HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 2357ORDINANCE NO. 2357
NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD ADDING CHAPTER 1.30 TO THE
MUNICIPAL CODE CREATING THE BAKERSFIELD
WATER BOARD, SETTING FORTH THE POWERS AND
DUTIES OF SAID BOARD.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of
as follows:
SECTION 1.
That Chapter 1.30 is added
Code to read as follows:
the City of Bakersfield
to the Bakersfield Municipal
Sections:
1.30.010
1.30.020
1.30.030
1.30.040
Chapter 1.30
CITY OF BAKERSFIELD WATER BOARD
Board Membership
Authorization and Powers of Water Board
City Clerk--Ex Officio Secretary
Annual Budget
1.30.010 Board Membership. There is hereby created a Board which
shall be known as the City of Bakersfield Water Board. Members of
the Water Board shall be comprised of the Water and City Growth
Committee of the City Council, the City Manager, and City Attorney.
One member shall be elected as chairman and one shall
be elected as vice-chairman to serve in the absence of the chairman.
The Water Board shall perform the duties and responsi-
bilities prescribed herein.
1.30.020 Authorization and Powers of Water Board. The City of
Bakersfield Water Board is authorized and empowered to:
1. Establish and collect all water rates, contract for sale
or exchange of water, collect income from water-bearing lands and
generally regulate, control, manage, renew,
water system and related lands of the City,
of the underground water supply.
repair and preserve the
including preservation
2. To make rules and regulations governing the conduct of
said Board and setting the time and dates for meetings.
3. To employ such nonpermanent persons as the necessities of
the water system may require.
4. The Board shall have power to control and order the expen-
diture of money received from sale and use of water for the defray-
ing of expenses or maintenance and repairs and operation of the water
system, and for any expenses for additions to the same, provided
that all such money shall be deposited in the treasury of the City
to the credit of a fund to be known as the Water Fund, and shall be
kept separate and apart from other moneys of the City, and shall only
be drawn from said fund upon demands authenticated by the signature
of the President and Secretary of the Board, or in the absence of
the President, by the signature of two members and the Secretary of
the Board.
1.30.030 City Clerk--Ex Officio Secretary. The City Clerk shall
be Ex Officio Secretary of said Board, and shall keep a record of the
thereof, and shall, whenever required, certify such pro-
proceedings
ceedings.
1.30.040
Annual Budget. The Board shall cause to be prepared
annually a budget for the operation of the water system, which shall
be subject to approval by the City Council.
SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall become effective thirty days from
and after the date of its passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on the MOth day of June , 1977, by
the following vote:
CITY CLERK and Ex Officio Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
the City of Bakersfield
1977
APPROVED as to form:
C%TY ATTORNEY o~,~zhe glny of Bakersfield
AffraY! of ostmg ( rhman es
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, t
County of Kern ss.
H. E. BERGEN, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That he is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
that or~ ...............................................~..u...q..e.......~...0.. .......................................................,19._.~.~. he posted on the Bulletin Board
at the City Hail, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council of said City
at a meeting thereof duly held on ....................J....u...~.~..._~.~ ..............................................., 19._~..~..., which ordinance
was numbered ......... ~.~P~ ................New Series, and entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD ADDING CHAPTER 1.30 TO THE
MUNICIPAL CODE CREATING THE BAKERSFIELD
WATER BOARD, SETTING FORTH THE POWERS AND
DUTIES OF SAID BOARD.
City C~erk
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
2~8~ .. day of Jur~ ................. , 19.~?..