Sewer rents shall be used for deriving revenues for financing and maintaining sewage collection and treatment facilities. The funds derived from these rents shall be used for all municipal expenses associated with constructing, improving or maintaining a sewage system, including engineering, planning, construction, reconstruction of sewers 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-way for any of the capital improvements.
A. 
Sewer rents shall include a sewer-user charge and a capital cost amortization charge to be levied on owners of properties located within or without the Village boundaries who contribute sewage to the public sewers.
B. 
The following items shall be funded by the sewer rent charge:
(1) 
The cost of operation and maintenance of the entire sewer collection system, including pump stations.
(2) 
The cost of operation and maintenance of the sewage treatment plant.
(3) 
The cost of the retirement of the Village's portion of the capital bonds and the interest thereon. This shall be the bond issue less the proportional share of the Barclay Heights Sewer Improvement Area or any other town district.
The semiannual sewer rent shall consist of a minimum charge of $40.50 for the first 2,500 cubic feet of water consumed and $1.62 for each additional 100 cubic feet of water consumed thereafter.
Sewer user charges shall be billed at the same time that the Village of Saugerties' water bills for water usage charges are billed. Capital costs amortization charges shall be billed at the same time and included in the annual general Village tax statement that is sent out by the Village.
A. 
Computation of charges.
(1) 
The estimated first-year operation and maintenance cost is as follows:
Budget
$72,000
Less Barclay Heights Improvement Area share
$16,000
Total
$56,000
First year flow estimated at 700,000 gallons/day X 365 days = 255,500,000 gallons
Cost per 1 000 gallons
=
$56,000 255,500
=
.22/1,000 gallons
(2) 
In the event of a defective water meter, the average of its last two quarterly billings for sewer rent charge during which the meter was operating properly will be charged. In the event that other than a residential class user enters and uses the improvement, the method of computing the sewer rent charge for such user would be based on factors such as strength, volume and delivery flow rate characteristics, as well as the amount of water from the Saugerties Water/Wastewater Department used by such user as set forth above. 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 or the user charges shall be based on 100 gallons per person, per day. This shall mean that every man, woman or child living in the residence shall be charged at that rate. Commercial or nonresident users must install a water meter at their own expense. 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 Village and County tax purposes at such rates that may from time to time be set by the Village Board.
The bills for sewer rent charge shall become due and payable to the Village of Saugerties Sewer Improvement Area, and such payment shall be made to the Village Clerk, at its office. 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 2% per month on the unpaid bill shall be added to the bill until payment is made. Sewer rent charge 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 Village Law, preliminary estimates of expenditures are required to be submitted, the Village Clerk shall prepare and file with the Village Board a statement showing all sewer rent charge 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.
The Village of Saugerties shall require each property owner to make the tap on the public sewer and install the lateral from the main to the property line. There will be no connection charge but the property owner will be required to place a deposit of $300 to insure that the property owner's contractor adequately places and tests the lateral, properly backfills the trench, and repairs the street and sidewalk in accordance with Village requirements. Upon inspection and acceptance of the work, the Village shall return the deposit within 10 days of completion. All work on private property shall be performed by the property owner's contractor, but all work, whether in Village streets or private property, shall be inspected by the Village under § 151-14B of this chapter.