Duly authorized employees of the town and representatives of the NYSDEC and USEPA bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing in accordance with the provisions of this Part 2. The Administrative Officer or his representatives shall have no authority to inquire into any processes, including metallurgical, chemical, oil, refining, ceramic, paper or other industries beyond those having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers or waterways or facilities for waste treatment.
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in § 110-47 above, the Administrative Officer or duly authorized employees of the town and the NYSDEC and USEPA shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company, and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the town employees, and the town shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by town employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company during the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in § 110-36.
The Administrative Officer and other duly authorized employees of the town and representatives of the NYSDEC and USEPA bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the town holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the POTW lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
A. 
The capital cost of construction of any public sewer in the Town of Fenton shall be assessed against the benefitted real property located within the appropriate sewer district at the time and in the manner provided in Article 15 of the Town Law.
B. 
For the purposes of determining the amount of benefit each parcel of real property located within a sewer district or extension thereto has received from the construction of any public sewer facilities, the town shall employ a system of unit assessment based upon the evaluation of data collected prior to the formation of the sewer district. Each residential household shall be assessed as one unit. Two-family houses and private residences with apartments shall be deemed to constitute one unit per building sewer. All other improved parcels shall be assessed as one or more units, depending upon the data described in this section. Vacant lots shall be assessed in accordance with their potential use as determined by the Town Board, giving due regard to the size, nature, location and zoning classification of the property.
A. 
A user fee shall be charged for the purpose of operating and maintaining sewage collection and treatment facilities. The funds derived from these charges shall be used for all municipal expenses associated with operation and maintenance of sewers and all appurtenances thereto, including pumping stations, and replacement of equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary to maintain the capacity and performance during the service life of the aforementioned facilities.
B. 
A user fee shall be charged to users of the sewer system located within or without the corporate limits of the town who contribute wastes to the municipal sanitary system.
A. 
The basis for the user fee shall be the consumption of water by the user, measured in units of cubic feet.
B. 
The town reserves the right to change the basis for determining user fees. In addition, the town reserves the right, from time to time, to change user fees originally or previously assigned.
The town may require additional payments from a user to cover the added cost of handling and treating special wastes.
A. 
The per unit amount of the annual user fee shall be equal to the total of the annual expenses set forth in § 110-51A divided by the total units of water consumed by the users of the town sewer system. The annual user charge shall be billed at the same time and in the same manner as user charges for the water district or districts serving each user. Annual user fees per cubic foot shall be set by the Town Board on or before May 1 of each year.
B. 
For all billings after April 3, 1996, in all sewer districts in Hillcrest, the rate shall be as set forth in Chapter A154, Fees, of this Code.
[Added 4-3-1996 by L.L. No. 1-1996[1]]
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
In addition to the user fees set forth in §§ 110-51 through 110-54, above, all users shall be assessed for charges to the town or the use of the facilities of the Village of Port Dickinson, the City of Binghamton and the Joint Sewage Board, including debt reduction and operation and maintenance charges associated with those facilities. Said charges shall be assessed to users within town sewer districts which empty into the Joint Sewage Treatment Plant in the same proportion as the user fees described in §§ 110-51 through 110-54 above. Said charges shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as user costs under § 110-54.
Thirty days after the due date, a late penalty fee of 20% shall be added to the amount of the user fee.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
All unpaid delinquent user fees shall constitute a lien on the real property served by the town sewer system and on the first day of November of each year, the Town Clerk shall present to the Town Board a statement setting forth the amount of each lien for user fees in arrears, the real property affected thereby and the name of the person in whose name the real property is assessed. The Town Board shall levy the amounts contained in such statement against the real property liable at the same time and in the same manner as town taxes, and such amounts shall be set forth in a separate column in the annual tax rolls. The amounts so levied shall be levied and enforced in the same manner and at the same time as may be provided by law for the collection and enforcement of town taxes.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
A. 
Any person violating the provisions of Article VII shall be liable to immediate prosecution for a Class A misdemeanor under appropriate provisions of the Penal Law. Any person found to be violating any other provision of this Part shall be served by the Town Board or Administrative Officer with written notice stating the nature of the violation and specifying a reasonable time for the satisfactory correction thereof, which time limit shall in no event be longer than 90 days. The offender shall, within the period of time specified, permanently cease all violations.
B. 
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit specified in the notice referred to in Subsection A above shall be guilty of a Class A Misdemeanor and shall be subject to fine or imprisonment, or both, as provided in the Penal Law, for each violation. Each day during which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed to be a separate offense.
C. 
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Part 2 shall be liable to the town for any expense, loss or damage caused the town by reason of such violation, and the amount thereof may be recovered by the town in appropriate civil proceedings.