(a) Availability. The Commercial Rate is available to Commercial, Industrial and all other classes of service not provided for in the Residential Rate Schedule. This schedule is applicable to all Commercial and other Nonresidential use, including business establishments, factories, processing plants, offices, restaurants, clubs, lodges, theaters, rest homes, hospitals, churches and all other establishments of a commercial, business, professional or nonresidential in character.
(b) Rate Per Service Per Month or Part Thereof. The rate shall be the sum of the charges set forth in (1) and (2) below:
Effective For Bills Rendered on or About January 1, 2021:
(1) A Commodity Charge computed as follows:
Gallons of Water Used | Inside Corporation Limits | Outside Corporation Limits |
Service Charge: (Per Month) | $20.70 | $31.05 |
Usage Charge: (Per 1000 Gallons) | ||
First 5,000 gal. per 1,000 gal. | $3.75 | $5.63 |
Next 5,000 gal. per 1,000 ga. | $3.06 | $4.59 |
Next 5,000 gal. per 1,000 gal. | $2.79 | $4.19 |
Next 10,000 gal. per 1,000 gal. | $2.48 | $3.72 |
Over 25,000 gal. per 1,000 gal. | $2.22 | $3.33 |
(2) An Additional Capacity Charge per service as follows:
Capacity of Service | Capacity Charge |
1.00" | -0- |
1.50" | $15.00 |
2.00" | $33.12 |
3.00" | $87.98 |
4.00" | $207.00 |
6.00" | $362.25 |
8.00" | $621.00 |
Effective for bills rendered on or about January 1, 2022, the rates and charges set forth in (1) and (2) above shall be increased by 3.5%, and said rates and charges shall be increased by 3.5% each year thereafter effective for bills rendered on or about January 1.
The “Capacity of Service” shall be determined by the Village and shall normally be equal to the nominal diameter in inches of the water service line extending from Village’s main to Consumer’s meter
For governmental buildings, schools and charitable institutions, where the service line size is four inches or less, the Capacity of Service shall be the meter size, but not less than one inch nor less than the size of the service line minus one inch.
(c) Multiple Establishments. The Village reserves the right to require that all future individual businesses, establishments or activities located on the same premises, be individually metered and plumbed before service is established.
(d) Minimum Charge Per Month or Part Thereof. The Minimum Charge shall be not less than the sum of the above applicable Commodity Charge and the Capacity Charge.
Where services larger than one inch are installed, the Minimum Charge shall be applicable on a twelve month year around basis and seasonal disconnections of service will not effect Consumer’s liability to pay the applicable Minimum Charge.
For tax free and nonprofit public activities such as county fairs, athletic fields, swimming pools and the like, the Minimum Charge shall be applicable every month that service is turned on. However, the Minimum Charge shall be applicable for not less than three months for fairs and six months for athletic fields and swimming pools.
(e) Billing. All billings will be on an approximately thirty day basis and will be billed to the nearest 100 gallons registered on the meter. All rates shall be applicable for any fractional part of a billing month. The Village reserves the right to bill on a quarterly basis in which event the gallons in each rate block, the Capacity Charge and the Minimum Charge will be multiplied by three.
(f) Terms of Payment. The rates set forth above are Net and apply only in the event all accounts for water service are paid within ten days from date of bill. If not so paid the Gross Rates, which are the above Net Rates plus twenty percent (20%) shall apply.
(g) Fire Protection Service. For all fire protection service installations, made after the effective date of this section, and requiring a special separate fire service line located on Consumer’s premises. Consumer shall install at his expense, subject to Village’s inspection and approval, all of the necessary complete and separate piping system extending from Consumer’s system and connecting to the Village’s existing water main.
All separate fire service lines shall have installed in same a check meter to determine any flow of water in same and to detect any illegal diversion of water from the fire line. Such meter and its installation shall meet Village’s specifications and the entire installation shall be at the expense of Consumer.
No charge will be made for any measured water flow through said fire line resulting from use of water for firefighting purposes. For each separate fire service line, a Special Additional Charge will be made (in addition to the foregoing rate charges for water plus any line extension cost) as follows:
Size of Fire Service Line | Monthly Billing | Quarterly Billing |
4" | $25.00 | $75.00 |
6" | $50.00 | $150.00 |
8" | $75.00 | $225.00 |
The above additional charges shall not apply to wholly tax supported public buildings such as schools and governmental buildings.
(h) Other Provisions and Conditions. Other provisions and conditions pertaining to application and furnishing of service, deposits, the making of water taps, system capacity and other charges, the disconnection, reconnection and transfer of service, responsibility for payment of bills and other conditions are provided for in the Village’s General Rules, Terms and Conditions, available at the Village’s Water Department Office, which are a part of this section, the same as if herein written. No additional water service will be made by the Village unless the Consumer also purchases all of his electric power requirements from Village.
(i) Bulk sales to tank trucks will be made to tank trucks at the water filling station.
The charge for such service shall be:
When measured in Gallons - $6.21 per 1,000 gallons
Effective for bills rendered on or about January 1, 2022, the rate set forth above shall be increased by 3.5%, and said rates and charges shall be increased by 3.5% each year thereafter effective for bills rendered on or about January 1.
(j) Tap and Service Line Installation. The tap and service line fee to be paid in advance by the applicant for each tap shall be as follows:
Tap Size | Inside Village | Outside Village |
0.75" | $1,250 | $1,875 |
1.00" | $1,500 | $2,250 |
For tap and service lines larger than one inch in nominal diameter, the charge shall be the actual cost of installation and meter when installed within the Village limits, and 150% of the actual cost of installation and meter when installed outside the Village limits.
(Ord. 1060. Passed 11-2-20.)