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ORDINANCE NO. 78-11-1641
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
reason-
ably
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 September 23, 1975, 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 the Water Works,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the -City of Paducah accept the recommendation of the
Commissioners of the Paducah Water Works, and that Ordinance No'. 75-9-1174, enacted
on September 23, 1975 (the 111975 Rate Ordinance") , is hereby amended so as to
charge the Lone Oak Water District $1.43 per 1,000 gallons of water for the first one
million gallons of water per month and $1.03 per 1,000 gallons for all water over one
million gallons 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
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 90 days following the expiration of the current billing period with reference
to such District.
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.
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SECTION 5. That if any clause, provision, paragraph or section of this
ordinance shall be ruled void or unenforceable by any court of competent juris-
diction, the remainder hereof is intended to be enacted and shall be in full force and
effect notwithstanding.
SECTION 6. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here-
with are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
SECTION 7. That this Ordinance shall be introduced at a meeting of the
Board of Commissioners and remain on file for at least one week for public inspection
in the completed form in which it shall be put on its final passage, and, if adopted,
shall be in full force and effect ten days thereafter.
ILI&
Mayor
Introduced and given first reading by the Board of Commissioners,
October 24, 1978
Passed by -the Board of -Commissioners November 14; 1978 3
Recorded by Louise- McKinney, CityClerk, November 14, 1978.