There is hereby charged and imposed upon the owner of each connection
unit a tapping fee which shall be due and payable to the Borough:
A. With respect to those owners who are required to connect to a sewer
by ordinance of the Borough, at the time the connection permit is
issued or 60 days after written notice to such owner to connect, whichever
date is earlier. Each owner shall pay a tapping fee in accordance
with the South Waverly Borough Tap-in Fee Schedule, 430 Attachment
3.
[Amended 12-6-2021 by Ord. No. 12-6-21]
Upon the completion of said section of the sewer system constructed
by the Authority, the Borough or others, the Borough shall give notice
to all owners required to connect to such section to connect thereto
and shall advise owners not required to connect of their opportunity
to do so. Each such owner who shall apply for a connection permit
within 120 days of the date of such notice shall pay a tapping fee
in accordance with the South Waverly Municipal Tap-in Fee Schedule.
Sewer rentals and charges are hereby established which shall
be payable by and collected from the owner of each sewer rental unit
upon which sanitary sewage or industrial waste is first discharged
into the sewer system from such sewer rental unit, whichever date
shall be later.
[Amended 12-6-2021 by Ord. No. 12-6-21]
All owners of nonresidential units shall pay a quarterly sewer
rental which shall be the greater of a sewer rental of $165 per equivalent
dwelling unit or a sewer rental based upon actual water consumption
or measured volume of wastewater, as hereinafter set forth for every
12,500 gallons, payable to South Waverly Borough.
A. Volume measurement. The volume of water to be used for billing sewer
rentals to nonresidential units shall include any and all water purchased
from the water company or any other private or public water company,
and in addition all water obtained from any other source or sources
(wells, springs, streams, etc.) as determined:
(1) By meters installed and maintained by the water company or any other
private or public water company.
(2) By meters installed and maintained by the Borough.
(3) By meters maintained and installed by the property owner as may be
approved by the Borough.
(4) From estimates or measurements made by the Borough where metering
is considered impractical by the Borough.
B. Excluded from the sewer system. The following properties are excluded
from the South Waverly Borough sewer system: all of the properties
on the west side of Pennsylvania State Route 220 and all of the properties
on the north side of New York Route 17, now Route 86.
C. Amendments and modifications. Additional classifications and sewer
rentals or modifications of the above schedule of rentals may be established
or made by the Borough from time to time as deemed necessary.
Delinquent bills for sewer rentals, together with all charges, expenses and fees added thereto, shall be collected in the manner provided by law, become a lien upon the property served and shall be collectible by the Borough against the owner of such property or be enforced against such property by the filing of a municipal claim under Chapter
361, Municipal Claims. The Borough shall also operate a program of water termination for properties that are eligible for termination.
[Amended 12-6-2021 by Ord. No. 12-6-21]
The Borough of South Waverly, by agreement with the South Waverly
Municipal Authority, assumed the power to regulate the sewer rates,
including increasing or decreasing said rates as deemed appropriate
by the Borough South Waverly. Furthermore, the Borough shall collect
the sewer accounts and institute legal action to collect delinquent
accounts, and the power to file municipal liens as required. Furthermore,
the Borough of South Waverly shall increase or decrease said rates
by ordinance of the Borough at a duly advertised Borough meeting.