923.02 RATES; BILLING.
Council finds that the following are just and equitable charges against the users of the sewerage system for the purpose stated in Section 923.01,
and such charges are hereby established as follows:
(a) Effective January 1, 2020, residential, commercial, industrial, public and institutional establishments served by a connection to a sanitary sewer shall be charged for usage by the same rate schedule. The amount of water consumed shall govern the charges for sewer usage. The minimum sewer usage charge per quarter is $48.66 for 700 cu.ft. or less of water consumed. Water usage greater than 700 cu.ft. per quarter shall result in a sewer usage charge by the following formula:
(Water usage expressed in thousand of cu. ft. minus .700) times $38.74 plus $48.66.
All residential users shall have meters read and invoiced on a quarterly interval. Commercial and industrial users may be read and billed monthly or quarterly as determined by the Director of Public Service.
In the event there is no readily available means of determining the amount of water consumed because the establishment does not purchase City water, or for some other reason, or if the Director of Public Service determines the establishment's consumption of water is not reasonably related to its discharge flow into the City sewage system, the rate shall be based upon the actual meter discharge flow and will be invoiced per the formula found in this section.
Effective January 1, 2011 and each year thereafter, the rate for sewer usage shall be increased by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers.
(b) Effective January 1, 2020, each parcel or lot having a single or two-family dwelling not served by City water shall be charged $143.06 per quarter for sewer service.
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a) hereof, any customer may at his option and cost have installed a separate water meter to measure water consumed but not discharged into the sanitary sewerage system. Such water so metered will not be considered in calculating the sewer charge.
(d) Any person or institution permitted by the City to transport raw sewage by truck and placed into the City’s Sanitary Sewer System, shall be charged by the formula found in paragraph (a).
(e) Further, notwithstanding anything in this section to the contrary, each residential, commercial, industrial, public and institutional establishment served by a connection to a sanitary sewer, the sewage for which is treated by a treatment plant located in a political subdivision other than the City of Aurora, shall be charged at the usage rate that is applicable to Aurora residents in accordance with subsection (a) hereof.
(f) If any bill so rendered is not paid within thirty days from the date the same is billed, it shall be delinquent from and after such date and a penalty of ten percent (10%) shall be added thereto when permitted by law. The amount which represents such unpaid and delinquent bill plus such penalty shall be certified by the Director of Finance to the County Auditor who shall place such amount upon the real property tax list and duplicate of the property in which sewer service represented by such unpaid bill was provided, and such charge shall be a lien on such property from and after the date of delinquency and shall be collected in the same manner as Municipal taxes.
(g) Effective October 1, 2009, the Aurora residents of Surfside Court, Surfside Circle and Nautilus Trail (a.k.a. Aurora Shores) whose sanitary waste is serviced by the Summit County Department of Environmental Services shall pay the same rate to the City of Aurora as the Aurora Sewer Rate.
(Ord. 2019-182. Passed 12-16-19.)