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(1) The levy imposed to recover the cost of service to the city in furnishing drainage for any benefitted property; and (2) If specifically provided by ordinance, an amount made in contribution to funding of future drainage system construction by the city. Drainage system means the drainage 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. Equivalent residential unit (ERU) means the basic billing unit for the drainage charge. Facilities means the property, either real, personal, or mixed, that is used in providing drainage and included in the drainage system. Impervious cover means roads, streets, parking areas, buildings, sidewalks and other construction covering the natural land surface that is impenetrable to stormwater. Improved lot or tract means a lot or tract that has a structure or other improvement on it that causes an impervious coverage of the soil under the structure or improvement. Public utility means a drainage service that is regularly provided by the city through municipal property dedicated to that service to the users of benefitted property within the service area and that is based on: (1) An established schedule of charges; (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 drainage utility, established in Section 86.504 and conforming to the limitations ofV.T.C.A., Local Government Code S402.044. User means the person who O\\'llS or occupies a benefitted property. Wholly sufficient and privately owned drainage system means land owned and operated by a person other than a municipal drainage 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 utility system. Sec. 86.503. Establishment and dedication of drainage utility assets.-. The city council establishes the city drainage utility as a public utility and dedicates to the utility all city-owned property, real and personal, facilities, materials and supplies constituting the city's drainage system as constituted on the effective date of this article and as may be acquired in the future, to be used for the purposes of the drainage utility. Sec. 86.504. Establishment and revisions to drainage utility service area. (a) The city council establishes the drainage utility service area as the city limits ofthe city, as presently configured and as the same may be amended from time to time. (b) Except as affected by amendments to the city limits, revisions to the service area will be made only after the publication ofnoti'ce and a public hearing as required by state law. Sec. 86.505. Establishment and revision of drainage charges; credits. (a) The city council establishes drainage charges to be paid by users of benefitted property DU07-12-99.wpd Page 3