The Town Council shall, from time to time, fix
connection fees for making connections to the public sewer of the
Town. A copy of a schedule of such fees shall be maintained on file
in the office of the Town Clerk, and such fee shall be payable before
such connection is made.
Should application be made for a connection
to property in the Town where there is no public sewer in an adjoining
street or right-of-way, such application shall not be acted on by
the Superintendent but shall be postponed until the next meeting of
the Town Council, which shall determine whether such public sewer
should be constructed and the amount to be charged to the applicant
for such construction, provided that such charges shall be in addition
to the tapping charge and user charge provided for herein.
Each application for sewer service outside the
corporate limits which involves the construction of a public sewer
or involves the construction of a lateral of such length or in such
a location that there is a possibility of future connections to such
lateral shall be referred by the Superintendent to the Town Council,
which shall consider the project and determine whether such project
should be undertaken and shall determine the cost to be charged to
the applicant for such project, provided that such charges shall be
in addition to the tapping fee and the user charge provided for herein,
and provided further that no such extensions to the Town sewer system
outside of the Town limits shall be undertaken until the statutory
notice has been given to the appropriate governing body of the county
in which the extension is contemplated.
Every person whose property shall be connected
to the public sewer system of the Town, whether in or outside of the
corporate limits, shall, for each such connection, pay to the Town
a charge at a rate to be established from time to time by the Town
Council for such connection, to be measured by the consumption of
water at such property. Such charge shall be a percentage of the water
bill charged each property each month, to be included in the water
billing and to be collected as water accounts due the Town. However,
nothing in this section shall be construed to abridge or deny the
right of the Town Council to alter or raise these rates, and when,
in the opinion of the Town Council, the water consumption at a property
does not adequately represent the use being made of the Town sewage
facilities, the Council may establish such rate as it sees fit. In
case there is no water service to property to be served by the Town
sewage facilities, the sewer charge against such property shall be
as established by the Town Council.
All statements for Town sewer service shall
be computed by the Town Treasurer on the basis of the rates set out
in this article and shall be on a monthly basis. Such statements shall
be rendered to the family, property owner, occupant or user as soon
as practicable after monthly readings. This statement shall be considered
the correct assessment unless a correction is requested of the Town
Treasurer within 10 days after the statement is sent out.
Any user of sewer service having a complaint in connection with the assessment of charges under this article shall report the same to the Town Treasurer, as provided in § 355-50, who shall adjust the same or refer the complaint to the Town Council.
In the event that a person whose duty it is to pay a statement for Town sewer service, rendered as provided in § 355-50, by such date as may be established by the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Town Council shall fail to do so, the Town Treasurer may cause the water to the premises in question to be turned off.
