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3 Samples:
Sample Ordinances – Connection to City Water Supply
System/Private Wells
Sample 1
Ordinance No. _____
AN ORDINANCE ENACTING POLICY FOR CONNECTION TO
THE CITY WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM
The City Council of the City of ___________,
Minnesota, hereby ordains:
SECTION 1: Unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise, the following words and terms shall have the meaning set forth below:
A. Person shall mean any natural person, or partnership, or association, private
or public corporation. B. Private water supply system shall mean a system owned
and operated by a person for collection and delivery of piped water for human
consumption into commercial, industrial, or residential buildings or structures.
C. Public water and supply system shall mean the City of _________ water supply
system.
SECTION 2. No person shall build, establish, expand or maintain a private
water supply system within the City of __________ unless there shall be no
public water supply system within one-hundred (100) feet from the point on
property of such person which is nearest the public water supply system. SECTION
3. This Ordinance shall be effective ________ (date). Any private water supply
system which is in place and operational as of that date shall not be subject to
this Ordinance. SECTION 4. Any person who shall have applied to the appropriate
state agencies for permits to build and establish a private water supply system
by _________ (date) shall not be subject to this Ordinance for the water system
so applied for provided: a) Such person diligently pursues such application; and
b) Such person commences construction of such system within ninety (90) days
after obtaining such permits. SECTION 5. Each day any person is in violation of
this Ordinance shall constitute a separate offense. SECTION 6. Any violation of
this Ordinance shall constitute a misdemeanor.
Duly adopted by the City Council of the City of __________ this _____ (date).
BY: __________ ATTEST: ___________
_____________________________________
Sample 2
ORDINANCE NO. _____: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY OF ______ CITY CODE BY
AMENDMENT TO SECTION _______ CONNECTIONS WITH WATER REQUIRED:
The City Council of the City of ________ ordains: Section 1a shall be added,
Connections with Water Required. Section ____ of the City of ______ City Code is
amended by adding the following: Section _______. Any buildings used for human
habitation or for human occupancy, including all business buildings, unless
specifically exempted by the Council on the grounds that no human beings occupy
or use such buildings and no human needs are generated therein, located on
property adjacent to a water main, or in a block through which the water
extends, shall be required to petition for water service and to connect thereto
when their present on-site water system fails. The owner of such property shall
pay all assessments for water in accordance with the City of _______ assessment
policies. No permits will be granted for reconstruction of existing on-site
systems when City water service is available to such property. Agricultural
buildings hereafter constructed within the City on property adjacent to a water
main or in a block through which the water system extends, shall be provided
with a connection to the municipal water system for all human needs. If sewer
service is also available to that property, a petition for and a connection to
the sewer system shall also be required and the owner of such property shall pay
all assessments in accordance with the City of ________ assessment policies.
Save as above amended, said City Code shall stand as initially passed and as
previously amended. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its passage and publication according to the City Charter. Passed by the
Council of the City of ________ this ________ (date).
By ______ ATTEST ________
____________________________________________
Sample 3
ORDINANCE NO. ____ AMENDING _________ CITY CODE CHAPTER __ BY REQUIRING ALL
CITY BUILDINGS AND RESIDENCES TO BE CONNECTED TO THE MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM AND
PROHIBITING THE USE OF PRIVATE WATER SUPPLIES AND WELLS
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Mayor and City Council of the City of _______, County
of _______, Minnesota as follows: Section 1. ______City Code Chapter __ shall be
amended by adding thereto Section ____, which reads as follows: ____. Where the
municipal water system is available to any parcel of property within the City of
_______, the owner of such parcel of property shall make connection to the
municipal water system within ninety (90) days after written notice of said
availability has been served on the owner or occupant of the property. Where a
parcel of property in the City of ________ has connected to the municipal water
system or where the municipal water system is available to a parcel of property,
no owner or occupant of the said property or any other person shall construct or
make use of any private water supply or well on said property, except for such
purposes as may be allowed by the ____ City Council. Section 2. Any person
convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 3. This Ordinance shall become effective from
and after its publication. PASSED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
_________, MINNESOTA THIS _________ (DATE).
BY _______ ATTEST _______
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