It is the purpose of this chapter to adopt a system of charges to assure that each recipient of waste treatment services shall pay its proportionate share of the costs of the operation and maintenance; including routine parts replacement of the sewerage treatment works, and to distribute cost of operation and maintenance of the publicly-owned treatment works to the pollutant source or sources and to promote self-sufficiency of treatment works with respect to operation and maintenance costs; and to establish regulations to control the types and strengths of sewerage to be treated by the sewerage treatment works.
(1994 Code, § 52.001) (Ord. 262, passed 3-8-1976)