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ORDINANCE NO . 165
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING WATER AND SEWER
UTILITY RATES, RULES & REGULATIONS
The Council of the Village of Eden Prairie does ordain as follows:
Section 1. Definitions.
Subdivision 1 . "Residential Equivalent Connection (R, E. C.)" shall
mean each dwelling unit as defined in Ordinance
No. 13 5 . s.
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Subdivision 2 . "Village" shall mean the Village Council, Village
Manager or their agents.
Subdivision 3 . "System Access Charge" shall mean the fee charged
by the Village when a connection is first made to
the Village sewer or water system.
Section 2 . Meters.
Subdivision 1 . Meters Required
A. Every connection to the water system shall be metered by :peters
purchased from the Village or approved for use by the Village.
B. The Village may require the owner of premises connected to Village
sewer to install a meter for the purpose of determining sewage
flow.
C . Any meter when installed shall become a part of the real property
therein. The Village shall have access to the meter at reasonable
times and the immediate area of the meter shall be kept free of
debris or other obstructions so as to allow employees of the
Village easy access for purposed of reading, repair or removal.
Subdivision 2 . Removal of Meter.
No person shall remove a meter or any part thereof nor tamper with
or by-pass any meter without authorization from the Village.
Subdivision 3 . Damage to Meters.
�. Damage to meters, not due to normal use shall be repaired by the
Village or its authorized representative. Cost of such repairs will
be billed in the same manner as water and sewer charges.
Section 3 . Rates . The following rates and charges are hereby established:
Subdivision 1 . System Access Charges.
A. For Sanitary Sewer $135 per R. E. C.
B. For Waterworks $100 per R. E. C.
C . The minimum system access charges for industrial, public and
office uses are 2 times the R. E. C. charge per acre of site
needed to accommodate the building and 3 times the R. E.C .
charge per Acre of (site area) needed to accommodate the
building for commercial users . The needed site area equals
the building area in acres divided by 0.3 . The needed site
area shall be subject to a minimum of 1 (one) Acre.
Subdivision 2 . User Charges for:
Sanitary Sewer .05 per hundred gallons
subject to a minimum of $2 .50 per R. E.C . per month
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For Water . 05 per hundred gallons
subject to a temporary minimum of $3 . 50 per R. E.C . per month
The minimum monthly user charge for commercial , industrial , public
and office use shall be $2 .50 per month for sewer and $4.50 per month t
for water. t
Subdivision 3 . Sanitary Sewer Service Rates for Single - Family
Detatched Residential Customers .
Sewer charges per R. E.C . shall be determined by using the amount of
water consumed in the billing periods ending in January, February or
March of each year, divided by the number of months in the billing
period subject to the monthly minimum. Whenever such average water
used during the billing period ending in January, February or March
may be disproportionate to the actual sewage use for the forthcoming
year, the Village shall establish an average water charge and corres-
ponding sanitary sewer charge by the use of suitable methods which
will be as nearly fair as possible , such determination by the Village
to be final.
Section 4 . Billing and Payment.
Subdivision 1 . Due Dates.
All water and sewer service bills shall be due and payable not less
than 20 days after the date of mailing to the customer. The sum of
$1 . 00 shall be added to any water and sewer bill not paid by the
due date. interest at the rate of 6% per year shall be added when
an account is 60 days past due.
Subdivision 2 . Deposits.
The Village may require any customer to place on deposit with the
Village, either the sum of $50. 00 or the sum derived by adding
such customer's water and sewer service bills for the previous
June, July and August, whichever amount is greater, such deposit
to be maintained in that amount at all times. The Village may
withdraw any delinquent sewer or water service charges from a
customer's deposit.
Subdivision 3 . Account Guarantees.
The Village may require the owner or landlord of any premises
served by Village Water and/or Sewer facilities, to file with
the Village a written contract or guarantee promising the payment
of any water and sewer service account for such premises fur-
nished to any tenant thereof.
Subdivision 4. Service Disconnections.
The failure to pay any account on or before the due date , or
the failure to maintain any deposit as hereinabove provided or
the failure to file a written guarantee shall be deemed to be
and is hereby established as sufficient cause or reason to
disconnect city water service to any such customer or premises.
Subdivision 5 . Special Assessments.
Every water and sewer service account is hereby declared to
constitute a lien enforceable by special assessment against
the lands and premises served and each tract of land or prem-
ises therein included is hereby found and declared to be bene-
fited by the furnishing of such service in the amount of the
billings and of the special assessment therefor levied against
it. Water and/or sewer accounts delinquent on August 15th
of any year may be assessed by the Village by following the
procedure set forth in the Minnesota Statutes for making special
assessments.
Section 5 . Unauthorized Use and Penalty.
Subdivision 1. Unauthorized Use and Penalty.
No person shall make any connection to the Village Water and
Sewer system or operate any hydrants or valves or other part
of the Village system without authorization from the Village.
Metropolitan Sewer Board facilities located within the Village
are hereby deemed to be a part of the Village system.
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Subdivision 2 .
Violation of Subdivision 1 of this Section or Subdivision 2
of Section 2 of this Ordinance shall be a misdemeanor
punishable by a sentence of imprisonment of not more than
90 days or to payment of a fine of not more than $300 .00
Section 6 . Validity.
The Village Council of the Village of Eden Prairie hereby declares
that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this
Ordinance be declared for any reason to be invalid , it is the
intent of the Village Council of the Village of Eden Prairie that
it would have passed all other portions of this Ordinance inde-
pendent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as may
be declared invalid .
FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the Council of the Village
of Eden Prairie this 14th day of March, 1972 , and finally read
and adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting of the
Council of said Village on the 28th day of March 1972 .
Paul R. Redpath, Ma#or
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publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisements. (4) Said -
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CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE ORDINANCES
ORD. NO. TITLE 1ST 2ND PUB
166 Rezoning - Preferred Developers 2/29/72 3/14/72 3/23/72
167 Creating an escrow account for sanitary sewer 3/14/72 3/28/72 4/6/72
construction
168 Rezoning - Old Farm-Shelter Development Corp. 3/28/72 4/11/72 4/20/72
169 Rezoning - Hipps Construction Company 3/28/72 4/11/72 4/20/72
170 Rezoning - Atherton-Rocket Development 3/28/72 4/11/72 4/20/72
171 Rezoning - Maurer Construction 3/28/72 4/11/72 4/20/72
172 Regulating the use of roads 3/28/72 4/11/72 4/20/72
173 Regulating traffic, parking, use of signals and 7/11/72 7/25/72 8/3/72
signs
174 Rezoning - Hipp's Construction 5/30/72 8/20/72 6/13/74
174a Regulating operation of vehicles 7/11/72 7/25/72 8/3/72
175 Regulating operation of motorcycles, mini-bikes 6/13/72 7/11/72 8/10/72
and all terrain vehicles
176 Regulating the moving of buildings 7/11/72 7/25/72 8/3/72
177 Rezoning - Briarhill 8/22/72 9/12/72 9/21/72 y
178 Amending Ordinance 135 9/12/72 12/12/72 12/21/72 r
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(^ 179 Rezoning 7/25/72 8/8/72 8/17/72
180 Rezoning 7/25/72 8/8/72 9/21/72
181 Rezoning - Windslope 8/22/72 9/12/72 9/21/72
182 Rezoning - Round Lake Estates 9/12/72 9/26/72 10/5/72
183 Rezoning - Edinborough 8/22/72 9/12/72 5/17/73
184 Rezoning - Baywood 8/22/72 9/12/72 9/21/72
185 Rezoning - Valley Knolls 9/12/72 9/26/72 1015/72
186 Relating to control and prevention of tree disease 8/14/73 8/28/73 9/13173
187 Establishing charges to equalize trunk and sewer 9/26/72 10/24/72 11/9/72
system assessments
188 Rezoning - Greenward Townhouses 9/26172 10/10/72 11/9/72
189 Rezoning - Edenvale 5th Addition - The Preserve 10/24/72 1 1/14/72 11/30/72
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190 Rezoning - Highpoint II - The Preserve 10/10/72 10/24/72 11/16/72
191 Rezoning - Highpoint I - The Preserve 10/24/72 11/14/72 11/30/72
192 Rezoning - Shadow Green - Edenvale 2nd 11/14/72 1 1/28/72 12/7/72
Addition
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194 Rezoning - ShadowGreen - Edenvale 2nd I 1/14/72 11/28/72 12/7/72
Addition
195 Repealing Ordinance 167 11/28/72 12/12/72 12/21/72
CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE ORDINANCES
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ORD. NO, TITLE IST 2ND PUB
196 Rezoning - Hidden Ponds 12/12172 12/26/72 1/18/73
197 Creating a Department of Public Safety 12/12/72 12/26/72 1/18/73
198 Regulating and licensing scavengers, requiring 12/12/72 12/26/72 1/18/73
permits and imposing a penalty
199 Relating to individual sewage systems and 12/12/72 12/26/72 1/18/73
installers
200 Amending Ordinance 156 12/12172 12/26/72 1/18/73
201 Amending Ordinance 157 12/12/72 12/26/72 1/18/73
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Licensing and regulating the use and sale of 2/13/73 3/27/73 4/5/73
intoxicating liquor