Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows or as defined in Section 943.01:
(a) “CPI” or “Consumer Price Index” for purposes of this chapter means the Consumer Price Index - All Urban Consumers - U.S. City Average - All Items (current series) published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor.
(b) “Debt retirement service” means the payment to retire the Wastewater Treatment Works debt through cash generated during the period of time that the debt is outstanding. An incremental charge for the recovery of “debt service” may be added to the user charge.
(c) “Operation and maintenance costs” means all expenses of collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater.
(d) “Replacement costs” means expenditure for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. Unless specifically excluded, the term “operation and maintenance” shall include replacement.
(e) “SIC Manual” means the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented.
(f) “User charge” means the charge to each recipient of waste treatment services within the City’s service area representing a proportionate share of the costs of operation and maintenance including replacement of all waste treatment service provided.
(g) “Users class” means the division of users within the City’s service area, by the origin of the sewage discharged and by the similarity of the function of such users. Stated in three (3) general classes, they are:
(1) “Commercial user” means a special class of business or industrial user who usually contributes primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences and said user being of a nature or type identified as commercial in the SIC Manual.
(2) “Industrial user” means any user of publicly owned collection and treatment works and being of a nature or type identified as industrial in the SIC Manual.
(3) “Residential user” means single family or equivalent residences which discharge only wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(h) “User, right-to-service” means any person who by contractual arrangements, and/or by special permit reserves, uses, purchases and/or sets aside a certain capacity of the Wastewater Treatment Works for current or future use. Examples of such classifications are: one political subdivision agreeing to treat the liquid sanitary waste of another; a land developer reserving a specified number of future tap-ins; and/or any industrial user reserving a specified capacity of the Wastewater Treatment Works.
(Ord. 142-2001. Passed 7-16-01.)