HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - MC-04-855 - 08/16/2004 - Various fee changes - returned checks retained perORDINANCE NO. MC-04- 855
An Ordinance Amending Various Sections
City of McHenry Municipal Code
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MCHENRY,
MCHENRY COUNTY, as follows:
SECTION 1: That Chapter 2, Section 2-123, Fee for Returned Checks, of the McHenry
Municipal Code, shall be amended as follows:
"A fee of $25.00 shall be due and payable to the City for each check written or
endorsed to the City which is dishonored and returned by the payor bank for any
reason."
SECTION 2: That Chapter 17, Section 17-5, Retained Personnel Deposit, of the
McHenry Municipal Code shall be amended by increasing the required initial retained personnel
deposit from two hundred fifty dollars ($250) to five hundred dollars ($500).
SECTION 3: That Chapter 26, Section 26-24, User Rates, that the fifth paragraph in said
section of the McHenry Municipal Code shall be amended to read as follows:
"Provided however, that in the case of apartment, commercial and industrial
buildings having more than one rental unit, each o some of which contain water
service facilities, the bi-monthly rate paid for city water shall be not less than
4,000 gallons per unit for each rental unit in such building, or the metered rate for
the entire building, whichever is greater. In the case of motels and hotels which do
not provide apartment rentals, nursing homes, hospitals, and congregate care
facilities, the bi-monthly rate shall be the metered rate for the entire building."
SECTION 4: That Chapter 26, Section 26-27, Terminating Service for Non -Payment;
Turn -on Service Charge, that the third paragraph of said section of the City of McHenry
Municipal Code, shall be amended to read as follows.
"Where City water service is shut off for non-payment, tampering or for any other
reason, there shall be no restoration of such water service until the user has first
paid all unpaid City water charges, including the costs of making the
disconnection and all costs for labor and materials. In addition, there shall be a
water service turn -on charge of seventy dollars ($70.00) if the service is turned on
during normal working hours of the Water Division personnel, to wit, 7:00 a.m. to
3.00 p.m. Monday through Friday. If water service turn -on is requested by the
user outside of normal working hours of the Water Division personnel, the turn -
on fee shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00)."
SECTION 5: That Chapter 26, Section 26-145(b), Billing, Due Dates, Delinquency
Penalty, of the City of McHenry Municipal Code, shall be amended as follows:
"All bi-monthly bills for such sewerage services shall be paid on or before the
twentieth day after bills are mailed. Payment of bills for such bi-monthly periods
after the twentieth day that bills are mailed shall subject the user to a penalty of
ten per cent (10%) of the amount of the unpaid bill; payment of bills for such bi-
monthly periods after the forty-second day that bills are mailed shall subject the
user to another penalty of ten per cent (10%) of the amount of the unpaid bill."
SECTION 6: If any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, sentence or provision of this
ordinance shall be adjudged by any Court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment
shall not affect, impair, invalidate or nullify the remainder thereof, which remainder shall remain
and continue in full force and effect.
SECTION 7: All ordinances or parts thereof in conflict are hereby repealed to the extent
of such conflict.
SECTION 7: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its passage, approval
and publication in pamphlet form as provided by law.
Voting Aye: BOLGER, GLAB, LOW, MURGATROYD, WiMMER, PETERSON, CONDON
Voting Nay: NONE
Not Voting: NONE
Abstaining: NONE
Absent: NONE
Passed and Approved this 16'' day of August, 2004.
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