(a) There is hereby levied and shall be collected a charge against residential users of municipal services and business establishments which use municipal services within the City, for certain essential services including street lighting and street improvements. Street improvements shall only mean new construction, reconstruction and resurfacing of all streets, roads and alleys, and the following associated work that goes with the above: concrete, curb installation (handicapped accessibility) asphalting, engineering, slag, storm drainage, which will also include water control and storm sewers and guard rails where determined as necessary. Street lighting shall only mean for pole lighting, (with proration with the General Fund as necessary, but not more than fifty percent (50%) of moneys from the General Fund). Pole lighting does not include Christmas lighting and traffic lights. The charge for such services shall be at the following rates for each single family residence, per unit, and for each multiple-family dwelling or apartment house, per each residential unit or apartment, whether or not occupied, and for each business establishment.
1 year | $ 120.00 |
3/4 year | 90.00 |
1/2 year | 60.00 |
1/4 year | 30.00 |
2 months | 20.00 |
1 month | 10.00 |
(Ord. 6-17-14.)
(b) The City Clerk’s office shall be charged with the duty of mailing a statement each month, every two months, or every three months to each person or business establishment to be charged with this municipal fee hereby imposed for the fee due for the preceding billing period, or any portion thereof, as the case may be, but failure to mail any such statement for such charges shall not be grounds for avoiding payment. All such statements shall contain language allowing such person or business establishment the opportunity to pay the fee quarterly, semi-annually, or annually. Further, the Clerk’s office may add such statements to customer utility statements, all at the discretion of the City Clerk. (Ord. 9-16-97)
(c) Subject to such reasonable regulations as may be promulgated by the City Clerk, the record owner of the property upon which a single family residence is situate shall be presumed to be the user of municipal services rendered for the benefit of such property and the record owner shall be liable to the City for the charges; the tenants or occupants of the residential units of a multi-family dwelling or apartment house shall be presumed to be the users of such municipal services and shall be liable to the City for such charges. Persons doing business as partners in a business establishment within the City of Moundsville shall be jointly and severally liable for the charges. However, in the event that a residential unit of a multi-family dwelling or apartment house is temporarily unoccupied then and in that event the record owner of the property upon which such multi-family dwelling or apartment house is situate shall be presumed to be the user of the residential services provided to each such unoccupied unit and shall be liable to the City for the charges. (Ord. 12-18-89)