(A) There are imposed connection charges upon the owners of property in any extension area, as from time to time, has been or shall be created, when such property owner requests that a connection of the water system be made to his or her property line at the expense of the town.
(B) The connection charge shall be due and payable within 30 days from the time that the property owner is billed by the Town Water Department.
(C) The rate of connection charges shall be as follows:
(1) For each such property containing not more than one single-family dwelling requiring for adequate service a three fourths-inch pipe from the main: the average cost, as determined from time to time by the Board of Water Commissioners, of all direct and indirect expenses incurred by the town, or any agency thereof, in making connections for properties of this class;
(2) For each such property not described in division (C)(1) above, the actual costs incurred by the town, or any agency thereof, in making the connection; and
(3) In addition to the foregoing, there shall be imposed upon each such property, an additional connection charge in an amount determined by the foregoing schedule for each connection after the first connection to said property.
(D) The Board of Water Commissioners shall determine the size pipe required for adequate service based upon the volume of water likely to be used, the pressure requirements and the nature of the use.
(E) From the time that any connection charge becomes due and payable, it shall bear interest at the rate of 12% per annum until paid. The connection charge shall, at the time it becomes due and payable, become a lien upon the property. Any such lien shall be liable to be foreclosed in the same manner as if it were a mortgage on such land in favor of the town. The Water and Sewer Commission shall have authority and responsibility to foreclose any such lien in the name of the town.
(F) Such liens shall not continue to exist for a period longer than one year after the connection charge becomes due and payable, unless within that period a certificate signed by the First Selectman or his or her designee describing the premises upon which the lien exists, the reason on account of which it is claimed, and the amount claimed by the town as a lien shall be filed in the town land records. Any such lien shall cease to exist whenever a certificate discharging the same signed by the First Selectman or his or her designee shall be filed in the town land records. Such liens shall be discharged by the First Selectman or his or her designee upon payment of such unpaid connection charges, interest (as set forth in division (E) above) and a lien fee which shall be an amount which is equal to the sum of a $5 administrative fee and the amount charged by the Town Clerk for recording and releasing such lien.
(Ord. passed 3-22-1979; Ord. passed 11-23-1980
; Ord. passed 1-7-2020)
Editor’s note:
TM Volume 11, page 112, 133; TM Volume 13, page 197, Amended; TM Volume 14, page 50, Amended