The village shall have the authority to allow deductions on sewer bills for water, which is used but does not enter the sanitary sewer system. In every case, a request for deduction shall be made by written application on forms provided by the village and shall be subject to the following regulations:
(A) Metered water supply. No deductions shall be granted for users of the sewer system who do not have a metered water supply.
(B) Delinquent users. No deductions shall be granted for users of the sewer system who are delinquent in their payments to the village for such service.
(C) One hundred percent of any used water for which a deduction is requested, must have been prevented from entering the sanitary sewer system.
(D) Authority. The President and the Village Board of Trustees, or its authorized representative, shall determine which used waters are eligible for discharge to some point other than the sanitary sewer system, and shall have the authority to prohibit discharges which they determine to be potentially harmful to the public health, safety, or welfare, provided, however, that no used water which contains suspended matter in any form (organic or inorganic), or which contains any dissolved substances, shall be eligible for discharge to any point other than the sanitary sewer system, including storm sewers or any other watercourse, without approval of the State Sanitary Water Board.
(E) Metered deductions. Users who, at their own expense, install a meter which measures water not entering the sanitary sewer system, shall be eligible for deduction of that used water throughout the year.
(1) Any such meter shall be of an approved design, shall be registered with the Sewer Billing of the village prior to use, and shall be used only by the user to whom it is registered and at the service location to which it is assigned.
(2) Thereafter, the user shall periodically, and preferably at least once per year, provide said meter reading to the Sewer Billing where it may be recorded and utilized to determine any metered deduction since the previous reading.
(3) The Sewer Billing shall then credit the user's sewer account by subtracting the previous reading from the current reading, as taken from the meter, multiplying the difference by the current basic user charge, and then deducting 100% of that product from the next bi-monthly billing.
(4) The President and the Village Board of Trustees, or their designated representative, shall have authority over the installation of meters used for deduction and, from time to time, may test the accuracy of said meters. Any necessary repairs to such meters shall be at the user's expense.
(F) Special occurrence deduction. Users may apply for a special occurrence deduction in the event that a leak in water service lines allows metered water to discharge on their property to some point other than the sanitary sewer system.
(1) Following submission of a written application for a special occurrence deduction, the Sewer Billing shall verify the presence of a leak that said leak was repaired or corrected, and that the leak was of such a nature that water discharged through said leak did not enter the sanitary sewer system.
(2) A special occurrence deduction shall be calculated by determining the user's average consumption during the five billing cycles immediately proceeding the billing cycle during which the leak occurred, and then subtracting that average, from the consumption for said billing cycle. The Sewer Billing shall then credit the user's sewer account by multiplying that difference by the current basic user charge, and deducting 90% of that product from the next billing cycle.
(G) Annual summer usage deduction. All users other than those who receive metered deductions under division (E) above, may apply for an annual summer usage deduction in accordance with the provisions of their division.
(1) Annual summer usage deductions shall be granted only to the customer of record to whom the bill is mailed.
(2) The customer requesting the summer usage deduction must have maintained service at that location for a period of at least one year prior to said request.
(3) A summer usage deduction shall be granted once annually with the October 30 billing, provided that an application for such deduction has been submitted by the user between September 1 and October 1 of that year.
(4) A summer usage deduction shall be calculated by determining the user's average consumption during the four bi-monthly billings immediately preceding May 1 of the current calendar year, and then determining the average consumption for the two bi-monthly billings following May 1 of the same year.
(5) The village shall then determine the average increased summer consumption by subtracting the average for the four bimonthly billings prior to May 1 from the average for the two bi-monthly billings after May 1, and credit the user's sewer account by deducting 50% of said difference from the water consumption reported to the village by the water company, and using that adjusted consumption as the customer's usage for the next billing cycle.
(Ord. 1764, passed 11-21-2016; Ord. 1889, passed 9-21-2020)