(A) The following rates shall be charged by the municipality for use of its sanitary sewage plant and system by the municipality, its inhabitants, and other users thereof, these rates to be premised on the metered consumption of all water:
(1) The minimum charge shall be $2.00 per month, except for customers whose water usage is either not metered, or not connected to the water system of the municipality, the minimum charge shall be $20 per month.
(2) The consumption charge shall be $1.20 per 1,000 gallons of water, except that for a non-residential customer, located within the corporation limits, who consumes 200,000 or more gallons of water in the quarter, the rate shall be $1.00 per 1,000 gallons commencing with 100,000 gallons.
(a) Effective January 1, 1999, and on January 1 in each succeeding year, the consumption charge shall be increased as follows:
Year | Rate
|
2014 | $4.50 |
2015 | $4.73 |
2016 | $4.97 |
2017 | $5.22 |
2018 | $5.48 |
and shall remain at $5.48 unless further amended by Council.
(3) Users located outside the corporate limits of the municipality shall be charged 150% of the foregoing rates.
(B) The rates established above shall be reflected in all sewer service bills rendered after the date of adoption of this chapter, except that no sewer service rendered shall be charged for at a rate in excess of the rate schedule during the period such service was furnished.
(C) All references to the corporation line, Municipality of New Lebanon, mean the corporation line as recorded March 13, 1969.
(D) The municipality reserves the right to increase the rates established in the event that the revenues of the sewer system should at any time prove insufficient to pay the operation and maintenance expenses of the sewer system, the principal of and interest revenues, and the required deposits to reserve funds and other funds of any such outstanding bonds.
(‘80 Code, § 50.01) (Ord. 845, passed 7-5-77; Am. Ord. 83-8, passed 7-19-83; Am. Ord. 88-2, passed 1-5-88; Am. Ord. 96-17, passed 5-21-96; Am. Ord. 98-42, passed 11-17-98; Am. Ord. 99-07, passed 4-6-99; Am. Ord. 2013-05, passed 12-3-13)