[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Lake Placid as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 5-17-1982 by L.L. No. 4-1982]
The Board of Electric Commissioners at the Village of Lake Placid Electric Department shall establish fair and reasonable fees and charges for the use of and benefit received by certain labor, material and equipment produced by said Department, to be called "merchandise and jobbing charges."
Such labor, material and equipment shall include those services and materials as determined from time to time by the Board of Electric Commissioners.
The merchandise and jobbing charges, together with the amount of any penalty prescribed by the Board and due for nonpayment of such charges within a time prescribed by the Board, shall be a lien on the real property or properties upon which, in connection with, or used or benefited by the electric services and/or materials furnished by said Electric Department.
That the lien created hereby shall be prior and superior to every other lien or claim, except the lien of an existing tax.
Such Board shall certify to the Village Clerk the amounts of all such unpaid merchandise and jobbing charges, including penalties computed to the first day of the month following the month in which the fiscal year commences, with a description of the real property affected thereby.
The Village Clerk shall present such certificate to the Board of Trustees and shall enter the same on an abstract thereof in the minutes of the meeting. The Board of Trustees shall include such amounts in the annual tax levy and shall levy the same upon the real property in default.
Whenever an unpaid merchandise and jobbing charge shall be included in the annual Village tax levy, as above provided, the Electric Fund shall be credited with the amount of the unpaid charge, including penalties, and the amount so levied when collected, shall be paid into the General Fund.
This chapter is patterned after Article 2 of the Village Law of the State of New York. To the extent that questions of substance or procedure exist and are unanswered herein, said Article 2, as amended, shall provide the substantive or procedural guidelines to be followed.