Costs assessed for sewer service lines and mains shall be as follows.
(A) Initial hookup to existing sewer mains. A tapping fee shall be assessed to the property owner for each initial tap into the city sewer mains. Arrangements for tapping, approval, and proper authorization by the city, and payment of said tapping fee, shall precede, be obtained, or made in advance prior to any excavation related thereto. (The fee is to cover such costs as inspection, recording, locating, platting, and any other costs related to such tapping.) The tapping fee may be reviewed by the Common Council from time to time.
(B) Service line; maintenance and repairs (existing mains). It shall be the responsibility of the property owner, or person or firm desiring sewer service, to pay for all costs of installation to the sewer main, regardless of its proximity or distance.
(C) City’s responsibility. The city has no responsibility for costs involved or incurred by the property owner in the extension of sewer service lines, repairs, and maintenance, or replacements from the point of the sewer mains(s).
(D) Maintenance of existing sewer mains. The city shall be responsible for costs involved in maintaining and repairing city sewer mains and appurtenances. Damage to sewer lines or unauthorized discharges into the sewer system, caused by acts or omissions of another, shall render that person or firm responsible and accountable to the city for costs of repairs.
(E) Extensions of sewer mains.
(1) Costs involved in extending sewer mains to a new or undeveloped area or location not served by the existence of sewer mains shall be as follows:
(a) Party(ies) desiring or requesting an extension shall be responsible for 30% of the cost of such sewer main extension and engineering fees, plus a tap fee. The tapping fee may be reviewed by the Common Council from time to time; and
(b) The city shall pay 70% of the costs involved.
(2) Ownership and control of such extended sewer main shall be vested in the city thereafter.
(F) Restoration of streets and rights-of-way. It shall be the responsibility of the owner, party installing the sewer service line or main extension, or the contractor acting for the owner or installer to restore the streets and rights-of-way to their original condition, and to the satisfaction of the Common Council, as a result of excavations. This shall apply to service lines or sewer main extensions.
(G) Extensions outside city limits. The city has no responsibility to provide sewer service, extend sewer mains or lines, or provide access lines to provide sewer service outside the city limits.
(Prior Code, § 5.0606) (Ord. 418, passed 1-5-1994)