(A) For the services rendered by the Department of Stormwater Management, interim rates, charges and fees shall be collected from the owners of each and every lot or parcel of real estate with buildings or other structures located thereon, that are within the Town of Cedar Lake Jurisdictional Corporate Municipal limits, which interim rates, charges and fees shall be payable as hereinafter provided and shall be an amount determinable as follows:
(1) If the lot or parcel of real estate above is a customer of the Town Sanitary Sewer Utility, the interim Stormwater Management rate shall be 10% of the monthly Sanitary Sewer Utility user charge.
(2) If the lot or parcel of real estate above is not a customer of the Town Sanitary Sewer Utility, the interim Stormwater Management rate shall be as follows:
User Classifications
| Monthly Stormwater Rate
|
User Classifications
| Monthly Stormwater Rate
|
Residences, apartments and other dwelling quarters, mobile home courts
| $3.00 per dwelling unit
|
Professional offices, governmental offices, banks, utilities
| 3.20 for the first 2 employees & $1 for each employee over 2
|
Nursing home
| 1 per patient bed available for occupancy
|
Churches & other religious bodies. Also lodges & veterans organizations without eating and/or drinking facilities.
| 3.20 per establishment
|
Shop in residence
| 6.30 per residence & shop
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Motels, rooming houses, church camps & similar establishments
| 1.00 per room available for and not less than $.34 per bed
|
Retail establishments under 50,000 square feet total space, drive-in establishments, restaurants and organizations with eating and/or drinking facilities and gasoline service stations
| 3.20 for the first 2
|
Retail establishments in excess of 50,000 square feet total space, and all theaters, bowling centers, industrial uses, schools, bulk washeterias, car wash facilities, hospitals, hotels, monasteries, religious retreats, taverns, golf courses and resorts
| 3.20 for the first 2 employees and $1 for each additional employee and a total of not less than $12
|
(C) The minimum monthly charge for any service shall in no event be less than $3 or 50% of the largest billing in the preceding 11 months, whichever is the largest, and such rates shall be charge each month, even though the property is not used or occupied year round.
(D) The interim rates, charges and fees established by this section, as emended from time to time, shall be billed and collected by the town monthly. The billing shall be issued by the town on or about the first day of each month. The interim rates, charges and fees billed shall be paid by no later than the 20th day of each month. In the event the billing is not paid on or before the 20th day of each month, then a 30% penalty shall be imposed. For purposes of computing time, and particularly for the assessment of the 30% penalty, the 20th day of each month is the last day on which payment of billing without imposition of the 30% penalty may be made. After the 20th day of each month, except as provided hereafter, the 30% penalty to the billing shall be assessed and collected. In the event that the 20th day of the month is a Saturday, a Sunday, a legal holiday as defined in the Town Code, or a day in which the business office of the sewer utility is closed, the next day shall be the last day on which payment of the monthly billing may be made, and the day after such day is the time when imposition of the 30% penalty shall be imposed.
(Ord. 646, passed 3-21-95; Am. Ord. 653, passed 8-15-95; Am. Ord. 672A, passed 5-28-97)