[CC 1984 §29-41; Ord. No. 3-23G §§1 — 5, 3-23-2000; Ord. No. 3-46 §1, 9-29-2003; Ord. No. 3-23 K §1, 9-20-2004; Ord. No. 3-53 §1, 3-27-2007; Ord. No. 3-56 §1, 9-29-2008; Ord. No. 3-58 §1, 10-7-2009; Ord. No. 3-61 §1, 4-27-2011; Ord. No. 3-63 §1, 7-26-2011; Ord. No. 3-67 §§1 – 3, 6-13-2013; Ord. No. 3-74 §1, 1-14-2016; Ord. No. 3-81, 10-14-2021; Ord. No. 3-82, 1-13-2022; Ord. No. 3-87, 2-27-2023]
A. 
All sewer services furnished by the City of Farmington to customers inside the City limits shall be subject to the following minimum monthly fee, regardless of the amount of water service used.
Residential
$8.00
General service and industrial
$10.00
B. 
In addition to the minimum monthly fee, the following sewer charges per one hundred (100) cubic feet of water usage shall apply:
Inside City limits — Residential
$3.40
Inside City limits — General service and industrial
$3.65
C. 
Residential sewer service provided to customers inside the City limits where there is no connection to the public water supply will be charged a monthly fee equal to six hundred (600) cubic feet of water use for each connection to the public sewer system.
D. 
All sewer services furnished by the City of Farmington to customers outside the City limits shall be subject to the following minimum monthly fee, regardless of the amount of water service used.
Residential
$20.00
General service and industrial
$25.00
E. 
In addition to the minimum monthly fee, the following sewer charges per one hundred (100) cubic feet of water usage shall apply.
Inside City limits — Residential
$8.50
Inside City limits — General service and industrial
$9.13
F. 
Residential sewer service provided to customers outside City limits that do not receive water service from the City will be charged a monthly sewer fee equal to six hundred (600) cubic feet of water usage.
[Ord. No. 3-23F §6, 10-19-1992]
In addition to the monthly charges set out in Section 710.110 commercial or industrial users shall be subject to an excessive strength charge as provided by Section 710.073 of this Chapter.
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Editor's Note: Former Section 710.115, High Volume User Charge, which derived from Ord. No. 3-23F §7, 10-19-1992, was repealed 4-25-2022 by Ord. No. 3-84.
[CC 1984 §29-41.5; Ord. No. 3-23D §1, 11-19-1990; Ord. No. 3-43 §2, 8-18-2003]
A. 
Before a user is allowed to use the sewer systems of this City, he/she shall deposit with the City the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) as and for a sewer service payment guarantee deposit in the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
B. 
All deposits shall be refunded after two (2) years of good credit. "Good credit" shall mean that the consumer shall not have been in arrears during the preceding two (2) years. Any new residential consumer that can establish that he/she had a previous service account with a City or County Utility Department for a period of at least twenty-four (24) months immediately preceding the consumer's above deposit.
[Code 1974 §635.075B; CC 1984 §29-42; Ord. No. 3-3I §1, 11-21-1988]
Sewer use bills are due and payable monthly. All accounts for the use of the sanitary sewers of the City shall be due and payable by the user, either in person or by letter, on or before the date designated as "due date" in which the account for any such use is rendered.
[Code 1974 §635.075(C); CC 1984 §29-43; Ord. No. 3-3I §1, 11-21-1988]
A. 
If the account of any user is not paid within fifteen (15) days after the "due date", Utilities Superintendent shall immediately cause the delinquent user to be immediately cut off from the City water supply and shall not furnish him/her with water while any such indebtedness remains unpaid. If an account is connected solely to the sewer system, service shall be disconnected by installation of an inflatable sewer plug, or other similar device.
[Ord. No. 3-77, 3-23-2020]
B. 
Should there be a dispute between the City and any delinquent user as to the correctness or other conditions of the account so entered, the same shall immediately be reported to the proper City Council committee by the complaining user and no proceedings shall be commenced against him/her until the committee shall first have passed upon the correctness or other conditions of the account and shall have reported its findings thereon to the City Council.
[Ord. No. 3-37 §1(29-44), 10-21-1996]
In those cases where it is discovered that a person or persons unknowingly have been connected to a septic tank or any other sewage disposal system other than the City sewage disposal system and upon application to the Superintendent of Utilities by the said person or persons, under oath, for a refund of sewer use charges and upon the approval of the said application, the said person or persons shall be refunded a sum equal to the sewage use charge having been paid to the City for a period of three (3) years retroactive from the date of the filing of the above said application.
[Ord. No. 3-37 §1(29-44A), 10-21-1996]
In those cases where it is discovered that a person or persons have been connected to the City sewage disposal system without the payment of the provided sewage use charge, said person or persons shall pay into the City a sum equal to that sum that would have been payable to the City for a period of three (3) years immediately before the discovery of the non-payment of sewage use charges.
[Ord. No. 3-37 §1(29-44B), 10-21-1996]
Other than the above provisions pertaining to the three (3) year periods of time, should the person's or persons' refund or retroactive charge, the person or persons may, in writing, request that the decision of the Utilities Superintendent be reviewed by the City Administrator and the Water and Sewer Committee and they shall make a proper investigation of the objections to the account, including an on-site investigation, if appropriate, and the City Administrator and the City Water and Sewer Committee shall determine the validity of the objections and notify the complaining consumer in writing of his/her determination.