[Ord. No. 750 §§1
— 4, 6-25-2001]
A. Pursuant
to Section 644.052, RSMo., persons with a direct or indirect sewer
service connection to the City public sewer system shall pay an annual
fee per water service connection as provided in this Section. Customers
served by multiple water service connections shall pay such fee for
each water service connection, except that no single facility served
by multiple connections shall pay more than a total of seven hundred
dollars ($700.00) per year. The sewer service connection fee shall
be collected annually. The fee and shall be billed and collected in
August of each year commencing in August of the year 2001 and shall
be collected in the same manner as provided for the collection of
all other water and sewer charges. All late penalties, disconnection
provisions and reconnection charges shall apply to the sewer service
connection fee imposed by Section 644.052, RSMo.
B. The
annual sewer service connection fee shall be as follows:
1. Seventy cents ($.70) per residential customer.
2. Three dollars ($3.00) per water service connection for all other
customers with water service connections of less than or equal to
one (1) inch, excluding taps used solely for fire suppression and
irrigation systems.
3. Ten dollars ($10.00) per water service connection for all other customers
with water service connections of more than one (1) inch but less
than or equal to four (4) inches, excluding taps used solely for fire
suppression and irrigation systems
4. Twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per water service connection for all
other customers with water service connections of more than four (4)
inches, excluding taps used solely for fire suppression and irrigation
systems.
C. The
fees imposed by Section 644.052, RSMo., the collection of which is
provided for hereby, shall expire on December 31, 2007, or upon such
later date as the General Assembly of the State of Missouri may from
time to time extend such fees imposed by Chapter 644.052, RSMo.
D. The
fees collected hereby are State of Missouri fees and shall be remitted
to the State of Missouri as provided by law. Five percent (5%) (or
such other percentage or amount as the General Assembly of the State
of Missouri may from time to time establish) of the fee revenue collected
shall be retained by the City as reimbursement of billing and collection
expenses.