(A) For the purpose of providing revenue to assist in the financing and to more equitably distribute the cost of the construction of necessary additions to the sewer system and the sewage treatment facilities, it is hereby determined and declared necessary to provide for the establishment, exaction and regulation of a sewer capacity charge as hereinafter determined, with such charge to be in addition to any and all other fees which shall be imposed with respect to the said sewer system.
(B) The funds received from the collection of such charge, as it is herein authorized, shall be deposited daily with the town who shall credit them to a special fund from which the Council may take appropriations for the payment of the cost and expense of the construction of the sanitary sewer system, pump stations and sewage treatment works and for the payment of the cost and expense of extensions to, or the enlargement of, same.
(C) The Department Director shall be and is hereby authorized and directed to charge and collect a sewer system capacity charge whenever:
(1) A sewer system agreement has been executed by the parties;
(2) Application is made for the issuance of a sewer permit to provide sanitary sewer service to a new structure;
(3) At the time an existing structure is enlarged or its use changes; or
(4) When an existing structure is removed and a new structure built and reuse is made of an existing sanitary sewer service or a new sanitary sewer service is constructed, where such property is or will be tributary, directly or indirectly to any sanitary sewer built by the town.
(D) Credit for any existing structure which has a use change, or for an existing structure enlarged or removed, may be applied against the system capacity imposed in the amount of the original structure charge up to, but not more than, the current charge.
(Prior Code, § 16-2-2) (Res. 01-06, passed - -2001; Ord. 09-36, passed - -2009)