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The pretreatment program provides for the recovery of costs from industrial users of the City's wastewater disposal system for the implementation of the City's program. The applicable charges or fees shall be set forth in the City's Schedule of Rates and Charges to be prepared, from time to time, by the City Engineer and approved by Council.
The City shall adopt charges and fees which may include:
(a) Fees for monitoring, inspections and surveillance procedures of industrial wastewater flows;
(b) Fees for permit applications;
(c) Appeal fees; and
(d) Other fees as the City may deem necessary to carry out the requirements contained herein. (Ord. 49-81. Passed 7-6-1981.)
Bills for the charges for the use and service of the Municipal wastewater disposal system shall be made out by the Water Department in accordance with the usual and customary practices. The time of making such bills and period covered thereby shall be in accordance with the meter reading practices of the Department. All bills shall be payable to and at the office of the Department. (Ord. 49-81. Passed 7-6-1981.)
In case of failure to pay any charges duly prescribed, the City may take any appropriate action against a recipient of sewer service or property owner, including but not limited to instituting any proceeding in a court of proper jurisdiction, shutting off service and certifying the amount of all unpaid sewer service charges to the Cuyahoga County Auditor, with interest accruing at a rate of ten percent (10%) per annum from thirty days after the date of delinquency.
(Ord. 14-12. Passed 3-5-2012.)
(a) The City shall endeavor to collect delinquent accounts promptly. In any case where satisfactory arrangements for payment have not been made, the City may, after the procedural requirements of subsection (b) hereof have been complied with, discontinue service to the delinquent customer by shutting off the water at the stop box. When water service to any premises has been discontinued, service shall not be restored except upon the payment of all delinquent amounts due plus any reasonable fees incurred for disconnection and reconnection.
(b) Procedure. Water shall not be shut off until reasonable notice and an opportunity for a hearing have first been given to the occupant of the premises involved. The notice shall state that if payment is not made before a date stated in the notice but not less than thirty days after the date on which the notice is given, the water supply to the premises may be shut off. The notice shall also state that the occupant may, before such date, demand a hearing on the matter in which case the supply shall not be cut off until after the hearing is held. If the customer requests a hearing before the date specified, a hearing shall be held on the matter by the Director of Finance or his or her designee at least one week after the date on which the request is made. If as a result of the hearing, the Director of Finance finds that the amount claimed to be owing is actually due and unpaid and that there is no legal reason why the water supply of the delinquent customer may not be shut off in accordance with this chapter, the City may shut off the supply.
(Ord. 14-12. Passed 3-5-2012.)
(a) All property taxes designated for wastewater system use and all of the capital charges portion of the variable charges shall be kept and maintained in a separate fund in an account hereby designated the Wastewater Improvement Fund. The revenues from all bonds and notes issued for the acquisition and installation of such system shall accrue to this account and be used for improvement and extension of the wastewater collections system and the wastewater treatment plant.
(b) All of the user charges portion of the variable charges relating to the wastewater collections system shall be kept and maintained in a separate fund in an account hereby designated as the Wastewater Collections System Fund. All operating maintenance, repair and replacement costs for the wastewater collections system shall be paid from this Fund.
(c) All of the user charges portion of the variable charges relating to the wastewater treatment plant shall be kept and maintained in a separate fund in an account designated as the Wastewater Treatment Fund. All operating, maintenance, repair and replacement costs for the wastewater treatment plant shall be paid from this Fund.
(Ord. 75-95. Passed 12-18-1995.)
The provisions of this chapter shall be interpreted whenever possible as being in conformity with applicable federal, State and local regulations, and with other ordinances that may be adopted from time to time by Council prescribing additional terms and conditions for users of the treatment works. If any section of this chapter shall be adjudged invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining sections. (Ord. 49-81. Passed 7-6-1981.)
There is hereby established a special homestead exemption whereby sewer rates charged to a dwelling unit owned and occupied by a person 65 years of age or older or owned and occupied by a permanently or totally disabled person, provided that the sum of all income of all adults occupying the dwelling unit falls below $35,000 per annum, shall be 75% of the sewer rate established pursuant to this chapter. For the purposes of this section, “income” shall have the same meaning as in Section 128.03101. (Ord. 9-13A. Passed 5-20-2013.)
The City of Lakewood Division of Water is authorized to provide a Summer Sprinkling Program for residents commencing June 1 and ending September 30 of each year for owner-occupied homes of one-, two-, three- and four-family residential accounts in good standing. Upon the customer’s request by written application on a form prescribed by the Director of Finance summer sewer bills issued during the months of June, July, August and September of each year would be based on an average of sewer bills issued for the previous four months (January through April). All applications must be completed by April 30 of each year. The Division of Utility Divisions will calculate the average sewer charge for the customer, which will reflect the summer sprinkling discount The Summer Sprinkling Program will not affect or replace the city’s current sewer-exempt program.
(Ord. 62-11A. Passed 2-21-2012; Ord. 05-2023. Passed 4-3-23.)
The variable charges for residential and commercial users is determined by the following formula:
Cp = (Vc + Vo) Vu
Where:
Cp = Variable charges consisting of the sum of capital and user charges.
Vu = Volume of water used or volume of wastewater from user per quarter measured in thousands of cubic feet.
Vc = Capital charge attributed to 1,000 cubic feet of wastewater = $.96
Vo = User (operation and maintenance) charge attributed to 1,000 cubic feet of wastewater = $10.57 plus 105.7¢ per additional 100 cubic feet
(Ord. 49-81. Passed 7-6-1981; Ord. 56-84. Passed 6-18-1984; Res. 6481-90. Passed 3-19-1990.)
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