Sewer charges shall be used for deriving revenues
for financing and maintaining sewage collection and treatment facilities.
The funds derived from these charges shall be used for all municipal
expenses associated with constructing, improving or maintaining a
sewerage system, including engineering, planning, construction, reconstruction
of sewers, wastewater treatment works and all necessary appurtenances
thereto, including pumping stations, extensions, enlargement, replacement
or additions to the sanitary sewer systems or the preliminary or other
studies and surveys relative thereto and for the acquisition of land
or rights-of-ways for any of the capital improvements.
A.
Sewer charges shall include a sewer user charge which
shall be levied on owners of properties located within or without
the Improvement boundaries who contribute sewage to the public sewers
and a capital cost amortization charge to be levied on all owners
of properties within the Improvement boundaries.
B.
The Town Board of the Town of Lloyd shall review the user charges periodically and revise them to reflect the actual sewerage works, operation and maintenance cost by local law adopted by a simple majority of said Town Board, except for the user charges for industrial users, which are to be governed by the provisions of § 85-48B(2) of this chapter of the Code.
[Amended 10-11-2000 by L.L. No. 6-2000]
Sewer use charges shall be billed quarterly
at the same time as the Highland Water District bills for water usage
charges. Capital costs amortization charges shall be billed at the
same time and included in the tax statement that is sent out by the
Town for county charges and general Town taxes.
A.
Sewer user charges shall be levied on the basis of
the amount of water from the Highland Water District used by each
sewer user at such per-gallon rates as the Town Board may from time
to time establish.
[Amended 1-17-2018 by L.L. No. 2-2018]
B.
Adding initial start-up costs, adjusting for inflation
and later determination of state and federal aid, the following schedule
be and the same is hereby fixed and adopted for the purpose of quarterly
sewer rentals to be charged for services to be provided by the Highland
Sewer District:
[Amended 12-18-1980 by L.L. No. 15-1980; 8-19-1981 by L.L. No. 6-1981; 12-15-1982 by L.L No. 7-1982; 12-14-1983 by L.L. No. 11-1983; 2-25-1987 by L.L. No. 1-1987; 12-28-1988 by L.L. No. 13-1988]
(1)
Users, other than industrial (as defined in § 85-1), of Highland Water District metered water exclusively:
[Amended 10-11-2000 by L.L. No. 6-2000; 11-13-2002 by L.L. No. 4-2002; 12-14-2011 by L.L. No.
11-2011; 12-18-2013 by L.L. No. 12-2013; 1-17-2018 by L.L. No. 2-2018; 5-18-2022 by L.L. No. 2-2022]
(2)
Users who produce industrial wastes (as defined in § 85-1) shall pay the same rate as set forth in § 85-48B(1)(a), unless identified by the Sewer District Administrator as a "significant industrial user" (as defined by the US EPA). The rate for such users shall be set, and amended from time to time, by the Town Board by resolution on 10 days' notice to the user of the proposed change.
[Amended 10-11-2000 by L.L. No. 6-2000]
(3)
Users of non-Highland Water District metered water.
[Amended 11-13-2002 by L.L. No. 4-2002; 12-14-2011 by L.L. No. 11-2011; 12-18-2013 by L.L. No.
12-2013; 1-17-2018 by L.L. No. 2-2018]
(a)
Rates shall be as follows:
[1]
Forty-five dollars per user containing up to and including six fixtures,
i.e., washbasin, sink, toilet, urinal, shower or similar fixture.
(b)
These rates are effective February 1, 2018.
(c)
If such users have non-Highland Water District meters, utilized for the purpose of furnishing water to their private water district, all rates shall be the same as Highland Sewer District users as set forth in § 85-48B(1)(a)[1] and [2].
A.
In the event of a defective water meter, then the
sewer user charge shall be computed based on the average of its last
two quarterly billings for sewer user charges during which the meter
was operating properly.
B.
In the event that other than a residential class user
enters and uses the Improvement, the method of computing the sewer
user charges for such a user would be based on factors such as strength,
volume and delivery flow rate characteristics, as well as the amount
of water from the Highland Water District used by such user as set
forth above.
C.
If the property has its own water supply or is served
by an unmetered independent water company, the owner shall have the
option of installing a water meter at his expense.
D.
Commercial or nonresident users must install a water
meter at their own expense.
E.
The capital costs amortization charges shall be levied
on the basis of the assessed valuation of each parcel of property
within the Improvement boundaries for general Town and county tax
purposes at such rates that may from time to time be set by the Town
Board.
F.
The bills for sewer user charges shall become due
and payable to the Highland Sewer District, and such payment shall
be made to the Town Clerk, at the Town Clerk's office, quarterly.
If such bills are not paid within 30 days, a penalty of 10% of the
amount of such bill will be added thereto. If such bill remains unpaid
for 60 days, then interest at the rate of 1/2% per month on the
unpaid bill shall be added to the bill until payment is made.
G.
Sewer user charges and capital costs amortization
charges and the interest and penalties thereon shall be a lien upon
the real property which is using the public sewer or which is located
within the Improvement boundaries, and on or before the day when,
under the Town Law, preliminary estimates of expenditures are required
to be submitted, the Town Clerk shall prepare and file with the Town
Board a statement showing all sewer user charges, with penalties and
interest thereon, which remain unpaid, which said statement shall
contain a brief description of the property to which sewer services
were supplied or which is within the Improvement boundaries, the name
of the owner liable to pay the same, so far as may be known, and the
amount chargeable.
