Ord 2020-041/Stormwater Utility Ch. 86, Article 8, Division 1 & 2 amendment

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(2) The use of the police power to implement the service; and (3) Nondiscriminatory, reasonable, and equitable terms as declared under this chapter. Service area means the geographic area that will be served by the city's d-ain fg-e-Stormwater utility, established in section 86.504 and conforming to the limitations of V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 402.044. Stormwater charge means: (1) The levy imposed to recover the cost of service to the city in furnishing rainage-stormwater service for any benefitted property, and (2) If specifically provided by ordinance, an amount made in contribution to funding of future stormwater system construction by the city. Stormwater Code means the specific Stormwater code applied to any benefitted property within the service area. The codes are as follows; Residential (R1, R2, R3), Non -Residential (NR), and Exempt(EX). Stormwater facilities means bridges, catch basins, channels, conduits, creeks, culverts, detention ponds, ditches, draws, flumes, pipes, pumps, sloughs, treatment works, and appurtenances to those items, whether natural or artificial, or using force orrg avity, that are used to draw off surface water from land, carry the water away. collect. store. or treat the water. or divert the water into natural or artificial watercourses. Stormwater system means the drainaize owned or controlled in whole or in part by the city, including the portions of the Blanco River and San Marcos River within the service area, and dedicated to the service of benefitted property, including provisions for additions to the system. The drainage system is also known as a municipal separate storm sewer system, or MS4, meaning that the storm sewers are a separate system not connected with the sanitary sewersystem. User means the person who owns or occupies a benefitted property. Wholly sufficient and privately owned drainage Stormwater system means land owned and operated by a person other than a municipal linage Stormwater utility system the drainage of which does not discharge into a creek, river, slough, culvert, or other channel that is part of a municipal drainage stormwater utility system.