Service charges and inspection fees shall be issued and collected at the City Engineering Department office and the fees for the same for nonresidents shall be established in accordance with the following:
(a) The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that the average amount of water used by a standard single-family residential dwelling amounts to 400 gallons per day. Therefore, service charges shall be determined by using a standard single-family residential dwelling as the basic unit. The service charge for a basic unit shall be six hundred dollars ($600.00) per each 400 gallons of water or part thereof used per day. However, regardless of water usage or type of structure, the minimum tap-in and service charge shall be in the amount of six hundred dollars ($600.00). In estimating water used by installations other than a single-family residential dwelling, the sewage flow guide located in Section 923.015
(a) shall be used along with the owner’s or applicant’s detailed specifications and projected activities for the installation.
Calculation shall then be made on the basis of submitted data to be determined by multiplying the estimated amount of gallons of water used per day by six hundred dollars ($600.00) per 400 gallons of water, or part thereof, used per day.
(b) In the event the installation is not covered under the sewage flow guide or is not applicable, as determined by the City Engineer, then the service charge shall be determined by multiplying the total number of square feet within the installation including basement floor areas and excluding garage floor areas, by 0.2 gallons per square foot. This product shall then be multiplied by six hundred dollars ($600.00) per 400 gallons of water, or part thereof, used per day.
(c) In the event the installation that is proposed is to be rebuilt or built on land where an existing building has been razed or moved, there shall be no service charge as long as the installation proposed is comparable to the razed or moved building; that is single-family, commercial or industrial user. However, the permit fee shall remain in effect, in accordance with subsection (e) hereof.
(d) In the event the installation proposed is of an industrial type (industrial type being defined as any activity where materials are received at the installation, altered by one or more internal operations and then dispatched in the altered form to the City's sanitary sewer system), no permit shall be issued until the City's pretreatment program is satisfied in accordance with Chapter 924
and written approval from the Water Pollution Control Superintendent for the same is received by the City Engineer.
(e) In addition to the service charge fee as covered under subsections (a) to (d) hereof, there shall be three classes of inspection permits and fees, as follows:
(1) For residential service, a fifty dollar ($50.00) fee.
(2) For commercial service, a one hundred dollar ($100.00) fee.
(3) For industrial service, a one hundred fifty dollar ($150.00) fee.
These permit fees shall be collected by the City Engineer to defray the cost of administration and inspection for the same, and deposited to the General Fund.
(f) There shall be no service charge required of any applicant for a storm sewer tap-in, however, permit fees as established under subsection (e) hereof shall remain in effect.
(g) Where a property is affected by an assessment for a proposed or existing sanitary sewer, as defined in Section 923.08
, the above service charges and permit fees shall remain in effect for the same.
(h) Requests for sewer connections not covered by the provisions herein shall be decided by the Sewer Review Board, which is composed of the Director of Public Service and Safety, the City Engineer and the Director of the Water Pollution Control Department.
(i) All service charges collected by the City Engineer under this section shall be deposited in the Sewerage Revenue Fund.
If the land for which a sewer permit or permits have been obtained is annexed to the City within a year of the permit date, the owner shall receive a refund based on fees shown in Section 923.015
.
(Ord. 9865/87. Passed 12-9-87.)