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No person, firm, copartnership, corporation, company, or association shall tap or make any connection with, nor shall any company or association be allowed to make any connection or tap with, a sewer main until there has first been issued a permit for the tapping of any sewer main, and until all fees have been paid in advance as may be established from time to time by the Mayor and Council.
(Prior Code, § 9-2A-1) Penalty, see § 9-2-7
(A) Application; approval. Every person, firm, copartnership, corporation, company, or association desiring to tap or make any connection with a sewer main of the sewer system of the town shall make application therefor to the Town Clerk-Treasurer upon forms to be provided therefor, and which shall be approved by the Building Inspector, who shall likewise designate the appropriate fee for such permit.
(B) Permit issuance; payment of fee. Upon approval thereof, the Clerk-Treasurer shall issue a tapping permit and collect the fee therefor in advance.
(Prior Code, § 9-2A-2)
The fees to be charged for any permit issued to make any connection or tap of the sewer main shall be as follows:
(A) Residences. The fees shall be set by the Town Council from time to time.
(B) Apartment houses. The regular fee for a residential tap, plus 25% for each additional living unit after the first;
(C) Motels and hotels. The regular fee for a residential tap, plus 10% for each sleeping room constructed and maintained for rent, plus a regular residential fee for the bar and restaurant if components of the motel or hotel; and
(D) Commercial and industrial. By contract based upon demand and deteriorating effect of the use upon the facilities of the town.
(Prior Code, § 9-2A-3) (Ord. 2024-01, passed 4-4-2024)
The fees charged by this chapter shall include only the privilege of making the connection with the sewer main, and all costs of material and labor in extending the sewer main or in connecting the service from the sewer main to the point of use shall be borne entirely by the permittee, who shall likewise be required to refill and re-tamp all excavations so as to be free from settling, and shall likewise resurface where necessary.
(Prior Code, § 9-2A-4)
When any charge as established pursuant to this chapter shall remain unpaid after notice and the opportunity to contest billing, the water at such sewer tap shall be turned off of the property benefited by the repairs or replacements and shall not be turned on again until such charges are fully paid, together with a turnoff fee.
(Prior Code, § 9-2A-5) (Ord. 2024-01, passed 4-4-2024)
(A) Responsibility for payment of costs. In all cases where it is necessary to extend the sewer mains to serve property within the town, the property owner who first requests the extension of the sewer shall pay all costs of material and labor necessary for surveys, excavation, laying of pipe, and joining the same from the then present end of the sewer main to where it shall properly serve the property owner.
(B) Costs filed with Clerk-Treasurer; collection. The costs of such extension shall then be filed with the Town Clerk-Treasurer, and thereafter as sewer taps are permitted at each intervening point of such extension, the town shall collect the pro rata share of the cost of such extension from each tap permittee, and such charge shall be collected and paid into the town treasury before a tap permit shall be issued; and the amount so collected, exclusive of the tap charge, shall be remitted to the property owner who originally paid for the extension.
(Prior Code, § 9-2A-6)
(A) Permit required. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, or corporation (hereinafter referred to as “person”) to make any connection to the town sewer system for usage of the sewer system outside of the town without first obtaining a permit to do so.
(B) Application for permit; fees and penalties.
(1) Application for the permit shall be made to the town through its Town Clerk-Treasurer. The permit shall be granted only after a determination by the Council that the town will have adequate sewer facilities to handle the sewage requirements of its citizens and to meet any prior contractual commitments to provide sewer service, including prior permits to provide sewer service outside of town limits.
(2) The application and permit shall include a specific use and include the amount of sewage that is approved for connection to the system.
(3) The fee for the permit and penalties for violation of this section shall be as set forth from time to time by resolution. The fees for the permit and penalties shall compensate the town for any additional burden upon the existing physical sewer system.
(C) Costs borne by consumer; use restricted; violations.
(1) Any costs incurred in extending any mains or modification of the physical sewer system, including treatment facilities, and increased maintenance shall be borne by the persons desiring to use the sewer outside of town limits.
(2) Any sewer connection approved by a permit pursuant to this section shall only be used by the permitted user and only for the specific amounts of sewage set forth in the permit.
(3) Violations of this section regarding user and amounts shall be a basis for penalty or revocation of the permit.
(D) Modification of town system. Nothing in this section shall require the town to modify the town’s system in order to supply sewer service outside of town limits.
(E) Application of regulations. All sewage use ordinances and regulations for sewer service in town shall be applicable to sewer service outside of town.
(F) Rates.
(1) The rates for sewer service outside town limits shall be set from time to time by resolution of the Town Council.
(2) In the event a resolution is not passed specifically addressing sewer service outside town limits, then the rates shall be the same as for customers inside town limits.
(Prior Code, § 9-2A-7) (Ord. 367, passed 1-10-2013) Penalty, see § 9-2-7
SEWER SERVICE CHARGES
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