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No free utility service shall be furnished to any person, public or private, and all rates and charges shall be non-discriminatory, provided that the Mayor and Village Board reserve the right to impose special rates and charges in cases where particular circumstances render the regular rates inadequate or unjust.
(Prior Code, § 38-2-5) (Ord. 06-382, passed 12-18-2006)
(A) Deposit. If the application for utility services is made by the owner or owners of the real estate, and no other person has an interest in the property as tenant, lessee, contract purchaser or otherwise, the owner/applicant shall tender with the application a security deposit in the amount of $100. If the premises are under lease, or if the premises otherwise have a tenant, or if any person other than the owner of record has any right, title, interest or claim in and to use of the premises, the application shall be by both the owner and the person having some claim as tenant, renter, purchaser under contract or person having some other interest in the premises, the application shall be signed both by the owner or owners and the other person having an interest in the premises, and the application shall be accompanied by a security deposit in the amount of $300. If the Clerk of the village shall determine, in his or her absolute discretion, that the deposit herein specified is not sufficient to adequately protect the Water and the Sewer Department, a greater amount than stated above, may be required, based upon the consumer’s estimated bill for a customary billing period.
(B) Security for payment; no interest. The deposits made under the provisions of this public works title shall be held by the village as security for the payment of utility services used by the applicant upon the premises to which his application pertains, and may be so applied when any default is made in the payment in the utilities bill in accordance with this public works title. The depositor shall earn no interest. If the applicant is the owner of the property, the deposit may be returned if he or she moves out of town and all previous bills have been paid.
(C) Liability for deposit.
(1) The owner of the premises and the tenant thereof shall be jointly and severally liable to pay the required deposit herein established before water and sewer facilities shall be made available to the tenant-occupied premises.
(2) In case a portion of the deposit is used as aforesaid, the tenant and/or owner of the premises shall immediately deposit with the Village Clerk an amount sufficient to bring the deposit to the established rate of deposit.
(Prior Code, § 38-2-6) (Ord. 06-382, passed 12-18-2006; Ord. passed 1-3-2012)
(A) All residences, businesses or individual units of multiple dwellings or multiple businesses will not be allowed to exist in the village without water and sewer hookups in working order, paid in full, and connected to and receiving water from the village water supply. Trailers shall not be pulled into the village until the water and sewer hookups have been set up and the fees and deposits paid.
(B) Connection to the village water supply is only required if the public water main is within 300 feet of the premises listed above. Compliance with this public works title must exist within 120 days of the passage of this public works title. The owner or owners of each residence, business or individual units of multiple dwelling or multiple businesses shall pay all fees and costs of connection.
(C) (1) If a residential tract contains a private well, that private well may be used if it:
(a) Is annually inspected and approved by the county’s Health Department; and
(b) Proof of such inspection and approval is filed with the Village Clerk.
(2) All existing private wells must be inspected and approved by the county’s Health Department within 120 days of the passage of this public works title. The owner or owners of each residence shall pay all fees and costs of inspection.
(Prior Code, § 38-2-7) (Ord. 06-382, passed 12-18-2006; Ord. 12-450, passed 8-6-2012)
(A) Utility services shall not be provided to any structure intended for human habitation if it has been vacant for more than 45 days unless it has been inspected by a village employee or officer and determined to have operating and functioning potable water, septic and heating systems or systems which are capable of operating and properly functioning for the providing of potable water, septic, sewer and heating systems.
(Ord. 17-504, passed 3-6-2017; Ord. 20-564, passed 5-4-2020)
UTILITY RATES GENERALLY
All persons or families residing in a building under one roof, be it an apartment or homes converted into more than one dwelling place, each family or individual resident residing therein shall be deemed an individual customer and such homes or apartments or dwellings shall be billed for at least one minimum water and/or sewer account according to the number of families or individual residents residing therein.
(Prior Code, § 38-4-1) (Ord. 06-382, passed 12-18-2006)
(A) All revenues and moneys derived from the operation of the water and sewer systems shall be deposited in the Combined Water and Sewage Fund. All such revenues and moneys shall be held by the Village Collector separate and apart from his or her private funds and separate and apart from all other funds of the village and all of said sum, without any deductions whatever, shall be delivered to the Village Treasurer not more than ten days after receipt of the same, or at such more frequent intervals as may, from time to time, be directed by the Village Board.
(B) The Treasurer shall receive all such revenues from the water and sewer systems and all other funds and moneys incident to the operation of such systems as the same may be delivered to him or her and deposit the same in the account of the fund designated as the “Water or Sewage Fund of the Village”. The Mayor and Village Board shall administer such fund in every respect in the manner provided by 65 ILCS.
(Prior Code, § 38-4-2) (Ord. 06-382, passed 12-18-2006)
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