[Ord. No. 1030 Art. I, 11-6-2003]
It is determined and declared to be necessary and conducive
to the protection of the public health, safety, welfare, and convenience
of the City to collect charges from all users who use the City's sewer
system. The proceeds of such charges so derived will be used for the
purpose of operating, maintaining, and retiring the debt for such
public sewer system.
[Ord. No. 1030 Art. II §§1 — 10, 11-6-2003]
As used in this Chapter, unless the context specifically indicates
otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this ordinance shall be as
follows:
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
All expenditures during the useful life of the system for
materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for
managing and maintaining the system to achieve the capacity and performance
for which the system was designed and constructed.
REPLACEMENT
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories,
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
system to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works
were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance"
includes replacement.
RESIDENTIAL USER
Any user of the City's sewer system whose lot, parcel of
real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes only.
SEWER SYSTEM
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling,
transmission, and distribution of sewage. These include transmission
lines, individual systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and
their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions,
and alterations thereof; and any works, including site acquisition
of land that will be part of the treatment process.
SHALL, MAY
"Shall" is mandatory, the word "May" is permissive.
USEFUL LIFE
The estimated period during which the treatment works will
be operated.
USER
Any person who discharges sewage into the sanitary sewer
system of Mound City, or any extensions thereof, or to whom such services
are available. Sewage service shall be deemed to be furnished to both
the occupant and the owner of any site served regardless of whether
the occupant or owner made application for service.
USER CHARGE
That portion of the total sewer service charge which is levied
in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance,
and replacement of the sewer system.
WATER METER
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the City of Mound City or furnished and/or installed
by a user approved by the City of Mound City.
[Ord. No. 1030 Art. III §1, 11-6-2003]
The user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues
to pay the costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement
and cost associated with debt retirement of bonded capital associated
with financing the sewer system which the City may be ordinance designate
to be paid by the user charge system. That portion of the total user
charge which is designated for operation and maintenance including
replacement of the sewer system shall be established by this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 1030 Art. III §2, 11-6-2003; Ord. No. 1103 §1, 12-6-2007; Ord.
No. 1149 §1, 11-5-2009; Ord. No. 1168 §1, 11-9-2010; Ord.
No. 1185 §1, 11-10-2011; Ord. No. 1208 §1, 11-8-2012]
A. That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for the operation and maintenance including replacement purposes as established in Section
720.050 shall be deposited in a separate non-lapsing fund know as the
Operation, Maintenance and Replacement Fund and will be kept in two primary accounts as follows:
1. The Operation and Maintenance Account shall be an account deigned
for the specific purpose of defraying operation and maintenance costs
(excluding replacement) of the sewer system.
2.
The Replacement Account shall be an account designed for the
purpose of ensuring replacement needs over the useful life of the
sewer system. Deposits in the Replacement Account shall be made monthly
from the replacement revenue in the amount of sixty-five thousand
dollars ($65,000.00) annually.
[Ord. No. 1247 §1, 11-6-2014; Ord. No. 1264 §1, 11-10-2015; Ord. No. 1280 § 1, 11-8-2016; Ord. No. 1295, 11-9-2017; Ord. No. 1305, 11-8-2018; Ord. No. 1316, 11-7-2019; Ord. No. 1334, 11-9-2021]
[Ord. No. 1030 Art. III §3, 11-6-2003]
Fiscal year-end balances in the Operation and Maintenance account and the Replacement account shall be carried
over to the same accounts in each subsequent fiscal year, and shall
be used for no other purpose than those designated for these accounts.
Monies which have been transferred from other sources to meet temporary
shortages in the Operation, Maintenance, and Replacement Funds shall be returned to their respective
accounts upon appropriate adjustment of the user charge rates for
operation, maintenance, and replacement. The user charge rates(s)
shall be adjusted such that the transferred monies will be returned
to their respective accounts within the fiscal year following a fiscal
year in which the monies were borrowed.
[Ord. No. 1030 Art. IV §§1 — 3, 11-6-2003; Ord. No. 1103 §§2
— 3, 12-6-2007; Ord. No. 1149 §2 — 3, 11-5-2009; Ord.
No. 1168 §2 — 3, 11-9-2010; Ord. No. 1175 §§1
— 2, 4-7-2011; Ord. No. 1185 §§2 —
3, 11-10-2011]
A. All
monthly user charges will be based on monthly water usage as determined
by water meter(s) acceptable to the City.
[Ord. No. 1256 §1, 6-16-2015]
B. (Reference is made to Appendix A of this Chapter, on file in the
City Clerk's office.) The minimum charge per month shall be six dollars
forty cents ($6.40). In addition each user shall pay a user unit charge
for operation and maintenance including replacement of five dollars
ten cents ($5.10) per one thousand (1,000) gallons of water billed
at five hundred ten hundred-thousandths of a cent ($0.00510) per gallon
of water or fraction thereof as determined in the preceding Section.
[Ord. No. 1247 §2, 11-6-2014; Ord. No. 1264 §2, 11-10-2015; Ord. No. 1280 § 2, 11-8-2016; Ord. No. 1295, 11-9-2017; Ord. No. 1305, 11-8-2018; Ord. No. 1316, 11-7-2019; Ord. No. 1334, 11-9-2021]
C. The
user charge rates established in this Section apply to all users of
the City's system, or to whom such services are available, regardless
of the user's location.
[Ord. No. 1030 Art. V §§1 — 2, 11-6-2003]
A. All
users shall be billed monthly. Payments are due when billings are
made. Any payment not received by the tenth (10th) day of the month
following the close of the period for which service was rendered shall
be delinquent.
B. When
any bill for service is not paid by the thirtieth (30th) day of the
month following the close of the period for which service was rendered,
then the City shall cause utility service to such user to be discontinued
following due notice and opportunity for hearing as described in the
Mound City Code for non-payment and delinquent payment of water and
sewerage services.
[Ord. No. 1030 Art. VI, 11-6-2003]
The city shall review the user charge system annually and revise
use charge rates as necessary to ensure that the system generates
adequate revenues to pay the costs of operations and maintenance including
replacement and that the system continues to provide for the proportional
distribution of operation and maintenance including replacement costs
among users and user classes.