[Added 7-14-2004 by L.L. No. 4-2004]
It is the intention of the Town Board of the Town of Saugerties
by the adoption of this article to establish and impose sewer rents
for the Glasco Sewer District for operation and maintenance costs
based upon water consumption.
As used in this article, unless the context or subject matter
otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the meanings provided:
A scale of semiannual charges established and imposed by
the Town Board of the Town of Saugerties for the use of the public
sewers in the Glasco Sewer District and shall include a sewer use
charge to be levied on users located within the Glasco Sewer District
to fund the cost of operation and maintenance of the entire sewer
system.
The system for which the sewer rents are established; shall
mean and include all pipes and other appurtenances used 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 the Glasco Sewer District, and shall also include
any sewage pumping stations and sewage treatment or disposal works
which may hereafter be constructed.
Any owner of real property within the Glasco Sewer District
who is depositing or is required to deposit sewage, either directly
or indirectly, into the public sewers.
[Amended 10-17-2018 by L.L. No. 6-2018]
There is hereby established and imposed upon each sewer user
a quarterly sewer rent (to be billed four times per annum) to be determined
based upon the amount of water consumed by the user. The quarterly
sewer rent charge for each gallon of water consumed by the user shall
be established annually by the Town Board at the time of the adoption
of the Sewer District budget.
All sewer rents in the Glasco Sewer District shall become due
and payable at the same time and in the same manner as the Glasco
Water District bills for water usage charges are billed. Sewer rents
shall constitute a lien upon the real property of the users on the
first day of January in each year. Penalties and interest for sewer
rents in arrears shall be imposed and collected in the same amounts
and in the same manner as they are imposed on other Town charges.
Revenue derived from sewer rents, including penalties and interest,
shall be credited to a special fund, to be known as the "sewer rent
fund," and moneys in such fund shall be used as provided by law.
