITY. Every section, provision, service. with interest payable at the special or part of this ordinance is declared Section 4.203. GENERAL assessment interest rate separable from every other section, REGULATIONS. established by the City Council. provision, or part to the extent that if Subdivision 1. It shall be unlawful Subdivision 3. Connection any section, provision or part of the for any person to tamper with, use, Requirements. No sanitary service ordinance shalt be held invalid, it shall alter, or damage any fire hydrant, line between the sewer main and the not invalidate any other section, curb, or valve box, or street valves waste system of any dwelling or other provision, or part thereof. except through authority from the building to be served shall be con- Section 4.501. PENALTIES. Public Utilities Division. Any person strutted until a licensed plumber has Whoever does any act or omits to do who shall damage any part of the obtained a connection permit from the any act which constitutes a breach of municipal water supply system, in- Planning and Inspection Department. any section of this chapter shall, upon cluding any valve or hydrant, shall be The adopted permit fee shall be paid to conviction thereof by lawful authority, liable for such damages. the City General Fund as payment for Subdivision 2. It shall be unlawful to inspection services. In constructing be punished by o fine not t exceed three hundred dollars ) exceed and by connect a premise to the municipal said sanitary sewer service line, the lumber shall adhere to standards imprisonment not to exceed ninety water supply unless an approved P (90) days. water meter purchased from the regarding location, size, grade, Section 3: This ordinance shall Public Utilities Division is installed. It materials and workmanship as become effective after adopfion and shall be unlawful for any non- determined by the Public Works upon thirty (30) days following its authorized person to tamper with, Director. It shall be unlawful to cover legal alter, bypass, or in any manner the sanitary sewer service line until an dopted s t �� whatsoever interfere with the proper inspection has been completed to day of .... ......., 19 "' use and functioning of an approved insure that a proper and suitable - water meter which has been installed, connection has been made. Mayor Subdivision 3. It shall be unlawful Subdivision 4. Service Line ATTEST:' for any person to plant any tree, shrub, Responsibility. The cost of installing Clerk or bush within eight feet of any fire the sanitary sewer service line bet- Published in theofficial newspaper ... hydrant or to place or erect any obiect ween the building and the main ser- Effective date which would hide or obscure such fire vice stub shall be borne wholly by the property owner. After the initial con- (Parentheses indicate matter to be hydrant and prevent it from being nection to the main service stub the deleted, boldface indicates new seen from the street. matter.) Section 4 -204. WATER DISCON- property owner shall thereafter be NECTION PROCEDURES AND liable for all maintenance and repairs (Published in The Brooklyn Center REGULATIONS. to his sewer service line between the Post Aug. 15, 1974.) Subdivision 1. Permit Application. street main and the building being Any property owner required by City served. The City shall reserve the authority to disconnect a dwelling or right, upon determination of the other building from the public water Public Works Director, to require that system of the City of Brooklyn Center the owner of any connected premise shall secure a permit therefor, other than single and multiple family through a licensed plumber, at the dwellings shall install, at the property City Department of Planning and owner's expense, a water meter on a Inspection. respective private water supply. Subdivision 2. Disconnection Section 4 -303. CONDITIONS OF Requirements. No water service line USE. The Public Utilities Division between the curb stop and the shall regulate the discharge of waste plumbing system of any dwelling or through the sanitary sewer system other building, shall be disconnected pursuant to standards established by until a licensed plumber has obtained the State of Minnesota, the a disconnection permit from the City Metropolitan Sewer Board, and the Planning and Inspection Department. Brooklyn Center Public utilities The adopted permit fee shall be paid to Division. The City General Fund as payment No person shall discharge or cause for inspection services. The discon- to be discharged any storm water, nection procedure shall include surface water, ground water, roof run - disconnection of the water meter and off, subsurface drainage, cooling delivery thereof to the Public Utilities water, or unpolluted industrial process Division. In disconnecting water waters to any sanitary sewer. service lines plumbers shall adhere to Storm water and unpolluted standards of workmanship and drainage shall be discharged to such disconnection procedures as deter- sewers as are specifically designed as mined by the Public Works Director. It storm sewers or to a natural drainage shall be unlawful to cover the outlet. Unpolluted industrial cooling disconnection at the City water supply waters or unpolluted process waters line until inspected by a represen- may be discharged upon approval of tative of the Planning and Inspection the Public Works Director to a storm Department. sewer or natural drainage outlet. Section 4 -301. CONNECTIONS TO Section 4 -304. SANITARY SEWER SEWER REQUIRED. Every dwelling, DISCONNECTION PROCEDURES building or other structure in which AND REGULATIONS. plumbing exists or is to be installed Subdivision 1. Permit Application. shall be connected with the City Any property owner required by City sanitary sewer system whenever such authority to disconnect a dwelling or system is available as determined by other building from the sanitary sewer the Director of Public Works. Con- system of the City of Brooklyn Center nections shall be made within one year shall secure a permit therefor, after the City sanitary sewer system is through a licensed plumber, at the made available. City Department of Planning and Inspection.