[Adopted 11-18-1991 by Ord. No. 19-1991]
[Amended 12-20-1993 by Ord. No. 40-93; 12-2-1999 by Ord. No. 19-1999; 11-23-2010 by Ord. No. O26-2010]
All sewer rent shall become due and payable quarterly to the City Tax Collector at his/her office in the Municipal Building, Gloucester City, New Jersey, within 30 days from the date of said bill. Unpaid accounts after the thirty-day due date will receive a penalty charge of 8% per annum on the first $1,500 and 18% per annum on any amount above $1,500, to be charged from the date said sewer rent becomes due and payable, shall be paid. Twenty days after the due date a delinquent fee of no more than $65 per bill will be applied to any and all overdue accounts. A notice of this fee will be mailed at least 10 days prior to this charge.
The Utility Department may cause the water to be shut off at any property when payments are returned by the bank causing that payment to be removed from the account, until that payment is replaced with certified funds. Appropriate turn off and turn on and return check fees will also be charged to the property account.
[Amended in its entirety 9-21-2017 by Ord. No. O33-2017. Prior ordinance history includes Ord. Nos. 2-1995; 7-1996; 19-1999; 9-2000; 10-2002; O06-2004; O17-2005; O29-2010; O04-2014]
A. 
The following schedule of quarterly charges shall become effective on April 1, 2023, commencing with the third billing in 2023:
[Amended 8-25-2022 by Ord. No. O13-2022; 3-27-2023 by Ord. No. O07-2023]
Sewer Rate Schedule
Use
Rate
Dwelling, individual
$93
Dwelling, multiple per unit
$93
Rooming house, renting not more than 2 rooms
$93
Rooming house, renting 3 to 6 rooms
$146
Rooming house, renting 7 to 10 rooms
$181
Swim club
$284
Stores and commercial establishments:
Establishments with facilities other than in private dwelling attached, staff not more than 10
$146
Each additional 10 on staff or fraction thereof
$146
Clubs, lodges, and catering halls with bar and kitchen facilities
$346*
Clubs, lodges, and catering halls with no bar but with kitchen facilities
$241
Clubs, lodges, and catering halls with neither bar nor kitchen facilities
$146
Undertaking establishments with facilities other than in private dwelling attached
$146
Professional offices, with facilities other than in private dwellings attached
$146
Service stations, with car washing
$241*
Service station, without car washing
$146
Theaters, per 200 seats or fraction thereof
$125
Hotels per room
$106
Hotels per room with wet bar and/or sink
$117
Barbershops and beauty parlors:
Not over 2 chairs
$146
Each additional chair
$95
Automatic laundry service, each 3 fixtures (machine and other)
$146
Taprooms, bars and restaurants:
With 3 fixtures
$146
Each additional 3 fixtures or fraction thereof
$146
Trailer camps, each trailer
$117
Public building, other than owned by the City of Gloucester, each 3 fixtures or fraction thereof
$146
Churches
$95
Rates for schools: for each student, faculty member and employee (annually)
$3.45
Rate based on water consumption: including but not limited to car washes, laundries, dairies, industrial uses, commercial training or trade schools, port-related uses, warehousing, refrigerated warehousing, laboratories, manufacturing facilities, industrial bakeries, water furnished by meter per 1,000 gallons: minimum rate (for accounts using 20,000 gallons of water or less)
$146
Water usage rate (in addition to the minimum rate for accounts using more than 20,000 gallons of water per quarter)
$5.50 per 1,000 gallons or part thereof over 20,000 gallons thereof
* If without grease traps or sand traps, add 10%
CSO-Combined Sewer Overflow
In accordance with Federal and NJDEP rules and regulations, the City of Gloucester owns and operates a combined sewer system. The additional cost to operate and maintain said system shall be added to the regular sewer bill. Increased charges shall be residential - $24/year, commercial - $45/year.
B. 
Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
EFFICIENCY APPURTENANCES
Those fixtures, such as stoves, ovens or other cooking appliances, which are placed in a hotel or motel room to render the room to be used for living or dwelling space, rather than simply for incidental overnight accommodations.
FIXTURE
A plumbing fixture and shall be a receptacle or device which discharges used water, liquid-borne waste materials or sewerage either directly or indirectly to the drainage system of the premises or which requires both a water supply connection which is permanently connected to the water distribution system of the premises and demands a supply of water therefrom and a discharge to the drain system of the premises. Examples of fixtures would be water closets (toilets), lavatories (tub and shower), sinks, drinking fountains, urinals, dishwashers and similar devices. In the case of a sink, a fixture shall be counted by the number of faucets connected thereto for the service of water, by the number of separate basins to which the water service is attached or the number of drains connected to the basic drainage piping system, whichever is least.
UNIT
Each residential dwelling in the case of a residential use and such area of a building used for a particular business and/or tenant which is separate and distinct from any and all other areas, businesses and tenancies located in the same building.
WET BAR FACILITIES
A fixture or fixtures within a hotel or motel room, such as a sink, permanently affixed to the water and sewer system for the purpose of dispensing beverages, but shall not include a sink within the bathroom of the hotel or motel room.
[Amended 11-2-1995 by Ord. No. 25-1995]
Such annual rents, rates, fees and charges shall be due and payable quarter-annually. All sewer rents shall be due regardless of whether the property is vacant or occupied.
A copy of the schedule of rents, rates, fees and charges of the Sewer Department for the services and facilities of said comprehensive sewerage system shall at all times be kept on file at the City Clerk's office and shall at all times be open to public inspection.
The City shall charge a sewer rental for all buildings on all streets upon which said sewerage system, or any parts thereof, are located, or which can be connected with said comprehensive sewerage system so that the services and facilities of said comprehensive sewerage system can be used.