All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner, under the provisions as follows: The owner or the person installing the building sewer for the owner shall indemnify the POTW and township from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(A) Each user whose premises are hereafter connected directly to a public sewer shall pay to the township a connection charge as provided in this subchapter and based on the unit factors shown in Exhibit A, Table of Unit Factors attached to Ordinance 432.
(B) Computation of charges.
(1) Where the premises consist of dwellings which include single-family homes, apartments, condominiums, or mobile homes, the connection charge shall be $3,000 per unit, except as provided in subsection (3).
(2) For all other premises consisting of commercial, industrial and institutional facilities, the connection charge shall be $3,000 per unit for each of the first 5 units per connection and $2,500 for each additional unit or fraction thereof per connection except as provided in subsection (4).
(3) In the case of a property owner who has owned the subject property for 2 or more years at the time a public sewer first becomes available for connection, the following regulation and charges shall apply:
(a) If a property owner requests a sewer connection where a sewer line is not at the subject’s property line, the property owner must pay to bring the sewer line to their property line.
(b) If the subject property has situated upon it, a septic system which meets all requirements, the connection charge shall be $1,500 per unit. If the existing septic system does not meet the above specified requirements, the regular charge, as above set forth shall apply.
(c) For property owners in the Swartz Creek Sewer District, the connection charge shall be $1,700 per unit plus an annual special assessment of $10 for transportation charges (as per agreement).
(4) When a developer bears the cost of constructing a portion of the public sewer system, brings it to the property line and makes it available to a parcel or parcels, the connection charge to the developer or parcels owned by him or her and to which the developer made service available, shall be at the rate of $2,250 per unit.
(C) The foregoing connection charges shall be paid in cash when the connection permit is issued by the township except that, where the building or other structure connected to the sewer has been constructed prior to the effective date of this chapter, the user shall have the option of paying installments as follows: The minimum sum of $300 per single unit connection or 10% of the total computed connection permit as issued by the township and the balance shall be paid in 10 equal annual installments together with interest at 6% per annum on the declining balance from the date when the connection permit is issued. The first installment and accrued interest shall be due and payable on the next December 1, which is more than 3 months after the date when the connection permit is issued, the subsequent installments with accrued interest shall be due and payable on December l , annually thereafter, and all installments with accrued interest shall be subject to the same interest, fees, and penalties as the township taxes on such premises. The balance of any connection charge from time to time remaining unpaid may nevertheless be paid in cash at any time before due together with accrued interest to the date of payment. The balance due on the connection charge for a given premises shall be paid in full at the time same premises change ownership.
(D) All connection charges and all installments thereof, together with interest, fees, and penalties, shall constitute a lien upon the premises connected to the sewer and such lien shall be enforced in the same manner as are liens for township taxes.
(E) The foregoing charges, as established by resolution of the Township Trustees, shall be billed and collected monthly or quarterly as the Township Board shall determine. The charges shall become due on the 15th day of the month following the end of each billing period, and if the charges are not paid on or before that date, then a penalty of 10% shall be added thereto. In the event that the charges for any billing period shall not be paid within the next succeeding billing period, then the water supply to such premises shall be discontinued. Service so discontinued shall not be restored until all sums then due and owing, including penalties, shall be paid, plus a water turn-on charge of $25.
(F) The foregoing charges, including penalties, payable for sewage disposal and treatment service to any premises shall be a lien on the premises, and on August 1 of each year, the person or agency charged with the collection of the charges shall certify to the Township Assessor any charges which have been delinquent for 6 months or more, who shall enter the same upon the next tax roll against such premises, and the charges and penalties shall be collected and the lien enforced in the same manner as provided in respect to township taxes assessed upon such roll: Provided, however, that when a tenant is responsible for the payment of the charges for service to any premises, and the Board is so notified in writing, with a true copy of the lease of the affected premises (if there be one) attached, then the charge shall become a lien against the premises from and after the date of the notice. However, in the event of the filing of the notice, no further service shall be rendered to the premises until a cash deposit equal to twice the average monthly or quarterly bill to the premises shall have been made as security for payment of charges for service to the premises.
(Ord. 432, passed 10-11-2007)