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Village of Nashville Water Ordinances
- 01-11-1979-A WATER RATES AND CONNECTIONS/SPECIAL RATES
- 09-11-1986 MISC. USED CHARGES
- 01-11-1979-B WATER CROSS CONNECTIONS
- 08-05-1940 SAFE WATER
ORDINANCE #72 (1-11-1979-A)-(as amended
12-13-2007) - Water Rates
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING RATES, CHARGES AND RULES FOR THE USE, INSTALLATION AND
SERVICE OF THE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM OF THE VILLAGE OF NASHVILLE, COUNTY OF BARRY,
MICHIGAN.
THE VILLAGE OF NASHVILLE ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. The following monthly rates, fees and charges for the use of and
services provided by the Village's water supply system are hear by established:
A. Commodity Charge: $3.01/1,000 gallons (effective 1-1-2008)
BEGINNING IN 2008, THE COMMODITY CHARGE PROVIDED FOR HEREIN SHALL BE
ADJUSTED ANNUALLY ON JANUARY 1, TO BE EFFECTIVE ON THE FEBRUARY BILL, BY 5% OF
THE CURRENT CHARGE. IF ADDITIONAL INCREASES ARE NEEDED, THEY
MUST BE PRESENTED TO AND APPROVED BY THE VILLAGE COUNCIL. (amended 1-2008)
B. Readiness-To-Serve (RTS) and Capital Improvement Fund Charges:
(Ready-To-Serve charges and Capital Improvement Fund charges are placed on any
premise were water is available whether they are connected to the system or not)
Size of Meter-Meter Equivalency-RTSr Monthly Charge-Capital
Imp. Charge-Total Monthly RTS Charge
5/8"or 3/4" - 1.0 - $13.50 - $4.00 - $17.50
1" - 1.4 - $18.90 - $5.60 - $24.50
1-1/2" - 1.8 - $24.30 - $7.20 - $31.50
2" - 2.9 - $39.15 - $11.60 - $50.75
3" - 11.0 - $148.50 - $44.00 - $192.50
4" - 14.0 - $189.00 - $56.00 - $245.00
6" - 21.0 - $283.50 - $84.00 - $367.50
8" - 29.0 - $391.50 - $116.00 - $507.50
C. Hydrant Rental: $100.00/ per hydrant/per year (amended 3-22-2007)
D. Turn Off/On Charges: A charge of $25.00 shall be imposed by the Village in
response to a request to turn on or off water services; provided, however, that
if such services are provided other than during normal business hours of the
Village in response to a request, the charge shall be time and materials
multiplied by 1.10. (amended 1-2008)
E. Special Rates: Water supplied from a Village hydrant shall be charged at the
normal commodity charge for water and sanitary sewer service multiplied by 2.
Use of a Village hydrant to draw water shall only be permitted with the prior
written approval of the Village and shall be subject to any terms or conditions
imposed with respect to the approval. Any violation of this subsection shall be
a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500, 90 days in jail and the
reasonable costs of prosecution.
F. Multifamily Complex Units: Ready-To-Serve and Capital Improvement Fund
Charges for Multifamily Complex Units (apartment buildings) are not based on the
meter size. Instead these charges are based on a ¾ inch meter times the number
of units in the complex.
Section 1.5 Water Meters
A. Required; exception. All service connections shall be metered, except
hydrants on Village streets or Village property.
B. Supply and ownership; connection charges. All meters will be supplied and
owned by the Village. The property owner or applicant shall pay any and all
charges in connection with the installation of meters in such amount as
determined by the Village.
C. Control; interference. Water meters shall be subject to the control of the
Village or its authorized employees at all times, and no person shall break the
seal of a meter, or in any way interfere with the operation of a water meter,
except under the direct supervision of a Village employee.
D. Protection from injury; liability for loss or damage. As a condition of
service, the owner of any premises served shall be responsible to take all
proper precautions to protect the meter from injury, frost, damage from hot
water or steam, heat or any damage whatsoever. The owner of the premises served
will be held liable for all loss or damage to the Village due to the failure to
properly care for and protect each meter. The owner of the premises served will
be held liable for any costs or expenses incurred by the Village in repairing or
replacing meters which were injured due to the owner’s failure to protect the
meter from injury, frost, damage from hot water or steam, heat or any other
damage.
SECTION 2. Billing (amended 11-22-2005)
A. Bills for the rates and charges established by the Village shall be sent
monthly. All bills shall be payable on the 10th of the month, and shall be paid
at the office of the Clerk of the Village of Nashville. If any charges for the
services of the System are not paid by the 10th of the month in which it shall
become due and payable, a delayed payment charge of 10 percent of the amount of
the bill shall be added and collected therewith. If any bills for the service of
the System remain unpaid 30 days after the due date, the water supply for the
premises shall be turned off and shall not be turned on again except upon
payment of the full amount then due and owing, plus a turn-off/turn-on charge of
$30.00. Water\sewer bills will remain in the property owner’s name in accordance
with state law. The Village will not turn water off at the request of a third
party but only in accordance with the terms of this Section 2 and state law.
B. Where the Village is properly notified in accordance with state law that a
tenant/lessee is responsible for water service charges, no such service shall be
commenced or continued to such premises until there has been deposited with the
Village Clerk a sum sufficient to cover three times the average monthly bill for
such premises. In any other case where, in the discretion of the Village Clerk,
the collection of charges for water service may be difficult or uncertain, the
clerk may require similar deposits. Such deposits may be applied against any
delinquent water service charges and the application thereof shall not affect
the right of the Village to turn off the water services on the premises for any
delinquency. No such deposit shall bear interest, and such deposit, or any
remaining balance thereof, shall be returned to the customer when he or she
shall discontinue receiving water service.
SECTION 3. ENFORCEMENT (amended 11-22-2005)
The Village Clerk is hereby authorized to enforce the payment of charges for
water services to any premises by any means allowable by law, including but not
limited to, discontinuing the water service to such premises, or by an action of
assumpsit to be instituted by the Village against the customer, or by placing a
lien on the lot, parcel of land, or premises affected. The Village Clerk may
annually certify all unpaid charges for such service furnished to any premises
which remain unpaid for a period of six months to the Village Assessor who may
place the same on the next tax roll of the Village. Such charges may be
collected in the same manner as general Village taxes. The Village may exercise
any or all of these remedies simultaneously in its discretion, as allowable by
law.
SECTION 4. INSTALLATION OF WATER SERVICES AND CHARGES THEREON
There shall be a minimum of a 1-inch water service line for each new
installation and at least one water meter per new installation. Hereafter, the
charge for installing 1" or less meter is $100.00 and the connection fee for a
1" or less water service is $1,514.77. The connection fee for water service and
meter over 1" and/or bore shot is $1,514.77 plus time and materials. These rates
will be adjusted annually at a 6% interest rate computed on the base fee. All
installations shall be to the property line or 60 feet, whichever is shorter,
with anything over 60 feet to the property line hereafter being charged on a
time and material basis. Multiple dwellings shall be charged for each additional
water meter at the regular meter rate. All multiple dwellings shall have one
meter for each rental unit, unless the owner of the premises agrees in writing
with the Village of Nashville to be responsible for all water billings for said
premises. If such later agreement is made, the multiple dwelling shall have as
many meters as the owner requests within the provisions hereof, but not less
than one meter per separate building.
SECTION 5. It is hereby made the duty of the Village Clerk to render bills for
service and all other charges in connection therewith and to collect all moneys
due there from.
SECTION 6. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with the
provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed insofar as the conflicting
portions there of are concerned.
SECTION 7. This Ordinance shall be published in full in the Maple Valley News, a
newspaper of general circulation in the Village, promptly after its adoption,
and shall be recorded in the Ordinance Book of the Village and such recording
authenticated by the signatures of the Village President and Village Clerk.
SECTION 8. This amended Ordinance shall become effective twenty (20) days after
its adoption or upon its publication, whichever occurs later.
ORDINANCE #9-11-1986 - Misc. Used
Charges
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING RATES, CHARGES AND RULES FOR THE USE OF
MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES OF THE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM OF THE VILLAGE OF NASHVILLE,
COUNTY OF BARRY, MICHIGAN.
THE VILLAGE OF NASHVILLE ORDAINS:
SPECIAL RATES
There is hereby a special cost rate and a source location established for
private purchase of village waters. All private water supplied will be drawn
from the village hydrant located in front of the Fire Department. Water drawing
must be monitored by a village employee and the transaction must be during
regular working hours. Water rate covered under this special rate is to be:
Total of regular water rate plus sewer rate times two.
Any unauthorized drawing of water supply from village water hydrants is a
felonious act of a public utility and all such actions will be prosecuted.
Passed and adopted by the Village of Nashville, Michigan on this 11th day of
September 1986.
ORDINANCE #1-11-1979-B (as amended
3-22-2001) - Water Cross Connections
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING CROSS CONNECTIONS WITH THE PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM, A
CONNECTION OR ARRANGEMENT OF PIPING OR APPURTENANCES THROUGH WHICH WATER OF
QUESTIONABLE QUALITY, WASTES OR OTHER CONTAMINANTS CAN ENTER THE PUBLIC SUPPLY
SYSTEM.
Be it ordained by the Village of Nashville, State of Michigan:
SECTION 1. That the Village of Nashville adopts by reference the water supply
cross connection rules of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality being
R 325.11401 to R 325.11407 of the Michigan Administrative Code.
SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the Nashville water department to cause
inspection to be made of all properties served by the public water supply where
cross connections with the public water supply is deemed possible. The frequency
of inspections and reinspections based on potential health hazards involved
shall be as established by the Nashville water department and as approved by the
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
SECTION 3. That the representative of the Nashville water department shall have
the right to enter at any reasonable time any property served by a connection to
the public water supply system of the Village of Nashville for the purpose of
inspecting the piping system or systems thereof for cross connections. On
request the owner, lessees or occupants of any property so served shall furnish
to the inspection agency any pertinent information regarding the piping system
or systems on such property. The refusal of such information or refusal of
access, when requested, shall be deemed evidence of the presence of cross
connections.
SECTION 4. That the Nashville water department is hereby authorized and directed
to discontinue water service after reasonable notice to any property wherein any
connection in violation of this ordinance exists, and to take such other
precautionary measures deemed necessary to eliminate any danger of contamination
of the public water supply system. Water service to such property shall not be
restored until the cross connection(s) has been eliminated in compliance with
the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION 5. That all testable back flow prevention devices shall be tested
initially upon installation to be sure that the device is working properly.
Subsequent testing of devices shall be conducted at a time interval specified by
the Nashville Water Department and in accordance with Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality requirements. Only individuals approved by the Nashville
Water Department shall be qualified to perform such testing. That individual (s)
shall certify the results of his/her testing.
SECTION 6. That the potable water supply made available on the properties served
by the public water supply shall be protected from possible contamination as
specified by this ordinance and by the state and/or local plumbing code. Any
water outlet which could be used for potable or domestic purposes and which is
not supplied by the potable water system must be labeled in a conspicuous manner
as: WATER UNSAFE FOR DRINKING.
SECTION 7. That this ordinance does not supersede the state and/or plumbing
code but is supplementary to them.
SECTION 8. That any person or customer found guilty of violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance, or any written order of the Nashville water
department, in pursuance thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor
more than $300 for each violation. Each day upon which a violation of the
provisions of this act shall occur shall be deemed a separate and additional
violation for the purpose of this ordinance.
SECTION 9. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with the
provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed insofar as the conflicting
portions thereof are concerned.
SECTION 10. This ordinance shall be published in full in the Maple Valley News,
a newspaper of general circulation in the Village Nashville, promptly after its
adoption, and shall be recorded in the Ordinance book of the Village and such
recording authenticated by the signatures of the Village President and Village
Clerk.
SECTION 11. This ordinance is hereby determined by the Village Council to be
immediately necessary for the preservation of the peace, health and safety of
the Village and is, therefor, declared to have immediate effect.
PASSED and adopted by the Village of Nashville, Michigan, on this 22nd day of
March, 2001.
ORDINANCE #34 (8-5-1940) SAFE WATER
FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND TO SAFEGUARD THE PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
OF THE VILLAGE OF NASHVILLE, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS OF THE
MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, AS EXPRESSED IN BULLETIN NO. 19, ENTITLED, "WELL
WATER SUPPLIES OF MUNICIPALITIES,"
AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SPECIAL RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH, THE VILLAGE OF NASHVILLE ORDAINS:
SECTION 1.
That no privy, outhouse, septic tank, cesspool, leaching pit, sanitary sewer, or
any structure which receives stores or disposal of human wastes or excreta,
shall hereafter be constructed or placed within two hundred (200) feet of any
public water supply well in the Village of Nashville.
SECTION 2.
Any violation of Section 1. of this ordinances is hereby declared to be a public
nuisance, and may be enjoined or abated in such manner as the Village Council
may from time to time provide by resolution.
SECTION 3.
Penalties for Violation: Any person, firm, corporation, or other entity who
violates any term or provision of this Ordinance is responsible for a municipal
civil infraction and shall be punished by a civil fine of $50 for a first
violation, $150 for a second violation, and $300 for a third or subsequent
violation and shall be liable for the payment of costs in an amount of not less
than $9.00 and not more than $500.
This ordinance shall take effect on August 26, 1940.
Passed and approved by the Village Council on August 5, 1940
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