HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 11/13 Regulating storm sewer connections
ORDINANCE NO. 11/13
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF UNIVERSITY PARK, TEXAS, AMENDING
CHAPTER 13 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES BY AMENDING SECTION 13.04.066 (c)
REGULATING CONNECTIONS TO THE PUBLIC SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM AND
THE STORM SEWER SYSTEM; AUTHORIZING INSPECTIONS; REQUIRING
DISCONNECTION OF ILLICIT CONNECTIONS; PROVIDING FOR NOTICE AND
OPPORTUNITY TO DISCONNECT; AUTHORIZING DISCONNECTION FROM
WATER SUPPLY; AUTHORIZING CITY TO PERFORM WORK AND CLAIM LIEN ON
PROPERTY; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A REPEALING
CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY OF FINE NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($500.00) FOR EACH OFFENSE; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF UNIVERSITY
PARK, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 13, "Utilities & Solid Waste", of the Code of Ordinances of the City
of University Park is amended in part by amending Section 13.04.066 (c) (3) as follows:
"Sec. 13.04.066
( c) Administration
(3) The owner of property suspected to have an illicit connection or cross-connection
("connection") to the City's public water supply system or to the sanitary or storm sewer
system is maintaining a public nuisance and shall allow the property to be inspected by a
duly authorized City inspector upon due notice and at a reasonable time. If there is a
permitted connection present, the owner shall follow all ordinances and regulations of the
City with regard thereto. If the City's inspector determines that there is an illicit
connection present on the property:
1. The inspector shall prepare and hand deliver or mail to the owner by certified mail, return
receipt requested, a written notice to remove or remedy the illicit connection within fifteen
(15) days from the date of the notice;
ii. If the owner fails to comply with the notice, the department will inform the owner by letter
that the water service to the owner's preIjises will be terminated within five (5) days of
the date of the letter, provided such time may be extended as provided in section
13.04.067 (d) below;
iii.In the alternative, if the owner fails to correct the illicit connection within the time
permitted by the inspector, the City or its contractor may go on the premises, do the work
or make the improvements necessary to correct the illicit connection and eliminate the
public nuisance, pay for the work done or improvements made and charge the expenses to
the owner of the property. If, after due notice, the charges are not paid by the owner,
notice shall be given in writing to the owner and all lien holders of record that a Statement
of Expenses will be prepared in a form of lien claim allowing it to be recorded in the Real
Property Records of Dallas County, Texas, signed by the Director of Public Works on
behalf of the City and filed if the expenses are not paid in full within ten (10) days after
the date of the notice. The filing of the statement of expenses and the lien for collection of
the expenses shall be handled in the same manner as provided in Sections 6.05.004 and
6.05.005 of this Code of Ordinances."
SECTION 2. Should any sentence, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase or section of this
ordinance be adjudged or held to be unconstitutional, illegal, or invalid, the same shall not affect the
validity of this ordinance as a whole, or any part or provision thereof, other than the part so declared
to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid.
SECTION 3. That all ordinances in conflict with this ordinance or the Code of Ordinances
as amended hereby are repealed.
SECTION 4. That any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions or terms
of this ordinance as amended hereby shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a
penalty as provided for in this ordinance, and upon conviction shall be punished by fine not to
exceed the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense, and each and every day such
violation shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its passage as the
law in such cases provides.
DUL Y PASSED by the City Council of the City of University Park, Texas, on the 19th day
ofJuly 2011.
APPROVED:
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W. RICHARD DAVIS, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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CITY ATTORNEY .
(RLD; 6/22/11; 49901)
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