The Village of Churchville, by and through its Village Board
and pursuant to the provisions of Article 14-F of the General Municipal
Law, hereby enacts this article for the purpose of establishing and
imposing sewer rents and other charges and fees in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter as a means of producing revenue.
All persons discharging or depositing wastes into the public
sewers shall pay a sewer service charge, which charge shall be collected
as a sewer rent.
All persons discharging or depositing wastes with concentrations
in excess of the pollutant concentrations in normal sewage shall pay
a surcharge. The surcharge shall be as established from time to time
by resolution of the Village Board.
The billing period shall be as established from time to time
by resolution of the Village Board. Sewer rent and surcharges, if
any, shall be prepaid on a monthly basis.
The Village Board may institute an equitable procedure for recovering
the costs of any capital improvements of those parts of the wastewater
facilities which collect and/or pump industrial wastewaters from those
persons discharging such wastewaters into the wastewater facilities.
Provisions of Article
XI of this chapter relating to the collection of penalties shall apply to the collection of sewer rents, abnormal sewage service surcharges and other fees, unless otherwise provided for by law.
The wastewater facilities shall be operated on the basis of
a fiscal year to coincide with the fiscal year of the Village of Churchville.
The Village Board shall have the authority to impose impact
fees on new development, which development may:
A. Cause enlargement of the service area of the wastewater facilities.
B. Cause increased hydraulic and/or treatment demands on the wastewater
facilities.
Revenues derived from user charges and associated penalties,
and impact fees, shall be credited to a special fund. Moneys in this
fund shall be used exclusively for the following functions:
A. For the payment of the operation and maintenance, including repair
and replacement costs of the Village of Churchville wastewater facilities.
B. For the discovery and correction of inflow and infiltration.
C. For the payment of interest on and the amortization of or payment
of indebtedness which has been or shall be incurred for the construction
or extension of the Village of Churchville wastewater facilities.
D. For the extension, enlargement, replacement of and/or additions to
the Village of Churchville wastewater facilities, including any necessary
appurtenances.