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The city treasurer shall receive all such revenues from the combined waterworks and sewerage system and all other funds and monies incident to the operation of such system as the same may be delivered to the treasurer and deposit the same in a separate fund designated as the "waterworks and sewerage fund of the city" and said treasurer shall administer such fund in every respect in the manner provided by the provisions of the Illinois municipal code, effective July 1, 1961, and all laws amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, and as provided in all outstanding, applicable bond ordinances as the same may from time to time exist. (Ord. 1267, 12-5-1989)
The city treasurer shall establish a proper system of accounts and shall keep proper books, records and accounts in which complete and correct entries shall be made of all transactions relative to the sewerage system and the water system and at regular annual intervals he shall cause to be made an audit by an independent auditing concern of the books to show the receipts and disbursements of the sewerage system and the water system. The Illinois environmental protection agency shall have access to all records of the system. (Ord. 1267, 12-5-1989)
A copy of this chapter, properly certified by the city clerk, shall be filed in the office of the recorder of deeds of Fulton County, Illinois, and shall be deemed notice to all owners of real estate of their liability for service supplied to any user of the service of the combined waterworks and sewerage system of the city on their properties. (Ord. 1267, 12-5-1989)
No sewer or water service from the city shall be extended to, for or on behalf of any person or facility within the corporate limits of the city unless and until a building permit has first been procured therefor as required by the applicable provisions of this code.
No sewer or water service from the city shall be extended to, for or on behalf of any person or facility outside the corporate limits of the city unless and until a building permit has first been procured as required by the applicable provisions of this code in like instances within the corporate limits of the city. (Ord. 1267, 12-5-1989)
Whenever builders, brick masons, plasterers or contractors use the water of the city in and about their work, the same shall be metered and be charged for at the regular rate. During the winter, whenever builders, brick masons, plasterers or contractors use the water of the city, they shall pay forty five dollars ($45.00) for residential construction and one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) for commercial construction. (Ord. 3097, 4-8-2015)
All officers and employees connected with the city waterworks, the building official or any person by him authorized, and the public works, water and sewer committee, or any member thereof, shall have free access at all reasonable hours to the premises where water is used, to make necessary examinations and inspections. (Ord. 1267, 12-5-1989)
Applications for water or sewer connections must be made in writing to the water and sewer department upon forms provided by the city. All applications shall contain the legal description and common address of the property to which service is requested to be made and shall be signed by the owner of such property or by the owner's authorized agent, with satisfactory proof of such agency required. In such application, the owner of the real property or his authorized agent, must agree to be governed by the provisions of this code in force at the time of the application, and as the same may thereafter be amended. The making of such written application shall be prima facie proof of the owner's agreement to be so governed and shall be conclusive proof of such agreement in a court of law. (Ord. 1267, 12-5-1989)
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