(a) Water rates and charges for use of water and the facilities of the waterworks system of the Village, shall be as follows:
(1) First 3,000 gallons: twenty-nine dollars ($29.00) per month, minimum charge, except that all owners of a residential dwelling they reside in which at least one owner is age sixty-two or older and who provide sufficient proof of age to the Village Fiscal Officer shall receive a monthly discount of ten percent (10%) of said minimum charge only.
(2) All over 3,000 gallons per month: four dollars and seventy-five cents ($4.75) per 1,000 gallons.
(b) Water rates and charges shall at all times be sufficient to pay the expenses of operation of the waterworks system, as well as the debt service and other security requirements provided in all Village ordinances, and in the mortgage trust indenture securing any first mortgage waterworks revenue bonds, and that the provisions herein, which are an integral part of all waterworks financing programs in the Village, shall constitute a covenant to and for the benefit of the owners and holders of any first mortgage waterworks revenue bonds.
(c) The prices to be charged for water furnished to all consumers situated outside the Village, are hereby fixed at two hundred percent (200%) of the rates charged to consumers situated within the Village limits: i.e., two hundred percent (200%) of the rates as found in Section 921.05(a). To help insure the availability and priority of furnishing water services to consumers situated within the Village limits and to encourage Village territorial growth, water services shall no longer be extended to consumers situated outside the Village limits.
(Ord. 2022-01. Passed 1-6-22.)