(a) No property shall be connected directly or indirectly to any sanitary sewer line owned by this City unless the connection is made in conformity with the provisions of this section and such other rules and regulations as may be from time to time established by Council, the Service-Safety Director and by any other authority which may lawfully exercise control over the sanitary sewer lines, and unless the owner of such property shall have paid the applicable connection charge prescribed by this section which shall be in addition to any other fees and charges which may be required with respect to the connection by such rules and regulations. In the event that the Director shall ascertain that any property has been connnected directly or indirectly to any sanitary sewer line in violation of the provisions of this section or such rules and regulations, the Director is hereby authorized to disconnect such property from such sanitary sewer lines until such violation shall cease.
(b) The owner, agent, lessee, tenant or occupant of any lot or land desiring to connect to any sanitary sewer line, hereinafter referred to as the "applicant," shall not connect to any sanitary sewer line unless the applicant shall have first secured a permit from the Director.
(c) The Service-Safety Director shall not issue the permit described in subsection (b) hereof unless, in addition to all fees and charges which may be required for connection to a sanitary sewer line by any other ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation of this City the applicant shall have first paid to the Treasurer a connection charge in an amount determined by the Service-Safety Director.
(d) The Service-Safety Director in determining the charge to be levied under subsection (c) hereof shall determine from the records relating to the construction of the sanitary sewer line to which connection is sought and particularly from any resolution of necessity to assess adopted by Council as part of the construction process, the amount of the special assessment that would have been levied upon the property now seeking connection had it been determined that such property was benefited at the time of construction. The determination shall be made without regard to the actions of any Board of Equalization. The Director shall then add to this amount an additional sum equal to the interest on a proportionate share any notes or bonds that were issued by the City to pay the costs of construction and incidental expenses arising out of the construction of such line for each year that such notes or bonds were outstanding. This amount shall be deemed to be the sanitary sewer connection charge required under subsection (c) hereof which must be paid before connection to such sanitary sewer line is permitted.
(e) The permit fee and the connection charge specified herein shall not preclude any deposit or bond required by any other ordinance to insure that the connection with the sanitary sewer lines shall be made in such a manner as will not injure the sanitary sewer lines of the Villaage and will insure that all streets, sidewalks and other property will be returned to the same state as before the connection was made.
(f) Any person who attempts to or does connect property to a sanitary sewer line as defined herein or a connection with such a line, without securing the permit required by this section, is hereby determined to be guilty of a minor misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(g) Each twenty-four hour period a connection in violation of this section remains connected to a sanitary sewer line, or a connection to such line, shall be deemed to be a separate violation of this section and shall be punished as provided in this section.
(h) Any fees which are received for connecting with the sanitary sewer lines of the system which have been constructed from the proceeds of an issue of notes or bonds of the City, which notes or bonds are general obligations of the City, shall be delivered to the Auditor as officer in charge of the Bond Retirement Fund and such Auditor shall thereupon credit the amount thereof to the Bond Retirement Fund, provided, however, that any fees received for connecting with sanitary sewer lines constructed from bonds secured by a pledge of revenues or a mortgage on real property or for which the notes or bonds have already been paid, shall be delivered to the Auditor and shall be credited to the sanitary sewer system revenue fund of the City.
(Ord. 83-34. Passed 9-1-83.)