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(a) The owner of the premises served and the occupant and/or user of the water service shall be jointly and severally liable for the water service provided said premises. Water rent shall be a lien on the property supplied, and if not paid as herein provided, the same shall be collected as other taxes and assessments are collected, and the Fiscal Officer is hereby directed to certify to the Auditor of Huron County such delinquent water rents with a description of the premises, and the Auditor shall place the same on the duplicate and collect according to law and certify to the Solicitor such delinquent water rents for collection in a Court of Law in the name of the Village. A deposit shall be required from all tenants. Such deposit may be applied to any final water rent bill, and any balance shall be returned to the applicant. Any person who rents a property and leaves without paying the final bill with a balance due of more than the deposit will not be able to have water turned on in their name until the balance is paid. The provisions of this paragraph (a) shall govern any accounts established in the name of a tenant prior to the effective date of paragraph (b), below. Once an existing tenant account has been closed, no renewal, substitute, or replacement account in the name of a tenant shall be opened.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective from and after August 28, 2017, water accounts will be opened only in the name of the owner of property; and the owner of the premises served shall be liable for the water service provided said premises. Water rent shall be a lien on the property supplied, and if not paid as herein provided, the same shall be collected as other taxes and assessments are collected, and the Fiscal Officer is hereby directed to certify to the Auditor of Huron County such delinquent water rents with a description of the premises, and the Auditor shall place the same on the duplicate and collect according to law and certify to the Solicitor such delinquent water rents for collection in a Court of Law in the name of the Village. A deposit shall be required to open all new accounts. Such deposit may be applied to any final water rent bill, and any balance shall be returned to the applicant. Any person who terminates service without paying the final bill with a balance due of more than the deposit will not be able to have water turned on in their name until the balance is paid.
(Ord. 2017-12. Passed 8-28-17.)
(a) Meter Test. Any meter will be tested at the request of the patron served thereby, with the provision that a charge of forty dollars ($40.00) will be made for such test if meter is found to be measuring correctly within three percent (3%). If registering incorrectly, no charge will be made, but an adjustment with the patron on the basis of error found will be made for the period of three months prior to such test, and said meter will be replaced. Meter tests shall be performed by the Village employees with the customer present. This service is for 5/8, 3/4 and one inch meters only. Larger meters will have to be tested by an independent testing company at their rate of charge.
(b) Frozen Meter. Any person, firm or corporation having a connection to the public water supply system who permits public water to be wasted from such connection either by unnecessary use or to negligently prevent a meter within that person's control from freezing, or fails to prevent such wastage shall have, after notification, such water connection turned off. All water wasted shall be paid for by the party causing, or failing to prevent, such waste, and a fifty dollar ($50.00) charge will be levied for ¾, 5/8, or one inch frozen meters. Larger meters will be charged time and material for the repair.
(c) Service Charges. A fee of five dollars ($5.00) shall be levied to initiate service and set up an account.
(d) An additional charge of twenty-five percent (25%) of regular water rates shall be made for water service outside the Village corporation limits.
(e) Bills for the rates and charges as herein established by the Municipality shall be sent monthly. All bills shall be payable on the first day of the month and shall be paid at the office of the Fiscal Officer. If any charge for the services of the system is not paid by the fifteenth day of the month in which it shall become due and payable, a delayed payment charge of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bill shall be added thereto and collected therewith. A final notice will be sent on the due date or soon thereafter. Water may be shut off ten days after the due date.
(f) Customers with sprinkler systems will be charged twenty five dollars ($25.00) per month per system.
(g) Whenever water/sewer service has been disconnected by the Village for non-payment, a reconnect fee shall be charged before service may be reinstated. The fee shall be fifty dollars ($50.00), and the proceeds shall be applied twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to the water fund and twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to the sewer fund.
(Ord. 2017-12. Passed 8-28-17.)
(a) (1) If, in the judgment of the Superintendent of Water, or his/her authorized representative, an approved backflow prevention device is necessary for the safety of the public water system, the Superintendent of Water will give notice to the water consumer to install such an approved device immediately. The water consumer shall, at his own expense, install such an approved device at a location and in a manner approved by the Superintendent of Water, or his/her representative and shall have inspections and tests made of such approved devices as required by the Superintendent of Water, or his/her authorized representative.
(2) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer’s water system serving premises in any of the following circumstances:
A. Premises having an auxiliary water system on the premises, unless such auxiliary system is accepted as an additional source by the supplier of water and the source is approved by the Director (in which case, a physical separation shall be maintained between the public water system or a consumer’s water system and the auxiliary water system);
B. Premises on which any substance is handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to a public water system. This shall include premises having sources or systems containing process fluids.
C. Premises having internal cross-connections that, in the judgment of the suppler of water, are not correctable, or intricate plumbing arrangements which make it impracticable to determine whether or not cross-connections exist;
D. Premises where, because of security requirements or other prohibitions or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete cross-connection survey;
E. Premises having a repeated history of cross-connections being established or re-established; or
F. Others specified by the Superintendent of Water.
(3) An approved Backflow Prevention Device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer’s water system serving, but not necessarily limited to, the following types of facilities:
A. Hospitals, mortuaries, clinics, nursing homes;
B. Laboratories;
C. Piers, docks, waterfront facilities;
D. Sewage treatment plants, sewage plumbing station, or storm water pumping stations;
E. Food or beverage processing plants;
F. Chemical plants;
G. Metal plating industries;
H. Petroleum processing or storage plants;
I. Radioactive material processing plants or nuclear reactors;
J. Car washes; and
K. Others specified by the Superintendent of Water.
(b) Not later than thirty (30) days after the installation of a backflow prevention device, the water consumer shall have a person certified by the Department of Commerce and make inspections and test the device to provide approval or additional requirements for approval; and each such report shall be submitted to the Superintendent of Water or his/her authorized representative.
(c) Thereafter, the water consumer shall assure that any approved backflow prevention device connected to the water supply system is inspected in the same manner on an annual basis and that a written report of the results is submitted to the Superintendent or Water of his/her authorized representative.
(d) No person, firm or corporation shall establish or permit to be established or maintain or permit to be maintained any connection whereby a private, auxiliary or emergency water supply other than the regular public water supply of New London may enter the supply or distributing system of said Municipality, unless such private, auxiliary or emergency water supply and the method of connection and use of such supply shall have been approved by the Superintendent of Water of New London and by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(e) It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Water to cause surveys and investigations to be made of industrial and other properties served by the public water supply where actual or potential hazards to the public water supply may exist. Such surveys and investigations shall be done by a certified technician, and shall be made at a minimum annually or as often as the Superintendent of Water shall deem necessary. These surveys and investigations must be sent to the Superintendent of Water to be kept on file as a matter of public record.
(f) The Superintendent of Water or his or its duly authorized representative shall have the right to enter at any reasonable time any property served by a connection to the public water supply or distribution system of New London for the purpose of inspecting the piping system or systems thereof. On demand the owner, lessees or occupants of any property so served shall furnish to the Superintendent of Water any information which he may request regarding the piping system or systems or water use on such property. The refusal of such information, when demanded, shall, within the discretion of the Superintendent of Water, be deemed evidence of the presence of improper connections as provided in this section.
(g) The Superintendent of Water is hereby authorized and directed to discontinue, after reasonable notice to the occupant thereof, the water service to any property wherein any connection in violation of the provisions of this section is known to exist, and to take such other precautionary measures as he may deem necessary to eliminate any danger of contamination of the public water supply distribution mains. Water service to such property shall not be restored until such conditions shall have been eliminated or corrected in compliance with the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 2018-05. Passed 3-12-18.)