The following rates shall apply for installation of water service, including meter box, meter setting and connection of meter from the water main to the property line:
3/4 inch connection 100 percent of actual cost
1 inch connection 80 percent of actual cost
2 inch connection 75 percent of actual cost
All larger connections 60 percent of actual cost
Effective
January 1, 2019
3/4 inch connection 100 percent of actual cost
1 inch or 2-inch connection 90 percent of actual cost
All larger connections 80 percent of actual cost
Effective
January 1, 2020
All connections 100 percent of actual cost
(Code 1961, 4-7-1; Ord. 2219; Ord. 4191; Code 2023)
The following rates shall apply for the installation of electric service, including meter, meter socket, connectors and wire from transformer to structure:
Effective Upon Publication
Single Phase, 100 or 200 amp 100 percent of actual cost
Single Phase, 300-400 amp 80 percent of actual cost
Three Phase, 100 or 200 amp 85 percent of actual cost
Three Phase, 400 amp 80 percent of actual cost
Three Phase, 600 amp 70 percent of actual cost
Three Phase, 800 amp 60 percent of actual cost
200 amp underground 65 percent of actual cost
Effective January 1, 2019
Single Phase, 100 or 200 amp 100 percent of actual cost
Single Phase, 300-400 amp 90 percent of actual cost
Three Phase, 100 or 200 amp 95 percent of actual cost
Three Phase, 400 amp 90 percent of actual cost
Three Phase, 600 amp 85 percent of actual cost
Three Phase, 800 amp 80 percent of actual cost
200 amp underground 85 percent of actual cost
Effective January 1, 2020
All services 100 percent of actual cost
Any change from a 110-volt service, regardless of amperage, to a 220-volt, 100 amperes single phase service, the charge shall be 75% of the 100 amperes single phase service charge setforth in the above table. Any change from 100 amperes single phase service to a largerservice, the charge shall be the difference between cost of the two services as set forth in theabove table. Any change from a sixty (60) amperes service to a 100 amperes service, whichrequires only a change in meter sockets, the charge shall be the wholesale cost of the meter socket at the time of change.
(Code 1961, 4-7-2; Ord. 2303; Ord. 4191; Code 2023)
The following service connection fee shall be charged for complete installation of gas service, including meter, connections, and pipe from gas main to property line:
Effective Upon Publication
All connections up to 1,000 cubic fee per hour 100 percent of actual cost
1,001-3,000 cubic feet per hour 85 percent of actual cost
All larger connections 60 percent of actual cost
Effective January 1, 2019
All connections up to 1,000 cubic feet per hour 100 percent of actual cost
1,001-3,000 cubic feet per hour 95 percent of actual cost
All larger connections 80 percent of actual cost
Effective January 1, 2020
All connections 100 percent of actual cost
(Code 1961, 4-7-3; Ord. 2219; Ord. 4191; Code 2023)
A following rates shall apply for tapping and connections made to the public sewer system, the amount of which fee shall be as follows:
Standard 4” tap $100.00
Standard 6” tap $150.00
$85 for a sewer inspection fee, for those instances in which the tap exists, but an inspection is needed because of line repair or replacement.
$50 for a septic tank inspection fee.
For service connections, other than a 4” or 6”, the service connection fee shall be the actual cost to the city for materials used and labor expended, but in no event, shall the fee for such larger service be less than $150.
(Code 1961, 4-7-4; Ord. 2286; Ord. 4191; Code 2023)
When any utility service (gas, electric, water, or sanitary sewer) is reconnected to the same property location, whether or not a different structure is located on the same property, the full, current utility connection fees or permit and inspection fees established by ordinance shall be charged for reconnection, unless the prior service connection installation needs no modification, alteration, or extension by the city to effect new service. If meters have not been removed and are fully serviceable at time of reconnection, no connection fee shall be charged, but if meter repairs or replacements are required, the full connection fee shall be charged.
(Code 1961, 4-7-5; Ord. 2123; Code 2023)
Whenever a utility customer requests service connections larger than the existing installation, the new, higher connection fee shall be charged, but the current cost of the meter taken out of service shall be credited against the new connection fees if the meter taken out of service is a fully serviceable, usable meter.
(Code 1961, 4-7-6; Ord. 2123; Code 2023)
15-507. Utility meters required to be located in accessible locations; procedures for removal and relocation of noncomplying utility meters.
(a) All utility meters for the metering of delivery of natural gas, water or electrical energy from the municipal utilities operated by the city of Garnett shall be located outside of the customer’s building, or otherwise as approved on a case by case basis by the City Manager, to ensure such meter is accessible to city personnel at all reasonable times.
(b) Any gas or water meter located contrary to the provisions of subsection (a) shall be removed from such location and relocated upon an easement or public right of way used as such an easement or elsewhere so as to comply with subsection (a). Removal and relocation as may be required in this subsection shall be accomplished at a time when no such utility services are being supplied to such location and before the reconnection of gas or water utilities for a new owner or utility customer at such location; provided, however, when necessary to protect the safety of persons or for other compelling reason, such meters may be relocated at any time.
(c) Any electric meter located contrary to the provisions of subsection (a) shall be removed from such location and relocated so as to comply with subsection (a).
(d) The removal and relocation of any such utility meter, together with related service lines and connections, fittings, valves, switches or disconnects, shall be performed without expense to a utility customer, except as may otherwise be provided in subsection (e).
(e) The property owner or utility customer shall assume and be responsible for the cost and installation of, and all future maintenance on, his or her:
(1) Customer owned service line or yard line (as the case may be) through the plate of the building served connecting to the interior plumbing, in the case of natural gas;
(2) Private line running from the city’s easement through or under the foundation of the building served connecting to the interior plumbing, in the case of water; and
(3) Private cable or cables running from the entrance head on the mast (or equivalent terminus on the side of the building, if no mast) through the meter box and into the service entrance panel or panels of the building served, in the case of electrical energy.
(f) Any utility customer presently being served at a location where the natural gas, water or electrical energy meter is not located as required in subsection (a), may, at any time, request the city to remove and relocate such meters in accordance with this section.
(Code 1961, 4-7-7; Ord. 3494; Code 2023)
(a) No utility service of any class or type shall be commenced by the city for any customer until the customer has made written application to the city for such services, and such application is approved by the City Manager or his delegate. The application shall be made on forms provided by the city. The City Manager is hereby authorized to and he shall prescribe the form of the application and shall see that at all times an adequate supply is maintained. Such application shall include, but shall not be limited to, questions to determine customer’s previous residential address, the length of time at such address, the names and addresses of suppliers of utilities to such residential address, the customer’s social security number, date of birth, and motor vehicle operator’s or chauffeur’s license number, and the state issuing the same.
(b) For purposes of this section the term “customer” means either a person being supplied with or applying for utility services who is:
(1) Eighteen (18) years of age or older, or otherwise legally competent to make a binding and enforceable contract; and
(2) Either:
(A) The owner of; or
(B) The tenant responsible for payment of the rent or lease installments to the owner (and who is not merely a roomer or boarder) of the premises to which such utility services are to be supplied.
(C) No application shall be approved if the customer, the customer’s spouse, or a person occupying the same living quarters as the customer owes any sum to the city for any class or type of utility services which said sum is delinquent.
(Code 1961, 4-7-8; rd. 3250; Code 2023)
(a) A charge of fifty dollars ($50.00) shall be made to any utility customer who requests city utility maintenance personnel to investigate any cause of utility malfunction, interruption or cessation when such investigation discloses the cause thereof and the duty to correct the same to be solely upon the utility customer, as provided by the various ordinances and enactments of this city; provided, however, such charge shall only apply when said request is made and investigation is conducted on weekends, holidays, or after normal working hours on any regular weekday.
(b) The service charge imposed in subsection (a) shall be in addition to any other service charge, whether for labor, materials, or flat rate, which is now applicable or which might be made applicable and chargeable to said customer by reason of such service call and investigation.
(Code 1961, 4-7-9; Ord. 3493; Code 2023)
(a) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the city of Garnett to eliminate through a program of replacement all customer owned bare steel natural gas service lines, yard lines and belowground entrances to homes and businesses by January 1, 2018.
(b) Any customer owned bare steel natural gas service lines, yard lines and belowground entrances shall be removed and replaced, in the case of lines, with coated piping compliant with modern codes; and in the case of belowground entrances, with installation of the entrance of such service aboveground. Removal and replacement to eliminate the noncompliant piping or entrance shall be required at such time as the title to any residential or business property shall be transferred; provided, however, when necessary to protect the safety of persons or property, or for other compelling reason, such noncompliant piping or entrance may be ordered removed and replaced at any time.
(c) The property owner or utility customer shall be responsible for the costs of such removal and replacement required by the foregoing subsection and the subsequent maintenance thereof.
(d) The city of Garnett may take such steps as are necessary to compel the removal and replacement required by this section, including, but not limited to, the suspending of gas utility service.
(e) Nothing in this section shall prevent any property owner or utility customer from removing and replacing such noncompliant piping and entrance at any time.
(Code 1961, 4-7-9; Ord. 3702; Code 2023)