(a) Division of Stormwater Management Utility. There shall be a division of stormwater management utility, within the City, which shall be responsible for developing and implementing stormwater management plans and solely managing facilities, stormwater systems and stormwater sewers. This division shall charge a storm drainage service charge based on individual contribution of runoff to the system benefits enjoyed and service received. The division of storm water management utility shall be administered by the City Manager. The City Manager shall serve as the principal executive officer for the storm water management utility for the purposes of fulfilling the requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency’s NPDES Phase II storm water program. The City Manager is authorized to proceed towards implementation of a stormwater management utility and formal commencement of operations including implementation and collection of the storm drainage service charge on or about September 1, 1987.
(b) Director. The Director of the stormwater management utility shall be the City Manager.
(c) Stormwater System. “Stormwater System” means all manmade facilities, structures and natural watercourses used for collecting and conducting stormwater to, through and from drainage areas to the points of final outlet including, but not limited to, any and all of the following: conduits and appurtenant features, canals, creeks, channels, catch basins, ditches, streams, gulches, gullies, flumes, culverts, siphons, streets, curbs, gutters, dams, floodwalls, levees and pumping stations.
(Ord. 794. Passed 7-27-87; Ord. 1284. Passed 1-27-03.)