A. Pay Annual Costs: The user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement and costs associated with debt retirement of bonded capital associated with financing the treatment works which the city may by ordinance designate to be paid by the user charge system. That portion of the total user charge which is designated for operation and maintenance including replacement of the treatment works shall be established by this chapter.
B. Operation, Maintenance And Replacement Fund: That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for operation and maintenance including replacement purposes as established in section 4-2-4 of this chapter, shall be deposited in a separate nonlapsing fund known as the operation, maintenance and replacement fund and will be kept in two (2) primary accounts as follows:
1. An account designated for the specific purpose of defraying operation and maintenance costs (excluding replacement) of the treatment works (operation and maintenance account). (Ord. 86-2, 9-15-1986, eff. 12-1-1986)
2. An account designated for the specific purpose of insuring replacement needs over the useful life of the treatment works (replacement account). Deposits in the replacement account should be made annually from the operation, maintenance and replacement revenue in the amount of forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00). (Ord. 92-4, 7-6-1992)
C. Year End Balances: Fiscal year end balances in the operation and maintenance account and the replacement account shall be carried over to the same accounts in the subsequent fiscal year, and shall be used for no other purposes than those designated for these accounts. Monies which have been transferred from other sources to meet temporary shortages in the Operation, Maintenance and Replacement Fund shall be returned to their respective accounts upon appropriate adjustment of the user charge rates for operation, maintenance and replacement. (Ord. 86-2, 9-15-1986, eff. 12-1-1986; amd. Ord. 05-09, 9-6-2005)