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The usage amount charged to consumers of the sewer system of the city shall be determined by the monthly average amount of water usage for said consumer based upon the months of January, February, and March of each year, as determined by readings of the water service meters. Said average usage amount shall be effective in the month of June of each year and shall remain in effect for a period of 12 months.
(A) Rate charge. The rate charge is $20 per month, plus $4.33 for each thousand gallons, or fraction thereof of water used; or plus $3.25 for each 100 cubic feet, or fraction thereof, of water used.
(B) Customer determination. Each dwelling unit of a multiple-family residential consumer shall be considered a separate consumer and the rate for sanitary sewer service shall be determined in the same manner as a single-family residential consumer.
(Prior Code, § 3-208) (Ord. 618, passed 3-2-1993; Ord. 681, passed 11-1-1994; Ord. 684, passed 12-6-1994; Ord. 692, passed 7-11-1995; Ord. 788, passed 9-7-1999; Ord. 831, passed 12-10-2003; Ord. 852, passed 3-14-2006; Ord. 901, passed 4-9-2013; Ord. 930, passed 6-13-2017; Ord. 957, passed 10-12-2021; Ord. 974, passed 10-10-2023; Ord. 981, passed 6-11-2024)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. RS 17-925.02
(A) The city shall have the right to increase the operation, maintenance and replacement rate when it is determined that the strength of a consumer’s wastewater is significantly greater than other consumer’s. The city may require any consumer, at their expense, to provide flow measurement and sample analysis of their wastewater.
(B) All such surcharges shall be arrived at by establishing a base rate per pound for biochemical oxygen demand and suspended solids and comparing the consumer’s wastewater strength and volume to the base rate.
(Prior Code, § 3-210)
(A) Where, in the judgment of the City Council, the application of the use charges hereinbefore set forth would not be proportional when compared to all other consumers, the city may adjust said consumer’s rate provided said consumer provides information, satisfactory to the city, such that the consumer’s proportional use of the sewerage system can be determined.
(B) It shall be the consumer’s responsibility to provide to the city a satisfactory means of measuring wastewater flows and obtaining representative samples of wastewater from the consumer.
(Prior Code, § 3-211)
Consumers of the sanitary sewerage system having a private water supply which is discharged into the sanitary sewerage system shall be charged at the same rate as all other consumers. All such consumers shall provide the city with a satisfactory means of measuring or estimating the amount of water usage during the winter quarter.
(Prior Code, § 3-212)
If, for any reason, any of the rates of any user hereinbefore set forth shall be invalid or unenforceable, the city shall be entitled to receive and collect from such user a reasonable rate or charge for the use of its sanitary sewerage system, the same to be collected in an action at law.
(Prior Code, § 3-213)
All sewer use charges prescribed by this chapter shall be a lien upon the premises and real estate for which the sewer service is supplied and used, and, if not paid when due, such charge shall be certified to the City Treasurer and may be recovered by the city in an action at law from the owner or the person, firm or corporation requesting the service or it may be certified to the tax assessor and assessed against the premises serviced and collected or returned in the same manner as other municipal taxes are certified, assessed, collected and returned.
(Prior Code, § 3-214)
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