922.01 Definitions.
922.02 Euclid users, household waste sewer service charges.
922.03 Assessment and collection of delinquent accounts.
922.04 Outside users household waste sewer service charges and contracts.
922.05 Deposit and allocation of funds.
922.06 Extra loadings surcharges.
922.07 Pretreatment administration surcharge.
922.08 Sewer connections; water consumption billings; application for no charge status and charges based upon usage; fees.
922.09 Enforcement by legal action.
922.10 Remedy of City for nonpayment of sewer charges.
CROSS REFERENCES
Sewer connection deposits - see S.U. & P.S. 921.04
Fee for house sewer connections - see S.U. & P.S. 921.07
Fee for sewer extensions - see S.U. & P.S. 921.08
Fee for water main connections - see S.U. & P.S. 921.09
Obligation to pay sewer rental charges - see S.U. & P.S. 923.043
Industrial waste extra loadings surcharges - see S.U. & P.S. 923.046
Ohio Plumbing Code - see B. & H. Ch. 1738
The definitions set forth in Section 923.01, including without limitation the definitions of “sewage” and “director” are incorporated herein by reference the same as though fully rewritten at length.
(a) “Administrative charge” shall mean the costs of administering a contract or account including without limitation the cost of installation, maintenance, and reading of sewage or water consumption meters.
(b) “Capital charges” shall mean the capital and transportation charges or costs to install or construct equipment or improvements in the District's common collection and treatment facilities necessary to meet the effluent limitations and requirements of the district's NPDES permit, the law, the requirements of the OEPA and USEPA, and the consent decree, including engineering costs, construction costs, and interest and other ordinary and usual charges required to finance the engineering and construction.
(c) “MCF” shall mean 1,000 cubic feet, volume.
(d) “Operation and maintenance” shall mean those functions that result in expenditures during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for managing and for which such works were designed and constructed and “replacement” shall mean obtaining or rebuilding and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(e) “Ordinary household waste” or “OW” shall mean sewage with loadings not in excess of those for which the District's waste water treatment facilities were designed to accept, that being OW having concentrations or loadings not in excess of 250 mg/liter (“mg/l”) of suspended solids (“SS”), 185 mg/l of biochemical oxygen demand material (“BOD”), 9 mg/l Phosphorus (“P”), and 50 mg/l of oil and grease (“O&G”).
(f) “User charge” shall mean that portion of the total waste water service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of the waste water treatment works and includes costs without limitation the costs attributable to operation and maintenance of the District's waste water treatment plant facilities and shared collection system and for replacement of the components thereof, e.g., pumps and meters, having a shorter service life than the facility it serves and specifically includes the cost of installing, maintaining and replacing or rebuilding the sewer flow meters by the District to measure the flow at the District's collection and treatment facilities.
(Ord. 112-2000. Passed 5-15-00.)
There are hereby established rates and charges of rental from and after January 1, 2024, to be paid to the City for the use of the system of sewerage or sewage treatment or disposal works by every person, firm or corporation whose premises in the City are served by a connection with the system of sewerage of the City, which charge of rent shall be in addition to the revenue received from general taxes for sewer maintenance.
(a) Every person, firm, or corporation having premises in the City served by a connection with the present system of sewerage in the City, whereby the sewage or industrial wastes are disposed of by the City, either through the facilities of the sewage treatment and sewage disposal works of the City, or as otherwise arranged by the City, hereinafter referred to as “Euclid Customers” shall pay a sewer rental charge for the collection and treatment of ordinary household waste (“OW”), based upon the quantity of meter water used in or upon such premises for each 1,000 cubic feet of water or less measured through any one water meter as provided in Table A, attached to Ordinance 133-2023 and incorporated herein, whether such water is derived from a source other than the City water supply or all or any part of such water is furnished to said premises without charge. Billings shall be at least quarterly and shall include an additional administrative charge for the cost of meter reading and billing.
(b) The sewer rental charge established herein from and after January 1, 2024, shall be payable quarterly with the regular water bill received by such person, firm, or corporation at the office of the Division of Water and Heat, in the Department of Public Utilities of the City of Cleveland and shall be not less than 1,000 cubic feet per quarter, plus the pro rata administration cost for paying meter reading and billing charges as determined by the Mayor, and shall be payable at the same time as water bills are payable in the district in which the property is located and the sewer rental charge may be shown as a separate item on the same paper which shows the water bill as the City of Cleveland Director of Public Utilities may elect; and out of the proceeds collected the City of Cleveland shall be authorized to withhold an amount as justified to the City of Euclid for collection expenses.
(c) In addition to the rates contained herein, and by separate legislation adopted by the Council of the City of Euclid, the rate billed shall include incremental amounts for the repair and replacement of the local sewer collection system within the City, known as the Peterson Fund, and for incremental amounts necessary for street resurfacing and repair of streets and appurtenances in connection with waterline replacement and repair within the City, known as the Waterline Fund.
(Ord. 112-2000. Passed 5-15-00; Ord. 32-2012. Passed 3-26-12; Ord. 157-2012. Passed 10-15-12; Ord. 109-2022. Passed 10-3-22; Ord. 133-2023. Passed 12-4-23.)
Every sewer rental charge which has become due and payable and has remained unpaid for more than thirty days prior to the first day of July each year, shall be certified by the Director of Public Service to the Director of Finance of the City, who is hereby authorized and empowered to certify the same which remain uncollected as of September, to the Auditor of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on or before the second Monday in September of each year, together with a pertinent description of the premises to which the sewer rental charge has been made and the amount so certified shall be placed by the Auditor of Cuyahoga County on the tax duplicate, to be collected as other taxes are collected.
(Ord. 112-2000. Passed 5-15-00.)
(a) The Mayor is hereby authorized to contract for or otherwise charge and collect the following rates hereby established as sewer rental charges from and after January 1, 2024, to be paid to the City for the use of the system of sewerage or sewage treatment or disposal works by every person, firm, or corporation whose premises lies outside the limits of the City which are served by a connection with the system of sewerage in the City, hereinafter referred to as “Outside Users,” which charge shall be as provided in Table A attached to Ordinance 133-2023 for the identified Outside User Communities.
(b) In addition, the Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to contract for or otherwise charge and collect from said outside users for disposal of sewage, all administration charges as determined by the Mayor, specifically attributable for meter reading, billing, maintenance, and transportation to any particular outside user or the maintenance of the account therefor. All monies received pursuant to this section shall be deposited, applied, and utilized the same as specified in Section 922.02.
(c) Provided further, however, that from and after January 1, 2024, the terms of contracts heretofore specifically authorized by Council shall be given full force and effect except to the extent that the rates charged therein were inadequate and modified by ordinance to meet the rise of costs for necessary operation, maintenance, replacement, capital improvements, and operating capital respecting the sewage treatment or disposal works. The Mayor is hereby empowered to establish charges reflecting credits for lump sum account payments made pursuant to rate dispute settlements, if any, under such contracts and charges equivalent to incremental charges stated on a basis of water consumption in terms of sewage metered on the basis of 1,000 gallon units or otherwise in accordance with past billing procedures or where otherwise determined necessary.
(d) Such contracts with outside users shall limit the quality and quantity of the sewage flow to be accepted to that of ordinary household waste in such daily volumes as shall not exceed in the aggregate, including sewage flow from Euclid users, the capacity of the waste water treatment facilities or the capacity of sewer lines within the City as determined by the Director. The Director shall give deference and preference to the communities having long standing and continuing arrangements and contracts with the City and the volumes historically received therefrom.
(e) No industrial waste shall be accepted from any outside community except pursuant to individual industrial user permits to be applied for by the actual industrial user and issued directly by the City pursuant to Chapter 923 of the Codified Ordinances.
(f) Satellite Sewer Discharge Control Program (“SSDCP”). The Mayor is hereby authorized to contract and amend contracts with outside user communities as necessary to implement the SSDCP mandated by the City's NPDES Permit issued effective April 1, 1996, requiring monitoring, reporting, and operation under the supervision of a State Certified Operator's License for each outside user community collection system and authority to require that the maintenance crews of each outside user community will either include supervision by a properly licensed staff person to implement the community discharge permit regulations or will submit to supervision for these purposes to properly licensed staff personnel of the City and pay the cost therefor as determined by the Mayor.
(Ord. 112-2000. Passed 5-15-00; Ord. 115-2006. Passed 6-5-06; Ord. 32-2012. Passed 3-26-12; Ord. 157-2012. Passed 10-15-12; Ord. 109-2022. Passed 10-3-22; Ord. 133-2023. Passed 12-4-23.)
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