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ORDINANCE N0._4 .5 4) AN ORDINANCE amending Everett City Code 14.12.020 dealing with sewer rates for flat and metered accounts, and declaring an emergency to exist. NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1: Everett City Code 14.12.020 is hereby amended to read as follows : 14.12.020 Charges and rates for sanitary sewerage service. The classes of users connected and to be connected to the sanitary sewerage system or the combined sewerage system and the charges for sewerage service for each are hereby fixed as follows : I. Properties served by the Everett municipal water system within the corporate limits of the city: A. Flat rate domestic water accounts: 1. Single family dwellings - $2.25 per month. 2. Multiple family dwellings - $2.25 per month for first living unit, plus $2.00 for each additional living unit. (A living unit is defined as one or more habitable rooms which are occupied, rented, hired out to be occupied, or intended to be occupied by one family consisting of one or more persons for living, sleeping and eating.) B. Metered water accounts: 1. Where service is to a single family dwelling, multiple family dwelling, duplex, triplex, etc. , apartment house, the rate for sewer service shall be $2.25 per month for the first living unit, plus $2.00 per month for each additional living unit. (A living unit is defined as one or more habitable rooms which are occupied, rented, hired out to be occupied, or intended to be occupied by one family consisting of one or more persons for living, sleeping, and eating.) 2. All motels, hotels, lodging houses and boarding houses shall be charged as provided in Section 1. B 3. If for any reason a meter is not installed to the premises, the owner shall pay on the same basis as a multiple family dwelling. 3. For all other accounts served through a City water meter, the rate for sewerage service shall be $2.50 per month for the first 1,000 cubic feet of water or any part thereof measured through the water meter per month, plus $0.20 per each additional 100 cubic feet of water measured through the water meter during the same monthly period. In the event a city approved water or sewage metering device shall be installed by the person in control at his expense as provided in Everett City Code 14.12.030, the monthly sewerage service charge shall be $2.50 for the first 1,000 cubic feet of water and/or sewage measured through said special meter per month, plus $0.20 for each additional 100 cubic feet of water (and/or sewage) measured through said special meter during the same month. In the event there is no reasonable way to accurately determine the amount of water being returned to the sewerage system, than an agreement may be made providing that the consumer shall be charged a minimum monthly sewerage service charge of $2.50 basic minimum for an allowance of up to 1,000 cubic feet per month of water or sewerage plus $0.20 per each additional 100 cubic feet of water or sewage computed by the following formula: 100 cubic feet per month times the number of employees, students, inmates, or such described individual making use of or employed at the facility to which the city is providing sewerage service. This agreement, however, shall be subject to the approval of the City Council of the City of Everett.