(a) Municipal fee.
(1) A municipal fee is hereby established at the rate of four dollars and fourteen cents ($4.14) per month to be paid by each residential household, including each rental unit, and to also be paid by each nonresidential water customer of the City of Ironton, Ohio.
(2) The municipal fee shall be billed as part of the monthly municipal utility billing beginning April 1, 2001, and ending March 31, 2002.
(3) In the event the citizens of Ironton enact either an income tax increase or another type of municipal fee at the November, 2001, general election, then the within municipal fee shall terminate on January 1, 2002.
(4) The moneys generated by this municipal fee shall be paid into the general fund of the City of Ironton, Ohio.
(Ord. 01-08, passed 2-27-2001; Am. Ord. 18-81, passed 12-15-2018)
(b) Flood protection fee.
(1) That a municipal fee for flood works protection is hereby established at the rate of three dollars ($3.00) per month to be paid by each residential household, including each rental unit, and to also be paid by each nonresidential water customer of the City of Ironton, Ohio.
(2) The municipal fee for flood works protection shall be billed as part of the monthly municipal utility billing beginning with the first billing date after the effective date of this division.
(3) The moneys generated by this flood works protection municipal fee shall be used for the same purposes as the funds that were derived from the flood works protection levy, the renewal of which was defeated in the November, 2004 election.
(4) The flood works protection municipal fee shall terminate at such time as the city begins receiving revenues from the passage of a flood works protection tax levy by the citizens of Ironton.
(Ord. 05-09, passed - -)
(c) Towing and storage fees.
(1) A tow fee is hereby established at a rate of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per vehicle for any vehicles towed at the direction of the Ironton Police Department to the City of Ironton impound lot.
(2) A fee of thirty dollars ($30.00) per 24-hour period shall be charged for the storage of any and all vehicles at the impound lot of the City of Ironton.
(3) The wrecker service towing the vehicle to the city’s impound lot shall be paid a maximum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per towed vehicle.
(4) The remaining one hundred dollars ($100.00) collected from the towing of each vehicle plus the thirty dollars ($30.00) per 24-hour period storage fee is hereby earmarked to be used by the Police Department of the City of Ironton, Ohio.
(5) The revenue is to be placed in the Police Equipment Replacement Fund established by Ordinance 13-20 and the impound expenses shall be paid from that fund.
(Ord. 06-21, passed 4-27-2006; Am. Ord. 06-85, passed 1-25-2007; Am. Ord. 22-24, passed 4-28-2022)
(d) Dock fee.
(1) The city shall charge a dockage fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) covering the period from November 1 through April 30 each year for each boat docked at the city’s boat dock at Storms Creek.
(2) The fee shall be payable in full on or before December 1 each year.
(3) In the event that the payment has not been made by December 10, then the city may cause the removal of the boat pursuant to the contract between the city and the boat renter.
(Ord. 01-52, passed 11-8-2001)
(e) Parking rate for municipal lot at Fifth and Park Avenue.
(1) The monthly parking fee at the municipal parking lot at South Fifth Street and Park Avenue shall be ten dollars ($10.00) per space.
(2) The Finance Department of the city shall be charged with the collection of the monthly fees.
(Ord. 97-59, passed 12-22-1997)
(f) Economic development fee. A one dollar fifty cent ($1.50) per month economic development fee shall be added immediately and said fee shall be placed in the Economic Development Fund.
(Ord. 18-83, passed 12-15-2018)
(g) Failure to pay any of the following fees within 45 days of their due date shall constitute a misdemeanor of the fourth degree: the economic development fee, the flood fee, the fire fee, the administrative fee, and the municipal safety fee, and/or the storm water fee.
(Ord. 19-14, passed 3-28-2019)
(h) Fees for unoccupied structures.
(1) All unoccupied structures, as defined in this division (h), shall be billed on a monthly basis, the municipal fee, fire fee, economic development fee, flood fee, administrative fee and storm water fee with a minimum charge of 1,000 gallons of water, for each address of the unoccupied structures.
(2) “Unoccupied structures” shall be defined as a building which does not have water service.
(3) Unoccupied structures as defined in this division (h) shall be determined by the Ironton Fire Department. The Ironton Fire Department is directed to provide a list of each and every unoccupied or vacant property to the city Water Department for billing, effective August 1, 2020.
(4) The Water Department is hereby directed to bill for the aforementioned fees on a monthly basis.
(5) The other bill shall have the following fees:
A. Municipal fee;
B. Fire fee;
C. Storm water, with a minimum charge of 1,000 gallons;
D. Flood fee;
E. Economic development fee; and
F. Administrative fee.
(Ord. 20-34, passed 6-11-2020)
(i) Flood prevention fee. A monthly flood prevention fee in the amount of five dollars ($5.00) per month shall be added to the monthly utility bill of the city effective December 15, 2018.
(Ord. 18-79, passed 12-15-2018)