The person who makes the application shall pay a permit fee, as established by resolution of the Council, to the Building Inspector to cover the cost of issuing the permit and supervising, regulating, and inspecting the work. In addition, there shall be a connection charge paid to reimburse the City for costs borne by the City in making sewer service available to the property served in accordance with the following:
1. Building Sewer Connection Charges.
A. If the property to be connected to the public sewer has not been assessed for any part of the cost of construction of the public sewer, or has been assessed only as an unimproved lot, the owner shall pay a connection charge in an amount which shall be an equitable portion of the costs of the public sewer in relation to the benefits received by the property as determined by the Building Inspector, subject to approval, modification, or revocation by the Council.
B. If the property to be connected to the public sewer has been specifically assessed for the sewer facilities prior to the time of the application for connection, there shall be no additional connection charge, unless at the time of assessment a deficiency was allowed. Then the sewer connection charge shall be equal to the deficiency previously allowed.
C. If the property to be connected to the public sewer has not been assessed or is not subject to an assessment for the construction of the sewer facilities to which connection is sought and said sewer was constructed through assessments, the connection charge shall be equal to the average front footage charge assessed to all property on the sewer involved applied to the front footage of the property to be connected. Where the property has frontage on two intersecting streets, the footage to which the charge shall be applied shall be the one considered the front in all usual proceedings for assessments. Where unusual parcel shape would make the charge inequitable to the owner or to the City, the frontage shall be taken as the lot width at the face of the building.
D. If the property to be connected has not been subject to assessment for the cost of the public sewer, constructed after January 1, 1970, and the cost thereof was paid by general taxation, the sewer connection charge shall be set by resolution of the Council.
E. If the property to be connected has not been subject to assessment for the cost of the public sewer, constructed after May 1, 1989, and the cost thereof was paid by general taxation, the sewer connection charge shall be set by resolution of the Council.
2. Cross and Lateral Sewer Connection Charges. Before a permit for a new cross or lateral sewer connection to a main sewer shall be granted, the applicant shall have complied with the terms and conditions for such connection established by the Council. Such terms and conditions may include, but not be limited to, engineering design, construction standards, requirements for inspection of construction of the applicant’s sewer, and the setting of equitable charges to be paid for the right to connect to the main sewer and all sewerage facilities to which the sewer will be contributory.
3. Connection Charge Reductions. No building sewer connection shall be made to a public sewer which is not in front of the property to be served unless the public sewer cannot feasibly be extended and the building sewer can be connected without creating difficulties for other utilities in the street or unless any such difficulties are offset by a definite public advantage in having the connection. Where a public sewer is extended by applicant at the applicant’s expense, it shall be constructed in accordance with the specifications of the City for public sewers and connection charges may be reduced by the cost thereof, in whole or in part.