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## THE VILLAGE OF ROCKYFORD
BYLAW NO. 2023-002
## PUBLIC UTILITY BYLAW
## A BYLAW REGULATING AND PROVIDING FOR THE SUPPLY AND USE OF THE WATER, WASTEWATER, AND WASTE COLLECTION UTILITIES IN THE VILLAGE OF ROCKYFORD
THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF ROCKYFORD, IN THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA, DULY ASSEMBLED ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I - Definitions:
"AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL" means any employee or contractor of the Village of Rockyford authorized by Council for the purpose of providing service of water, sewer, or garbage.
"CAO" refers to the Chief Administrative Officer of the Village of Rockyford the pipes, wires or apparatus running up to the building, located on or within the exterior walls of the building, and running from the exterior walls to couplings, stop-cocks, meters and other apparatus placed inside the building by the municipality or person providing the public utility, and b. those couplings, stopcocks, meters and other apparatus.
"CONSUMER" shall be understood and construed as anyone using Village water, sewer, and garbage services including a firm, corporation, owner, occupier, lessee or tenant.
"COUNCIL" refers to the Council of the Village of Rockyford.
"MUNICIPAL UTILITY SERVICE" means a utility service provided by the Village of Rockyford.
"OCCUPANT" means the occupier of any property who resides in or carries on any kind of business
therein.
purpose.
"OWNER" means the person who is registered under the Land Titles Act as owner of the property. "PROPERTY" means land or building or a part thereof occupied, unoccupied, or used for any
"PUBLIC UTILITY " means a system or works used to provide water, sewage disposal, and waste management services for public consumption, benefit convenience or use within the Village of Rockvford and includes the apparatus that is provided for public consumption, benefit, convenience
10.
"SPRINKLING" means the distribution of water to the surface or sub-surface of lawns, gardens, or other areas situated outside buildings by pipes, hoses, sprinklers or any other method, and shall include all uses of water other than human and commercial consumption and fire fighting.
11.
"STREET MAIN" means that portion of land on which any sewer or water main is laid for the service of more than one person.
"TENANT" means one who rents or leases a property from a landlord.
13.
VILLAGE" refers to the Village of Rockyford in the Province of Alberta.
14.
"WATER OR SEWER SERVICE CONNECTION" means the system or works of the public utility that runs from the main lines of the Village of Rockyford public utility to a building or other place on a parcel of land for the purpose of providing the utility service to the parcel and includes those parts of the system or works described in Section | 3:
15.
"WHEATLAND REGIONAL CORPORATION" the corporation contracted by the Village to provide water and sewer service, maintenance and billing..
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imposed which may be limited to certain times or which may be unlimited as to time in which latter case, a similar public notice shall be circulated giving notice of the time of cessation of such regulation, restriction or prohibition.
b) In exercising the authority conferred by Section Il 8 a) the CAO:
a) The CAO may at such times and for such length of time as he considers necessary or advisable, regulate, restrict or prohibit sprinkling.
## Sprinkling
obtained from the village. No person shall wrongfully, or negligently waste any water.
Disposal and Sale of water No person bal in, man, or astruct there aces to rate are roa the said property line.
The Chief of the Rockyford Fire Department, his assistants and officers, and members of that department, are authorized to use the hydrants or fire plugs for the purpose of extinguishing fires, or for making trial of hose pipe, or for fire protection, but all such use shall be under the supervision of the said Chief or his duly authorized assistants, and in no event shall any inexperienced or incompetent person be permitted to manipulate or control in anyway any hydrant or plug.
close or operate or interfere with any valve, hydrant or fire plug, or draw water therefrom.
Except as hereinafter provided, no persons other than authorized personnel shall open or Interference with Hydrants and Valves No wells or other sources of supply of water except the Village water mains shall be used in the Village Wells and Other Sources of Supply of Water It is hereby declared that no person shall have any claim for compensation or damages as the result of the Wheatland Regional Corporation shutting off the water without notice or from the failure of the water supply from any cause whatsoever.
connecting water shall be by resolution of Council
## Water shall be turned on and off only by authorized personnel. Cost of disconnecting or
Turning on or shutting off Water Where meters are installed for the measuring of water, all owners, tenants, or occupiers shall give every facility for the placing, inspection, and reading of such meter, and shall protect it from interference or injury by frost or otherwise, and shall be liable for any damage which may occur to the meter.
The Village will provide 5/8"x 3/4" meters to current consumers. Those consumers requiring a larger meter will be charged for the difference in price between the 5/8"x 3/4" and the larger meter. The Village also supplies the remote top for the meters. All consumers are required to have a meter installed where it is physically possible to do so, all meters shall have a remote head for outside reading.
the property line and the meter unless prior approval by designated officer of Village of All water service pipes laid in private property, between the property line and the water meter, shall be of the same material as the service pipe in the street between the water
main and the property line. No connection may be made to the water service pipe between a. No person except authorized personnel shall make any connection whatsoever with any of the public pipes or mains.
## Tapping Water Mains
## SECTION II - Waterworks
## appropriate.
May regulate, restrict or prohibit sprinkling in all or any part of parts of the village in so doing the CAO may provide different times during which different consumers may sprinkle by reference to compass direction, streets, odd and even street addresses, or in such other manner as the CAO in his absolute discretion considers c) The CAO may cause the water supply to any consumer who causes, permits or allows sprinkling in contravention of any such regulation, restriction or prohibition to be shut off until such consumer enters into an undertaking to abide by and comply with such regulation, restriction or prohibition in a form acceptable to the CAO.
## SECTION III - Sewers
Only feces, urine, the necessary closet paper, wastewater, and slops shall be properly
Use and Protection of Sewer System discharged through a house sewer into Village sewer b. No person shall throw, deposit or leave in or upon any Village sewer, or any trap, basin, grat, mamare le or one epings, stock of ones, lages, war an auto airs old, garbage, straw, twigs, leaves, papers, rags, cinders, ashes, tar, feathers, glass, diapers, or refuse No person shall be permitted to discharge into any sewer - any liquid or liquids which would adversely affect the sewers, or the disposal of the sewage, or any matter or substance by which the free flow of the sewage may be interfered with, or any chemical refuse or other higher temperature than one hundred and eighty degrees Fahrenheit (180 F) or eighty-two trade waste, or any waste steam, condensing water, heated water or other liquids of a degrees Celsius (82 C).
No person shall make or cause to make any connection with any Village sewer, or house drain, or appurtenance thereof for the purpose of conveying, or which may convey, into the same any inflammable or explosive material, storm water, roof drainage, cistern or tank overflow, condensing or cooling water. In some cases, roof drainage may be permitted but must have approval of the Village engineer, Plumbing Inspector, and the Village Council.
No person shall discharge the contents of any privy vault, manure pit or cesspool, directly or indirectly, into any Village sewer or house drain connected therewith.
No person shall turn, lift, remove, raise or tamper with the cover of any manhole, ventilator
or other appurtenance of the Village sewer, except duly authorized personnel.
No person shall cut, break, pierce, or tap any Village sewer or appurtenance thereof, or introduce any pipe, tube, trough or conduit into any Village sewer.
No person shall interfere with the free discharge of any Village sewer, or part thereof, or do any act or things, which may impede or obstruct the flow or clog up any Village sewer or appurtenance thereof.
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## Industrial and Trade Wastes
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## Interceptors
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In the case of rental or revenue properties, the owner of the property, not any tenant, shall be responsible for making a water, sewer and garbage utility application to Wheatland otherwise in use.
Each owner of a property shall be responsible for making a water, sewer and garbage
application to Wheatland Regional Corporation as soon as the property is occupied or Rental Properties In the event that a water, sewer and garbage bill remains unpaid past a balance of $1000 Wheatland Regional Corporation will be responsible for sending the customer to collection.
established by Wheatland Regional Corporation.
Penalties for delinquent accounts and procedures for water shut-off for non-payment will be Wheatland Regional Corporation will send out a monthly billing for water, sewer and garbage at the rates as established by Village Council.
Water, sewer and garbage rates shall be set from time to time by resolution of Council.
Billing Regulations In the event that mains are required in order to provide services for the applicant, the applicant will be required to pay the cost of the said mains unless otherwise specified by Council.
Service Connections
## SECTION VI - Service Information
Materials that are not acceptable for weekly collection include but are not limited to large pieces of wood walls, doors, construction materials, large pieces of metal, car parts, appliances, heavy steel, paint, oil, toxic chemicals, out-dated drugs, bio-medical waste, sharps, syringes, empty pharmaceutical bottles, tires, propane tanks. The resident at the resident's expense must transfer these prohibited materials to the Rockyford Waste Transfer Site or to Drumheller Landfill Site.
collection day.
Personnel shall not be required to collect any garbage not properly prepared and Garbage shall be prepared for collection as follows: drained, securely wrapped and placed in an animal proof container. All items placed out for collection must be in bags. Weight of each bag shall not exceed fourty (40) pounds Containers shall be in the lane or in front of the property on the designated The Village shall supply once weekly waste collection service to each residence and or business. The day of waste collection will be designated by Council. Residents are also allowed direct access to the Rockyford Waste Transfer Site during hours of operation under SECTION V - Waste Collection part of this Bylaw as if incorporated herein.
Regulations, and amendments thereof, which regulations shall be considered as forming No person other than duly authorized personnel acting under the direction of the Wheatland Regional Corporation operators shall make any connection to, or shall cut or otherwise tamper in any way with a public or Village sewer Sewer Connections Grease Traps Regional Corporation as soon as a building on the owner's property is occupied or otherwise in use.
The owner of the property shall be responsible for all water consumed on a premise, whether the water consumption was registered by the water meter or consumed by accidental or illegal means.
## 4. Re-Connection of Service
In the event that a water service has been shut off for non-payment of account as prescribed in Wheatland Regional Corporation policies, a re-connection fee as set by Council shall be charged and shall be payable in advance of the turning on of the service.
In the event a water service has been shut off upon the request of the consumer, a reconnection fee as set by Council shall be payable in advance for the turning on of the service.
In the event a disconnection or reconnection fee is to be levied, that fee will be billed by and payable to Wheatland Regional Corporation.
Property Ownership In the event a property is sold; has a name change or a new property title is issued a transfer fee that represents this disconnection as set by Council from time to time shall be charged and shall be payable in advance of the changing of title. No rebate shall be made for any fractional part of a month.
In the event a property is sold, has a name change or a new property title is issued a transfer fee representing this reconnection fee as set by Council from time to time shall be charged and shall be payable in advance of the changing of title. No rebate shall be made for any fractional part of a month.
## Discontinuance of Service
Any person intending to vacate the property that have been supplied with water from the waterworks, sewer or garbage, or who is desirous of discontinuing the use thereof shall be charged the regular monthly fees of rates and levies as have been set by Council, no rebate shall be made for any fractional part of a month.
Section VII - Repeal Bylaw No. 2020-002 and amendments thereto are rescinded.
This bylaw shall take effect upon the date of the final reading.
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Pass Me to em Administrator A Mile Bake READ a third and final time this / 2 \_day of. April 2023.
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Carried Unanimously
Received permission to proceed to Third and Final Reading this 12 day of Apre 2023
READ a second time this 12 day of April 2023
READ a first time this 12 day of April 2023