Records regarding payments of sewer rentals
or charges shall be maintained by the Borough Secretary.
If use or classification of any property should
change within any quarterly period, the difference in the sewer rental,
prorated on a monthly basis to the nearest calendar month, will be
charged or credited, as the case may be, on the bill of the succeeding
quarterly period. Additional classifications and additional sewer
rentals may be established by the Borough by resolution from time
to time.
Sewer rentals or charges shall be paid quarterly,
and billings for sewer rentals shall be made by bills dated on January
1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year, for the three-month
period immediately preceding the date of the bill. The bills for the
quarterly period during which a property is connected will be prorated
on the basis of the applicable rate. The bill for the first billing
period after this article is enacted shall be prorated. All bills
shall be due and payable not later than 30 calendar days after the
billing date.
If not paid within 30 days after becoming due,
the bill shall bear interest from the due date at the rate of one
1% per month or fraction thereof until paid, and the Borough shall
have the right, after notice given, to cut off sewer service from
the delinquent premises and not to restore the same until all delinquent
bills against the same and the cost of cutting off and restoring service
shall have been paid.
All persons connected to the sewer system must
give the Borough their correct address. Failure to receive bills mailed
to this address will not be considered an excuse for nonpayment, nor
permit an extension of the period during which bills are payable.
Notwithstanding remedies in §
225-102 above, all sewer rentals, together with all penalties thereon, not paid on or before the end of one year from the date of each bill shall be deemed to be delinquent. All delinquent sewer rentals and all penalties thereon shall be collected by the Borough using any or all legal remedies, including entering a lien against such property in the office of the Prothonotary of Northumberland County, and shall be collected in the manner provided by law for the filing and collection of such liens.
The funds received by the Borough from the collection
of the sewer rentals and charges, and all penalties thereon, and from
the payment of connection charges, inspection charges and tapping
fees, and all penalties thereon, as herein provided for, and any fines
collected by the Borough in connection with the Beishline Development
Area Sewer District shall be deposited in a special account(s) of
the Borough and used exclusively for the construction, operation and
maintenance of the Beishline Development Area Sewer District. Any
year-end surplus of funds over debt service payment (if any) or over
operation and maintenance expenses shall be deposited and/or transferred,
as applicable, to a separate capital reserve account to be used as
required for the improvement or rehabilitation of the sewer system
and/or treatment system, if and when it becomes necessary. Funds may
be transferred from the capital reserve account for sewer operation
and/or maintenance expenses if deemed necessary by the Borough.
The rates hereunder shall become effective on
the earliest date permitted by law and shall be applicable to all
properties as soon as they respectively become connected with and/or
have the right to use the sewer system. The Borough reserves the right
to make such changes from time to time as, in its opinion, may be
desirable or beneficial and to amend this article by resolution or
to change the rates or charges in such manner and at such time as,
in its opinion, may be advisable.
It is hereby declared that the enactment of
this article is necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation
of the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the Borough.
The Borough Council is authorized by proper
resolution to adopt any necessary rules and regulations necessary
to carry out the provisions of this article and/or its declaration
of purposes.
The remedies contained herein are cumulative
and in addition to all others, civil or criminal, available to the
Borough of Riverside.
Any person violating the provisions of this article shall be
punishable by a maximum fine of $1,000, plus costs of prosecution,
and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, imprisonment for
a term not exceeding 30 days.