Sewer rentals or charges are imposed upon and shall be collected from the owner of each improved property which shall be connected to the sewage collection system, for use of the sewage collection system, whether such use shall be direct or indirect, and for services rendered by the Authority in connection therewith, including any charges payable by the Borough to the Joint Authority pursuant to provisions of the service agreement, which sewer rentals or charges shall commence and shall be effective as of the date of connection of each such improved property to the sewage collection system and shall be payable as provided herein, in accordance with the following schedule of rates and classifications:
A.
Residential.
(1)
Each private dwelling unit: as established by resolution of the Borough Council.
[Amended 5-13-1975 by Ord. No. 75-4; 4-9-1989 by Ord. No. 89-3; 4-9-1991 by Ord. No. 91-1; 9-12-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-04]
(2)
Each dwelling unit in a double house, in 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 rental or charge payable hereunder shall be computed as though each such family was a separate user with a separate connection to a sewer.
B.
Nonresidential (commercial, industrial, schools, clubrooms, taverns, firehouses, professional offices, hotels, restaurants, churches, service stations, garages, barbershops, beauty shops, laundromats, institutions, etc.).
(1)
All owners of nonresidential improved properties connected to the sewage collection system shall pay sewer rentals or charges as established by resolution of the Borough Council per unit on the basis of equivalent dwelling as set forth in the following schedule:
[Amended 1-13-1970 by Ord. No. 70-1; 5-13-1975 by Ord. No. 75-4; 4-9-1989 by Ord. No. 89-3; 4-9-1991 by Ord. No. 91-1; 4-14-1998 by Ord. No. 98-2; 8-11-1998; 9-12-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-04; 10-10-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-05]
Category | Equivalent Dwelling Units | |
|---|---|---|
Each retail store, business, industry or professional office not providing showers for employees, having 10 or less employees | 1 | |
Each additional 5 employees or fraction thereof | 1/2 | |
Each business or industry providing showers for employees, having 8 or less employees | 1 | |
Each additional 4 employees or fraction thereof | 1/2 | |
Each restaurant, tavern and club, per 15 seats or fraction thereof | 1 | |
Each hotel, motel and boardinghouse, per 4 rental rooms or fraction thereof | 1 | |
Each bed-and-breakfast, per 4 rental rooms or fraction thereof | 1 1/2 | |
Each additional 3 rooms or a fraction thereof | 1 | |
Each service station, garage and/or automobile repair shop, 2 bays or less | 2 | |
Each additional bay over 2 | 1/2 | |
Each laundromat, per 5 washers or fraction thereof | 1 | |
Each barbershop and beauty shop not attached to or forming part of owner's residence | 1/2 | |
Each additional 2 chairs or fraction thereof | 1/2 | |
Each barbershop or beauty shop attached to or forming part of the owner's residence, 2 chairs or less | 1/2 | |
Each additional 2 chairs or fraction thereof | 1/2 | |
Each church and fire company | 1 | |
Each improved property having a commercial garbage grinder (3/4 horsepower or greater), per each such grinder. | 1 | |
Each trailer | 1 | |
Each school, public or private, having: | ||
Toilet facilities only, per 35 pupils | 1 | |
Toilet facilities and kitchen, per 27 pupils | 1 | |
Toilet facilities and gymnasium, per 23 pupils | 1 | |
Toilet facilities, kitchen and gymnasium, per 19 pupils | 1 | |
(2)
Sewer rentals and charges for schools payable hereunder shall be computed on the basis of the average number of pupils enrolled during the school term preceding the date of the quarterly billing. Teachers and employees shall be included as pupils for purposes of such computation.
(3)
Sewer rentals and charges for businesses or industrial units payable hereunder shall be computed on the basis of the average number of employees, including individual owners and employers, for the calendar quarter preceding the date of the quarterly billing.
(4)
If the owner of any nonresidential improved property, including any school, shall fail to provide this Borough with complete information required to compute the sewer rental and charge to such nonresidential improved property, this Borough may estimate a reasonable applicable sewer rental and charge for such nonresidential improved property and such estimated sewer rental and charge shall be the actual sewer rental and charge payable until the required information is filed; provided, however, that no rebates will be paid by this Borough if the information filed reveals a lower indicated sewer rental and charge than that estimated by this Borough.
C.
If two or more dwelling units, stores, offices, industrial units, etc., are connected to the sewage collection system through a single lateral or if two or more types of use are made of the same improved property, the sewer rentals and charges payable hereunder shall be computed as though each such dwelling unit, store, office, industrial unit, etc., and each such type of use were a separate improved property or user with a separate connection to a sewer.
D.
Additional classifications and sewer rentals or charges or modifications of the above schedule of sewer rentals or charges may be established by this Borough from time to time as deemed necessary.
E.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit this Borough from entering into separate agreements with owners, including any school, with respect to sewer rentals or charges to be imposed in those cases where, due to seasonal fluctuations or other unusual circumstances, the sewer rentals or charges set forth herein shall be deemed by this Borough to be unfair or inequitable.