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§ 53.113 SURCHARGES.
   (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)
§ 53.114 DETERMINATION OF PROPORTIONAL RATES.
   (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)
§ 53.115 PRIVATE WATER SUPPLY RATES.
   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)
§ 53.116 RATE SAVING CLAUSE.
   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)
§ 53.117 LIEN.
   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)
§ 53.118 SEWER USE CHARGES; WHEN DUE.
   Bills for the sewer use charges made by this chapter shall be due on the first day of each month and shall be delinquent if not paid by the tenth day thereof. If said sewer bills are not paid by the twentieth day of each month, the water service of the consumer shall be turned off and shall not be turned on again until said bill and a late charge of $5 be paid.
(Prior Code, § 3-215) (Ord. 550, passed 12-6-1988)
§ 53.119 USER CHARGE REVIEW.
   The governing body shall review, at least annually, the user charge system and revise the charges, if necessary, to accomplish the following:
   (A)   Maintain the proportional distribution of operation, maintenance and replacement (OM&R) costs among users and user classes;
   (B)   Generate adequate revenues to pay the costs of OM&R; and
   (C)   Apply excess revenues collected from a class of users to the costs of OM&R attributable to that class for the next year and adjust the rates accordingly.
(Prior Code, § 3-216)
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