Ord 123-97 12/2/1997ORDINANCE NO. 4�3
ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 32 -41 OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES REGARDING THE USE OF AND PAYMENT FOR
WATER IN FIRE SYSTEMS
WHEREAS, insomuch as the installation of fire and sprinkler systems reduces
the potential for loss due to fires, the city utility desires to cooperate and encourage the
installation of such systems and will make no demand -type charges for the system or
consumption charges for the water used through such systems when used for fire
purposes;
WHEREAS, Section 32 -41 of the Code of Ordinances, as currently written, can
be interpreted to require a double check valve as backflow prevention on fire lines for
sprinkler systems inside buildings and fire lines with hydrants only and no sprinkler
systems;
WHEREAS, the staff has determined that it is not necessary to provide backflow
prevention for fire lines that have hydrants only, with no sprinkler systems;
WHEREAS, Council wants to ensure public health is properly protected but also
to ensure that unnecessary expenditures by developers are not required;
WHEREAS, Council desires to require double check valves for back flow
prevention only on fire lines that have sprinkler systems inside buildings; and,
WHEREAS, Council believes this ordinance must take effect upon passage, so
that property development can proceed without delay.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, THAT:
1. Section 32 -41 of the Code of Ordinances is hereby amended as follows:
"Sec. 32-41. Use of and payment for water in fire systems.
A fire line normally shall not be installed on the same meter with lines conveying
water for other than fire purposes (hereafter referred to as "domestic lines "); the fire line
should be a sole - purpose line tapped off the main. However, if the customer desires to
tap the fire line for other than fire purposes, a meter of appropriate size shall be
installed by the city on public property or easement, at the owner's expense, on the
domestic line added to the fire line. The meter shall be placed in, as nearly as possible,
the same location as if it were on a line tapped directly off the main, and must at all
times be accessible to city employees for reading and servicing. The city assumes no
responsibility for the effect of a tapped fire line on the customer's insurance coverage or
rate.
There shall be no unmetered lines tapped off a fire line. Each sprinkler fire line
shall have a double check valve and five- eighths -inch detector meter installed to
department standards, at the owner's expense, on the customer side of any taps made
on the fire line. The double check valve and five- eighths -inch detector meter and the
meter installed on a domestic line tapped off the fire line shall, when possible, be
installed in the same meter box. Each fire line without a sprinkler system shall have a
five- eighths -inch meter installed to department standards, at the owner's expense, on
the customer side of any taps made on the fire line.
The ownership, maintenance and testing of the entire system forward of the
main -line tap valve, except the detector and domestic meters which are property of the
City of Wichita Falls, reside with the property owner.
Fire lines installed as described above shall not be subject to charges which
compensate for a customer's demand on the water system, e.g., a readiness -to -serve
charge, or to consumption charges for the water used through the fire line, if used for
fire purposes.
Fire lines installed before the date of this section (April 19, 1983) are subject to
the following provisions:
(1) A fire line with no other lines tapped off it shall have no demand charges
applied, whether the fire line is metered or unmetered.
(2) When a fire line and a domestic line are connected to a compound meter,
a demand charge for the fire line will be applied when the large chamber
of the compound meter registers water consumed, if that water was not
used for fire purposes. If no water was registered by the large chamber
(or if the water registered was for fire purposes), then the demand charge
shall be applied against the small chamber which meters the water flowing
through the domestic line."
2. The immediate need to continue the normal operation of the business of the City
creates an emergency, and in order to protect the public health and welfare, and
to preserve the peace, this ordinance shall take effect immediately, and it is so
ordained.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 2nd day of December, 1997.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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ORDJNANCE NO. 121-97
AN ORDINANCE WAIV-
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FISCAL YEAR 1996 -97
ORDINANCE NO.123 -97
ORDINANCE TO AMEND
SECTION 32 -41 OF THE
CODE OF ORDINANCES
REGARDING THE USE
OF AND PAYMENT FOR
WATER IN FIRE SYS-
TEMS
ORDINANCE NO.124 -97
ORDINANCE MAKING AN
APPROPRIATION FROM
THE WATER AND SEW-
ER FUND TO APPROPRI-
A T E O P E R A T I N G
ACCOUNTS FOR EXPEN-
DITURES TO INSTALL
NEW WATER MAINS AND
FIRE HYDRANTS IN
NEWLY ANNEXED AR-
EAS
ORDINANCE NO. 125-97
AN ORDINANCE WAIV-
ING SEC. 22- 1(A)(9) OF
THE CODE OF ORDI-
NANCES TO PERMIT
SIGNS IN HAMILTON' L
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Affidavit of Publication
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF WICHITA
On this 15th
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day of December
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Texas, and upon being duly sworn by me, on oath states that the attached
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December 14, 1997
Bookkeeper for Times Publishing Company
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