[Amended 7-22-2008 by L.L. No. 5-2008[1]]
A.
The source of revenues for retiring debt services,
capital expenditures, operation and maintenance of the public sewer
works shall be sewer charges assigned to owners of benefitted property.
B.
Sources of revenue shall include sewer rents and may
include additional charges imposed upon each parcel of real property
served by the public sewage works, computed on the basis of assessed
value of said property and added to the tax bill for said property,
but only if uniformly applied to all similarly situate properties;
and, it may include any other charge against each user served by the
sewage works, which may be established by the Board of Trustees hereafter,
so long as the same are uniformly applied to all users.
C.
The Village shall establish sewer rents based upon
a rate per 1,000 gallons of water used by each sewer system user.
[Amended 7-22-2008 by L.L. No. 5-2008]
The volume of flow to be used in computing sewer
service charges and abnormal sewer surcharges shall be based upon
metered water consumption as shown on the records of meter readings
maintained by OCWA. In the event that a person discharging wastes
into the public sewer system produces evidence to the Superintendent
demonstrating that a substantial portion of the total amount of water
used for all purposes does not reach the sewer system, the Superintendent
shall either establish a percentage of the total water consumption
to be used as a basis for such computations or direct the installation
of appropriate flow-measuring devices to measure and record the actual
amount of flow into the public sewers. In the event that a person
discharging waste into the public sewer system procures any part or
all of his water supply from sources other than OCWA, the Superintendent
shall either direct the installation of water meters on the other
sources of water or direct the installation of an appropriate flow-measuring
device to measure and record the actual amount of flow into the public
sewers. Any water meters and/or flow-measuring devices installed pursuant
to this section shall be installed, maintained and periodically tested,
as required by the Superintendent, by the owner at his expense. All
such meter and/or flow-measuring devices shall be subject to periodic
inspection, testing and reading by the Superintendent. Any person
discharging wastes into the public sewer system may install a flow-measuring
device at his option, of the type, design, installation and maintenance
standards of the Superintendent, at the owner's expense.
[Amended 5-22-1990 by L.L. No. 12-1990; 5-21-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991; 4-20-1993 by L.L. No. 3-1993; 4-19-1994 by L.L. No.
1-1994; 5-10-1996 by L.L. No. 1-1996; 4-22-1997 by L.L. No.
4-1997; 5-19-1998 by L.L. No. 4-1998; 6-23-1998 by L.L. No.
5-1998]
The rate per 1,000 gallons of water used on
and after July 1, 1999, shall be set by resolution passed by the Board
of the Village after its final sewer budget hearing in each year prior
to the commencement of the next fiscal year. Such sewer rate shall
be effective the following July 1 after each such resolution. Such
rate shall be applicable to water consumed by each record consumer
as shown and identified by the Onondaga County Water Authority in
its water billing quarterly records. Such rate shall also be applied
to users of the sewer system who do not utilize the Onondaga County
Water Authority, by reasonable estimate of such water consumption
by the Village.
[Amended 5-22-1990 by L.L. No. 12-1990; 5-21-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991]
The minimum charge per identified user shall
be $10 per quarter.
[Amended 7-22-2008 by L.L. No. 5-2008]
The Board of Trustees, when requested to provide
sewer service to property located outside the corporate boundaries
of the Village, will by resolution establish a sewer charge, which
shall be comprised of the same elements as applicable to similar users
located within the Village corporate boundaries. Nonresident residential
unit charges shall include any charges computed on the basis of assessed
value of real property, in the same manner as residential unit charges,
and all other charges uniformly imposed upon similar Village-authorized
users. Nonresident residential unit charge shall include sewer rents
applicable to the average Village residential user, but multiplied
by a factor established by the Board of Trustees for similar nonresident
users.
The Village Board of Trustees will determine
special sewer rent charges, if any, with respect to the treatment
of any industrial wastes or any particular wastes exceeding the strength
of normal sewage. Such a charge shall be in conjunction with or in
addition to any other charge imposed by this article.
The funds to pay the principal of and interest
on any indebtedness incurred to finance sewer improvements will be
generated through and made a part of sewer rent charges pursuant to
this article.
