Pursuant to the authority of the Sewer Rent
Law of the State of New York (Article 14-F of the General Municipal
Law) and any and all amendments thereto, there are hereby established
and imposed sewer rents as a means of producing revenue for sewer
districts in the Town of Phelps.
As used in this Article, the following terms
shall mean and include:
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
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.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand,
lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dye stuffs, acids, chemicals
and other discarded matter not sewage or industrial waste.
SEWAGE
The water-carried human or animal wastes and permissible
industrial wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments
or other places, together with such ground water infiltration and
surface water as may be present.
SEWER RENTS
A scale of annual charges established and imposed in sewer
districts in the Town of Phelps for the use of the sewer system or
any part or parts thereof.
SEWER SYSTEM
All sewer pipes and other appurtenances which are used or
useful, in whole or in part, in connection with the collection, treatment
or disposal of sewage, industrial waste and other wastes and which
are owned, operated or maintained by a sewer district in the town,
including sewage pumping stations and sewage treatment and disposal
works, if any.
[Amended 9-13-1976 by L.L. No. 2-1976]
Sewer rents shall be separately computed for
each sewer district each year as follows:
A. Property within a sewer district. The total cost and
expense of operating and maintaining the sewer system in each Town
of Phelps sewer district shall be annually computed. Said total cost
shall be divided by the total number of chargeable units actually
connected to the district's sewer system. The resulting charge per
unit shall be multiplied by the number of chargeable units assigned
to each user of the district's sewer system to determine each user's
annual sewer rent.
B. Annual unit charge for each dwelling unit, place of business or other special use connected to the sanitary sewer shall be as set forth in Chapter
A157, Fees, effective for the sewer rents which hereafter become due and payable.
[Amended 6-5-1989 by L.L. No. 1-1989; 10-3-1994 by L.L. No.
2-1994]
C. Property outside sewer district. Upon property outside
of any duly established sewer district, the rent shall be the duly
established sewer rent per chargeable unit for the sewer district
processing the sewage from said property, plus a surcharge of 10%
of said annual sewer rent.
Revenues derived from sewer rents shall be credited
to a special fund to be known as the "Sewer Rent Fund," and a separate
Sewer Rent Fund shall be created and maintained with respect to each
of the sewer districts within the town. Moneys in such funds shall
be used only in the manner and for the purpose specified and in order
required by the Sewer Rent Law of the State of New York.