Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this article shall
be as follows:
DWELLING UNIT
Any room, group of rooms, house trailer or other enclosure
occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by
a family or other group of persons living together or by persons living
alone.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property upon which there is erected a structure intended
for continuous or periodic cohabitation, occupancy or use by human
beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage shall or
may be discharged.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet waste from any
improved property.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping and disposing of sanitary sewage owned by the Township in
those areas of Worcester Township where improved properties are connected
to the sewer system.
Uniform sewer rates and charges are hereby imposed
upon and shall be collected from the owner of each improved property
which shall be connected to the sewer system for the use of the sewer
system whether such use shall be direct or indirect, and for services
rendered by Worcester Township in connection therewith, which sewer
rates and charges shall commence and shall be effective as of the
date of this article, or the date of connection of each new improved
property to the sewer system, and shall be payable as provided herein,
in accordance with the following uniform schedule of rates and classification.
A. The rate for each private dwelling unit shall be $418
per annum payable at a rate of $104.50 per quarter effective January
1, 2014; $459.80 per annum payable at a rate of $114.95 per quarter
effective January 1, 2015; and $505.80 per annum payable at a rate
of $126.45 per quarter effective January 1, 2016. Each dwelling unit
in a double house or a row of connecting houses or in an apartment
building shall be billed as a separate entity. If two or more families
use separate cooking and/or toilet facilities in an improved property,
the sewer rate payable hereunder shall be computed as though each
such family was a separate use with a separate connection to the sewer.
If two or more dwelling units are connected to the sewer system through
a single lateral, the sewer rates and charges payable hereunder shall
be computed as though each such dwelling unit were a separate improved
property or user with a separate connection to the sewer system.
[Amended 8-21-1991 by Ord. No. 121; 12-21-2011 by Ord. No.
233; 12-19-2012 by Ord. No. 240; 12-18-2013 by Ord. No. 247]
B. Additional classifications and sewer rates and charges
or modifications of the rates and charges specified herein may be
established by the Township from time to time as deemed necessary.
C. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit
the Township from entering into separate agreements with owners with
respect to sewer rates and charges to be imposed in those cases where,
due to unusual circumstances, the sewer rates and charges set forth
herein shall be deemed by the Township to be unfair or inequitable.
In addition, the Township may assess a fee for the actual volume discharge
to the sewer system for properties at which stormwater infiltrates
sewer system, and after giving the property owner written notice to
correct the condition, and after the property owner has failed to
correct the condition within 90 days of said notice.
[Amended 5-19-2021 by Ord. No. 284]
The Township reserves the right to adopt, from
time to time, such additional rules and regulations as it shall deem
necessary and proper in connection with the use and operation of the
sewer system, which rules and regulation shall be, shall become and
shall be construed as part of this article.