(a) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the City that no person, property owner, corporation, entity, association, or organization including land subbidividers or developers or agents thereof, shall be permitted to connect to or extend in any manner, any City sanitary sewer line unless the property benefitting from such connection or extension is first annexed into the City.
(b) Any property located outside of the City corporation limits that is presently being provided with City sanitary sewer service shall be exempt from such policy and shall be entitled to continue receiving such service upon the following terms and conditions:
(1) The use of such sanitary sewer service at said premises shall be subject to all City ordinances and regulations relating thereto, including without limitation, all regulations pertaining to pretreatment.
(2) Each existing tap shall serve only one principal structure on a lot or parcel of real property, and no taps into an existing tap or service line shall be permitted. Laterals may not be extended from one property to another.
(3) The cost of maintaining, repairing and replacing any existing service line from the point of tapping into the City sanitary sewer line to the premises served by such line shall be at the sole cost of the property owner.
(4) The rate for sanitary sewer service provided to customers outside the City corporation limits shall be the basic rate charged to customers located within the corporation limits, plus a surcharge of fifty percent (50%) for usage reflected in the July 2002 billing cycle and thereafter; provided however, the City has and reserves a right to change from time to time both the basic rate and surcharge to be assessed and collected from all sanitary sewer service customers located outside its City corporation limits.
(5) The City does not represent or warrant that at all times there will be a sufficient capacity to meet the needs of sanitary sewer customers located outside its corporation limits.
(c) The only exception to the policy adopted in paragraph (a) above may be the availability of City sanitary sewer service to contract areas located outside the City corporation limits as may be approved by agreement between Galion City Council and the Board of Commissioners having jurisdiction of the territory where such sanitary sewer service may be provided. (Ord. 2002-21. Passed 3-26-02.)