The monthly user charges and rates to each user levied and assessed by this chapter or by other ordinance of the city shall be due and payable to the Sewer Department Office as and when charges for sewer consumption and sewer service charges are due and payable. The tap-in fees shall be due under § 50.198.
(A) The quantity of water obtained from sources other than the water utility serving the city and discharged into the public sanitary sewer system may be determined by the city in such manner as the city shall elect, and the sewage treatment service may be billed at the appropriate monthly user charges and rates, as established by this chapter.
(B) In the event a lot, parcel of real estate or building discharging sanitary sewage, industrial waste, water or other liquids into the city’s sanitary sewage system, either directly or indirectly, is not a user of the water supplied by the water utility serving said city, the water used thereon or therein is not measured by a meter, or is measured by a meter not acceptable to the city, then the amount of water used shall be otherwise measured or determined by the city in order to ascertain the rates of charge, or the owner or other interested party, at his or her expense, may install and maintain meters, wells, volumetric measuring devices or any adequate and approved method of measurement acceptable to the city for the determination of the sewage discharge.
(C) In the event a lot, parcel of real estate or building discharging sanitary sewage, industrial waste, water or other liquids into the city’s sanitary sewage system, either directly or indirectly, is a user of water supplied by the water utility serving said city, and in addition uses water from another source which is not measured by a water meter or is measured by a water meter not acceptable to the city, then the amount of water used shall be otherwise measured or determined by the city in order to ascertain the rates of charges, or the owner or other interested party, at his or her expense, may install and maintain meters, wells, volumetrical measuring devices or any adequate and approved method of measurement acceptable to the city for the determination of sewage discharge.
(D) Where a metered water supply is used for fire protection as well as for other uses, the city may, in its discretion, make adjustments in the minimum charge and in the use charge as may be equitable.
(E) For the service rendered to the city, the city shall be subject to the same rates and charges hereinabove provided or to rates and charges established in harmony therewith.
(F) The city may make and enforce such regulations as may be deemed necessary for the safe, economic and efficient management of the city’s sewage works, including the sewer system and the treatment plant, for the construction and use of house sewers and connections to the sewer system, and for the regulation, collection, rebating and refunding of rates and charges.
(Ord. 02-09, passed 5-28-02; Am. Ord. 05-13, passed 5-24-05; Am. Ord. 10-07, passed 5-10-10)