(a) For the purpose of providing revenue to help finance and to more equitably distribute the cost of the construction of necessary additions to both the sewer system and the sewerage treatment facilities, it is hereby determined and declared necessary to provide for the establishment, exaction and regulation of a sanitary sewer system capacity charge as hereinafter determined with such charge to be in addition to any and all other fees which may be imposed with respect to the said sewer system.
(b) That the funds received from the collection of such charge, as it is herein authorized, shall be deposited daily with the Director of Finance who shall credit them to a special fund from which Council may take appropriations for the payment of the cost and expense of the construction, operation, maintenance, management and repair of the sanitary sewerage systems; regulator chambers, storm standby tanks, ,pumping stations and sewage treatment works and for the payment of the cost and expense and replacement, extensions to or the enlargement of same and for the payment of principal and interest on any debt incurred for the construction of such sewerage system, regulator chambers, storm standby tanks, pumping stations and sewage treatment works and for the creation of a sinking fund for the payment of such debt.
(c) That the Administrator shall be and he is hereby authorized and directed to exact a sanitary sewer system capacity charge whenever application is made for the issuance of a sewer permit to provide sanitary sewer service to a structure, wherever such property is or shall be tributary directly or indirectly, to any trunk sanitary sewer built by the City either inside or outside the corporate limits of the City Sewer Capacity (Tapping) Fees:
Size of Water Tap | Sewer Tap Charge |
3/4" | $5,594.00 |
1" | 9,458.00 |
1-1/2" | 18,817.00 |
2" | 32,034.00 |
3" | 69,714.00 |
4" | 123,455.00 |
6" | 262,769.00 |
8" | 451,630.00 |
10" | 782,922.00 |
12" | 1,494,042.00 |
16" | 2,595,244.00 |
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing charges, in the event that an entity contracting with the City for collection and or treatment services for sanitary or industrial sewage imposes upon the City additional capacity or like kind charges as a condition of continuing to provide such collection and or treatment services or for new sewer connections, then the City shall pass on those charges plus a five percent (5%) administrative fee to those parcels or users otherwise obligated to pay such fees in accordance with the terms of the revised contract with the contracting entity. (Ord. 16-022. Passed 5-23-16.)