(a) No person, corporation, public agency, partnership or association whatsoever shall connect, or cause to be connected, any building or other struucture either directly or indirectly with the municipal sewerage system for the purpose of discharging sanitary sewage or industrial waste therefrom without first securing from the City Engineer a permit for such purpose in a form prescribed by the Engineer and in addition, prior to the issuance of such permit, the applicant therefor shall first pay the charge provided for in subsection (b) hereof, and any applicable additional charges determined in accordance with any provision of this section, in full or in installments as provided for in subsection (1) hereof.
(b) The City Engineer shall not issue a permit for the purpose described in subsection (a) hereof until the applicant therefor shall have paid a charge of forty dollars ($40.00) which is intended to reimburse the City for reasonable costs of inspection and other administrative costs related to the making of connections to the municipal sewerage system.
(c) Where the connection is made to that portion of the sewerage system served by trunk or interceptor sewers constructed and available for use on and after February 1, 1973, the City Engineer shall not issue a permit for the purpose described in subsection (a) hereof until the applicant therefor shall have paid, in addition to the charge specified in subsection (b) hereof, a tap-in charge to be determined in accordance with the following:
Benefitted Unit of One $280.00
DEFINITION OF BENEFITTED UNITS
Single-family residence | 1 |
Apartments | |
Efficiency and one bedroom | No. of units x .5 |
Two bedroom | No. of units x .75 |
Three bedroom and over | No. of units x 1.0 |
Bowling Alleys | No. of lanes x .25 |
Churches | No. of seats x .03 |
Factories | Estimated employees x .1 |
Food Service | |
Ordinary restaurant | No. of seats x .25 |
24 hour restaurant | No. of seats x .25 |
Tavern (limited meal service) | No. of seats x .25 |
Drive-In | No. of seats x .15 |
Vending machine | No. of seats x .2 |
Hospital | No. of beds x .6 |
Institutions (resident) | No. of person x .25 (design capacity) |
Laundry (coin-operated) | No. of machines x 1.0 |
Motels | No. of rooms x .3 |
Nursing and Rest Homes | No. of persons x .45 (design capacity) |
Office Buildings | No. of persons x .06 (design capacity) |
Schools | No. of pupils x .08 (design capacity) |
Service Stations | No. of bays x 2.0 |
Shopping Centers | Each 1,000 sq. ft. or part thereof not devoted to one of the other uses listed therein x .3 |
Swimming Pools | Design capacity swimmers x .02 |
Mobile Home Parks | No. of pads x .5 (design capacity) |
Car Washes | |
Manual | No. of stalls x 1.6 |
Automatic | No. of stalls x 5.3 |
Drive-thru, automatic (no re-circulation) | 33.80 |
Drive-thru, automatic (with re-circulation) | 5.3 |
For any use not shown herein, the number of units shall be determined by the City Engineer on the basis of accepted engineering practice on the basis of anticipated flow from applicant when compared to a single-family residence where the flow of 400 gallons per residence per day will be considered as a unit of one.
The tap-ins charge will be calculated in accordance with this schedule by multiplying the benefitted number of units by the rate for a unit of one.
(d) Where connection is made directly into a trunk or interceptor sewer, and where the property to be connected has not been assessed for at least the equivalent cost of construction on eight inch lateral sewer to serve such property, the charge as prescribed by subsections (b) and (c) hereof shall be increased by an amount equal to the frontage of the parcel of land for which the connection is to be made abutting upon the street or easement in which the interceptor or trunk is located multiplied by thirteen dollars and seventy-five cents ($13.75).
(e) Where connection to the sanitary sewer is made to a sewer located within a street right of way, the charges as prescribed by subsections (b), (c) and (d) hereof shall be increased by one hundred dollars ($100.00) to defray the cost of restoring the City street to its original condition.
(f) Charges for connections made outside the boundaries of the City and not subject to any separate agreements (County Sewer District No. 1) shall be one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the applicable charge for a connection made within the City.
(g) The initial tap-in charge as set forth in the preceding subsections shall be increased by an amount equal to two percent (2%) of the initial charge on January 1, 1975, and on January 1 of each year thereafter until January 1, 1998, and such charges as so increased shall remain in effect and by the tap-in charges applicable during the calendar year in which the tap-in permit is obtained. Such incremental charges are designed to offset the interest costs involved by the City in constructing such sewers.
(h) The permits and charges provided for in this section shall not be deemed to preclude the subsequent levy of assessments against benefitted properties to provide funds for the construction of sanitary sewers required to provide local sewer service to such properties, and the permit and charges provided for by this section shall be in addition to any other permits and charges required by any other legislation and regulations of the City.
(i) In the event that the Safety-Service Director shall ascertain that any property has been connected directly or indirectly to the municipal sewerage system in violation of the provisions of this section, the City Engineer is hereby authorized to disconnect such property, or have the same disconnected, until such violation shall cease. The City shall be reimbursed by the violator for expenses incurred by the City in making such disconnection.
(j) Whoever violates any provision of this section shall upon conviction be fined as provided in Section 921.99.
(k) All charges collected pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be deposited in the Sewer Revenue Fund.
(l) Should the applicant, at his option, determine to pay the total tap-in charge as calculated in accordance with the applicable subsection (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) hereof in installments the Engineer shall calculate the installment payment by adding fifteen percent (15%) to the total tap-in charge to offset interest charges and the total so calculated divided then by sixty, this amount then so determined shall be the monthly installment payable over sixty installments. The Engineer shall so certify the monthly installment amount to the Safety-Service Director to be billed and collected in the same manner as sanitary sewer charges are billed and collected as provided for in this chapter.
(Ord. 1526. Passed 2-21-74.)