(A) A special connection charge as set by resolution shall be paid to the city prior to making a connection to the public sanitary sewer system of the city outside the corporate limits of the city. This special connection fee shall be in addition to any other fees and charges provided for in this chapter and shall be applicable to each connection to the sanitary sewer system of the city outside the corporate limits of the city.
(Prior Code, § 51.063)
(B) Applicants for sewer connection shall be charged for expenses for all service pipe and trenching to which the applicant’s connection is to be made.
(C) (1) If the connection is to be made to any sanitary sewer which have been laid and constructed in a sewer district of the city wherein special assessments have been levied upon the property in the district to pay all or any part of the cost of construction thereof, and the property to which the connection is made has not been assessed in the district, or if the connection is to be made to any sanitary sewer hereafter constructed by the city without the levying of any special assessments for the construction thereof, the person desiring to connect shall pay the city a special connection charge as set by resolution.
(2) The fees and charges shall be in addition to other fees and charges provided for in this chapter. The special connection charge shall be paid only once with respect to the property.
(3) For the purposes of this section, FRONT FOOTAGE OF THE LOT is determined as that portion of the lot facing the sanitary sewer to which the person wishes to connect. The connection charge shall be paid to the city at the time the application is filed.
(Ord. 2696, passed 3-3-1980; Ord. 03-39, passed 11-17-2003)