939.03 EQUITY CONNECTION FEE.
At its discretion and expense, the City may, from time to time, construct additional mains and service facilities in public rights of way or easements.
When an improvement or addition to a utility system made by the City at its expense makes service possible in a new location where such service did not previously exist, or improves already existing service, but such improvement or addition is not made for the purpose of benefitting the utility system as a whole, such as by improving the reliability, longevity, capacity or interconnective network of the utility system, such addition or improvement shall be known as a "local main extension".
When an improvement or addition to a utility system made by the City at its expense is made for the purpose of benefitting the utility system as a whole, such as by improving the reliability, longevity, capacity or interconnective network of the utility system, but such improvement or addition can also safely be tapped to make service possible in a new location where such service did not previously exist, or improve already existing service, such an addition or improvement shall be known as a "feeder main extension".
When a connection or tap is made to the City's water system in a public right of way or easement by an abutting owner or developer for the purpose of providing new service, and where the owner of the lot or parcel to receive such new service has not previously paid an equitable share of the City's cost of extending the main into which the connection or tap is made, the owner of the abutting lot shall pay the City an equity connection fee in order to assist in the recovery of the City's cost of extending the main into which the abutting owner has connected or will connect. The equity connection fee shall be determined as follows:
(a) Local Main Extension. Where a tap or connection is made to what has previously been constructed as a local main extension, a uniform fee of ten dollars ($10.00) per lineal foot of frontage of the lot or parcel abutting the water main shall be paid to the City. In the event such lot or parcel of real estate abuts a street, alley, right of way or easement in which such water main is located on more than one side, the frontage used shall be the shortest lot line distance that such lot or parcel of real estate has abutting the street, alley, right of way or easement in which the connecting main is located; and in the event such abutting lot or parcel of real estate is not rectangular, the frontage used shall be the number of lineal feet produced by averaging the front line and the rear lot line, or one-half of the front lot line if the lot or parcel forms a triangle.
(b) Feeder Main Extension. Where a tap or connection is made to a feeder main extension or residential or commercial building, which existed at the time the feeder main project was advertised for bids, along the abutting right of way or easement, shall be permitted to connect to such feeder main for an equity connection fee of ten dollars ($10.00) per lineal foot for the lesser of either the actual footage of the lot or parcel of real estate or 100 feet of frontage along such abutting right of way or easement. All subsequent attachments are subject to the local main extension fees for actual frontage.
The equity connection fee shall be paid in full to the City before a water tap permit is issued and the connection is made.
Where a reimbursement agreement still in full force and effect exists with a developer, the fee shall be as prescribed in the reimbursement agreement or legislation adopted pursuant thereto. (Ord. 93-9-109. Passed 9-22-93.)