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ORDINANCE NO. 82-1-2195
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE EXISTING WATER RATE ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, SO AS TO MODIFY THE WATER RATES FOR WATER SERVICE TO LONE OAK
WATER DISTRICT, A CUSTOMER OF THE PADUCAH WATER WORKS.
WHEREAS, the City has made an extensive study of the needs of the Paducah
Water Works and has determined that major renewals, replacements, additions,
extensions and improvements of the existing Water Works should be undertaken in order
to reasonably serve the customers of such Water Works, and because of the necessity
to finance such major capital improvements, and because of the rising operating
expenses and declining surplus income -of the Paducah Water Works, the Board of
Commissioners of the City of Paducah, Kentucky, deems it necessary and desirable to
amend the existing Water Rate Ordinance, enacted on November 14, 1978, so as to
modify the water rates and charges to customers of said Water Works, both inside and
outside the corporate limits of the City, pursuant to recommendations of the
Commissioners of Water Works.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That the City of Paducah accept the recommendation of the
Commissioners of Paducah Water Works, and that Ordinance No. 78-11-1641, enacted on
November 14, 1978 (the 1978 Rate Ordinance), is hereby amended so as to charge the
Lone Oak Water District $1-18 $1.14 per 1,000 gallons of water €er-tke-fiFst-exe-
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eee-milliex-galleas-peF-mentk; per month such water to be furnished to such District
pursuant to a contract between the City and such District dated March 31, 1947, which
expires July 1, 1982.
SECTION 2. That all other provisions of the 1975 Rate Ordinance are hereby
re-enacted and reaffirmed, and made a part hereof, the same as if copied in full
herein, except to the extent that such 1975 Rate Ordinance may be otherwise amended
by another ordinance or ordinances which has or have become effective or may become
effective, since the effective date of such 1975 Rate Ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the foregoing water rates and charges shall become
effective beginning with the monthly er-bi-mextkly- billing period following the
expiration of the current billing period with reference to such District.
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SECTION 4. That the foregoing rates are rates to be charged by the Paducah
Water Works, and any applicable State sales tax shall be added to each bill as a
separate charge.
SECTION 5. That if any clause, provision, paragraph or section of this
ordinance shall be ruled void or unenforceable by any court of competent
jurisdiction, the remainder hereof is intended to be enacted and shall be -in full
force and effect notwithstanding.
SECTION 6. That all ordinances and part of ordinances in conflict herewith
are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed
SECTION 7. This ordinance shall be read on two separate days and will be
effective upon publication in full.
John K. Penrod
Mayor
Introduced by the Board of Commissioners January 12, 1982
Passed by the Board of Commissioners January 26, 1982
Recorded by Louise McKinney, City Clerk, January 26, 1982
Published by The Paducah Sun January 27, 1982.