(A) The subdivision plat shall include a statement that the subdivision is served by a sewage lift station, and shall include an agreement that the owners or their successors and assigns of all lots in the subdivision will pay the charges for operation, maintenance, repairs, and replacements levied by the city, that, if such charges are not paid, they shall become a lien against the property, and that unpaid charges may be certified to the county auditor for collection on the tax duplicate as other taxes are collected. The sewage lift station shall be considered as an integral part of the sewer system shown on the subdivision improvement plan and all rules and regulations of the city.
(B) The charges to cover the estimated cost of operating and maintaining sewage lift stations shall be as follows:
(1) At the time application is made for a permit to construct a sewer system to be served by a lift station, the developer shall deposit with the city the sum of $2,000.
(2) An account shall be kept of the cost of inspecting, maintaining, and operating the lift station for 3 years from the date the lift station is certified as ready for operation by the safety-service director of the city, and is accepted by the State Board of Health of Ohio.
(3) Each dwelling unit connected to the sewer system served by a sewage lift station shall be subject to an annual service charge of $10, which charge is made a lien as of January 1 of each year upon the corresponding lot, parcel of land, or premise. This annual service charge shall be in effect for the 3- year period referred to in § 51.11(B)(2).
(4) The developer shall maintain the lift station in good operating condition for the 3-year period referred to in § 51.11(B)(2), and shall assume the cost of any inspections deemed necessary by the safety-service director of the city. In the event that the developer should fail or refuse to maintain the lift station in good operating condition for the period stated, the city shall be authorized to apply such portion of the deposit made by the developer and/or the annual service charges provided by § 51.11(B)(3) as may be necessary to pay for the cost of any inspections of the lift station deemed necessary by the safety-service director, and for that cost of maintaining the lift station in good operating condition. At the end of the 3-year period, any portion of the deposit given by the developer and not required by the city for inspection and maintenance of the lift stations, as provided in § 51.11(B)(5), shall be returned to the developer.
(5) In the event that, during the 3-year period, the deposit of the developer and the annual service charges shall be insufficient for the costs of inspection and maintenance of the lift stations, then the portion of the cost of inspection and maintenance in excess of the deposit and annual service charges shall be assessed against the parcels of property connected to or benefited by the designated lift station. If the portion of such cost attributable to the benefited property is not paid by April 1, it will be certified, together with interest at 5% per annum, to the county auditor for collection on the following December tax duplicate, or as otherwise directed by council of the city.
(6) During February of each year, the director shall certify to the city treasurer the names of the owners of all parcels of property connected during the previous calendar year to the sewer system served by the designated sewage lift station, the number of dwelling units on the parcel, and, so far as possible, the mailing addresses of the owners. By March 1 of each year the city treasurer, shall notify, by postcard notice, each of the property owners that the annual sewage pumping charge is due and payable by April 1, and that if the charge is not paid by that time, it will be certified, together with a penalty of 5%, to the county auditor for collection by the county treasurer and the director shall certify any unpaid charges together with the penalty annually on or before the second Monday in September to the county auditor for collection on the following December tax duplicate.
('73 Code, § 51.07)