For properties not within the present service area of the sewer system, the applicable fees shall include a connection fee payable on a lot or per parcel basis, which shall be established by the Council, similar in amount to the costs of construction of an equivalent collector sewer system adjacent to the landowner’s property, including the cost of construction, engineering, legal and administrative services, and in accordance with the benefit received, plus a fee for administrative services and in accordance with the benefit received, plus a fee for each lateral constructed in the public right-of-way to service the property; said money to be paid directly to the Department in cash prior to the time of the connection to the Department sewer system. Said money so collected is to be used to pay all or part of the cost of installing other main line sewers in the town as and when designated by the Council, or the costs of construction of additional sewage capacity. When said moneys are not being expended for that purpose they are to be invested or spent at the discretion of the Council. The actual rates and categories shall be set by resolution which shall be amended from time to time. The rate shall be established in compliance with the public hearing requirements of A.R.S. § 9-511.01.
(Prior Code, § 16-2-2) (Res. 01-06, passed - -2001; Ord. 09-36, passed - -2009)