[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Liverpool as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Excavations in streets — See Ch. 327.
[Adopted 10-26-1987 by L.L. No. 5-1987 (Ch. 111 of the 1987
Code)]
The owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human
occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within
the Village of Liverpool and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way
in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public
sanitary sewer, are hereby required, at their expense, to install
suitable plumbing facilities therein and to connect such facilities
directly to the public sewer in accordance with the New York State
Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code (9 NYCRR) applicable to
plumbing, as modified and interpreted by the Onondaga County Department
of Health, within 180 days after the date of official notice to make
such connection, provided that such public sewer is within 100 feet
of the property owner's lot line.
Where a public sanitary sewer is not available under the provisions of § 295-1 of this article, the building plumbing shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the Onondaga County Sanitary Code regulations.
Any person who shall fail to install the sewer system as required in § 295-1 or 295-2 above, upon written order of the Village Code Enforcement Officer, shall be punishable as provided in § 1-12 of Chapter 1, General Provisions, for each officer, and each week that such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
If any section, paragraph or portion of this article shall be
declared invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, it shall
be limited to the clause, paragraph, section or part thereof declared
invalid, and the remainder of this article shall remain in full force.
[Adopted 3-14-1991 by L.L. No. 1-1991 (Ch. 112 of the 1987
Code)]
The sewer system for which such rents are hereinafter established
and imposed is more particularly described in drawings on file in
the office of the Superintendent of Public Works entitled "Village
of Liverpool, New York, Sanitary Sewer Details, dated January 1930,
by Albert G. Cord, Civil Engineer," plus any additions thereto or
extensions thereof within the corporate limits of the Village as may
from time to time be authorized by the Board of Trustees of the Village.
The sewer rental charge will be based upon the type of premises
being serviced by the sewer system on a unit rate basis. Charges will
be made for each family unit or each business establishment within
each building. Billings for multiple-family dwellings will be on the
basis of each family unit. One or more persons using or operating
a cook stove upon which their food is prepared shall be considered
a "family unit." A business establishment is any individual, firm,
corporation or association regularly established and doing business
under the laws of the State of New York.
A.
The rental rates shall be equal to the unit rate multiplied by the
following unit multipliers established for that portion of the sewer
system within the corporate limits of the Village as follows:
|
Type of Usage
|
Unit Multiplier Inside
| ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
Adult homes; private nursing homes; convalescent homes, per
resident
|
0.3
| ||
|
Animal hospitals
|
1.35
| ||
|
Bakeries
|
2.2
| ||
|
Banks, per office location
|
2.5
| ||
|
Barbershops
|
1.0
| ||
|
Beauty parlors
|
1.5
| ||
|
Boardinghouses; tourist homes
|
2.2
| ||
|
Car washes
|
3.0
| ||
|
Churches
|
1.0
| ||
|
Clubs; halls; lodges
|
1.5
| ||
|
Clubs; halls; lodges (with bar or restaurant)
|
2.2
| ||
|
Day-care nurseries, per licensed limit
|
0.03
| ||
|
Dental offices
|
1.0
| ||
|
Family unit, each
|
1.0
| ||
|
Funeral parlors
|
1.35
| ||
|
Garages and service stations
|
2.2
| ||
|
Hotels:
| |||
|
Per transient bedroom
|
0.2
| ||
|
Per apartment
|
1.0
| ||
|
Per rented room
|
0.1
| ||
|
Ice cream stands and soda fountains
|
1.0
| ||
|
Industries:
| |||
|
Per factory building
|
3.0
| ||
|
Per warehouse
|
1.0
| ||
|
Laundries and dry cleaners, including laundromats
|
6.0
| ||
|
Laundries and dry cleaners, without laundromats
|
5.0
| ||
|
Laundromats
|
5.0
| ||
|
Law and other offices
|
1.0
| ||
|
Motels:
| |||
|
Per transient bedroom
|
0.2
| ||
|
Per apartment
|
1.0
| ||
|
Physicians' offices
|
1.0
| ||
|
Public nursing homes, per bed (nonhospital operated)
|
0.3
| ||
|
Public utility buildings
|
2.5
| ||
|
Rectories; parsonages; manses
|
1.0
| ||
|
Religious community houses:
| |||
|
Fewer than 12 residents
|
1.0
| ||
|
12 or more residents
|
2.0
| ||
|
Restaurants
|
3.0
| ||
|
Restaurants (with bar)
|
4.0
| ||
|
School systems:
| |||
|
Under 1,000 students, per student and employee
|
0.03
| ||
|
1,000 students and over, per student and employee
|
0.075
| ||
|
Retail stores
|
1.0
| ||
|
Supermarkets
|
1.0
| ||
|
Taverns
|
4.0
| ||
B.
Unless otherwise specifically stated in Subsection A above, the minimum sewer rental unit multiplier shall be one unit within the corporate limits.
C.
The unit rate shall be determined by dividing the total annual sewer
rents necessary for the operation and maintenance of the sewer system
by the total number of units being served. The total number of units
served is equal to the summation of the number of establishments under
each type of usage multiplied by the unit multiplier for that type
of usage. The annual unit rate is then divided by two to obtain the
semiannual rate.
A.
Sewer charges shall be billed annually on October 1. No rebate will
be allowed on sewer rental bills because of vacancy or unoccupancy.
[Amended 7-27-1992 by L.L. No. 4-1992]
B.
Charges for sewer service will be made from the time the tap is made
to the sewer main until the location is destroyed or ceases permanently
to take service.
C.
A penalty of 20% shall be added if such charges are not paid in full
within 30 days after each billing date.
Sewer rents constitute a lien upon the real property served
by the sewer system or each part or parts thereof for which sewer
rents shall have been established and imposed. The lien shall be prior
and superior to every other lien or claim except the lien of an existing
tax, assessment or other lawful charge imposed by or for the state
or a political subdivision or district thereof.
Collection of the sewer rents will be made pursuant to § 452
of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York.
Revenue derived from sewer rents, including penalties and interest,
shall be credited to a special fund, to be known as the "Sewer Rent
Fund." The moneys in such fund shall be used pursuant to § 453
of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York.
The terms "sewer rents," "sewer system," "part," "sewage," "industrial
waste" and "other wastes" shall have the meanings as defined in § 451
of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York.
[Amended 7-27-1992 by L.L. No. 4-1992]
The user charge for the first billing period after adoption
of this article shall be $16.35 per unit. Thereafter, the user charges
shall be reviewed and fixed on or before July 31 of each year by resolution
of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Liverpool to reflect actual
costs of operation and maintenance of the sewage system.
This article shall take precedence over any inconsistent agreements.
There shall be no discounts for large-volume users in this user
charge system.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this
article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to
be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the
remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,
sentence, paragraph, section or part thereof directly involved in
the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
