[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
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Use
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Rate
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Dwelling, individual
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$93
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Dwelling, multiple per unit
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$93
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Rooming house, renting not more than 2 rooms
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$93
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Rooming house, renting 3 to 6 rooms
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$146
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Rooming house, renting 7 to 10 rooms
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$181
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Swim club
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$284
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Stores and commercial establishments:
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Establishments with facilities other than in private
dwelling attached, staff not more than 10
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$146
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Each additional 10 on staff or fraction thereof
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$146
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Clubs, lodges, and catering halls with bar and kitchen facilities
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$346*
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Clubs, lodges, and catering halls with no bar but with kitchen
facilities
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$241
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Clubs, lodges, and catering halls with neither bar nor kitchen
facilities
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$146
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Undertaking establishments with facilities other than in private
dwelling attached
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$146
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Professional offices, with facilities other than in private
dwellings attached
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$146
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Service stations, with car washing
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$241*
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Service station, without car washing
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$146
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Theaters, per 200 seats or fraction thereof
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$125
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Hotels per room
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$106
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Hotels per room with wet bar and/or sink
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$117
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Barbershops and beauty parlors:
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Not over 2 chairs
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$146
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Each additional chair
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$95
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Automatic laundry service, each 3 fixtures (machine and other)
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$146
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Taprooms, bars and restaurants:
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With 3 fixtures
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$146
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Each additional 3 fixtures or fraction thereof |
$146
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Trailer camps, each trailer
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$117
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Public building, other than owned by the City of Gloucester,
each 3 fixtures or fraction thereof
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$146
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Churches
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$95
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Rates for schools: for each student, faculty member and employee
(annually)
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$3.45
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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)
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$146
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Water usage rate (in addition to the minimum rate for accounts
using more than 20,000 gallons of water per quarter)
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$5.50 per 1,000 gallons or part thereof over 20,000 gallons
thereof
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* If without grease traps or sand traps, add 10%
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CSO-Combined Sewer Overflow
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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.
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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.