(A) The rates to be charged the users of the Dalton sewage system and sewage disposal plant within the Village of Dalton corporation limits, after the effective date of this section shall be as follows:
(1) For all metered users, the charge shall be in accordance with the metered usage as set forth in the following schedule.
(a) If the usage is less than or equal to 3,000 gallons per month, the monthly charge shall be $26.73 beginning with the July, 2019, billing cycle;
(b) If the usage is greater than 3,000 gallons but less than 25,000 gallons per month, the monthly charge shall be $8.91 per 1,000 gallons beginning with the July, 2019, billing cycle;
(c) If the usage is 25,000 gallons or greater per month, the monthly charge shall be $10.20 per 1,000 gallons beginning with the July, 2019, billing cycle.
(d) If actual usage is not available, an estimated usage shall be used.
(e) All users of the Dalton sewage system and sewage disposal plant outside the village corporation limits shall be charged a rate 50% higher than the rates listed above for the same amount of gallons used for users within the village corporation limits.
(B) The rates, as provided in division (A) of this section, shall increase automatically by 3% each year with the July billing cycle. The foregoing charges are minimum charges, not maximum charges, and the village reserves the right, and is obligated, to increase the same at any time should the revenues of the sanitary sewage system and sewage disposal plant prove insufficient to pay the operating and maintenance expenses and the debt service charges of the bonds heretofore issued and to be issued in the future to construct said system and plant and any improvements thereto.
(Prior Code, § 52.40) (Ord. 5-19, passed 4-15-2019)