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ORDINANCE NO. 35 -94
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL, BREVARD
COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING SECTION 78 -152, MONTHLY SEWER
RATES, TO CLARIFY THE AUTHORITY OF THE CITY COUNCIL TO
ESTABLISH INCREASES IN MONTHLY SEWER RATES IN AMOUNTS
OTHER THAN THE INCREASE OF THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF
CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Cape
Canaveral, Brevard County, Florida, as follows:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a) of Section 78 -152, Monthly Sewer
Rates, is hereby repealed and re- enacted in its entirety to read as
follows:
Sec. 78 -152 Monthly Sewer Rates.
(a) Any user of the services of the sewer system shall
pay a monthly charge or rate as set forth in appendix B to
this Code. The schedule of fees is subject to revision
annually as may be necessary to keep rates commensurate with
the changes in the cost of providing service and is otherwise
subject to revision due to any regulatory or environmental
factors which increase the cost of sewage treatment. All
revisions shall be done by resolution and shall become
effective as of May 1 of each year. The City Council may
utilize, as a basis of any annual rate increase, the Consumer
Price Index U.S. city average "all items" (1967 =100),
published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United
States Department of Labor. The index number for the month of
February, 1989 shall be the base index number and the
corresponding index number for the month of February in each
succeeding year shall be the current index number. The sewer
rate shall be determined by dividing the current index number
(CIN) by the base index number (BIN), in accordance with the
following formula, dropping all digits after 1/100:
New rate charge = (CIN) x the current sewer rate
(BIN)
SECTION 2. Severability. If any section, paragraph, phrase,
or word of this Ordinance is held to be unconstitutional or
invalid, such portion shall not affect the remaining portions
hereof and it shall be construed to have been a legislative intent
City of Cape Canaveral, Florida
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to pass this Ordinance without such unconstitutional or invalid
part.
SECTION 3. Conflicting Provisions. Any ordinance, or parts
of an ordinance, in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect
immediately upon its adoption.
ADOPTED BY the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral,
Florida, this 20th day of September , 1994.
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Salamone, MAYOR
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cc: 9/21/94 - Deborah Haggerty, City Treasurer
Michael Gluskin, Public .Works
Municipal Code Corporation
1°st Reading : 9/6/94
Posted: 9/7/94
vertis3d: 9/9/94
Sacred ,;drip /20/94