[Amended 12-5-2018 by L.L. No. 11-2018]
A. The Town
Board finds that it is in the public interest to raise funds to operate,
maintain and repair the sanitary sewer system and, if deemed appropriate
by the Town Board and not prohibited by General Municipal Law § 453(3),
to expand such system through a sewer rent rather than by taxation
because a sewer rent more equitably distributes the cost since it
is a function of usage computed based upon water consumption and is
charged to all the users of the sanitary sewer system, including tax-exempt
properties.
B. The sewer
rent law is intended to levy charges for sanitary sewer service based
upon a property's discharge of sewage into the sanitary sewer system.
The sewer rent law calls owners of real property that discharge sewage
into the sanitary sewer system "system users." The owners of real
property whose sewage is not discharged into the sanitary sewer system
(e.g., properties served by septic systems) are not "system users"
since the discharge therefrom does not enter the sanitary sewer system.
The owners of these properties are not subject to a sewer rent.
C. There are
properties that do both. Certain consumers of water, such as golf
courses, have facilities, such as clubhouses and locker rooms, that
discharge sewage into the sanitary sewer system but also consume water
that is not returned as sewage to the sanitary sewer system, such
as water used to irrigate fairways or fill water hazards. This chapter
takes that distinction into consideration by imposing sewer rent for
the facilities that do discharge sewage into the sanitary system and
exempting from sewer rent the facilities that do not discharge sewage
into the sanitary system.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated in this section:
REVENUE
The amount of money that the Town Board determines must be
collected in a given fiscal year in order to operate, maintain and
repair the sanitary sewer system and, if deemed appropriate by the
Town Board and not prohibited by General Municipal Law § 453(3),
to expand such system.
SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM
The conduits, drains, pipes, interceptors, laterals, mains,
pumps, trunk lines and the other appurtenances or facilities owned,
operated and maintained by the Town of Mamaroneck (whether located
within or outside the Town's municipal boundaries) that are used to
collect, treat and/or transport sewage.
SEWAGE
Water-carried human or animal wastes, and any other waste,
whether or not it contains organic matter.
[Amended 1-21-2015 by L.L. No. 1-2015]
SEWER DISTRICT
The Town of Mamaroneck Consolidated Sewer District as it
currently is constituted and as it may be expanded or contracted from
time to time.
SEWER RENT
The charges established from time to time by the Town Board
of the Town of Mamaroneck for discharging sewage into the sanitary
sewer system.
[Amended 12-5-2018 by L.L. No. 11-2018]
SYSTEM USERS
The owners of real property, other than the Town of Mamaroneck,
its authorities or the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Joint Garbage Disposal
Commission, that discharge sewage into the sanitary sewer system,
whether such property is located within or outside the Town's municipal
boundaries.
[Amended 12-5-2018 by L.L. No. 11-2018]
WATER CONSUMPTION
The total volume of water delivered by water sources to a
property owned by a system user.
WATER SOURCE
Any entity that delivers water to a property owned by a system
user.
WJWW
The Westchester Joint Water Works.
Notwithstanding the effective date of the local law adding this
chapter to the Code of the Town of Mamaroneck, the initial sewer rents
shall be imposed starting on October 1, 2015.