(a) No person, firm, or corporation wheresoever located inside or outside the City shall connect a sewer directly or indirectly to the sanitary sewer system of the District without first securing permission of the Director, which shall be conditioned upon a determination that such connection will not overload the waste water treatment facilities of the District, cause the District to be in violation of the District's NPDES permit, or cause basement backups, flooding, or other disruption of sewer lines within the City.
(b) No Euclid user or user in any community having a contract for sewer service to be paid on the basis of water consumption shall have a “no charge status” or direct billings of sewer service charges based upon usage or sewage metered except upon approval of an application therefor by the Director. For purposes of this section “no charge status” shall mean recognition by the Director that liquid wastes emanating from the premises located in the service area of the system do not enter the City facilities and no sewer service charge should be made therefor.
(c) Except as otherwise provided by specific ordinance provision, such permission, status, or billing method shall not be secured except upon application on forms approved by the Director, together with the payment of a non-refundable fee of three hundred dollars ($300.00), which fee shall be charged for each single family unit newly connected whether connected individually or collectively, plus the cost of any necessary engineering services required and incurred by the Director to make the determinations required by this section, all pursuant to the regulations adopted by the Director which shall have the force and effect of an ordinance. The new connection fee for commercial, industrial, and other non-residential structures shall be three hundred dollars ($300.00) for each estimated 400 gallons of average daily flow, the volume Environmental Protection Agency design flow volume value per single household, plus the cost of any necessary engineering services required and incurred by the Director to make the determinations required by this section, all pursuant to the regulations adopted by the Director which shall have the force and effect of an ordinance.
(d) Homestead Exemption Discount. A discount not to exceed forty-five percent of the total annual capital charges included in the sewer service billings shall apply to all Euclid residents who qualify for a homestead exemption by reason of being permanently and totally disabled, sixty-five years of age and older, or otherwise as provided by law and who have applied for and received the homestead exemption status and discounts allowed by the Cleveland Water Department. The Mayor may apply the discount by a uniform reduction on all billings or by a reduction of not to exceed forty percent on any single quarterly bill. The Mayor is also authorized to enter into agreements to extend the homestead exemption credit to residents of the outside user communities who are similarly qualified.
(e) Residential Summer Sprinkling Program. A residential summer sprinkling program is hereby established in accordance with the following provisions:
(1) Definitions. Wherever they are used in this section, the meaning of these terms shall be as defined in this section as follows:
A. “Summer residential sprinkling user charges (SRSUC)” shall mean the vehicle by which the District shall assess sewer service charges to eligible residential users defined in this chapter.
B. “Summer billing period” shall mean the period between May 1 and September 30, inclusive.
C. “Winter billing period” shall mean the period between October 1 and April 30, inclusive.
D. “Eligible user” shall mean any owner occupied one, two, three, or four family residences within the Euclid Sewer District where sewer service charges are based upon water consumption. Residences in communities whose sewer service charges are based upon sewer meters are not for the SRSUC.
E. “Winter billing period usage” shall mean the calculated daily consumption during the winter billing period.
(2) Summer residential sprinkling user charges. Upon receipt of a timely application submitted therefor, the Service Director shall provide summer sprinkling user charges to eligible users. These charges shall be provided by basing the sewer charges during the summer billing period on the smaller of either the actual water consumption or a calculated consumption based upon winter billing period usage.
(3) Application for summer residential sprinkling user charges. An application for summer residential sprinkling user charges must be made by an eligible user via the application provided by the District and shall be in such form and contain such information as required by the Service Director. A one time ten dollar ($10.00) fee shall be required for said application, and the charges will continue from year to year unless otherwise cancelled according to the provisions of this chapter.
(4) Removal from summer residential sprinkling user charges. Upon the change of ownership of any property or the conversion of owner occupied property to rental property, that property’s summer residential sprinkling user charges will be cancelled. A new application and a ten dollar ($10.00) fee must be submitted by any subsequent eligible user. Additionally, summer residential sprinkling user charges shall be cancelled due to errors or falsifications on the application.
(5) Establishing program. The Mayor and/or Service Director are hereby authorized to enter into agreements with the Cleveland Water Department and Lake County Water Department to create the necessary software for programming winter averaging and establishing summer residential sprinkling user charges and the Finance Director is hereby authorized to pay for such programming from the General Sewage Operating Fund pursuant to ordinances to be adopted approving such agreements. At such time and to the extent that software programming necessary to apply the regulations is in place, eligible users may apply to the Service Director on applications pursuant to the regulations adopted by the Director which shall have the force and effect of an ordinance.
(Ord. 112-2000. Passed 5-15-00; Ord. 63-2002. Passed 4-1-02.)