(A) Application for connection. No person shall make any type of connection to the municipal water system, except upon making an application therefor on a form provided by the municipality and receiving a permit issued by the municipality for such purposes. The application shall include the legal description of the property to be served, the uses for which the connection is requested, the size, type and alignment of the service line to be used, and any other pertinent data, as requested by the authority having jurisdiction. The person might also have to make application for a right-of-way permit if any work is located with the public right-of-way.
(B) Implied consent. Every person applying for water service and every owner of property for which any application is made shall be deemed, upon making the application, to consent to all rules, regulations and rates set forth in this chapter and such further rules, regulations and rates as may thereafter be set forth and adopted by the Council pursuant to resolution or ordinance.
(C) Fees. No connection shall be made to the municipal water system by any person until that person has paid his or her full and proportionate share of the system, which share shall be payable as follows.
(1) For service to property to which service lines have not been previously run from the street laterals to the property line, the user shall obtain a corporate shut-off and curb stop from the Director of Public Works/Parks and Recreation, or his or her designee, upon payment of the associated fees and costs.
(2) For service to property to which service lines have been previously run to the property line, but which have not been paid for, the user shall pay in cash or agree to pay charges in the form of special assessments to be levied against the property to be spread over a number of years coincident with the maturity requirements of any special improvement bonds sold for the purpose of financing the construction of the municipal water system serving the property. The cash payment or assessment charge shall be in the principal amount of not less than the payments made by or charges placed against comparable properties for like services in an amount as may be established by the Council. Payment to the Treasury in the form of a special assessment charge shall be in the form of equal annual installments together with interest on the unpaid balance, from year to year, which interest shall be computed at a rate specified by the Council.
(Prior Code, § 906.02) (Ord. 955, passed 03-11-2019)