The sources of the revenues for retiring debt
services, capital expenditures, operation and maintenance of the public
sewerage works shall be based upon a formula to be determined by the
Town Board.
Sewer service charge rates shall be determined by the Town Board on a one-year basis. In general, charges will be calculated from a schedule based on water consumption or on a schedule of minimum charges, whichever is the greater, with a surcharge for industrial users contributing wastes exceeding the strength of normal sewage as defined in §
118-32. The sewer service charge will be computed and billed at regular intervals throughout each calendar year, as established by the Town Board.
The sewer service charge assigned to any property owner who contributes industrial wastes to the public sewers or who contributes a combination of sewage and industrial wastes to the public sewers, shall be determined as follows: A surcharge shall be added to the sewer service charge for any waste which exceeds the standards set up in Article
VI. The charge shall depend on the strength and character of the industrial waste finally admitted to the public sewer. The surcharge amount shall be established by the Town Board.
A special sewer service charge shall be assigned to any industrial firm or organization or school inside or outside of the town by virtue of the volume, strength or unusual characteristic of their waste alone would overload or upset the capacity or efficiency of the sewerage works or any part thereof if such waste entered the public sewer or whose waste disposal situation is such that it would be in the public interest to waive the requirements of this section and §§
118-53,
118-54 and
118-56. The Town Board, after appropriate study and advice from the Town Engineer, shall assign a special sewer service charge to the industrial firm, corporation or school by separate agreement with said firm. The applicable portions of the preceding sections, as well as the equitable rights of the public shall be the basis for such an arrangement.
The Town Board reserves the right, from time
to time, to change sewer service charges originally or previously
assigned to any property owner.
The sewer service charge assigned to any property
owner who is not connected to the public water supply shall be established
by the Town Board. Such sewer service charge shall be based on the
estimated or measured volume of sewage contributed to the public sewers
by such property owner.
The sewer service charge assigned to any property
owner, with both a public and private water supply, whose contribution
of sewage to the public sewers exceeds the volume of public water
consumed by that owner, as evidenced by his or her water bill, shall
be established by the Town Board. The basis for determining such sewer
service charge shall be the estimated or measured volume of sewage
entering the public sewers. the bill for metered sewer discharge shall
be payable quarterly or at such period as may be set by the Town Board.
In each instance, meter bills, if not paid in 30 days, shall be increased
10% as a penalty for failure to pay promptly. Failure to receive a
bill shall not act as a waiver of said penalty. Bills will be submitted
to the owner of the property, not the tenant.
All property owners who are outside the town
limit, who, by their own request, are served by sanitary sewers must
pay a sewer service charge established by the Town Board and covered
by a approved written contract.
Each sewer charge levied pursuant to this chapter
is hereby made a lien on the premises and, if the same is not paid
within 30 days after it shall be due and payable on November 1 of
every year, and shall be certified to the County Treasurer's office
who shall place the same on the real property tax roll for that year,
with interest and penalties allowed by law, and be collected as other
town taxes are collected.
Those water consumers and/or users of the sewerage
system who, 30 days after bills have been rendered for the services
described herein and at the rates prescribed herein, have not paid
their bills shall be deemed to be delinquent, and the service to their
premises may be discontinued and such service may not be restored
until proper settlement of the delinquent customer's account has been
made, together with any additional costs which might have been incurred
by the town in the discontinuing or restoring of the delinquent customer's
service.