The Village Board of Trustees shall establish,
by resolution, sanitation user fees for the collection and disposal
of garbage and, at the discretion of the Village Board of Trustees,
for recycling. The purpose of such sanitation user fees shall be to
pay for all labor costs, landfill tipping fees, materials, equipment,
maintenance costs, and administrative, legal and all other expenses
incurred by the Village in handling the collection and disposal of
such items.
In the event that any parcel of property contains
more than one structure or use for which there is a separate sanitation
user fee, the owner of such parcel of property shall be responsible
to pay the total of all such sanitation user fees referable to each
and every structure or use on the parcel of property for which a separate
sanitation fee has been prescribed by the Board of Trustees.
The sanitation user fee may be changed, amended
and/or modified by the Board of Trustees by resolution, at such times
as the Board of Trustees deems appropriate.
Sanitation user fees shall, subject to change
by the Board of Trustees, be billed and charged on a yearly basis,
with the bills to be issued at the same time as the Village tax bill
is rendered and issued. The Board of Trustees may change the frequency
and timing of the billing by resolution.
Bills for the sanitation user fee shall be payable
in the face amount without penalty within 30 days following the billing
date that is indicated upon the bill mailed to the property owner.
Penalties shall accrue upon sanitation user
fees as follows: There shall be charged a penalty on past-due sanitation
user fees at the rate of 10% following the 30 days from the date of
billing and at the rate of an additional 2% per month for each additional
30 days or part thereof of delinquency.
Such unpaid sanitation user fees, together with
the amount of penalties herein prescribed and due by reason of nonpayment
of such sanitation user fees, shall be a lien on the real property
upon which or in connection with which the sanitation is used, and
if not paid by April 30 of the fiscal year in which accrued, the amount
thereof, together with the penalties herein prescribed, shall be included
in the next annual tax levy and shall be levied upon the real property.