929.03 COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL RATES; COLLECTION.
   (a)    Every commercial and/or industrial firm or corporation whose commercial or industrial premises in the City are served by an interconnection with or to the City's Pleasant Valley Treatment Plant shall pay a rental charge of three dollars ($3.00) per 1,000 cubic feet of water consumed on such premises. The rate shall be effective April 1, 1973, except that sewage treatment charges for the Goodrich-Gulf property, which has no appropriate meter facilities to determine actual discharge, shall be based upon an estimate of 643,000 cubic feet of water for each of the years 1971 and 1972, and thereafter until the City Engineer determines otherwise. Sewage treatment charges for the American Gas Association Laboratories, which has appropriate meter facilities to determine the actual discharge, shall be at the above rate but computed upon the amount of water actually discharged into the sewerage system, as shall be determined by the City Engineer upon periodic review of the American Gas daily meter records.
   (b)    Every commercial and/or industrial firm or corporation whose commercial and/or industrial premises in the City are served by a connection that is interconnected with the sewage treatment disposal system of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District shall pay a treatment and disposal charge as determined by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District.
   (c)    The City of Cleveland is hereby authorized to bill and collect directly from the businesses situated in the City of Independence the sewer rental charges established in subsection (a) hereof, except for the Goodrich-Gulf and American Gas properties, which shall be billed directly by the City of Independence.
   (d)    The revenues derived by the City of Independence from the sewer rental charges established in subsection (a) hereof shall be distributed back to the City Finance Director and placed in separate funds and shall be used for the cost and expense of repairing, improving, maintaining or replacing the existing sanitary sewage collection system, including the payment of debt service and other requirements on notes and bonds of the City issued to pay the costs of such repairs, improvements, maintenance or replacements.
(Ord. 1984-19. Passed 4-10-84.)