(A) Any individual, firm, partnership, company, association, school, society, corporation, or group desiring to or required to make a sewer connection from any lot, parcel of real estate, or building, located within the city limits, to the sewer system of the city, having first made public application for a permit to connect into the sewer, shall agree to pay the city utilities the sum of $1,000. Any individual firm, partnership, company, association, school, society, corporation, or group desiring to or required to make a sewer connection from any lot, parcel of real estate, or building, located outside the city limits, to the sewer system of the city, having first made public application for a permit to connect into the sewer, shall agree to pay the city utilities the sum of $1,100, 10% more than the sum paid for connection within the city limits. This sum shall be designated as a connection charge, be paid into the sewer connect fund, and expended as provided in prior ordinances (i.e., to be used for the expansion of sewers or retirement of bonds, at the discretion of the Common Council). Exception to this procedure would be that when the following conditions exist, a connection to the sewer system would not be required:
(1) Sewers that were installed prior to 1955 provided that a sewer connection stub was extended to the property. Should it be necessary for the city utilities to install a connection stub from the sewer system, then a sewer connection charge would be required.
(2) Sanitary or combined sewer systems installed by a developer, described as follows: If the developer has the sanitary or combined sewer installed at no cost to the city utilities, and the sewer system is within the boundaries of the subdivision or development, there would not be a connection charge, provided a stub from the sewer system is in place. Should it be necessary for the city utilities to install a connection stub from the sewer system, then a connection charge would be required.
(3) Any sanitary or combined sewer line, located outside of an approved development as described in division (2) above that has been dedicated to the city will require a connection charge and other charges as described in this chapter.
(B) Upon application for connection being made or the liability for payment arising under ordinances of the city, the amount shall be and become a lien upon the real estate connected and shall be collected as by this section and the laws of the state provide.
(C) The sewer connection charge shall be immediately due when any application for connection to the system is made.
(D) When due, the sewer connection charge shall may be paid within 15 days without interest, or at the option of the applicant, and upon the application filed with the Board, may be paid in five equal annual installments, the first of which shall be immediately due. The unpaid balance thereafter shall bear interest at the rate of 8% per annum, payable annually, and shall be due and payable when each annual installment for the sewer connection charge becomes due.
(E) The owners of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purpose situated within the city, are hereby required, at their expense, to install suitable sanitary sewer facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly into the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of §§ 51.001 through 51.015 and 51.040 through 51.044, or any other ordinance of the city, hereafter enacted regulating the materials, the installation, and connection of building sewers, within one year.
(F) The Board and the Common Council shall review the charges herein fixed at intervals of not more than five years from the effective date of this section.
(Ord. 6386, passed 3-20-17)