[R.O. 2006 §710.010; Ord. No. 03-002 §1, 1-6-2003; Ord. No. 11-017 §1, 6-20-2011]
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 contribute wastewater
to the City treatment works. The proceeds of such charges so derived
will be used for the purpose of operating, maintaining and retiring
the debt for such public wastewater treatment works.
[R.O. 2006 §710.020; Ord. No. 03-002 §1, 1-6-2003; Ord. No. 05-024 §1, 5-2-2005; Ord.
No. 11-017 §1, 6-20-2011]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
The Board of Aldermen of the City.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/1).
The City of Ozark, Missouri
Wastewater generated at a rate of two hundred fifty (250)
gallons per day or less that has a BOD concentration of not more than
two hundred fifty (250) mg/1 and a suspended solids concentration
of not more than two hundred fifty (250) mg/l.
All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment
works for materials, labor, utilities and other items which are necessary
for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity
and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which
such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation
and maintenance" includes replacement.
Any contributor to Ozark's treatment works whose lot, parcel
of real estate or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes
only.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Is mandatory; MAY — Is permissive.
The solids that either float on the surface of or are in
suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable
by laboratory filtering.
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling
and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage or liquid industrial
wastes. These include interceptor sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection
systems, individual systems, pumping, power and other equipment and
their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions
and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable
recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities;
and any works, including site acquisition of land, that will be an
integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal
of residues resulting from such treatment; or any other method or
system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating
or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste
in combined stormwater and sanitary sewer systems.
The estimated period during which the treatment works will
be operated.
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, the Federal
or State Government, or any unit, agency, political corporation or
subdivision of either the Federal or State Government, or other agency
receiving sewer services, or to whom water services are made available
from the City's facilities pursuant to a written sewer user's agreement.
That portion of the total wastewater service charge which
is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation,
maintenance and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.
A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and
installed by the City, the cost of which is billed back to the user.
[R.O. 2006 §710.030; Ord. No. 03-002 §1, 1-6-2003; Ord. No. 11-017 §1, 6-20-2011]
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 treatment works which the City may by 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 treatment works shall be established
by this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 11-017 §1, 6-20-2011]
The rates and fees for sewer service are established and periodically
adjusted at the discretion of the Board.
[R.O. 2006 §710.050; Ord. No. 03-002 §1, 1-6-2003; Ord. No. 11-017 §1, 6-20-2011]
Billing procedures shall be as set forth in Chapter 700 of this Code.
[R.O. 2006 §710.060; Ord. No. 03-002 §1, 1-6-2003; Ord. No. 11-017 §1, 6-20-2011]
A.Â
The
City shall review the user charge system annually and revise user
charge rates as necessary to ensure that the system generates adequate
revenues to pay the costs of operation 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.
B.Â
The
City will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction with
a regular bill, of the rate being charged for operation and maintenance
including replacement of the treatment works.
[R.O. 2006 §710.070; Ord. No. 03-002 §1, 1-6-2003; Ord. No. 05-024 §1, 5-2-2005; Ord.
No. 11-017 §1, 6-20-2011]
A.Â
Connection
fees, also known as "tap-on fees," shall be paid to the City by any
person or entity desiring to connect, tap or gain access to the City
sewer system. The fee amounts are established and periodically adjusted
at the discretion of the Board. The current fees are available for
viewing at the Planning and Development Department of the City.
[Ord. No. 20-079, 12-7-2020]
B.Â
The
fee for any use not specifically listed will be calculated as a direct
percentage of an equivalent normal domestic wastewater user. The connection
fee for development outside the corporate limits of the City will
be two (2) times the rate within the City. Existing structures connected
to the City sewer system and paying a monthly bill within the corporate
limits of the City at the time of adoption of this Section will not
be subject to a connection fee.
C.Â
For
a connection to a gravity sewer, the property owner will be responsible
for the construction and cost to extend the lateral sewer line to
the main as required to complete the collection in accordance with
the City approved standards of material and construction.
D.Â
For
a connection to a pressure sewer, the property owner shall be responsible
for the construction and cost of the appropriate sized pressure lateral
sewer line and an approved grinder pump. It will be the property owner's
responsibility to connect the appropriately sized lateral to the grinder
pump with the City approved standards of material and construction,
and maintenance of the grinder pump shall remain with the property
owner.
E.Â
Increase In Fees.
1.Â
The connection fees set forth in Subsection (A) of this Section directly relate to the retirement of a bond issue authorized on April 5, 2005. Each established rate set forth in Subsection (A) shall come forward in January by ordinance proposing said increase by three and one-half percent (3.5%) unless the Board approves an amendment to said ordinance by adjusting or abating that rate for the following year. Prior to establishing any such sewer charge, including the connection fee, the Board shall hold a public hearing, and at least thirty (30) days' notice shall be given thereof. Such adjustment will only be made in order to provide sufficient funds to pay the debt service on said bonds for the succeeding year. Unless additional sewer infrastructure bonds are authorized and issued in subsequent years, the connection fees set out shall cease on the date the bonds are retired.
[1]
Editor's Note: The sewer connection fee proposed in this Section
shall increase by three and one-half percent (3.5%) as of 1-1-2022
as enacted by Ord. No. 21-098.
2.Â
The automatic increase in sewer connection fees of three and one-half percent (3.5%) that would take effect on January 1, 2016, pursuant to Section 715.070(E) of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Ozark is hereby abated for the year 2016.
[Ord. No. 13-053 §1, 12-16-2013; Ord. No. 15-061 §1, 1-4-2016]
