(a) For the year beginning March 16, 1959, and each calendar year thereafter, there is hereby imposed an annual rental or charge upon the owners of all properties in the Townships of Lower Chichester and Upper Chichester served, or to be served, for the use of the sewers, the sewer system and a sewage treatment plant, and for the use of extensions thereof.
(b) The total amount of annual sewer rental or charge shall be a sum sufficient to pay the following:
(1) The amount expended annually in the operation, maintenance, repair, alteration, inspection, depreciation or other expense in relation to such sewers, sewer system, pumping station or sewage treatment works.
(2) Such annual amount as may be necessary to provide for the amortization of the indebtedness incurred or of the nondebt revenue bonds or other bonds issued by the Township in the construction or acquisition of such sewer, sewerage system or sewage treatment works, and interest thereon, in order that said improvement may become self-liquidating, or as may be sufficient to pay the amount agreed to be paid annually under the terms of any contract with any authority or municipality furnishing sewage disposal or treatment services to the Township.
(3) An amount sufficient to establish a margin of safety of ten percent.
(c) The annual sewer rental rate shall be on a unit basis, the amount or rate per unit to be determined by dividing the total amount of rental, as provided in subsection (b) hereof, by the number of units in the Township. The Board of Township Commissioners shall annually adopt an ordinance which shall compute the total amount of rental to be collected, the total number of sewer rental units in the Township and the amount or rate per sewer rental unit to be charged for the ensuing year.
(d) The sewer rental for each dwelling unit connected directly or indirectly to the Township sewer system shall be at the rate of one unit per year. Buildings containing more than one dwelling unit shall be charged for each of such dwelling units and the total of such charges for the building shall be the aggregate of the numbers of dwelling units therein at the rate of one unit per dwelling unit.
In cases of use and occupancy of buildings or parts of buildings for purposes other than dwellings, the number of units shall be computed by the Board of Commissioner so that such establishments shall pay a sewer rental substantially proportionate to the rental charged for dwelling units. The minimum annual charge for sewer rental shall be not less than the rate for one unit for each establishment. In all cases where connection to the sewer system is made after January 1 of the current or any other year, the rental or charge shall be apportionable into quarters, and the property owner shall pay for the current and for all succeeding quarters.
In all cases in which the above rates are not exactly applicable, the Board of Commissioner shall fix applicable rats with the same force and effect as if set forth herein.
(e) The Township Tax Collector is hereby designated as the collector of sewer rentals for the Township of Lower Chichester. On or before June 1 of each year, the Board of Commissioners shall execute a warrant authorizing the Tax Collector to collect the sewer rental and shall certify to the Tax Collector the number of sewer rental units and the amount of sewer rental to be collected from the owner of each property connected to the Township sewer system. The Tax Collector shall give notice of such sewer rental charges to respective property owners on the regular Township tax bill.
All payments of sewer rental shall be subject to the same discount and penalty as applicable to the Township real estate tax for the ensuing year. The Tax Collector shall make a monthly report on or before the tenth day of each month, to the Board of Commissioners, of all amount collected by him or her and shall remit all such collections from the preceding month to the Township Treasurer, with said report. The compensation of the Tax Collector, and the Collector's bond for the collection of the sewer rental charges, shall be fixed by ordinance annually.
All sewer rentals or charges not paid on or before the first Monday of May of the following year, shall be deemed to be delinquent, and the Tax Collector shall file with the Board of Commissioners a complete list of all unpaid sewer rentals or charges and it shall be the duty of the Township Treasurer to certify the unpaid bills to the Township Solicitor, who shall proceed to collect such delinquent sewer rentals, together with penalties and cost accrued thereon, either by action at law or by filing a lien or liens for the same, in accordance with law.
(Ord. 325. Passed 3-16-59.)
(f) All churches or other regular places of stated worship are hereby exempt from the annual sewer rental charge levied under subsections (a) through (e) hereof for the year 1966 and thereafter.
(Ord. 393. Passed 10-17-66.)