[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Council of the Village of
Spring Lake as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Building regulations — See Ch. 127.
Flood damage prevention — See Ch. 189.
Groundwater use — See Ch. 208.
Property maintenance — See Ch. 263.
Stormwater discharges and connections — See Ch. 313.
Stormwater management — See Ch. 320.
Water — See Ch. 373.
Zoning — See Ch. 390.
[Adopted as Ch. 78, Art. III, Div. 2, of the 2000 Code of
Ordinances; amended in its entirety 5-18-1992 by Ord. No. 207]
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
The Grand Haven-Spring Lake Sewer Authority.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight or in milligrams
per liter.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drain system
which receives discharge from drainage pipes inside the walls of a
building and conveys it to and is connected with the building sewer.
The building drain shall be deemed to end five feet outside the inner
face of the building wall.
The extension of the building drain which begins five feet
outside the inner face of the building wall and continues to the public
sewer or other place of disposal.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation
of organic and inorganic matter under standard laboratory procedure
at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight or in milligrams
per liter.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Liquid waste from industrial processes.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch or other body
of surface water or groundwater.
Wastewater having a strength which is less than: 200 parts
per million of biochemical oxygen demand or 250 parts per million
by weight of suspended solids.
A sewer owned or controlled by the Village as well as the
portion of any sewer owned or controlled by any other public body
corporate which is located within the Village boundaries.
A public sewer which carries wastewater and in which stormwaters,
surface waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A pipe or conduit carrying wastewater and/or stormwaters,
surface waters and groundwater.
A public sewer which carries stormwaters, surface waters
and groundwaters but excludes wastewater.
Wastewater which does not come into contact with any substance
used in or incidental to industrial processing operations and to which
no chemical or other substance has been added.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into a public sewer.
Water-carried waste from residences, business buildings,
industrial establishments and/or other premises together with such
infiltration as may be present.
The wastewater treatment plant; all facilities of the Authority
and the Village for collecting, sampling, monitoring and pumping wastewater;
and all facilities for collecting, sampling, monitoring or pumping
wastewater that are owned or controlled by any other public body corporate
whose wastewater is treated by the wastewater treatment plant.
The Authority wastewater treatment plant, 1525 Washington
Street, Grand Haven, Michigan.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
This article sets forth uniform requirements for users of the
wastewater system and enables the Village and the Authority to protect
public health in conformity with all relative applicable local, state
and federal laws. The objectives of this article are to:
A.Â
Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater system
which will interfere with its normal operation or contaminate the
resulting municipal sludge;
B.Â
Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater system
which do not receive adequate treatment in the wastewater treatment
plant, and which will pass through the wastewater system into receiving
waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the wastewater
system;
C.Â
Improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and sludge
from the wastewater system; and
D.Â
Meet the requirements of the EPA and the State Department of Natural
Resources.
The discharge or depositing of waste and wastewater shall be
restricted and regulated as follows:
A.Â
No person shall place, deposit or discharge any waste or wastewater
upon any public or private property in the Village.
B.Â
No person shall discharge to any natural outlet in the Village any
wastes or wastewater unless such discharge is specifically permitted
and approved in writing by the state, county or other governmental
agencies having jurisdiction.
C.Â
No person shall construct, maintain or use any privy, privy vault,
septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal
of wastewater unless the facility is specifically permitted and approved
in writing by the state, county or other governmental agencies having
jurisdiction.
D.Â
For reasons of public health, any structure in which wastewater originates
lying within the Village shall be connected to any available sanitary
sewer within 18 months after written notice is given to the owner
by certified mail by the Village of availability of a sanitary sewer
and compliance with any notice or other requirements specified by
state law. For purposes of this subsection, a sanitary sewer shall
be considered to be available when it is located in a right-of-way,
easement, highway, street or public way which crosses, adjoins or
abuts upon the property in question and passes not more than 200 feet
at the nearest point from a structure in which wastewater originates.
For purposes of this subsection, the phrase "structure in which wastewater
originates" shall mean a building in which toilet, kitchen, laundry,
bathing or other facilities that generate wastewater are used or are
available for use for household, commercial, industrial or other purposes.
If the structure in which wastewater originates has not been connected
to an available sanitary sewer within such eighteen-month period,
the Village shall proceed in accordance with applicable state law
to require connection to be made forthwith. In so proceeding, the
Village shall have the rights and remedies provided in the applicable
state law, as well as all rights and remedies provided by this Code.
E.Â
Any structure in which wastewater originates which is not connected to an available sanitary sewer as provided in Subsection D of this section shall, in addition to the remedies provided for in Subsection D, entitle the Village, at the option of the Village Manager, to begin to assess a readiness-to-serve charge, quarter-annually, of such sum as may be established by resolution of the Village Council. Such charge shall be added to the water statement if the structure in which wastewater originates is serviced by public water, or if not serviced by public water, by a separate billing to the person who owns such structure as disclosed by the Tax Assessor's record for the Village. Such separate billing shall be due and payable forthwith; however, if not paid, in addition to any other lawful remedies the Village shall have for its nonpayment, the unpaid portion shall be accrued and added to the cost assessed to such person for tapping into the sanitary sewer.
F.Â
All discharges of waste or wastewater and actions by or against a
user in relation to such discharges shall be subject to the requirements
and provisions of the Authority's rules and regulations, as well
as the provisions of this Code.
Private sewage disposal shall be restricted and regulated as
follows:
A.Â
If a house, building or other premises used for human occupancy,
employment, recreation or other purposes is not connected to a sanitary
sewer, the building sewer shall be connected to a private wastewater
disposal system permitted and approved by the County Health Department
and, where appropriate, the State Health Department and/or State Department
of Natural Resources.
B.Â
At such time as connection is made to a sanitary sewer, all septic
tanks, cesspools and similar private wastewater disposal facilities
shall be disconnected and abandoned.
C.Â
All persons shall operate and maintain private wastewater disposal
facilities in a safe and sanitary manner at all times at no cost to
the Village.
D.Â
This section shall not be construed to preclude additional requirements
that may be imposed by the Authority, or state or county government,
or to excuse compliance with such requirements.
All building sewers, building drains and connections to the
public sewer shall be restricted and regulated as follows:
A.Â
No person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into,
use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance of such sewer
without first obtaining a written permit from the Village. No connection
shall be made to a public sewer which will result in the discharge
of industrial waste without the prior written approval of the Authority.
No building sewer shall be covered until after it has been inspected
and approved as being adequate and acceptable construction, size and
location by the Village.
B.Â
The owner shall be financially responsible for the installation,
connection and maintenance of the building sewer to its connection
with the public sewer.
C.Â
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for each
building or premises, provided that where one building or premises
stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer
is available or can be constructed to the rear building or premises
through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, the building
sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear buildings
or premises.
D.Â
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings
and premises only when they are found on inspection by the Village
to be of adequate construction, size and location.
E.Â
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of buildings or premises, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench shall conform to the requirements of Chapter 127, Article I, Building Construction, and Article III, Plumbing Regulations, of the Code of the Village of Spring Lake.
F.Â
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to a building
at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings in which
any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public
sewer, sanitary sewage carried by a building drain shall be lifted
by a pump or other suitable device and discharged to the building
sewer.
G.Â
The connection of the building sewer into the sanitary sewer shall
conform to the requirements of the Village building and plumbing codes
or other applicable rules and regulations of the Village, and the
procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American
Society for Testing and Materials and the Water Pollution Control
Federation Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be
made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from these prescribed
procedures and materials must be approved by the Village before installation.
H.Â
The applicant for a sewer construction permit shall notify the Village
when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to
the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision
of the Village. No backfill shall be placed until the work has been
inspected and approved by the Village.
I.Â
All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately
guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from
hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed
in the course of the work shall be restored to their prior condition.
The use of public sewers shall be restricted as follows:
A.Â
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any sanitary
sewer any stormwater, surface water or groundwater. If an industry
makes adequate provision for the disposal of its industrial wastes
other than by discharging such wastes into the public sewer, and if
such disposal is approved by the State Department of Environmental
Quality, the Authority and all other governmental agencies having
jurisdiction, the Village may, by resolution, excuse such industry
from depositing its industrial wastes into the public sewer.
B.Â
Stormwater, groundwater, surface water, and all other unpolluted
drainage shall be discharged only to storm sewers, dry wells or a
natural outlet. The discharge of cooling water or uncontaminated industrial
process water to a natural outlet shall only be permitted when permitted
and approved in writing by the state, county or other governmental
agencies having jurisdiction.
C.Â
No person who is required by the Authority pursuant to its rules
and regulations to have a discharge permit shall discharge or cause
to be discharged any wastewater or waste unless such permit is currently
in force and the discharge is in full compliance with all conditions
or restrictions which are contained in such permit. In addition, no
person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any wastewater or
waste which prevents effective operation of the wastewater system;
will pass through the wastewater treatment plant or otherwise be incompatible
with the wastewater treatment plant; is prohibited by any federal
or state law, rule, regulation, permit requirement or standard which
is applicable to the Authority or the wastewater system; or is prohibited
by the Authority's rules and regulations. With respect to such
wastewater or waste, the Village and/or the Authority shall have the
option to:
(1)Â
Reject the waste or wastewater;
(2)Â
Require satisfactory pretreatment as provided in the Authority's
rules and regulations; and/or
(3)Â
Require, pursuant to the provisions of this article and/or the Authority's
rules and regulations, the payment of extra charges to the Village
and/or the Authority to pay for the added costs of handling and treating
the waste or wastewater.
D.Â
The Village shall have the right, at any time, by resolution to exclude
from the wastewater treatment plant all or a portion of the industrial
waste or wastewater of Village customers; however, no such action
shall be taken by the Village until it shall have first determined
that such action is necessary in order to permit nonindustrial waste
or wastewater in the Village to be treated by the wastewater treatment
plant.
Except as expressly authorized under applicable categorical
pretreatment standards, no user shall increase the use of potable
or process water nor mix separate waste streams for the purpose of
diluting a discharge, or otherwise dilute a discharge in any way,
as a partial or complete substitute for adequate treatment to achieve
compliance with the standards set forth in this article.
All nondomestic users proposing to connect to or to contribute
wastewater or waste to the wastewater system shall submit such information
as the Village and/or the Authority shall reasonably request on their
processes and wastewater before connecting to or contributing to the
wastewater system. All existing nondomestic users connected to or
contributing to the wastewater system shall promptly submit such information
on their processes and wastewater as the Village and/or the Authority
shall reasonably request. The information submitted shall be sufficient
for the Village and the Authority to determine the impact of the user's
discharge on the wastewater system and the need for pretreatment and
shall be signed by an authorized representative of the user. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing disclosure requirements,
the information which may be required pursuant to this section may
include any or all of the information required pursuant to the Authority's
rules and regulations, or to applicable state or federal law.
A.Â
Where the waste or wastewater is required to be pretreated by the
provisions of this article and/or the Authority's rules and regulations,
the user shall provide, at the user's expense, such preliminary
treatment as required pursuant to the Authority's rules and regulations
and/or as shall be necessary to reduce the objectionable characteristics
or constituents of the waste or wastewater or control the quantities
and rates of discharge of the waste or wastewater so that the wastewater
system can operate effectively and in conformance with all federal
and/or state laws, rules, regulations, permit requirements or standards
which are applicable to the wastewater system. Plans, specifications
and other pertinent information relating to the proposed preliminary
treatment facilities shall be prepared and submitted by a registered
engineer for approval by the Village and the Authority; and no construction
of such facilities shall be commenced until approval is given in writing
by both the Village and the Authority. Review of the submitted plans,
specifications and other information shall be completed within a reasonable
time. Where preliminary treatment is required by this section, and
the user is already discharging waste or wastewater into the wastewater
system, the user shall, at the request of the Village and/or the Authority,
agree to a compliance schedule which shall specify by date those items
which are to be accomplished by the user to complete all necessary
preliminary treatment facilities and to bring the waste and wastewater
being discharged into compliance with all requirements of this article
and the Authority's rules and regulations.
B.Â
Where preliminary treatment facilities are provided for any wastewater
or waste, such facilities shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory
and effective operation by the user at the user's cost. The person
operating and maintaining such facilities shall, at the request of
the Authority and/or the Village, submit to the requesting party records
or true copies of the samplings taken from wastewater and waste discharged
and such other reports and information as shall be necessary to assess
and assure compliance with this article.
When required by the Village and/or the Authority to assure
adequate monitoring and control of the waste or wastewater discharge,
the user of any building or premises served by a building sewer shall
install a suitable control vault or station in the building sewer
to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement of the waste or
wastewater being discharged. Such control vault or station shall be
equipped by the user with a suitable composite sampler and continuous
flow recorder. Such vault or station shall be accessible and safely
located and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved
in writing by the Authority. Such vault or station shall be installed
by the user at the user's cost and shall be maintained so as
to be safe and accessible at all times. The person operating and maintaining
such facilities shall, at the request of the Authority or the Village,
submit to the requesting party records or true copies of the wastewater
or waste discharged and such other reports and information as shall
be necessary to assess and assure compliance with this article and
with the Authority's rules and regulations.
A.Â
With respect to all users that are required to maintain preliminary
treatment facilities or sampling facilities pursuant to the provisions
of this article and/or the Authority's rules and regulations,
the Village, acting by itself or through the Authority, shall institute
a program pursuant to which Village or Authority personnel, as the
case may be, periodically check and assess, through the taking of
their own samplings, the accuracy and completeness of the sampling
records and other reports and information provided to the Village
and the Authority. The cost and expense incurred by the Village in
conducting this program of periodic review or having the Authority
conduct the program on its behalf shall be recovered from an industrial
surveillance charge to be established by the Village or the Authority
by resolution. The amount of this charge shall be determined for each
sewer customer or class of sewer customers to which it applies and
shall be billed by the Village as part of each affected sewer customer's
periodic sewer billing.
B.Â
If based upon such review the Village or the Authority determines
that the sampling records or other reports and information provided
to it by a user are not substantially accurate, the Village and/or
the Authority may institute such sampling, laboratory analysis and
other procedures as are determined necessary to accurately sample
and measure the waste and wastewater being discharged. All expenses
and charges incurred by the Village itself or by the Authority for
such sampling, review and analysis shall be charged by the Village
or the Authority to the affected sewer customer.
A.Â
All nondomestic users of the public sewers shall pay a surcharge
for the discharge of wastewater or waste containing more BOD5, COD, phosphorus or suspended solids than the threshold
amount, with the exception that a surcharge can be made for either
BOD5 or COD, whichever is the greater dollar
cost, but not for both.
B.Â
The threshold for and amount of such surcharge shall be established
periodically by the Authority. The surcharge shall be calculated and
billed quarterly by the Village as part of the affected sewer customer's
periodic sewer billing.
Upon the promulgation of any final federal or state pretreatment
standards or discharge limits for a particular industrial category
or subcategory, such standards or limits, if more stringent than the
requirements of this article or the Authority's rules and regulations,
shall be automatically incorporated as part of this article; shall
be considered to supersede the requirements of this article; and shall
become effective when specified by the promulgating agency. The Authority,
on behalf of the Village, shall notify all affected users of the applicable
standards or limits.
Users shall submit reports to the Authority as required by or
pursuant to its rules and regulations. Upon request by the Village,
a user shall provide a copy of any such report to the Village.
A.Â
When required by the Village and/or the Authority to assure adequate
protection for the wastewater system from accidental spills of critical
or hazardous materials, the user shall develop and submit to the Village
and the Authority an adequate spill prevention plan as required by
and subject to the provisions of the Authority's rules and regulations.
The adequacy of such plan shall be determined by the Authority. The
Village and/or the Authority may require, as part of such plan, that
the user provide, at the user's expense, suitable containment
facilities within a time period specified by the Village and/or the
Authority. Plans, specifications and other pertinent information relating
to the proposed containment facilities shall be prepared and submitted
for approval by the Authority; and no construction of such facilities
shall be commenced until approval by the Authority is given in writing.
Such containment facilities shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory
condition by the user at the user's cost.
B.Â
In the case of an accidental spill, the user shall give such notice
and take such other actions as required by the Authority's rules
and regulations.
The Village or the Authority shall annually publish in the Grand
Haven Tribune a list of the users which significantly violated any
National Categorical Pretreatment Standard promulgated by the EPA
or which otherwise has been determined by the Authority to be in significant
noncompliance during the 12 previous months. This notification shall
also summarize any enforcement actions taken against the user during
the same 12 months. In addition, a list of all industrial users which
were the subject of enforcement proceedings pursuant to this article
and/or the Authority's rules and regulations during the 12 previous
months shall be published annually by the Village and/or by the Authority
in the Grand Haven Tribune. This notification shall summarize the
enforcement actions taken against those users which during the previous
12 months had violations that remained uncorrected 45 or more days
after notification of noncompliance, or which have exhibited a pattern
of noncompliance over that twelve-month period, or which involve failure
to accurately report noncompliance.
No unauthorized person shall enter or maliciously, willfully
or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with
any structure, appurtenance, equipment or other part of the wastewater
system.
The Village, its employees and agents, and the Authority, its
employees and agents, when bearing proper credentials and identification,
shall be permitted, with or without advance notice, to enter in and
upon buildings and premises as may be necessary for the purposes of
inspection, surveillance, measurement, sampling and testing to determine
compliance with this article, or to take any actions reasonably necessary
to protect the wastewater system or the health, safety and welfare
of employees of the wastewater treatment plant or the public.
If any person discharges wastewater or waste into the wastewater
system contrary to the provisions of this article, the Village, or
the Authority on its behalf, may commence an action for appropriate
legal and/or equitable relief.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the Authority
and/or the Village may, for good cause shown, suspend the wastewater
treatment service to a user when it appears to the Authority and/or
the Village that an actual or threatened discharge presents or threatens
an imminent or substantial danger to the health or welfare of persons
or a substantial danger to the environment, interferes with the operation
of the wastewater system, or violates any pretreatment limits imposed
by this article. Any user notified of a suspension of wastewater
treatment service shall, within a reasonable period of time, as determined
by the Authority and/or the Village, whichever has given the notice,
cease all discharges. If the user fails to comply voluntarily with
the suspension order within the specified time, the Village, or the
Authority on its behalf, may commence judicial proceedings immediately
thereafter to compel the user's compliance with such order. The
Village and the Authority shall reinstate the wastewater treatment
service and terminate judicial proceedings upon proof by the user
of the elimination of the noncomplying discharge or conditions creating
the threat of imminent or substantial danger as set forth in this
section.
Any person who knowingly makes any false representation, statements
or certification in any application, report, record, plan or other
document filed or required to be maintained pursuant to this article,
or who falsifies, tampers with or knowingly renders inaccurate any
monitoring or sampling device shall be punished by a fine not exceeding
$500 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both.
Any user violating any of the provisions of this article, or
who discharges or causes a discharge producing a deposit or obstruction,
or causes damage to or impairs the wastewater system shall be liable
to the Village and/or the Authority for any expense, loss or damage
caused by such violation or discharge. The Village and/or the Authority
shall bill the user for the costs incurred by the Village and/or the
Authority, as the case may be, for any cleaning, repair or replacement
work caused by the violation or discharge. Refusal to pay the assessed
costs shall constitute a violation of this article, enforceable as
provided in this article and also by appropriate legal action.
Any violation of this article is declared to be a public nuisance
per se. Accordingly, the court shall, by injunction, order such nuisance
abated; and the user shall be adjudged guilty of maintaining a nuisance
per se.
Where provisions of any state or Authority law, rule or regulation
or any other part of this Code impose greater restrictions or higher
standards than contained in this article, the provisions of such law,
rule, regulation or other part of this Code shall control.
The Village may adopt by resolution rules and regulations governing
operational, maintenance and technical matters relating to the public
sewer system. Violation of any such rule or regulation shall constitute
a violation of this article and shall be subject to the penalties
and other remedies prescribed in this article.
[Adopted as Ch. 78, Art. III, Div. 3, of the 2000 Code of
Ordinances]
It is determined and declared necessary and conducive to the
protection of the public health, safety, welfare and convenience of
the residents of the Village to levy and collect sewer charges from
all premises, properties and customers served by the sanitary sewer
system of the Village.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Any customer of the system which manufactures or produces
a product or which works on a product.
The period from July 1 through June 30. The operating year
shall be divided into the following quarterly intervals: July 1 through
September 30, October 1 through December 31, January 1 through March
31, and April 1 through June 30.
Any customer of the system who is not a commercial customer
or industrial customer.
The Village sanitary sewage system as now or hereafter constituted.
[Amended 6-5-2006 by Ord. No. 291]
The following connection charges, fees and use rates shall apply
to all connections and users of the system:
A.Â
Stub charge. If a sewer stub line has not already been installed,
a stub charge, in an amount to be established and adjusted by Village
Council resolution, for the installation and use of a sewer stub line
from the sewer line to the property line shall be charged for connection
to the system. The payment of the stub charge shall be made in cash
at the time application is made for a permit to connect to the system.
B.Â
Sewer use rates. Rates for sewer service for each premises connected
to the system shall be established and adjusted by Village Council
resolution. No free service shall be furnished by the system to the
Village or to any person. The Village shall pay for sewer service
supplied to it or any of its departments or agencies at the rates
established pursuant to this section.
C.Â
System equity charge.
(1)Â
A system equity charge shall be payable by each premises connecting
to the Village system and each premises, already connected to the
Village system, that requests a larger water meter. The system equity
charge for each new connection shall be as adopted from time to time
by Village Council resolution.[1]
(2)Â
In the case of a premises already connected to the system which requests
a larger water meter, the system equity charge shall be the difference
between the system equity charge then in effect for the existing water
meter and the system equity charge for the requested larger meter.
(3)Â
The system equity charge shall be paid by each premises connecting
to the system in cash at the time application is made for a permit
to connect to the system or, in the case of a request for a larger
meter, at the time that request is made.
When sewage which is discharged to the system has a strength
which exceeds 200 parts per million of biochemical oxygen demand or
250 parts per million by weight of suspended solids, an added charge
shall be made to the customer discharging such sewage in accordance
with the strength of the sewage discharged. The strength of the sewage
shall be determined by composite samples taken over a sufficient period
of time to ensure a representative sample. The extra charges shall
be as established by the Village Council.
The Village Council shall establish by resolution charges for
those customers of the system located outside the corporate limits
of the Village.
[Amended 4-21-2011 by Ord. No. 322]
Charges for sewer services shall be billed quarterly. Bills
shall be mailed by the 15th day of the month following the quarter
for which the bills are rendered and shall be due and payable on or
before the 15th day of the next month. If the bill is not paid within
five days after the due date, if the premises are served by public
water, a water shutoff notice shall be mailed. If the bill is not
paid within 10 calendar days after the date of mailing of the water
shutoff notice, if the customer has public water service, the customer's
public water service shall be turned off immediately and without further
notice. Water service shall not be restored until the entire amount
of the water and sewer service bill has been paid. Charges for sewer
services shall constitute a lien on the property served. On or before
May 1 of each year, the Village Clerk/Village Treasurer shall prepare
a certified statement of all sewer services and penalty charges then
three months or more past due and unpaid. The Village Clerk/Village
Treasurer shall then place
such charges on the next tax roll and they shall be collected, and
such lien shall be enforced in the same manner as is provided for
general Village taxes.
The Village shall cause to be maintained and kept proper books
of record and account, in which shall be made full and correct entries
of all transactions relating to the operation of the system. Not less
than six months after the close of each fiscal year of the system,
the Village shall cause to be prepared a statement in reasonable detail
showing the cash income and disbursements of the system at the beginning
and the close of the operating year, and such other information as
shall be necessary to enable any taxpayer of the Village, user or
beneficiary of the service provided by the system, to be fully informed
as to all matters pertaining to the financial operation of the system
during such fiscal year. Such annual statement shall be filed in the
office of the Village Clerk/Treasurer, where it shall be open to public
inspection. These books of record and account shall be audited annually
by a certified public accountant to be designated by the Village Council,
and a certified copy of this audit shall be filed with the Village
Clerk/Treasurer.
The Village shall not be liable for any failure or deficiency
in the operation of the system, whether occasioned by maintenance
or repair of the system or any other cause.
