ARTICLE 935
Stormwater Utility
935.01   Established.
935.02   Protection of environment.
935.03   Stormwater and flood management.
935.04   Revenue bonds.
935.05   Contracts and agreements.
935.06   User fees.
935.07   Operation and maintenance of system.
935.08   Rules and regulations.
935.09   Flood control; storm and surface water drainage.
CROSS REFERENCES
      Utility Board - see ADM. Art. 130
      Stormwater management and surface water discharge control - see
         S.U. & P.S. Art. 937
935.01 ESTABLISHED.
   There is hereby established the Vienna Stormwater Utility. This utility shall serve all areas within the corporate boundaries of the City of Vienna. The Stormwater Utility shall provide storm, flood and surface water drainage management services to all real property located within the City of Vienna.
(Ord. 10-10. Passed 11-10-10.)
935.02 PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT.
   The Vienna Stormwater Utility shall protect, to the greatest extent practicable, life, property and the water environment from loss, injury and damage by pollution, erosion, flooding, and other potential hazards, whether from natural causes or from human activity, and shall protect, to the greatest extent practicable, surface waters and receiving waters from pollution, mechanical damage, excessive flows, and other conditions which degrade the water environment, reduce recharging of groundwater, or endanger aquatic and benthic life within the Vienna urban watershed and other receiving waters of the State. The Vienna Stormwater Utility shall further meet the requirements of state and federal law and the City's municipal separate storm sewer system NPDES permit.
(Ord. 10-10. Passed 11-10-10.)
935.03 STORMWATER AND FLOOD MANAGEMENT.
   The Vienna Stormwater Utility is authorized to plan, acquire, improve, construct, inspect, develop, install, modify, manage, operate, maintain, replace, control, demolish, abandon, regulate, and fund storm and surface water drainage services, system and facilities within the urban watershed. The Utility is further authorized to acquire property and/or rights in land by gift, purchase, lease, or exercise of the right of eminent domain, to construct, to reconstruct, to improve, to better and to extend stormwater and flood management facilities within the City watershed. The Utility is further authorized to charge and collect rates and fees for these services, which rates and fees shall be determined by the Council of the City of Vienna. The Utility is further authorized to accept federal funds under any federal law for actions preliminary to construction/reconstruction or construction/reconstruction of stormwater and flood management facilities.
(Ord. 10-10. Passed 11-10-10.)
935.04 REVENUE BONDS.
   The Vienna Stormwater Utility is authorized, in anticipation of the collection of revenues of and from stormwater facilities, to issue revenue bonds to finance in whole or in part the cost of acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment or extension of such facilities, and to pledge punctual payment of said bonds and interest thereon all or any part of the revenues of the Utility.
(Ord. 10-10. Passed 11-10-10.)
935.05 CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS.
   The Vienna Stormwater Utility may enter into and perform contracts and agreements with other governmental entities, utility enterprises and private parties for or concerning the planning, construction, lease or other acquisition and the financing of stormwater and flood management facilities and the maintenance and operation thereof.
(Ord. 10-10. Passed 11-10-10.)
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