§ 51.05 CONNECTION OR AVAILABILITY FEE.
   (A)   Owners of premises within the district in which water is used or who thereafter improve the same by the erection of a dwelling thereon shall pay, at the time a connection permit or construction permit is issued, a connection or readiness to serve fee as may from time to time be established by resolution of the Township Board.
   (B)   Fees shall be computed on the basis of unit factors.
      (1)   Each single-family residence connected directly to a public water main installed at public expense, other than by special assessment against the benefitted property, shall pay a connection fee as shall be from time to time established by resolution of the Township Board.
      (2)   Where the premises are connected directly to a water main, which water main has been installed at the expense of the owner or by special assessment, or at the expense of the subdivider or developer from whom the owner purchased and not at the expense of the township or county, and where the water main and necessary easement for maintenance, service and replacement by dedication to and accepted by the township or the other government agency as directed by the township, then the connection fee shall be in accordance with a rate schedule which shall be from time to time established by resolution of the Township Board.
      (3)   Where a connection to the public water main shall be a single connection serving more than 1 unit as herein defined (including the connections as apartment or multi-family units, trailer parks, commercial establishments, or other) the connection fee shall be in accordance with a rate schedule as shall from time to time be established by the Township Board.
(Ord. 18, passed 10-1-1979; Am. Ord. 161, passed 10-16-2007 )