HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 2020Amended by Ordinance No. 4068
ORDIi+UCE NO. L'
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RENTON AUTHORIZIM AND
PROVIDING FOR COMBINING THE CITY'S SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND
STORM SYSTEM WITH THE CITY'S WATER SYSTEM.
WHEREAS the CITY OF RENTON is now and has for many years last past been
operating and maintaining a municipal water system as well as a municipal sewerage
system, and
WHEREAS the CITY has heretofore specified and adopted a system or plan of
additions to and betterments and extensions of the water works utility of the CITY OF
RENTON, including the sewerage system as a part thereof and pursuant thereto authorized
the issuance and sale of municipal revenue bonds, usually referred to as "CITY OF
RENTON Water and Sewer Revenue Bonds" particular reference being made to Ordinance Nos.
1156, 1157, 1173, 1299, 14503 1489 and 1766 pursuant to which the CITYtS sewerage
system was combined with and made a part of the CITY'S water works utility, and all
the foregoing being in compliance with R.C.W. 35.67.320 et seq; NOW THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RENTON
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I: The foregoing findings and recitals are hereby found to be
true and correct in all respects.
SECTION II: The CITY OF RENTONtS sewerage system is hereby determined to
consist of the combined sanitary sewage disposal and storm or surface water sewers,
pursuant to R. C. W. 35.67.010, together with all additions, extensions and betterments
thereto and.same-are hereby made and confirmed as a part of the CITY'S municipal water
system so that the CITYtS water and sewage funds be consolidated and combined into one
fund to be known hereafter as the "Water Works Utility Fund', but separate and distinct
subsidiary records shall be kept at all times for cost or statistical purposes between
said funds and the existingsewerage system, as hereinabove defined, including all
additions, extensions and betterments thereto, including all revenues derived therefrom,
shall be and become.a part of said Water Works Utility. In the event, however, that
revenue bonds are issued at any time to provide funds to pay part or all of the cost of
acquiring, constructing, or installing storm or surface water sewers, or any part thereof
necessary for the proper and efficient operation of a system of sanitary sewage disposal
and treatment, or the proper and efficient operation of a combined system of sanitary
sewage and storm or surface water disposal and treatment, the principal of and interest
on such bonds may only be paid from revenues derived from charges made for sanitary
sewage disposal service and no charges shall be made for storm or surface water removal,
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and as further provided for in R.C.W. 35.67.192.
SECTION III: The City Treasurer, the City Clerk and Superintendent of
Utilities are hereby authorized and directed to provide for the necessary transfer
and proceedings in the books, records, and accounts of the CITY to effectuate the
combining of said systems and the Water Works Utility Fund created therefor.
SECTION IV: This Ordinance shall be effective from and after its passage,
approval and legal publication as provided by law.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this ---9-.f,& day of March, 1963.
HELNIIE NELSON, City Clerk
APPROVED BY THE MAYOR this„2,,`"y of Maroh, 1963.
FRANK ALIMENT, Mayor
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DATE OF PU31✓1CDATION PAR 271903