[Ord. No. 2009-13 §1, 11-3-2009]
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's treatment works. The proceeds of such charges so derived will be used for the purpose of operating and maintaining public wastewater treatment and collection works and the retirement of revenue bond debt incurred to finance the sewer system improvements.
[Ord. No. 2009-13 §2, 11-3-2009]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Article shall be as follows:
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (B.O.D.)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in a period of five (5) days at a temperature of twenty degrees Centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l). Such B.O.D. shall be determined as described under the heading "biochemical oxygen demand" in the Standard Methods of the Examination of Water and Wastewater (latest edition) as published jointly by the American Public Health Association the American Water Works, Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
CITY
The City of Reeds Spring.
COMMERCIAL USER
Any person, firm, partnership or corporation occupying any building or structure which is connected to the City sewer system, the principal use of which is for engaging in commerce or trade and having a financial profit as the primary aim.
FINANCE CHARGE
That portion of the total wastewater service charge which is levied to provide funds to retire the debt incurred to finance construction of the wastewater treatment works.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any non-governmental user of the City's wastewater works that discharges wastes other than primarily domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary convenience.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSTITUTIONAL USER
Any public institution or organization occupying any building or structure which is connected to the City sewer system, the principal use of which is dedicated to public service, such as schools, churches and civic organizations.
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTES
Any wastes having a five (5) day BOD concentration not in excess of two hundred fifty (250) mg/l or a suspended solids concentration not in excess of three hundred (300) mg/l.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
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.
REPLACEMENT
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.
RESIDENTIAL USER
Any person occupying any building or structure which is connected to the City sewer system, the principal use of which is for domestic dwelling purposes for any person and is occupied during the months of December, January, February and March.
SHALL
Is mandatory; MAY: Is permissive.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solid that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
TOXIC WASTES
Any waste which is deleterious to treatment plant operation or to sludge utilization, which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, or which will create a hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant.
TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial wastes. These include intercepting 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 the land, that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment (including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost, and land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment systems before land application); 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 storm water and sanitary sewer systems.
USEFUL LIFE
The estimated period during which a treatment works will be operated.
USER CHARGE
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.
WATER METER
A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or installed by the City or furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the City.
[Ord. No. 2009-13 §3, 11-3-2009]
A. 
The City of Reeds Spring, Missouri, shall collect sewer service charges for the use of, and the services rendered by, said sanitary sewer system from the owners or occupants of each residence, building or structure which is connected with the sanitary sewer system of the City of which discharges sanitary sewage, industrial wastes, water or other liquids, either directly or indirectly, into the sanitary sewer system of the City.
B. 
Except as herein otherwise provided, sewer service charge shall be based on the quantity of water used on or in the property or premises subject to such charges; shall be computed by applying the rates herein established; and shall be payable as herein provided.
[Ord. No. 2009-13 §4, 11-3-2009]
A. 
Except as otherwise herein provided, service charges shall be based on one (1) of the following:
1. 
On the quantity of water used from any source or sources of supply, as measured by a water meter or meters acceptable to the City.
2. 
On the quantity of sanitary sewage, industrial wastes, water or other liquids entering the sanitary sewage system of the City and measured by a sewage meter acceptable to the City.
3. 
On the quantity of water as determined by the City or other authorized representative of the City through a study of the particular service.
4. 
On the quantity of sanitary sewage, industrial wastes, water or other liquids entering the sanitary sewage system of the City as determined by the City or other authorized representative of the City through a study of the particular service.
B. 
Installation Of Water And Sewage Meters
1. 
Each owner of a private well or other private water supply shall, at his/her own expense, install and maintain in continuous efficient operation a water meter acceptable to the City on such private well or other private water supply. In lieu of installing a water meter, the owner of a residence may elect to be billed on the basis of two thousand two hundred (2,200) gallons per month of wastewater discharge per bedroom in the residence or two thousand two hundred (2,200) gallons per person residing in the home dwelling, whichever is greater.
2. 
The City may permit the installation and maintenance of one (1) or more sewage meters or additional water meters in such a manner as to determine the quantity of water actually entering the sanitary sewage work. Such meters shall be of a type acceptable to the City and shall be installed and maintained at the expense of the owner or other party.
3. 
Where sewage meters are installed, they shall be of a type approved by the City and shall be installed and maintained in continuous efficient operation by the user at his/her own expense.
C. 
Maintenance Of Meters. Where owner installed, all water or sewage meters shall be maintained by the owner, at his/her expense, in continuous efficient operation at all times. The readings of any such meter which, in the opinion of the City, has not been so maintained will be disregarded and the City or its authorized representative shall determine the sewage volume delivered to the sanitary system of the City during the time covered by discredited meter readings.
[Ord. No. 2009-13 §5, 11-3-2009]
A. 
All users, other than residential users, shall be billed on the basis of all monthly water consumption as determined by monthly water meter readings.
B. 
The rates and charges established by this Article shall be applied to the water consumption billed after this Article shall have been placed in effect, except as herein otherwise provided. In order that there be the least sewer service charge to residential water consumers for water used to maintain lawns, gardens, flowers, shrubs, trees, etc., water usage shall be derived from water consumption recorded in periods when such activities are reduced.
C. 
The basis of residential bills shall be the average monthly water consumption for the months of December, January and February, or the average consumption for any such months during which water was used, except as herein otherwise provided. In computing the average monthly water consumption, the meter readings taken for December through February shall be used. The average monthly water consumption so computed for a residence shall be the basis for sewer service charge billings rendered during the twelve (12) months following the meter reading date in the month of February.
In cases where a residence first becomes subject, after the meter reading date for February, to the sewage service charges established herein and no water meter readings were taken before such date, the owner or occupant of such residence shall be billed the customer service charge plus a volume charge based upon the month-by-month metered water use or provided in Section 710.670(B)(1), as determined by the City, until a basis can be established as herein provided.
Averages resulting in a fraction of one-half (½) or greater of one hundred (100) gallons shall be raised to the next whole number of one hundred (100) gallons in computing average monthly water consumption or averages of monthly water consumption, with the average resulting one thousand (1,000) gallons rounded off to tenths (0.0). By example, three thousand two hundred forty (3,240) gallons would be billed at three and two-tenths (3.2), one thousand (1,000) gallons.
In multiple housing complexes or combinations of multiple housing units, apartment housing units, trailer park pads or spaces, the number of users shall be the number of dwelling units connected to the sewer system whether served by individual water meters or by a single master water meter or private water supply. Where a single water meter or private water supply serves multiple housing complexes, the number of dwelling units shall be used in computing charges whether or not all units are occupied. Where a single meter serves a combination of residential and non-residential use, the number of customer service charges shall be equal to the number of building structures which must provide sanitary sewer facilities, and billed on the basis of monthly water used.
[Ord. No. 2009-13 §6, 11-3-2009]
A. 
The user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement 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 Article.
B. 
The user charge shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay the principal of and interest on bonds of indebtedness, including reserve, on 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 debt retirement and reserve shall be established by this Article.
[Ord. No. 2009-13 §10, 11-3-2009]
When it appears that an inequity has occurred, the City or its designated agent may submit a report to the circumstances and make recommendations for adjustments of sewer service charges to the Board of Aldermen. Any recommendations for adjustments must be approved by said Board before such adjustments shall be effective.
[Ord. No. 2009-13 §11, 11-3-2009]
The elected officials of the City and other duly authorized employees of said City bearing identification and written credentials shall, at reasonable times, be permitted to enter upon all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing in accordance with the provisions of this Article.
[Ord. No. 2009-13 §12, 11-3-2009]
The accounting system for the provisions of this Article shall be as prescribed in Ordinance Number 2009-13 of the City, passed November 3, 2009, authorizing the issuance of four hundred thirty-three thousand six hundred twenty-five dollars ($433,625.00) Sewerage System Revenue Bonds, Series 2009.
[Ord. No. 2009-13 §13, 11-3-2009]
A. 
At the end of each fiscal year and after the water meter reading for February use has been determined, the balances in the sewer funds shall be reviewed to insure adequate and equitable rate schedules for the following year.
B. 
Any Operation and Maintenance Fund balance carried forward shall be identified by class and credited to the budgeted sewer system expenses for the following year.
C. 
The rate schedule adopted for any fiscal year shall be adequate to insure adequate operation and maintenance funds, and to maintain a sufficient replacement fund to cover costs of anticipated major equipment replacements and to insure that all customers pay their proportionate share of the costs of operating and maintaining the sewer system. The City shall notify each user annually, in conjunction with a regular billing, of the rates and that portion charged for operation and maintenance of the sewer system.
D. 
Appendices "A" and "B" contain the methodology to be used in calculating the rates for operation and maintenance and debt retirement and are on file in the City offices.
[Ord. No. 2009-13 §14, 11-3-2009]
A. 
Any person found to be violating any provision of this Article shall be served by the City with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
B. 
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided for in a written notice served by the City shall be guilty of an ordinance violation, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in the amount not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each violation. Each twenty-four (24) hour period in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.
C. 
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Article shall become liable to the City for any expense, loss, or damage occasioned the municipality by reason of such violation.