(a) No person shall connect or cause to be connected any building or other structure either directly or indirectly to the French Creek Sewer for the purpose of discharging sanitary sewage or industrial waste without first obtaining from the Clerk-Treasurer a permit and paying the charges provided for in subsections (b) and (c) hereof and any applicable additional charges determined in accordance with any other ordinance of the Village.
(b) The Clerk-Treasurer shall not issue a permit until the applicant therefor shall have paid the charge imposed by Section 939.05, which is intended to reimburse the Village for the reasonable expenses of inspection and other administrative costs relating to the making of connections to the Village's sanitary sewer system.
(c) Where a connection is to be made to the French Creek Sewer and the property to be connected has not been identified in Res. 355, passed July 25, 1994, as one to be specially assessed for the French Creek Sewer, the Clerk-Treasurer shall not issue a permit until the applicant therefor shall have paid, in addition to the applicable charge specified in subsection (b) hereof, a connection charge calculated by multiplying the number of acres in the parcel of property to be connected (including portions of acres to the nearest one-hundredth of an acre) by seven hundred thirty-eight dollars ($738.00) and adding to that sum an amount determined by multiplying the number of feet of the parcel of property to be connected which are fronting on a street (to the nearest one-hundredth of a foot) by nineteen dollars and sixty-seven cents ($19.67). No more than one structure shall be served from any connection made pursuant to this section. In making the calculations for the charge imposed by this subsection, an applicant may, in writing, request that the Clerk-Treasurer exclude from the calculation of the charge required to be paid by this section any portion of the acreage or frontage which cannot be used because of its topography or because of Federal or State environmental restrictions, or which has existing service from a sanitary sewer of the Village. The Clerk-Treasurer may request the applicant to supply satisfactory documentation to support the requested exclusion and need not issue the permit to connect to the French Creek Sewer until that documentation is satisfactory to the Clerk-Treasurer and all changes required by this section have been delivered to the Clerk-Treasurer. In the case of any parcel, the frontage of which is more than twenty-five percent greater than the width of the lot at the midpoint of its depth, the frontage of the lot shall be deemed to be one-half of the sum of its frontage and its width at the midpoint of its depth.
(d) The charges, as determined pursuant to subsection (c) hereof, shall be increased by an amount equal to four percent of the initial charge on January 1, 1997, and on January 1 of each year thereafter. The incremental charges as set forth in this subsection are designed to offset inflationary increase in costs to construct the tributary sewer which, but for connection to the French Creek Sewer, would have served the parcel.
(e) The connection charges provided for in subsections (a) through (d) hereof must be paid in cash, or by a cashier's, bank official's or certified check, payable to the Village, at the time the permit is applied for.
(f) All moneys collected by the Village as charges pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be deposited in a separate account in the Sewer Fund to be used to offset a portion of the costs of constructing sanitary sewers that are tributary to the French Creek Sewer, which costs cannot be specially assessed because parcels have been permitted to connect to the French Creek Sewer, provided that if moneys collected pursuant to this section have not been so used by December 31, 2000, then such moneys may be used for any lawful purpose.
(Ord. 1433. Passed 11-13-95.)