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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED
"AN ORD INANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF AN ORDINANCE
ENTITLED: 'AN ORDINANCE TO REVISE AN O'R.DINANCE
ENTITLED: AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGU-
LATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE WATER WORKS SYSTEM
OF THE VILLAGE OF MOUNT PROSPECT, AND ESTABLISHING
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF WATER
CONSUMERS AND OTHERS, AND REGULATING CONNECTIONS
WITH SAID SYSTEM AND ESTABLISHING RATES AND CHARGES
AND LICENSE FEES FOR PLUMBERS.'"
BE IT OF.DAINED by the President and Board of Trustees
of the Village of Mount Prospect, County of Cook and State of
Illinois:
Section 1. That Section 1 of an ordinance entitled
"An Ordinance to revise an ordinance entitled: An ordinance
providing for the regulation and management of the water works
system of the Village of Mount Prospect, and establishing rules
and regulations for the government of water consumers and others,
and regulating connections with said system and establishing
rates and charges and license fees for plumbers" be and the same
is hereby amended so that the same shall be and read as follows:
SECTION 1. A deposit of Five Dollars ($5.00) shall be
required upon original application for meter, or original appli-
cation for service where meter has been previously installed.
No servioe is to be granted or water turned on until a deposit
shall have been paid to the Water Collector. This deposit to
be refundable under the following oondi tions:
A. Upon request for terminat10n of servioe, exoept
in oases where there is an unpaid amount, in
which event that amount is deductible from the
deposit when less or applied when in exoess.
B. To all property owners after one year from date
of deposit who have not been delinquent in water
payments during said year and who shall present
to the Water Colleotor satisfactory evidence of
ownership of building for which applioation for
water was made.
C. To all other applicants after five years from date
of deposit who have not been delinquent in payment
of water bills during said five years.
Refunds upon request for termination of servioe shall be made
direotly by the Water Colleotor. In all other oases the pay-
ment of refunds shall be made only after the Water Colleotor
has obtained the approval of the President of the Board of
Trustees and the Chairman of the 1~ater Committee.
That all oonsumers of water furnished by the Village
of Mount Prospeot shall P~l for same aooording to the following
rates and oharges, where meters oan be permanently set:
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5,000 gallons
5,000 gallons
10,000 gallons
10,000 gallons
10,000 gallons
10,000 gallons
10,000 gallons
10,000 gallons
10,000 gallons
10,000 gallons
10,000 gallons
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The foregoing rates are to be for water consumed during
the period of three months, or fraction thereof, for each in-
dividual oonsumer and in no case shall the oharge be less than
One Dollar and Fifty Cents ($1.50) per quarter or fraction thereof.
Special rates may be fixed by the Board of Trustees for amounts
over one hundred thousand gallons (100,000) per quarter.
In the event any meter fails to register properly, the
Water Colleotor shall make an estimate of the water used during
the period of such failure based upon the average quantity
registered by suoh meter during the preoeding like periods. No
allowance shall be made for leakage.
All water rates, assessments and rents shall be due and
payable on the First day of January, April, July and Ootober, of
each year, for the quarter preceding. If the entire amount so
due is not paid within twenty days after the same is due, the
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Collector shall at once order the water shut off and meter
taken out of the premises of the person so delinquent and the
water shall not be turned on again until all past due rents,
together with a charge of Two Dollars ($2.00) for Shutting off
and turning on the water and resetting the meter are paid.
Where the meter is not removed, the consumer shall pay the
regular minimum rate of One Dollar and Fifty Cents ($1.50)
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per quarter.
All water used for which rates and methods of measure-
ments are not specifically provided for by any ordinance shall
be estimated by the Superintendent of i~ater Works or such officer
as may be designated by the President and Board of Trustees to
perform the duties of such Superintendent, and assessed at the
rate of Sixteen Cents (16~) per thousand gallons or fraction
thereof. Whenever practicable a meter shall be used as the
basis of such estimate.
The following are adopted as and for the charges and
rates for water used by water consumers where meters cannot be
installed:
For laying stone, per cord . . . . . $.10
For laying brick, per thousand . .. .10
For wetting brick per thousand . .. .10
For plastering, per hundred sq.yds. .20
For laying cement or concrete work
per 100 cu. feet . . . . . . .. .20
SECTION 2. This ordi nance shall be in full force and
effect from and after its passage, approval and publication.
PASSED this Jj t1. day of April, A.D. 1944.
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APPROVED, this ~~ day of April, A.D. 1944.
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