This chapter is adopted to implement fees to connect to any city water and/or sanitary sewer and/or gas service in the project area described in section 9-7-10 of this chapter. The specific purposes of such connections fees are:
A. To authorize the city to implement a connection fee, plus an administrative fee of five percent (5%), for a connection to any water and/or sanitary sewer and/or gas line in the project area described in section 9-7-10 of this chapter.
B. In general to allow the city to recoup its construction costs related to the construction of sanitary sewer, water and natural gas lines within its corporate boundaries as well as to the territory occupied by such facilities where such facilities lie outside the city's corporate boundaries.
C. To provide the city a reserve for the construction of new water, sanitary sewer or gas lines within its corporate boundaries as well as to the territory occupied by such facilities where such facilities lie outside the city's corporate boundaries.
D. To provide the city a reserve for the replacement or upgrading of water, sanitary sewer and gas systems within its corporate boundaries as well as to the territory occupied by such facilities where such facilities lie outside the city's corporate boundaries. (Ord. 1232, 11-13-2012)