[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
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$8.00
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General service and industrial
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$10.00
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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
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$3.40
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Inside City limits — General service and industrial
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$3.65
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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
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$20.00
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General service and industrial
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$25.00
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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
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$8.50
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Inside City limits — General service and industrial
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$9.13
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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.
[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.