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'l'BB CIT!' 01' SEWARD
OlU)INANCB NO. 356
AN ORDIIWICS ~lNG SEe'1'lON 10.303 AND SBC'l'IOH 10.202 (C) OF THE
GElIERAL COD. fW ORDIBANCES OP '1'BB CIT!' OF SEWARD, ALASKA. AS PERTAINS
TO '1'BB DAft _ WHICH ELECTRIC; WATER AND GARBAGE BILLS SHALL BEcam
DELINQUBft AND 8UB8BC'1' TO PEL1.QUD1CY PENALT!'. AND DECLARING AN
BMERGBRCY .
'1'BB CIft OF SEWARD 6 ALASKA ORDAINS I
That Sec:tion 10.303 and Section 10.202(c:) of the General Code of
Ordinanee. ef The city of .eward be and the .ame are hereby amended as
follows.
section 10.303 ,illinq. ne1inquenc:y Date and Penal tv. Di.c:onnec:-
1.1811 fol.' .on-NY1Ilent. Rec:onnec:tion Charqe.
All billill9s fol' the senic:es of the Seward Elec:tric: Divbion
shall be 1'.....1'.. IIOftthly and. ahall be due 8D4 payable on or before the
19th d.y of the 80nth follewlng the IDOnth inlllbic:h .uc:h .enic:es were
rendered. ra11ve to pay c:\IZ'reat: billings by the 19th day of the
month foalowt... a. afol.'esa14. shall c:au.e the c:on.umer'. ac:c:ount to
bec:ome 4ellnquea' anc1 ~rftJlOll a delinquent: penalty in the amount of
10% of the t:otal blll1ng shall be iaposed and c:ollec:ted and should the
billing there.Iter remala unpaid. .ervic:e .hall be d1sc:onnec:ted and 41..
c:ontinued oa the fir.t day of the ~nth following and no rec:onnec:tioa
of suc:h 8enlc:e .al1 be 11184e prior: to the prepayment to the Seward
Electric: Pivi.ion of the rec:onnectloa fee hereinabove provided for ~
8uc:h c:a.e8.
section 10.202 Water COntrac:t8. Acrreement. and Rate8. Billing.
Delinquency Date and Penal tv. Deposits.
(c) Water service rat.. for the calendar IIOnth .ha11 be e.tab-
L 1 shed by reacl.t:ion of the City Council. Water 8ervice. to areas out-
side of the city limits 8hall pay a 8urcharge equal to ten percent (l~J
of the amount: charged for vat_ service within the city limits. said
charge sball.. be. in a<lditioa to the regular charge for water 8en ic:e
and shall be included in eacla aontb' s billing. said charge. shall be
paid at the s.. time and in the same mannu as electric: bil18,
aeferenc:e i8 hereby made to Section 10.106 of .aid General COde
regaralng garbage collection bills.
All emergency is hereby declared to exist .. large nUJDbers of
Seward residents are unemployed this winter and the tiaing of \lnemploy-
ment COIIlpe!lsation checks from the State is such that it is impossible
for the.. "n-.ployed persons to pay their utility bills prior to delin-
quency date but they would be able to do so under the delinquency date
established above. The rules governing the intr~ction. reading. pass-
age and approval of ordinances are hereby suspended and thi8 ordinance
shall be pas.ed and approved upon its first reading.
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Publication of this Ordinance pall be whde by posd.nq . eopy here-
of for a period of ten (10) days on the City Hall Bulletin Board. and
by publishing a notice of the place of posting and a brief statement
of the purpo8e of this ordilUlnce in a newspaper of general circulation
in the City. within a reasonable time.
This Ordinance shall be effective on the date of passage and
approval. PASS7 APPROVED by the City
Seward this ;171 ~ay of December. 1966.
council of The city of
Attest.
1R0t:~<~
R. W. IUrkpatrick
Mayor
&~~ ci_ ~);:cl~-
Beatrice E. Watts
City~Clerk-Tr.a8urer