As used in this Part 1, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Includes any liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste substance
or a combination thereof resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing,
trade or business or from the development or recovery of any natural
resources.
INFILTRATION
Water, other than sewage, that enters a sewage collection
system (including sewer service connections) from the ground through
such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connection, or manholes.
Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
[Added 8-7-2012 by L.L. No. 6-2012]
INFILTRATION/INFLOW (I/I)
The total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow,
without distinguishing the source.
[Added 8-7-2012 by L.L. No. 6-2012]
INFLOW
Water, other than sewage, that enters a sewage collection
system (including sewer service connections) from sources such as
roof leaders, cellar drains, sump pumps, missing or defective cleanout
caps, swimming pools, yard drains, area drains, foundation drains,
drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections
between stonnwater sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling
towers, stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage.
Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
[Added 8-7-2012 by L.L. No. 6-2012]
OTHER WASTES
Includes garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings,
bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dyestuffs, acids,
chemicals and all other discarded matter not sewage or industrial
waste.
PART
As used in relation to the term "sewer system," includes
all lateral sewers or all branch sewers or all interceptor sewers
or all trunk sewers and any sewage treatment and disposal works, each
"part" with necessary appurtenances, including sewage pumping stations.
SEWAGE
The water-carried domestic human or animal waste, together
with industrial and commercial waste, from residences, buildings,
industrial, and commercial establishments or other places. Neither
infiltration or inflow are components of "sewage."
[Amended 8-7-2012 by L.L. No. 6-2012]
SEWER SYSTEM
Includes all sewer pipes and other appurtenances which are
used or useful in whole or part in connection with the collection,
treatment or disposal of sewage, industrial waste and other wastes
and which are owned, operated or maintained by the village individually
or jointly with the City of Binghamton, New York, or other additional
municipalities, including sewage pumping stations and sewage treatment
and disposal works.
VILLAGE
The Village of Johnson City.
WASTEWATER
The composite of all flow constituents conveyed in a sewer
including sewage and infiltration and inflow.
[Added 8-7-2012 by L.L. No. 6-2012]
[Amended 3-16-1970 by L.L. No. 1-1970; 2-23-1981 by L.L. No. 5-1981; 12-21-1993 by L.L. No.
1-1993]
A. Sewer rents shall be due and payable on the second
day of January in each year and on the first day of April, July and
October in each year and may be paid to the Village Treasurer within
a period of 30 days after they are due and payable without any penalty.
Such sewer rents due and payable on the second day of January shall
be for and relate to the three-month period immediately preceding
such second day of January, and such sewer rents due and payable on
the first day of April, July and October shall be for and relate to
the three-month period immediately following the second day of January
which immediately precedes such first day of April, July and October.
B. Any sewer rent which is not paid within the grace period set forth therefor in Subsection
A of this section shall be deemed delinquent, and 12% additional fee shall be added and collected. Such sewer rent together with the additional fee shall be payable on or before the 30th day of April in any year. On and after the 30th day of April in any year, all unpaid sewer rents together with penalties shall be certified by the collecting officer to the Village Clerk and levied against the real estate as a part of the annual Village tax levy, in accordance with General Municipal Law § 452.
Sewer rents shall constitute a lien upon the
real property served by the sewer system to the extent set forth in
Article 14-F, § 452, of the General Municipal Law.
The Village may enforce the collection of delinquent
sewer rents pursuant to Article 14-F, § 452, of the General
Municipal Law.
[Amended 12-21-1993 by L.L. No. 1-1993]
If any owner of real property on which a sewer
rent has been imposed deems himself or herself aggrieved because such
real property is not served by the sewer system or an error has been
made in computing such sewer rent, he or she may file an application
for a refund of all or part of such sewer rent. Such application shall
be verified by him or her and shall set forth the amount of refund
sought and the grounds therefor. Such application shall be presented
to the Village Treasurer, and he or she shall forward such application
to the Board of Trustees with his or her recommendations in relation
thereto. The Board of Trustees may refund all or part of such sewer
rent.