The source of a portion of the revenues for retiring debt services,
capital expenditures, operation and maintenance of the public sewage
works shall be a sewer service charge assigned to owners of property
located within or outside the corporate limits of the Town whose residence
or place of business is connected to the public sewer system.
A charge will be assigned to any property owner requiring a
sewer service call by the Town. Such charges shall be established
by the Town Board.
The 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 Board. Such sewer service charges shall be computed by multiplying the estimated or measured volume of sewage contributed to the public sewers by such property owner by the applicable unit sewer service charge rate(s) set forth in §
102-167.
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 water bill, shall be established by the Board. Such sewer service charges shall be computed by multiplying the estimated or measured volume of sewage entering the public sewers by such property owner by the applicable unit sewer service charge rate(s) set forth in §
102-167.
The Town of Lenox shall charge a one-time permit fee to the
local government administering a sewer district each time a new user
is added to the district's sewer system. The permit fee shall be established
through an intermunicipal agreement between the Town of Lenox and
the local government establishing such district.
Each sewer charge levied pursuant to the part 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, it shall be certified to the Treasurer
of the Town, who shall place the same on the real property tax bill
for that year with interest and penalties allowed by law and be collected
as other Town taxes are collected. The above notwithstanding, the
Town, in its discretion, may seek to collect unpaid charges by an
appropriate civil action to be commenced any time after the expiration
of said thirty-day period.
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 shall 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.
The charge for dumping septage at the sewage treatment plant
and the manner of determining the volume dumped will be at the discretion
of the Town.
This Part 3 shall take effect immediately upon filing with the
New York State Secretary of State.