[1971 Charter Laws, § 188; N.Y. Laws (1915) ch.
535, § 54; L.L. No. 3-1934, § 5]
The common council shall establish a scale of rents to be paid
from time to time, either in advance or at such time and times as
the common council shall prescribe, for the supply of water to be
called water rents. Such scale of rents shall be appropriated to different
classes of buildings in the city with reference to their dimensions,
values, exposures to fires, ordinary or extraordinary uses for dwellings,
stores, shops, hotels, factories, livery stables, barns, and all other
buildings, establishments, and trades, yards, number of families,
or occupants or consumption of water as near as may be practicable.
The common council shall from time to time either modify, amend, increase,
or diminish, such rents; and such common council and its respective
employees shall be authorized at all times to enter into any building
or place where water is used from supply pipes to examine as to water,
quantity of water used, and manner of using it. The sum shall be added
to the annual budget for the purpose. Such rentals shall be a lien
upon the real property upon which the water is used, for 10 years
from the time of such use, superior to any mortgage, judgment, or
other lien of any nature, except general, city, or school taxes assessed
upon the property, and which shall be prior thereto. Any conveyance
thereof shall not alter its legality upon a subsequent grantee; provided,
however, that a notice shall be mailed to the owner of such real property,
whenever the payment of any water rent is delinquent, by the common
council or its agents.
[Added 5-12-2015 by L.L.
No. 1-2015]
The City of Olean Department of Public Works shall make, publish
and enforce all rules and regulations in relation to and for the protection
and operation of the Water Department, water system, and all the property
and appurtenances thereof and in relation to the management thereof
and the supply of water thereby, whether to individuals or corporations,
and may alter and modify the same from time to time, and may fix a
penalty herein provided for the violation of any said rules and regulations.
Rules and regulations, and all amendments, shall be approved by resolution
before they shall take legal effect. These rules and regulations are
adopted, and specifications adopted hereunder shall be considered
as part of the contract between the City of Olean and every person,
owner, customer or entity who takes water supplied by the City. Such
person using this service shall be bound by this contract, including
those using water on a renewable contract basis, in which case the
contract may stipulate any conditions which are exceptions to these
laws, regulations and specifications.
