[Ord. of 6-21-2007(1),
div. 4, § 1]
(a)
Free service. No free service shall be furnished by the sewer system
to any person, public or private, or to any public agency or instrumentality.
(b)
Establishment of rates. Rates charged for users of the system shall
be determined by ordinance or resolution of the Village Council from
time to time, and shall at all times be sufficient, when added to
other monies legally available for such purpose, to meet all costs
of the system, including any contractual obligations of the Village
for sanitary sewer service or for interest and principal on any bonds
for the system.
[Ord. of 6-21-2007(1),
div. 4, § 2]
(a)
A ready-to-serve charge is hereby established for each single-family
residential premises served by the sewer system, in a flat amount
as stated in the applicable fee schedule. Each premises other than
a single-family residence shall pay a monthly ready-to-serve charge
as stated in the applicable fee schedule. The Village may, in its
discretion, establish a nonresidential ready to serve charge based
on multiplying by a factor representing a ratio of sewage use by such
class of premises to normal single-family sewage use, or based on
a charge per cubic feet of metered sewage.
(b)
The Village Council shall adopt and revise from time to time by resolution
or ordinance a fee schedule for both flat fees and metered fees, and/or
a schedule of single-family residence equivalents or ratios.
[Ord. of 6-21-2007(1),
div. 4, § 3]
Each premises tapping into the sewer system and securing therefrom
sewer service shall pay in cash, at the time of application for the
tap, a charge for the privilege of using the facilities and receiving
the service of the system and for inspection of the tap as provided
in the applicable fee schedule for a four-inch house connection. The
tap charge for other than four-inch residential connections will be
determined by the Village Council based on the equivalent pipe size
as a factor of the tap charge.
[Ord. of 6-21-2007(1),
div. 4, § 4]
(a)
There shall be paid on behalf of any premises making direct private
connection to any public sewer line which has not been either privately
constructed and paid for on behalf of the premises or publicly financed
at least in part by means of special assessments levied against the
property on which the premises are located, or where any connection
is made in excess of the one connection contemplated by the special
benefit charge in the special assessment district, for the privilege
of making use of the public line as a sewer lateral, a lateral benefit
charge which may be paid as a special assessment as established in
the applicable fee schedule.
(b)
In cases where no stub is available and a new stub must be installed
in order to furnish service, the Village will provide a payment for
the stub installation for that portion of the actual cost of installing
service from the public sewer to the lot or easement line in an amount
not to exceed $450. The payment will be raised to a maximum of $900
in the event of extensive boring or jacking under a road.
(c)
The established fees for properties shall apply to all those cases
where a previous hookup has been made to a public sewage system, except
where a front footage charge was made in conjunction with the previous
hookup or easements were granted in exchange for contractual hookup
rights prior to 1965.
[Ord. of 6-21-2007(1),
div. 4, § 5]
Where properties in the Village have been previously connected
to a public sewage system and after construction of the sewer system
these parcels are required to disconnect and reconnect to the new
sewer system, a charge shall be made, which charge may be paid as
a special assessment as established in the applicable fee schedule.
[Ord. of 6-21-2007(1),
div. 4, § 6]
Sewer use bills shall be rendered as determined by the Village,
and shall be payable without penalty within 15 days after the date
thereon. Payments received after such period shall bear a penalty
of 10% of the amount of the bill.
[Ord. of 6-21-2007(1),
div. 4, § 7]
The Village retains the right to establish additional charges
or special rates for sewer service where unusual circumstances warranty
such charges or rates.
[Ord. of 6-21-2007(1),
div. 4, § 8]
The charges established for sewer service in the fee schedule
will continue until such time as the owner or agent shall notify the
Village that the use of the sewer is terminated for the premises and
the service line to the premises has been plugged in conformance with
requirements of the inspector and the inspector has issued a certificate
that such work has been done. No service line to any premises shall
be plugged except in conformance with such requirements after first
notifying the Village and paying an inspection fee as stated in the
fee schedule.
[Ord. of 6-21-2007(1),
div. 4, § 9]
(a)
Bills for sewer service are due and payable at the business office
of the clerk or to any designated agent on their date of issue. The
past due date shall be on the 15th day after the billing for service.
Bills will be dated and mailed each quarter or as determined by the
Village.
(b)
All bills not paid on or before the past due date shall be termed
delinquent, and the Village shall have the right to shut off and discontinue
sewer service to any premises for the nonpayment of the rates established
in the fee schedule when due.
[Ord. of 6-21-2007(1),
div. 4, § 10]
The charges for services furnished by the sewer system are hereby
constituted to be a lien, and whenever any such charge against any
such property shall be delinquent for six months, the Village Council
shall certify annually on February 15 of each year to the tax assessing
officer of the Village the facts of such delinquency whereupon such
charge shall be by him entered upon the next tax roll as a charge
against such premises and shall be collected and the lien thereof
enforced in the same manner as the general Village taxes against such
premises are collected, and the lien thereof enforced. Where notice
is given that a tenant is responsible for such charges and service,
no further service shall be rendered such premises until a cash deposit
in the amount determined by resolution of the Village Council from
time to time shall have been made as security for the payment of such
charges and services.
[Ord. of 6-21-2007(1),
div. 4, § 11]
(a)
The charges for sewer services, which are under the provisions of
Section 21 of Public Act No. 94 of 1933 (MCL 141.121), made a lien
on all premises served thereby are hereby recognized to constitute
such lien, and whenever any such charge against any piece of property
shall be delinquent for six months, the Village official in charge
of the collection thereof shall certify annually, on September 15
of each year, to the tax assessing officer of the Village the facts
of such delinquency, whereupon such charge shall be by the tax assessing
officer entered upon the next tax roll as a lien thereof enforced
in the same manner as general Village taxes against such premises
are collected and the lien thereof enforced.
(b)
In addition, the Village shall have the right to terminate sewer
service to any premises for which charges for sewer service are more
than three months delinquent, and such service shall not be reestablished
until all delinquent charges and penalties, together with termination
and reestablishment charges specified by the Village Council, have
been paid. Further, all such charges and penalties may be recovered
by the Village by court action.
