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Samples
of Mandatory Connection to Municipal Water System/Private Wells Ordinance
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:
- Person shall mean any natural person, or partnership, or
association, private or public corporation.
- 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.
- 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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