[Ord. 792, 2/18/1999, § 1]
The following definitions shall be used in this Part:
The Borough of Elizabethtown.
Any property located within the Borough's service area upon
which there is erected a structure or structures, or renovation or
improvement to existing structures intended for continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which
structure or structures water is provided.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity vested with ownership, legal
or equitable, sole or partial, of any improved property.
The person who has real title for the ownership of the land
upon which a unit is located.
The property, building or other site to which water service
is furnished including:
A building under one roof and occupied by one family or one
business.
Each combination of buildings owned by one person, serviced
by one service line and occupied by one family or business.
Each side of a double house or each housing unit.
Each apartment, office or suite of offices located in a building
having several such apartments, offices or suites of offices and using
in common one or more means of entrance.
Any mobile home occupied by one family or business.
Any other type of dwelling unit or business requiring water
service as determined by the Borough.
[Ord. 792, 2/18/1999, § 2]
The Borough hereby authorizes, imposes and enacts a tapping
fee to recover costs for the capacity related facilities required
to provide such water service. The tapping fee is hereby imposed against
any improved property and against the owner of such improved property
whenever owner hereafter shall connect such improved property with
a water main constituting a portion of the water system owned by the
Borough, or when there is an expansion, addition, conversion or other
creation of a unit which results in an increase or potential for increase
in the volume of water consumed for such property. Said fee shall
be in the amount of $1,659 for each unit with, or the equivalent volume
consumed, or in the case of an expansion, addition or change in use
for each additional unit water consumed by such improved property
regardless of whether the water mains are installed by the owner,
developer or the Borough. In the case of residential uses having multiple
units or uses therein, a separate fee shall be paid or each unit.
[Ord. 792, 2/18/1999, § 3]
The fee imposed by § 502, above, is based upon the
use of the capacity related facilities and based on the cost of the
facilities which provide existing service, and is determined by the
replacement cost of said facilities as determined by the Borough as
attached hereto and marked Exhibit "A" and incorporated herewith.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Exhibit A is on file in the Borough office
[Ord. 792, 2/18/1999, § 5; as amended by Ord. 829,
11/15/2001]
No person shall connect any improved property with any part
of the water system without first making application for and securing
a permit from the borough. Such application shall be made on a form
to be provided by the Borough. No permit shall be issued until all
applicable customer facilities fees, connection fees and tapping fees
have been paid and until a permit application processing fee in the
amount of $175 has been paid.
[Ord. 792, 2/18/1999, § 5]
A connection fee for each individual connection to the water
system shall be paid for the actual cost incurred by the Borough for
inspection of the physical connection to the water system. Said fee
shall be in the amount of $150 for each unit.
[Ord. 792, 2/18/1999, § 6]
All owners of improved properties shall pay to the Borough a
customer facilities fee. The customer facilities fee shall reimburse
the Borough for its costs relating to the provision of a water meter,
a remote meter and other necessary metering facilities. The customer
facilities fee shall be the actual cost of the water meter and associated
facilities paid by the Borough plus the cost for the Borough to inspect
the installation of the water meter, remote meter and other necessary
metering facilities. Said fee shall be in the amount of $216 for each
unit.
[Ord. 792, 2/18/1999, § 7]
The customer facilities fee, connection fee, tapping fee and
application processing fee, as applicable, shall be due and payable
at the time application is made to the Borough to make any such connection
to the water system.
[Ord. 792, 2/18/1999, § 8]
The Borough hereby incorporates by reference the records of
the Borough used to determine the fees and makes these available to
public inspection.
[Ord. 792, 2/18/1999, § 9]
The Borough is hereby authorized and empowered to enact rules,
regulations and administration directives to implement the administration
of the imposition and collection of the fees.
