The Metropolitan Waste Control Commission, a metropolitan commission organized and existing under the laws of the state (the “Commission”), in order to receive and retain grants in compliance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 and regulations thereunder (the “Act”), has determined to impose an industrial user sewer strength charge upon users of the Metropolitan Disposal System (as defined in M.S. § 473.121, Subd. 24, as it may be amended from time to time) to recover operation and maintenance costs of treatment works attributable to the strength of the discharge of industrial waste, the sewer strength charge being in addition to the charge based upon the volume of discharge. In order for the city to pay the costs based upon strength of industrial discharge and allocated to it each year by the Commission, it is found, determined and declared to be necessary to establish sewer strength charges and a formula for the computation thereof for all industrial users receiving waste treatment services within or served by the city. Furthermore, M.S. § 444.075, Subd. 3, as it may be amended from time to time, empowers the city to make the sewer charge a charge against the owner, lessee, occupant or all of them and certify unpaid charges to the County Auditor as a tax lien against the property served.
(Prior Code, § 18.015, Subd. 1)