Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as defined in Chapter 1040 or as defined below.
(a) "Commercial cost" means those system costs associated with billing customers and administrative costs associated with maintaining an enterprise fund. These costs are independent of the quantity and quality of wastewater discharged to the system.
(b) "Connection charge" means the amount charged at the time, and in the amount hereinafter provided, to each premise in the City which must connect to the system. The new charge is based upon the proportionate cost allocable to such premise associated with providing sanitary sewers and sewage treatment.
(c) "Excess strength costs within system's capacity" means those variable costs of the system associated with treating compatible pollutants on a per pound basis.
(d) "Flow costs" means those costs of the system which are variable with the quantity of wastewater treated assuming a normal strength sewage.
(e) "Operation and maintenance costs" means all costs, direct and indirect, necessary to provide adequate wastewater collection and treatment on a continuing basis, to conform with all Federal, State and local wastewater management requirements, and to assure optimum long-term management of the system. "Operation and maintenance costs" shall include replacement costs.
(f) "Readiness to serve costs" means debt service, insurance payments, payment in lieu of taxes and twenty percent of labor to operate the system. "Readiness to serve costs" associated with flow and load (BOD) are as follows:
(1) Readiness to serve costs associated with flow shall be ninety percent of the debt service, insurance payments, payment in lieu of taxes and twenty percent of labor to operate the system.
(2) Readiness to serve costs associated with load (BOD) shall be ten percent of debt service.
(g) "Replacement costs" means expenditures made during the service life of the system to replace equipment and appurtenances necessary to maintain the intended performance of the system.
(h) "Residential equivalent unit," as reflected in Appendix II, codified at the end of this chapter, shall be related to the quantity of sanitary sewage ordinarily arising from the occupancy of a residence building by a single family of ordinary size and the benefit derived therefrom, and shall be defined or determined from time to time by the City.
(i) "Revenues" and "net revenues" shall have the meanings as defined in Section 3 of Act 94, of the Public Acts of 1933, as amended.
(j) "System" means all facilities of the City and all subsequent additions, including all sewers, pumps, lift stations, 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.
(Ord. 164. Passed 1-23-90.)