Loading...
(A) It is hereby determined to be desirable and necessary, for the public health, safety and welfare of the village, that the sanitary sewage disposal system of the village be operated on a public utility rate basis, in accordance with the provisions of Public Act 94 of 1933, being M.C.L.A. §§ 141.101 et seq., as amended.
(B) (1) Whenever the words “the system” are referred to in this section, they shall be understood to mean the complete sanitary sewage disposal system of the village, including all sewers, pumps, lift stations, treatment facilities, and all other facilities used or useful in the collection, treatment and disposal of domestic, commercial or industrial wastes, including all appurtenances thereto and including all extensions and improvements thereto which may hereafter be acquired.
(2) Whenever the words “revenues” and “net revenues” are used in this section, they shall be understood to have the meanings as defined in Public Act 94 of 1933, § 3, being M.C.L.A. § 141.103, as amended.
(C) The operation, maintenance, alteration, repair and management of the system shall be under the supervision and control of the Village Council. The Village Council may employ such person or persons in such capacity or capacities as it deems advisable to carry on the efficient management and operation of the system and may make such rules, orders and regulations as it deems advisable and necessary to assure the efficient management and operation of the system.
(D) Rates to be charged for service furnished by the system shall be as follows:
(1) Sewer use charges. Sewer use charges shall be billed at the rate of .70 times the quarterly water bill for the premises.
(2) Special rates. For miscellaneous or special services for which a special rate shall be established, such rates shall be fixed by the Village Council.
(3) Billing. Bills will be rendered quarterly at the same time as the village water billings and shall bear the same payment and penalty provisions as the water bills.
(4) Enforcement.
(a) The charges for services which are under the provisions of Public Act 94 of 1933, § 21, being M.C.L.A. § 141.121, as amended, make a lien on all premises served thereby, unless notice is given that a tenant is responsible, are hereby recognized to constitute such lien, and whenever any such charge against any piece of property shall be delinquent for six months, the village official or officials in charge of the collection thereof shall certify annually, on March 1st of each year, to the tax-assessing officer of the village the facts of such delinquency whereupon such charge shall be by him or her entered upon the next tax roll as a charge against such premises and shall be collected and the lien thereof enforced in the manner as general village taxes against such premises are collected and the lien thereof enforced. Where notice is given that a tenant is responsible for such charges and service as provided by M.C.L.A. § 141.121, no further service shall be rendered to such premises until a cash deposit in the amount of $20 shall have been made as security for payment of such charges and service.
(b) In addition to the foregoing, the village shall have the right to shut off water and sewer service to any premises for which charges for sewer service are more than three months delinquent, and such service shall not be reestablished until all delinquent charges and penalties and a turn-on charge, to be specified by the Village Council, have been paid. Further, such charges and penalties may be recovered by the village by court action.
(E) No free service shall be furnished by the system to any person, firm or corporation, public or private, or to any public agency or instrumentality.
(F) The rates hereby fixed are estimated to be sufficient to provide for the payment of the expenses of administration and operation, such expenses for maintenance of the system as are necessary to preserve the same in good repair and working order, to provide for the payment of general obligation bonds of the village issued to improve the system, and to provide for such other expenditures and funds for the system as this section may require. Such rates shall be fixed and revised from time to time as may be necessary to produce these amounts.
(G) The system shall be operated on the basis of a fiscal year corresponding with that of the village water system.
(H) The revenues of the system shall be set aside and collected and deposited in a separate depositary account in a designated bank duly qualified to do business in Michigan, in an account to be designated “Sewage Disposal System Receiving Fund” (hereinafter, for brevity, referred to as the “Receiving Fund”), and the revenues so deposited shall be transferred from the Receiving Fund periodically in the manner and at the times hereinafter specified.
(1) Operation and Maintenance Fund. Out of the revenues in the Receiving Fund there shall be first set aside quarterly into a depositary account, designated “Operation and Maintenance Fund,” a sum sufficient to provide for the payment of the next quarter's current expenses of administration and operation of the system and such current expenses for the maintenance thereof as may be necessary to preserve the same in good repair and working order.
(2) General Obligation Debt Retirement Fund. There shall next be established and maintained a depositary account, to be designated “General Obligation Debt Retirement Fund,” which shall be used solely for the payment of the General Obligation Sewage Disposal System Bonds, dated April 1, 1970, of the village. There shall be deposited in the fund quarterly, after requirements of the Operation and Maintenance Fund have been met, such sums as shall be necessary to pay the principal and interest on the bonds when due. Should the revenues of the system prove insufficient for this purpose, such revenues may be supplemented by any other funds of the village legally available for such purpose.
(3) Replacement Fund. There shall next be established and maintained a depositary account, designated “Replacement Fund,” which shall be used solely for the purpose of making major repairs and replacements to the system if needed. There shall be set aside into the fund, after provision has been made for the Operation and Maintenance Fund and the General Obligation Debt Retirement Fund, such revenues as the Village Council shall deem necessary for this purpose.
(4) Improvement Fund. There shall next be established and maintained an “Improvement Fund” for the purpose of making improvements, extensions and enlargements to the system. There shall be deposited into the fund, after providing for the foregoing fund, such revenues as the Village Council shall determine.
(5) Surplus moneys. Moneys remaining in the Receiving Fund at the end of any operating year, after full satisfaction of the requirements of the foregoing funds, may, at the option of the Village Council, be transferred to the Improvement Fund or used in connection with any other project of the village reasonably related to purposes of the system.
(6) Bank accounts. All moneys belonging to any of the foregoing funds or accounts may be kept in one bank account, in which event the moneys shall be allocated on the books and records of the village within this single bank account, in the manner above set forth.
(I) In the event the moneys in the Receiving Fund are insufficient to provide for the current requirements of the Operation and Maintenance Fund, any moneys or securities in other funds of the system, except sums in the General Obligation Debt Retirement Fund derived from tax levies, shall be transferred to the Operation and Maintenance Fund to the extent of any deficit therein.
(J) Moneys in any fund or account established by the provisions of this section may be invested in obligations of the United States of America, in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in Public Act 94 of 1933, being M.C.L.A. §§ 141.101 et seq., as amended. In the event such investments are made, the securities representing the same shall be kept on deposit with the bank or trust company having on deposit the fund or funds from which such purchase was made. Income received from such investments shall be credited to the fund from which the investments were made.
(Ord. 19, passed 9-14-81; Am. Ord. 19A, passed 3-9-98)
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° Centigrade, expressed in parts by million by weight.
BUILDING DRAIN. That part of the lowest horizontal piping of the drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drain pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer.
BUILDING SEWER. The sewer that connects the building drain with the public sewer or other place of disposal and conveys the sewage of one building.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving sewage.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, processing and sale of produce.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT. The official Health Department of Clinton County.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Liquid wastes, solids or semi-solids from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
MAY. Is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any water course, pond, ditch, lake, or any other body of water, either surface or ground.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PLUMBING BOARD. The appointed Board of Plumbing of the village.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. Any septic tank, cesspool or other facilities intended or used for the disposal of sanitary sewage, and which is not owned and operated by the village.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. Garbage that has been cut or shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried away freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particles greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting property have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
S.W.R.C. The State Water Resources Commission.
SANITARY SEWAGE. The liquid or water-carried waste discharged from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories or institutions.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and industrial waste or either of them and to which storm water is not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. Any combination of sanitary sewage, storm water, industrial wastes and uncontaminated industrial wastes, or any of them.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. Any pipe, tile, tube or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL. Is mandatory.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries the storm water and uncontaminated industrial wastes, or either of them.
STORM WATER. That part of the rainfall or melted snow which reaches the sewers as runoff from natural land surface, building roofs or pavements, or as ground water infiltration or uncontaminated industrial water.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. The solids that either float on the surface of or are suspended in water, sewage of other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
UNCONTAMINATED INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Waste water which has not come into contact with any substance used in or incidental to industrial processing operations.
WATER COURSE. An open channel, either natural or artificial, in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 17, passed 9-14-81)
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place or deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner upon any public or private property within the village or in any area under the jurisdiction of the village any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
(B) It shall be unlawful to discharge into any watercourse within the village or any area under the jurisdiction of the village any sanitary sewage, industrial waste, or other polluted water except were suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with the provision of this chapter and the statutes and regulations of the state.
(C) Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or repair any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
(D) The owner of all dwellings, buildings, structures or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the village and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the village is hereby required at his or her own expense to install suitable toilet facilities and other sanitary conveniences therein, and to connect such facilities directly to the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The Village Council may require any such owner, pursuant to the authority conferred upon it by law or ordinance, to make such installation or connection, the cost of which shall be defrayed by the owner, which installation must be completed within two years from the effective date of this section and provided no repairs may be made to existing facilities.
(Ord. 17, passed 9-14-81) Penalty, see § 50.99
(A) Where a public sanitary sewer or combined sewer is not available under the provisions of § 50.17(D), the building sewer shall be connected with a private disposal system constructed in compliance with state law and the regulations and orders of the Village Council.
(B) (1) At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private sewage disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with the provisions of this chapter as provided in § 50.17(D). Any septic tank, privy, privy vault, cesspool or similar private sewage disposal facility used shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material.
(2) Upon application of the owner of such property, the Village Council may grant a delay of not more than two years before making connection to such a public sewer. Such delay shall be granted only if private facilities are satisfactory and create no nuisance or health hazard.
(C) The owner shall operate and maintain the private sewage disposal facilities in a sanitary manner at all times at no expense to the village.
(D) No statement contained in this section shall be construed to interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the Village Council or the Health Department with respect to private sewage disposal.
(Ord. 17, passed 9-14-81) Penalty, see § 50.99
(A) No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or open into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or any appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Village Clerk or from such other official as the Village Council may designate as its Plumbing Board.
(B) All connections with any sewer in the village shall be made only on written authorization and permits issued by the Village Clerk on such forms and on payment of such fees as shall be established from time to time by the Village Council.
(C) All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner of the property.
(D) All applicants for sewer connection permits shall, when required, submit plans and specifications of all plumbing connections within such building or premises and such plans and specifications shall meet the requirements of the Village Council. When such plans and specifications have been approved by the Village Council, or by such official as it may designate, a sewer or plumbing permit shall be issued, subject to final inspection and approval when construction is completed.
(E) The applicant for a building sewer permit shall notify the Village Clerk, or such other official as the Village Council shall designate, when the building sewer is ready for inspection. The Village Clerk, or such other official as the Village Council shall designate, shall then inspect the building and plumbing construction therein and if such construction meets the previous requirements as approved in the construction permit, a sewer connection approval shall be issued, subject to the applicable provisions of other sections of this chapter.
(Ord. 17, passed 9-14-81) Penalty, see § 50.99
(A) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters into any sanitary sewer.
(B) Storm water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged into such sewers as are specifically designated as combined sewers or storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved by the Village Council. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged, upon approval of the Village Council, into a storm sewer, combined sewer or natural outlet.
(C) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or waste into any public sewer:
(1) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° Fahrenheit, or lower than 30° Fahrenheit.
(2) Any water or waste which may contain more than 50 parts per million, by weight, of fat, oil, or grease.
(3) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
(4) Any garbage which has not been properly shredded.
(5) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, wood pulp, paunch manure, or any solid or viscous substance capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works.
(6) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or higher than 9.5 or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazards to the structures, equipment or personnel of the sewage works.
(7) Any waters or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous substance in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, fish or aquatic life or create any hazard in any receiving waters or in the sewage treatment plant.
(8) Any waters or wastes containing in excess of three parts per million by weight of cyanide, hexavalent chromium or copper wastes.
(9) Any waters or wastes containing suspended solids of such character or quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle such materials at the sewage treatment plant.
(10) Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of creating a public nuisance.
(Ord. 17, passed 9-14-81) Penalty, see § 50.99
(A) Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided when in the opinion of the Village Council they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid waste containing grease in excessive amounts or any flammable waste, sand, or other harmful ingredients, except that such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the Village Council and shall be located so as to be readily accessible for cleaning and inspection. Grease and oil interceptors shall be constructed of impervious materials capable of withstanding abrupt and extreme changes in temperature. They shall be substantially constructed, water-tight, and equipped with easily removable covers which when bolted in place shall be gas-tight and water-tight.
(B) Where installed, all grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be maintained by the owner, at his or her expense, in continuously efficient operation at all times.
(Ord. 17, passed 9-14-81) Penalty, see § 50.99
Loading...