[Adopted 4-6-1982 as Ch. 174, Art.
II, of the 1981 Code]
For the purposes of this article, the following
words and phrases shall be defined as follows:
Liquid waste resulting from any commercial, manufacturing
or industrial operations or processes.
Waste from water closets, urinals, lavatories, sinks, bathtubs,
shower baths, household laundries, cellar floor drains, private garage
floor drains, bars, soda and refreshment counters, cuspidors, refrigerator
drips, drinking fountains and stable floor drains.
All owners of property served by the sanitary
sewer system or sewage disposal facilities of the borough, either
directly or indirectly, shall pay an annual sewer rental fee for such
service.
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Editor's Note: Former § 258-15,
Powers and duties of Sanitation Committee, was repealed 5-4-1993 by
Ord. No. 93-11.
Amended 5-4-1993 by Ord. No. 93-11]
Any person desiring to utilize the sanitary
sewer system and sewage disposal facilities of the borough, either
directly or indirectly, for the disposition and treatment of industrial
wastes shall, before making or permitting to be made any connection
with such sanitary sewerage system, apply to and procure from the
Borough an industrial waste disposal permit. Such application shall
be accompanied by a complete written report of an analysis of such
industrial wastes by a recognized authority acceptable tot he Borough
and the contemplated quantity thereof and shall contain such other
information as the Borough from time to time requires.
A.
Where the sole source of water supply to the property
is through the facilities of the Pennsylvania American Water Company,
Norristown District, the annual sewer rental rates for the year 1992
shall be computed by the Borough of Norristown upon the basis of a
percentage of the annual bill of said company for water supplied to
said property; such annual bill to be determined by adding the water
readings for the first twelve (12) months immediately prior to December
31, 1991. The bills shall be mailed prior to March 15 with a two-percent
discount period ending May 31, a no-discount period ending July 31,
and a ten-percent penalty shall be added to all bills paid after July
31. Single residential dwellings that are connected to the Norristown
Sewer System to dispose of their wastewater but have a water supply
other than public water, such as a well, shall be charged a flat rate
of one hundred dollars ($100.) per year for 1992. Each subsequent
year thereafter, they shall be charged the average rate charged to
all single residential property owners.
(1)
For each single dwelling and double dwelling where
sanitary sewage only is discharged into the sanitary sewer system
and/or sanitary disposal facilities of the Borough: 52% of said water
bill.
(2)
For each plant, business, industry or enterprise engaged
in processing, fabricating, manufacturing or treating metals and/or
metal products where industrial wastes are discharged into the sanitary
sewage system and/or sewage disposal facilities of the Borough of
Norristown and for each automobile laundry which discharges wastes
other than sanitary sewages into the sanitary sewage system and/or
sewage disposal facilities of the borough and for each commercial
laundry, dry-cleaning and/or dyeing establishment or rug- or carpet-cleaning
establishment: eighty percent (80%) of said water bill.
(3)
For all other commercial, business or industrial establishments,
buildings, plants or enterprises where industrial wastes are discharged
into the sanitary sewage system and/or sewage disposal facilities
of the borough: one hundred percent (100%) of said water bill.
(4)
For each multiple dwelling or dwelling units where
sanitary sewage only is discharged into the sanitary sewer system
and/or sanitary disposal facilities of the borough: one hundred percent
(100%) of said water bill.
[Added 3-3-1992 by Ord. No. 92-5]
B.
Nonlocal district.
(1)
Where the sole source of water supply to a property
is not the Keystone Water Company, Norristown District, the sewer
rental rates shall be established by estimating the amount of water
not supplied by the company and adding thereto the amount supplied
by the company, establishing what the water rental rate would be if
the water company were the sole source of supply and then fixing the
percentage for sewer rental rates as heretofore established.
(2)
The duty of estimating the amount of water supplied
by sources other than the water company is hereby placed upon the
Borough, which, to that end, may require such properties to be equipped
with water meters or other measuring devices and may require the owners
or occupants of such properties to disclose all sources of water supply.
[Amended 5-4-1993 by Ord. No. 93-11]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided
that the sewer rates set in this ordinance shall continue from year
to year unless changed by a subsequent ordinance and shall be based
upon the prior year's water usage.
[Amended 5-4-1993 by Ord. No. 93-11]
In exceptional circumstances where water consumption
provides no criterion for sewer use by properties served by the sanitary
sewer system or sewage disposal facilities of the Borough, the owner
of a property so served may be required to install sewage meters or
other devices for the purpose of measuring the quantity of industrial
waste discharged into the sewage system of the borough, or the quantity
of such industrial waste may be otherwise determined by the Borough.
In either event, the Borough Council shall establish the annual sewer
rental rate to be charged, which rental rate shall be based upon the
quantity, nature and character of the industrial waste so discharged
and the difficulty and expense involved in disposing of the same.
The annual sewer rental rates provided for in the preceding §§ 258-17 and 258-18 are hereby levied and charged against all properties in the borough served by the sanitary sewer system or sewage disposal facilities of the borough and the owners of such properties and shall be a lien on such property.
A.
The annual sewer rental rates provided for in the preceding §§ 258-17 through 258-19 shall be payable quarterly on the first day of January, April, July and October of every year, and bills for the same shall be mailed to the property owners on or before such dates. In the event that the quarterly payments for sewer bills are not paid on or before the 20th day of the month when such payment is due, a ten-percent late charge will be assessed on each late payment. In addition to the late charge, there will be imposed an interest charge of ten percent (10%) per annum for all late payments.
[Amended 8-2-1983 by Ord. No. 83-7]
B.
Such annual sewer rental rates shall be a lien on the properties charged with the payment thereof, as provided by the preceding § 258-19, from the dates as above provided and, if not paid after thirty (30) days' notice, may be collected by an action of assumpsit, in the name of the borough, against the owner of the property charged or by distress of personal property on the premises or by a lien filed in the nature of a municipal lien; provided, however, that failure to receive a sewer rental bill or notice shall not relieve a property owner from the payment of sewer rental in the amounts and at the times herein prescribed.
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Editor's Note: Former § 258-21,
Collection warrant; serving officer, was repealed 5-4-1993 by Ord.
No. 93-11.
Such annual sewer rental rates shall not exceed
the amount expended annually by the borough in maintenance, repair,
alteration, inspection, depreciation or other expenses in relation
to the sanitary sewer system and sewage disposal facilities of the
borough and any interest on money expended by the borough in the construction
of the sewer system.
The annual sewer rentals, as collected, shall
be segregated and deposited in a special account, to be known as the
"Sewer Rental Fund," and shall be expended by the borough for no purposes
other than maintenance, repair, alteration, inspection, depreciation
or other expenses in relation to the sanitary sewer system and sewage
disposal facilities of the borough and any interest on money expended
by the borough in the construction of the sewer system, unless other
expenditures from such fund shall hereafter be authorized by law.
