(A) (1) The town may install, and in the event of the installation, the affected user shall pay the costs of the installation, the metering, monitoring and/or access and sampling locations and devices as are reasonably determined by the town to be adequate and appropriate to measure the rate of flow, volume and strength and character of waste material delivered into that town’s sanitary sewer system by any user.
(2) The town shall maintain, repair and periodically test and calibrate the devices, at the town’s expense. The devices shall be owned by and under the control of the town. The precise location and specifications of the measuring devices shall initially be the subject of, and in accordance with, the recommendation of the town’s consultant engineers and state regulatory authority.
(3) Sampling may be conducted in a manner and as frequently as the town deems appropriate. Parameters to be tested may include pH, suspended solids, COD, BOD, phosphorous, metal ion, total nitrogen and other testing as required to reasonably satisfy the appropriate regulatory authorities.
(4) Material samples as received from the sampling devices shall be available both to the town and to the customer whose effluent is being sampled, and the results of testing samples shall be promptly forwarded by that testing party to the other, upon completion of testing.
(5) The cost incurred by the town in the testing shall be billed to the customer so tested, and promptly reimbursed to the town by that customer.
(B) (1) The rates and charges for availability and use of the system may be billed to the occupant of the premises served, unless otherwise requested in writing by the owner of those premises, but billings shall not relieve the owner from liability if timely payment is not made.
(2) During normal business hours of the Clerk-Treasurer, the owner shall have the right to examine the collection records of the town to determine whether the rates and charges have been paid.
(C) (1) Should any customer fail to pay any billing from the town for obligations owing to its sewer utility, the customer water service may be suspended, all pursuant to applicable law.
(2) The town may also cease accepting the delinquent customer’s waste material until the default is cured, and all delinquent and current amounts owed by that customer are paid in full.
(Prior Code, § 53.42) (Ord. 5-83, passed 11-21-1983)