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COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

(v) Authority is hereby vested in the
Controller to increase or decrease the capital
facility assessment charge of any parcel of
property in a project area, if the use thereof
shall be changed from one of the use
classifications set forth in Section 17—608 (c)
to another.

(vi) Said capital facility connection and
assessment charge shall not be applicable to
properties previously connected to the public
wastewater system.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That if
any provision of this ordinance or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid
for any reason, such invalidity shall not affect the
other provisions or any other application of this
ordinance which can be given effect without the
invalid provisions or application, and to this end,
all the provisions of this ordinance are hereby
declared to be severable.

[[SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That
this ordinance shall take effect forty—five (45) days
from the date it becomes law, provided that until July
1, 1973, owners of property adjacent to a utility
capital project, presently under construction as of
July 1, 1972, shall have the option of paying the
water and wastewater rates in effect as of June 30,
1972.]]

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT THIS

ORDINANCE IS HEREBY DECLARED TO BE__AN EMERGENCY

ORDINANCE AND NECESSARY FOR THE IMMEDIATE PRESERVATION

OF__THE PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH, SAFETY, WELFARE AND

PROPERTY, AND BEING PASSED BY THE AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF

FIVE (5) MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY COUNCIL, THE SAME SHALL
TAKE EFFECT FROM THE DATE IT BECOMES LAW.

APPROVED AND ENACTED: November 14, 1972.