The municipality owns and operates the municipal sewer system
through the Water/Wastewater Superintendent. The governing body, for
the purpose of defraying the cost of the construction of the municipal
sewer system, may each year levy a tax not exceeding the maximum limit
prescribed by state law on the actual valuation of all real estate
and personal property within the corporate limits that is subject
to taxation. The revenue from said tax shall be known as the "Sewer
Construction Fund." The Water/Wastewater Superintendent shall have
the direct management and control of the Water/Wastewater Department
and shall faithfully carry out the duties of his office. He shall
have the authority to adopt rules and regulations for the sanitary
and efficient management of the department, subject to the supervision
and review of the governing body. (Neb. RS 16-667 through 16-672,
16-249, 16-250)
[Amended 11-15-1977 by Ord. No. 1101; 11-7-1978 by Ord. No. 1144; 2-15-1983 by Ord. No. 7-83]
A.
Every person or persons desiring sewer service must make application
therefor at the Utility Office located in City Hall. The application
must state truly and fully all uses to which said sewer service is
to be applied and no additional use will be allowed.
B.
For new consumers, blanks will be furnished for that purpose by the
Utility Office. All landlords shall make an application with the City
to receive sewer service for their rental properties. This application
shall be signed one time only and shall place the responsibility for
payment of all usage on the landlord when any of his rental properties
are not rented. It shall be the duty of the landlord to notify the
Utility Office of any changes of sewer usage by tenants on his properties.
If the landlord wishes to assume the responsibility for payment of
sewer service on any of his rented or leased properties when they
are rented, he must so notify the Utility Office in writing upon blanks
furnished for that purpose. Upon receiving such notification, all
bills will be mailed directly to the landlord and he will be held
responsible for their payment. Otherwise, all requirements for service
deposits must be met.
C.
Applications for sewer service are not transferable. Any person wishing
to change from one location to another shall make a new application.
If any consumer shall sell, dispose of, or remove from the premises
where service is furnished in his name, or if the premises are destroyed
by fire or other casualty, he shall at once inform the Utility Office,
which shall cause the sewer service to be shut off from the premises.
If the consumer should fail to give such notice, he shall be charged
for all sewer service used on the premises until the Utility Office
is otherwise advised of such circumstances.
D.
The municipality, through the Water/Wastewater Department, shall
furnish sewer services to persons within its corporate limits whose
premises abut a street or alley in which a commercial main is now
or may hereafter be laid. The municipality may also furnish sewer
service to persons whose premises are situated outside the corporate
limits of the municipality, as and when, according to law, the governing
body may see fit to do so.[1]
E.
The rules, regulations, and sewer use rates hereinafter named in
this chapter shall be considered a part of every application hereafter
made for sewer service and shall be considered a part of the contract
between every consumer now or hereafter served. Without further formality,
the making of the application on the part of any applicant or the
use of sewer service by present consumers thereof shall constitute
a contract between the consumer and the municipality, to which said
contract both parties are bound. If the consumer shall violate any
of the provisions of said contract or any reasonable rules and regulations
that the governing body may hereafter adopt, the Utility Office shall
cause the sewer service to be shut off from the premises. If the consumer
should fail to give such notice, she shall be charged for all sewer
use on the premises until the Utility Office is otherwise advised
of such circumstances.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Original § 3-203 of the 1976 Code,
Sewer Contract Nontransferable, Termination, which immediately followed
this section, was repealed 2-15-1983 by Ord. No. 7-83.
