[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Fairport 2-10-1975 by L.L. No. 1-1975 (Ch. 40A of the 1968 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Sewers — See Ch. 400.
A.
Pursuant to the authority of the Sewer Rent Law of
the State of New York (Article 14-F of the General Municipal Law)
and any and all amendments thereto, there are hereby established and
imposed sewer rents as a means of producing revenue for the sewer
district in the Village of Fairport to be known as the "Fairport Sewer
Rent Law."
B.
The area served by the Village of Fairport sewerage
system shall include all lands within the corporate boundary lines
and in addition those adjacent areas in the Town of Perinton as shown
on the map and plan attached entitled "Village of Fairport Sanitary
Sewer System-Service area."[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Said map and plan are on file
in the office of the Village Clerk.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste substance or a combination thereof, resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business or from the development or recovery of any natural resources. (See § 400-5 of the Village Code.)
Garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dye stuffs, acids, chemicals and other discarded matter not sewage or industrial waste. (See § 400-5 of the Village Code.)
All lateral sewers, or all branch sewers, or all interceptor
sewers, or all trunk sewers, and any sewage treatment and disposal
works, each part with necessary appurtenances including pumping stations.
The water-carried human or animal wastes and permissible industrial wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be present (See § 400-5 of the Village Code for permissible uses.)
A scale of annual charges established and imposed in the
sewer districts and on properties in the Town of Perinton being served
by the Village sewerage system, for the use of the sewerage system
or any part or parts thereof. These rents shall not be imposed on
users of the system within the Village so long as the Village Board
elects to include sewer service in the annual Village taxes.
All sewer pipes and other appurtenances which are used or
useful in whole or in part in connection with the collection, treatment
or disposal of sewage, industrial waste and other wastes and which
are owned, operated or maintained by a sewer district in the Village,
including sewage pumping stations and sewage treatment and disposal
works.
[Amended 5-14-2018 by L.L. No. 5-2018; 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
A.
Within
the Village sewer service area, all Village residences, businesses,
industrial or other facilities connected to the sanitary sewer system
shall pay an annual sewer rent as determined and officially adopted
in the annual budget for each tax identification parcel in the Village.
B.
In the event that any parcel of real property in its
entirety falls within more than one of the above classifications,
that classification which produces the greatest number of chargeable
units shall be the one applicable. In the event any parcel of real
property is divisible into two or more classifications, the number
of chargeable units in each classification shall be determined and
the total thereof shall constitute the number of chargeable units
applicable to the entire parcel.
C.
If a sewer district contracts with another municipality
or agency for transmission and treatment of sewage, the number of
chargeable units shall be determined by the applicable ordinances
or laws of the municipality or agency which provides facilities for
transmission and treatment of said sewage.
The Village Board, acting on behalf of the sewer
service area, shall fix and determine the amount of the annual sewer
rent to be charged for each chargeable unit in the service area, both
in the Village of Fairport and the Town of Perinton.
The Village Board, acting on behalf of the sewer
service area, shall fix and determine annually the sewer connection
fee (entrance fee) for all new units making physical connection to
the sewerage system. This one-time charge will vary depending upon
the location of each structure desiring entrance (Town or Village)
and whether or not the lot had been previously approved for development.
[Amended 5-14-2018 by L.L. No. 5-2018]
Sewer rents for Village properties shall become
due and payable annually between June 1 and June 30, without penalty.
Sewer rents for all other properties shall become due and payable
annually between January 1 and January 31, without penalty. Penalty
as set forth in the Real Property Tax Law shall be charged for late
payment.
A.
Direct out-of-district customers. The Village Board
shall annually cause statements to be prepared setting forth the amount
of the sewer rents for each of the direct out-of-district properties,
in the name of the person or persons in whose name such real property
is assessed, which statement shall be mailed to said owners of said
property on or before January 1 of each year.
B.
Customers in a sewer district. Properties in town
sewer districts within the service area served by the Village of Fairport
shall be billed by the Town of Perinton by levying the amount of the
sewer rents against the real property liable at the same time and
in the same manner as the general taxes. The amounts so levied shall
be collected and enforced in the same manner as provided by law for
the collection of taxes. The Town of Perinton shall be responsible
for remitting the total amount of said sewer rents due to the Village
Treasurer not later than February 15 of each year.
C.
Village resident customers in a sewer district. Village properties
within the service area of the Village of Fairport shall be billed
by the Village of Fairport by levying the amount of the sewer rents
against the real property liable at the same time and in the same
manner as the general taxes. The amounts so levied shall be collected
and enforced in the same manner as provided by law for the collection
of taxes.
[Added 5-14-2018 by L.L.
No. 5-2018]
The Village Board may from time to time amend,
supplement, change, modify or repeal this chapter pursuant to the
provisions of the Village Law applicable thereto.
Any person found to be violating any provision of this chapter shall be subject to the same penalties as set forth in § 400-8 of said Village Code.