(A) In cases other than residential sewage service, the quantity of water obtained from sources other than the water utility serving the town and discharged into the public sanitary sewage system may be determined by the town in such manner as the proper officers of the town shall elect and the sewage services may be billed at the preceding appropriate rates.
(B) Each lot, parcel of real estate, or building discharging sanitary waste, industrial waste, water, or other material into the town's sanitary sewage system, either directly or indirectly, which is a user of water supplied other than by the town water utility, shall install and thereafter maintain meters to meter the water delivered or available thereto at locations accessible to and to the satisfaction of the town, which meters shall thereafter be maintained in working order, all at the expense of that user. The amount of water used shall thereafter be monitored by the town in order to ascertain the rates of charge to the user, which shall be determined based upon metered water in the same way, and in accordance with the rate schedules established, for sewer utility users by this code from time to time.
(C) In the event a lot, parcel of real estate, or building discharges sanitary waste, industrial waste, water, or other liquids into the town's sanitary sewage system, either directly or indirectly, and uses water in excess of 20,000 gallons per month, and it can be shown to the satisfaction of the town that a portion of water as measured by the water meter or meters does not and cannot enter the sanitary sewage system, then the owner or other interested party shall install and maintain meters, weirs, volumetric measuring devices, or any adequate and approved method of measurement acceptable to the town for the determination of sewage discharge.
(D) In the event two or more residential lots, parcels of real estate, or buildings discharging sanitary sewage, water, or other liquids into the town's sanitary sewage system, either directly or indirectly, are users of water and the quantity of water is measured by a single water meter, then in such case, for billing purposes, the quantity of water used shall be averaged for each user and the minimum charge and the sewage rates and charges shall apply to each of the number of residential lots, parcels of real estate, or buildings served through the single water meter.
('83 Code, § 4-3 I. C. 2.) (Ord. 1986-2, passed 4-8-86)