(A) The town shall make and enforce such bylaws and regulations as may be deemed necessary for the safe, economical and efficient management of the town’s sewerage system, pumping stations, sewage treatment works, for the construction and use of house sewers and connections to the sewerage treatment works, for the construction and use of house sewers and connection to the sewerage system, and for the regulation, collection, rebating and refunding of such rates and charges. No free service shall be provided to any user of the water treatment facility.
(B) The town is hereby authorized to prohibit dumping of wastes into the town’s sewerage system which, in its discretion, are deemed harmful to the operation of the sewage treatment works of the town, or to require methods of affecting pretreatment of such wastes to comply with the pretreatment standards included in the NPDES permit issued to the sewage works.
(C) The Town Council is further authorized to enter into special rate contracts with customers of the sewage works where clearly definable cost to the sewage works can be determined, and such special rates shall be based on such costs.
(D) The rules and regulations promulgated by the town, after approved by the Town Council, shall among other things provide for an appeal procedure whereby a user shall have the right to appeal a decision of the administrator of the user charge to the Town Council and that any decision concerning user charges of the Town Council may be appealed to the circuit court of the county under the appeal procedures provided for in the Indiana Administrative Adjudication Act.
(Ord. 1986-2, passed 5-12-86)
Statutory reference:
Judicial review of administrative adjudications, see I.C. 4-21.5-5