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(A) The city shall maintain financial records to accurately account for revenues generated by the treatment system and expenditures for operation and maintenance of the system, including normal replacement costs.
(B) The city shall review not less often than annually the sewage contribution of users, the total cost of operation and maintenance of the sewage works, debt service obligations and sewer service charges. Based on such review the city shall revise, when necessary, the schedule of sewer service charges to accomplish the following:
(1) Excessive strength and toxicity surcharges shall be reviewed at the time of and in conjunction with the review of user charges. Surcharge rates shall be revised where necessary to reflect current treatment and monitoring costs.
(2) Maintain an equitable distribution of operations and maintenance costs among users of the treatment system.
(3) Generate sufficient revenues to offset costs associated with the proper operation and maintenance of the sewage system and to meet debt service requirements.
(4) Each user shall be notified, at least annually, in conjunction with a regular bill of the rate and that portion of the total charge which is attributable to operation and maintenance of the sewage system.
(Ord. 0-95-006, passed 9-25-95; Am. Ord. 0-2008-14, passed 5-14-08)
(A) All users shall be billed monthly. Billings for any particular month shall be made within ten (10) days after the end of the month. Payments are due within fifteen (15) days after the end of the month. Any payment not received within twenty (20) days after the end of the month shall be delinquent.
(B) A late payment penalty of five percent (5%) of the current user charge bill will be added to each delinquent bill. When any bill is more than forty five (45) days in default, water and/or sewer service to such premise shall be discontinued until such bill is paid.
(C) When any bill (including interest and penalty) remains unpaid for one (1) year after the date due, such bill shall be recorded in the land records of Pike County by the Treasurer and shall constitute a lien on the property. If such lien (including interest and penalty) remains unpaid for a period of one (1) year after date of recordation, such property shall be subject to public sale by the Treasurer.
(Ord. 0-95-006, passed 9-25-95; Am. Ord. 0-2005-022, passed 10-10-05; Am. Ord. 0-2007-008, passed 2-26-07; Am. Ord. 0-2008-004, passed 1-14-08)
A portion of the City Occupational Tax (up to three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00)) may be dedicated to cover debt service of the system which is not covered by the user charges as set out above. If at any time occupational tax collections and user charge collections are not sufficient to cover the debt service of the system, the city shall amend the sewer rate schedule contained in § 55.04 so that the sewer rate schedule shall provide sufficient revenues to cover the operation, maintenance and replacement cost and debt service of the system.
(Ord. 0-95-006, passed 9-25-95; Am. Ord. 0-2008-004, passed 1-14-08)