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All revenues received by the city from fees assessed and levied pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in revenue accounts and used as follows:
A. Sewer Service Fees. All revenues received from sewer service fees shall be deposited in a sewer service fees account and used only for the purpose of operating, maintaining, replacing, or improving sewer system facilities, or paying the principal and interest due on any debts or other obligations incurred by the city for the purpose of operating, maintaining, replacing, or improving sewer system facilities.
B. Water Pollution Control Plant Capacity Fees. All revenues received from water pollution control plant capacity fees shall be deposited in a water pollution control plant capacity fees account and used only for the purpose of providing additional capacity in the water pollution control plant or paying any debt or other obligation incurred by the city for the purpose of providing additional capacity in the water pollution control plant.
C. Trunkline Capacity Fees and Lift Station Capacity Fees. All revenues received from trunkline capacity fees and lift station capacity fees shall be deposited in a trunkline capacity fees and lift station capacity fees account and used only for the purpose of providing additional trunklines or lift stations, providing additional capacity in existing trunklines or lift stations, and/or paying the principal and interest on any debt or other obligation incurred by the city for the purpose of providing additional trunklines or lift stations or providing additional capacity in existing trunklines or lift stations, including, but not limited to, any obligation under a trunkline or lift station reimbursement agreement.
D. Sewer Main Installation Fees and Sewer Lateral Installation Fees. All revenues received from sewer main installation fees and sewer lateral installation fees shall be deposited in a sewer main and sewer lateral installation fees account and used only for the purpose of providing additional sewer mains and/or sewer laterals or paying the principal and interest on any debt or other obligation incurred by the city for the purpose of providing additional sewer mains and/or sewer laterals, including, but not limited to, any obligation under a sewer main reimbursement agreement.
(Ord. 1735 §1 (part), Ord. 2049 §4, Ord. 2092 §6)
A. Report of City Manager. Commencing with the 1991/1992 fiscal year and in each fiscal year thereafter, the city manager, on or before the date the city council considers its budget for the ensuing fiscal year, shall provide the city council with a report which sets forth the total amount of all water pollution control plant capacity fees, trunkline capacity fees, lift station capacity fees, sewer main installation fees, and sewer lateral installation fees then on deposit in the water pollution control plant capacity fees account, the trunkline capacity and lift station capacity fees account, and the sewer main and sewer lateral installation fees account.
B. Action by the City Council. Commencing with the 1991/1992 fiscal year and in each fiscal year thereafter, the city council, following receipt of the city manager's report, shall take one of the following actions with respect to any unappropriated water pollution control plant capacity fee revenues, trunkline capacity fee revenues, lift station capacity fee revenues, sewer main installation fee revenues, and/or sewer lateral installation fee revenues then on deposit in the water pollution control plant capacity fees account, trunkline and lift station capacity fees account, or sewer main and sewer lateral installation fees account which were received and deposited in such accounts four or more years prior to the date of such report:
1. Appropriate all or any part of such unappropriated fee revenues for the acquisition, construction and/or installation of sewer system facilities in the manner hereinbefore provided by this chapter;
2. Make a finding with respect to all or any part of such fee revenues which identifies the purpose to which the revenues are to be put and which demonstrates a reasonable relationship between the fees from which the revenues were derived and the purposes for which they were charged; or
3. Provide for the refund of all or any part of such unappropriated fee revenues, together with any interest accrued thereon, to the current owner of any property for which fees were paid; provided, however, that if the administrative costs of refunding such fee revenues exceed the amount to be refunded, the city council, after considering the matter at a public hearing, notice of which is given in the manner provided for by Section 66001(e) of the California Government Code, may appropriate such fee revenues for any other facility or improvement for which development fees are charged or otherwise imposed pursuant to this code and which the council determines will benefit the properties for which the sewer fees were paid.
(Ord. 1865 §3, Ord. 2049 §5, Ord. 2092 §7)
The following premises located within the Chico Sphere of Influence, as designated by the Butte County Local Agency Formation Commission, shall be entitled to receive city sewer service upon issuance of a connection permit, payment of all fees, and subject to all other conditions and requirements hereinafter provided for by this chapter:
A. All premises located in that part of the Chico Sphere of Influence within the incorporated territory of the City.
B. The following premises in that part of the Chico Sphere of Influence within the unincorporated territory of the county of Butte:
1. Nonresidential premises developed or being developed with buildings or structures devoted to an industrial use;
2. Residential or nonresidential premises owned by a nonprofit corporation and developed or being developed with buildings or structures utilized or to be utilized by such nonprofit corporation in the provision of social services benefitting persons residing within the incorporated territory of the City of Chico.
3. Residential or nonresidential premises served by a failing septic tank; and
4. Residential or nonresidential premises subject to a sewer service and annexation agreement executed prior to December 17, 1993, in which the city undertook to provide sewer service to such premises, residential or nonresidential premises which are within a county subdivision for which the city issued a commitment to provide sewer service prior to December 17, 1993, and residential or nonresidential premises authorized to connect to sewer services pursuant to a connection permit issued prior to September 14, 1995.
(Ord. 1735 §1 (part), Ord. 1971 §2, Ord. 2068 §1)
The city council may, by written agreement, authorize another public agency owning a sewerage collection system within the unincorporated territory of the county of Butte to connect such sewerage collection system to the water pollution control plant owned and operated by the city where:
A. The area served by the sewerage collection system is located entirely within the Chico Sphere of Influence as approved by the Butte County Local Agency Formation Commission; and
B. The agreement with the public agency owning the sewerage collection system includes the following provisions:
1. A provision which requires the sewerage collection system to be connected to the headworks of the water pollution control plant at the sole cost and expense of the public agency operating the sewerage collection system and in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the director,
2. A provision which sets forth the means for funding any expansion of the water pollution control plant facilities required to treat all of the wastewaters to be discharged to the water pollution control plant through the sewerage collection system and, where necessary, coordinates the commencement of any such wastewater discharge with the completion of such expanded facilities,
3. A provision which requires all connections to the sewerage collection system, all sewer laterals and sewer main extensions installed incident to a connection to the sewerage collection system, and all discharges of wastewaters to the sewerage collection system to comply with the requirements of this chapter,
4. A provision which authorizes the city to maintain the sewerage collection system and monitor all wastewaters discharged thereto.
(Ord. 1735 §1 (part), Ord. 1971 §3, Ord. 2364 §251)
The city council shall, by written agreement, authorize the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University System, the Butte County Superintendent of Schools, any school district, and any other state agency to connect premises owned or used by them and located within the incorporated territory of the city or located in that portion of the unincorporated territory of the county of Butte within the Chico Sphere of Influence to the sewer system in consideration of the payment of a negotiated sewer system capacity fee, which negotiated sewer system capacity fee shall be in lieu of the payment of any water pollution control plant capacity fee, trunkline capacity fee, lift station capacity fee, sewer main installation fee, or sewer lateral installation fee hereinafter provided for by this chapter. Such fee shall be negotiated with such public agency in a manner provided for in Chapter 13, Part 1, Division 2, Title 5 of the California Government Code, commencing with Section 54999, as amended, shall be based on the same objective criteria and methodology established by this chapter for determining the water pollution control plant capacity fee, trunkline capacity fee, lift station capacity fee, sewer main installation fee, and sewer lateral installation fee assessed and levied upon other owners of premises connecting to the sewer system, and shall be in an amount which does not exceed the public agency's proportionate share of the cost of the sewer system facilities of benefit to the premises being served by such facilities. This section, however, shall not relieve a public agency connecting premises to the sewer system from complying with any other provisions of this chapter relating to premises connected or being connected to the sewer system save and except for those provisions relating to the imposition of a water pollution control plant capacity fee, trunkline capacity fee, lift station capacity fee, sewer main installation fee, and/or sewer lateral installation fee.
(Ord. 1865 §4, Ord. 1971 §4, Ord. 2049 §6, Ord. 2092 §8, Ord. 2300)
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