The Mayor and City Council hereby find and determine: This city has constructed and owns and operates a sewerage system and plant for the treatment, purification and disposal in a sanitary manner of the liquid and solid wastes, sewage and night soil of such community and it is necessary, in order to protect the health of the inhabitants of the city and to comply with the law of the state and the requirements of the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy that the sewerage system be operated and maintained; that in order to provide the revenues to operate and maintain the sewer system and disposal plant and to create a reserve fund for the purpose of future maintenance, it is necessary that the city establish just and equitable rates and charges to be paid to the city for the use of such disposal plant and sewerage system by each person whose premises are served thereby.
(Prior Code, § 51.175)