(A) (1) The classes of users of the Sewage Works for the purpose of this section, as amended from time to time, shall be as follows:
(a) Class I - Residential.
(b) Commercial.
(c) Governmental.
(d) Institutional.
(e) Industrial.
(2) (Class I shall comprise all users whose premises are served by said town sewage works, except Class II Users, as same are defined hereinafter in this division, as amended from time to time).
(B) RESIDENTIAL USER. A user of the treatment works whose premises or building is used primarily as a residence for one or more persons, including all dwelling units, etc.
(C) COMMERCIAL USER. Any establishment involved in a commercial enterprise, business or service, which based on a determination by the town, discharge primarily segregate domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(D) GOVERNMENTAL USER. Any federal, state or local governmental user of the wastewater treatment works, which based on a determination by the town, discharge primarily segregate domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(E) INSTITUTIONAL USER. Any establishment involved in a social, charitable, religious, and/or educational function, which, based on a determination by the town, discharges primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(F) INDUSTRIAL USER. Any manufacturing or processing facility that discharges industrial waste to a wastewater treatment works.
(3) Class II - Doubletree Project Area. The Class II User Class herein shall include the persons whose premises are served by the project to be commenced and completed in the Doubletree Project Area, which is specified by the boundaries of the Second Amended Final Development Plan for Doubletree Lake Estates Planned Unit Development approved by the Lake County Plan Commission and Lake County, Indiana, Council October 15, 1996, and duly recorded in the Office of the Lake County Recorder August 1, 1997; that a copy of said recorded Second Amended Final Development Plan is attached hereto and incorporated herein as Exhibit "A". The Class II User Class shall include, as determined by the town, all persons whose premises are outside the above-referenced Second Amended Final Development Plan boundaries, but are benefitted and served by the Wastewater collection system improvements made in the Doubletree Project Area for which Class II User Rates and Charges are established, as determined by the town. Further, the Class II User Rates and Charges are resultant of the substantial and mandatory Rehabilitation improvements required in the Doubletree Project Area, as determined and reported to the town by its Municipal Utility Engineering Firm and specified by the Project Design Plans, as defined and described herein.
(G) Every person whose premises are served by said sewage works shall be charged for the service provided. These charges are established for each user class, as defined, in order that the sewage works shall recover, from each user and user class, revenue, which is proportional to its use of the treatment works in terms of peak requirements, volume, and load. User charges shall be uniform in magnitude within a designated user class.
(Ord. 143, passed 3-21-2006; Am. Ord. 143-F, passed 8-26-2017)