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ORDINANCE NO. 653
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE SUBMISSION' TO TEE VOTERS AT A
SPECIAL ELECTION OF' TEE ,CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE, TEXAS,
ON DECEMBER 12, 1953, OF AN .AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER OF SAID
CITY WITH RESPECT TO TEE USE OF WATER AND SEWER DEPARTMENT
RECEIPI'S AND REVENUES AND PROVIDING FOR THE FORM AND MAENER
IN WHICH THE SAID AMENDMENT IS TO BE SUBMITTED.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMmSSION OF THE CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY
PLACE, TEXAS:
That there shall be submitted to the voters of the City of West
University Place, Texas, at the respective polling places designated for
Precincts No. 87, 133 and 183, to-wit: The West University Elementary
School, 3756 University Boulevard, the West University Place City Hall,
3800 University Boulevard, and the West University Place Community House,
6104 Auden Street, on December 12, 1953, at a special election hereby called,
notice of which shall be given by publication in the Houston Chronicle no
later than the 12th day of' November, 1953, said election date being more
than thirty (30) days and less than ninety (90) days from the date ofpubli-
cation of said notice as well as the passage of this Ordinance, the following
amendme'nt to the City Charter of the City of West University Place, Texas,
such proposed ~ndment being designated Proposition No.1:
PROPOSITION NO. 1
Shall the charter of the City of West Unive~sity Place, Texas, and,
Section 4 of Article XVII! of said charter be amended 60 that Section 4 of'
Article XVIII of said charter shall hereafter read as follows:
ARTICLE,XVIII
WATER AND SEWER DEPARTMENT
Section 4 - Use of Funds: -' All receipts and revenues from the Water and Sewer
Department shall be deposited in two (2) separate funds to be known as the
Water and Sewer Funds for the following purposes:
FIRST: From the Water Fund there shall be paid all costs of maintenance,
operation: and repairs of the water system as provided in'Art-icles 1111 to
1118 Revised Civil Statutes of' Texas, 1925, inclusive, as the same have been
orrriay hereafter be amended; ,
SECOND: After payment of the expenses as provided in Purpose First, there
shallbe'paid the principal and interest and such reserves as may be prescribed
in any Ordinance enacted by the City Commission authorizing the issuance of'
revenue bonds payable in whole or in part from the revenues of' the City's
wa. ter system. "
THIRD: After payment of the expenses and other items contained in Purposes
First and Second~ there shall be accumulated as a reserve f'und within the
Water Fund a.sum of $15,000 for the reconstrllction, extension, improvement,
betterment, operation, maintenance, repair, materials and other things necessa~
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to the operation and maintenance of the water system. If and when said
reserve fund, or any part thereof, is utilized as herein provided in any
given year, it shall be the duty of the City Commission to cause an amount
to be budgeted in the next succeeding fiscal year, subject to the payment
of the expenses and items provided for in Purposes First and Second, to
replenish said reserve fund in order that said fund may be maintained at a
$15,000 level from year to year; ,
FOURTH: Any and all sums constituting receipts and revenues from the water
system in exces~ of the amounts required for the hereinabovedJtated purposes
shall be deemed surplus receipts and revenues and may be transf'ormed by the
City Commission to the general-fund; ,
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FIFTH: FrQm the Sewer Fund there shall be paid all costs of' maintenance,
operation an<lr.epairs of,tbe sewer 'system as provided in Articles 1111 to 1118
Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, inclusive, as the same hS.ve been or
may hereafter be amended;
SIXTH: After payment of' the exPenses as provided in Purpose Fifth, there shall
be paid the principal and interest ~nd,such reserves as may be prescribed in
any Ordinance enacted bythe'City COmmiSSion authorizing the issuance of
revenue bonds payable in whole or in part from the revenues of' the City's
sewer system. ' ,
SEvENTH: After pa.;vment of the expenses and other items conta.ined in Purposes
Fifth and Sixth, there shall be accumulated as a reserve fund within the
Sewer Fund a sum of' $lO,OOO.OO'for the reconstruction, extension, improvement,
betterment, 'operation, maintenance, repair, materials and other things :J
necessary ,to the operation and maintenance of the sewer system." If and when
said reserve fund, or any part thereof, is utilized as herein provided in
any given year~it shall be the'duty of the City Commission to cause an
amount to be budgeted in the next succeeding fiscal year, subject to the
payment of the expenses and. items provided for in Purposes Fifth and Sixth,
to replenish said reserve fund in order that said fund may be maintained at
a $10,000 level from year to year.
EIGHTH: Any and ,all sums constituting receipts and revenues from the sewer
system in excess of the amounts required for payment of'expenses and other
items as contained in Purposes Fifth, Sixth and Seventh shall be deemed '
s~plus receipts and revenues and may be transferred by the City Commission
to the general fUnd. n' ,
PASSED AND APPROVED this 9th day of November, 1953.
COMMISSIONERS VOTING AYE
All
COMMISSIONERS, VOTING NO
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MAYOR OF THE CITY OF WEST
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