[Ord. 5525, passed 10-17-1955]
Council shall from time to time designate a reliable and qualified
firm of consulting engineers as its consultants to assist the City
Engineer in preparing the necessary plans, and supervise the execution
of the same, for the extension of either the storm or the sanitary
sewer systems of the City beyond the bounds of the City into adjacent
municipalities in the County of Lawrence.
[Ord. 5525, passed 10-17-1955]
Wherever in this article the City sewer system is referred to,
it includes all extensions of that system which are now constructed
and maintained by the City outside the limits of the City and any
extensions, enlargements, improvements or additions to equipment which
may hereafter be added to the present City sewer system in order to
maintain that system adequately to take care of City sewerage.
[Ord. 5525, passed 10-17-1955]
The City may from time to time negotiate and execute contracts
with such neighboring municipalities, the County of Lawrence or the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and with all corporations, institutions,
persons and municipalities in the County of Lawrence in accordance
with law, and the rules and regulations of the State Public Utility
Commission, whereby storm and sanitary sewer service shall be extended
to the respective localities according to plans therefor, which shall
be recommended by the consulting engineers of the City and agreed
to by all of the parties interested in and concerned with such extensions.
All such contracts, which are required by law to be approved by the
Public Utility Commission, shall be submitted to the Commission for
approval and shall be effective to bind the City only when the same
have been approved or certified as unopposed by the Commission, as
the law of the Commonwealth provides.
[Ord. 5525, passed 10-17-1955]
Insofar as possible, extensions of the City sewer system and
connections therewith will be made under the provisions of separate
contracts made between the City and the several townships and other
governing authorities, which contracts shall contain all of the particular
details of the service to be rendered by the City and the obligations
of the other contracting authority thereunder. Such details shall
be worked out by the consulting engineers of the City and approved
by the City, and when such contracts have been accepted by the other
governing authority concerned therewith, they shall be submitted to
the Public Utility Commission as provided by law. Such contracts shall
provide the rates to be paid for the service rendered by the City
to the township and its inhabitants, and insofar as it is practicable,
such contracts shall provide that all charges for individual sewerage
service within any territory shall be collected and accounted for
to the City by the governing authority of that territory.
Where, however, it is expedient or necessary that sewerage service
be extended to individuals, corporations, institutions or persons,
whose properties can only be connected directly to a City sewer, any
contract made with the governing authority of the territory concerned
shall provide that applications by the property owner for such service
must be made first to such governing authority and by it submitted
to the City. When such procedure is necessary or expedient, there
must be a provision in the contract with the governing authority of
the territory concerned that the sewerage service shall be charged
and paid for according to a certain schedule of rates based upon the
amount of water consumed by the individual patron of the sewer service
or upon the number of water fixtures in use on the property of the
individual patron of the sewer service, which schedule of rates shall
be contained in the contract or separately filed with the Public Utility
Commission as the rules and regulations of the Commission and the
law of the Commonwealth shall require. If in any such case of direct
service to individuals by the City, such individuals are not provided
with City water service by the City of New Castle Water Company or
some other organized water company, the sewerage service may be provided
by the City outside of its limits and the service charge may be based
on the number of water fixtures of the owners of the properties served,
or the owners of the property served may provide adequate facilities
for the metering of any such sewerage which may be emptied into the
City system at the rates provided in the contract. The City may refuse
to give sewerage service outside of its limits unless the owners of
properties served provide adequate facilities for the metering of
any sewerage which such property owner may empty into the City sewer
system.
[Ord. 5525, passed 10-17-1955]
The terms and conditions of such contract and the rates and
services provided for therein shall be based upon the conditions applying
to each individual contract, rate or service and the contracts, rates
and services provided for hereby need not all be uniform, but shall
be determined in each individual case by a reasonable consideration
of the conditions existing in each and every particular extension
of the present sewerage service of the City.
[Ord. 5525, passed 10-17-1955]
No extension of the sewerage systems of the City shall or may
be made under the provisions of this article unless the sewerage facilities,
property and equipment of the City shall be found to be adequate for
extension, in the opinion of the consulting engineers of the City
and the Mayor and Council of the City.
[Ord. 5525, passed 10-17-1955]
Wherever any contract, whereby the sewerage facilities of the
City shall be extended beyond the City limits for the service of individual
residence properties and where individual residence properties outside
the City are permitted to attach to the sewerage system of the City,
the contract to be made by the City shall be made with the municipality
thus to be served, and the municipality so served shall be charged
with the construction, maintenance, regulation and control of all
of the extensions of the City sewerage system lying within the corporate
bounds of that municipality, subject to the terms thereof, so that
the City shall deal directly and only with the officials of the municipality
and the officials of such municipality shall be solely and only responsible
for the observance by its residents and inhabitants of the terms of
the contract governing the connection of the individual sewers involved
with the sewerage system of the City of New Castle. Furthermore, it
shall be provided that the officials of the municipality shall collect
all rents and other charges which are to be paid to the City for the
extension, construction, maintenance and use of such sewerage system
and shall account to the City for all such collections.
[Ord. 5525, passed 10-17-1955]
Whenever any such contract is made between any corporation,
institution, person and/or municipality, there shall first be made
a complete and detailed plan of the localities to be added to and
extended from the sewer system of the City, and no person shall permit
the use of such extension to the sewerage systems of the City, by
or to any property which is not shown by such plan to be directly
adjacent to the sewers shown on such plan.
[Ord. 5525, passed 10-17-1955]
It shall be the intent and purpose of the City in the administration
of the system provided for in this article to require the other municipalities,
with which it shall contract for sewer service, to pay the whole cost
of construction of the necessary sewer facilities within its borders
and to maintain the same, including all incidental costs, and the
other municipalities shall own all of any sewerage facilities which
are installed within its borders under the provisions of this article
or any of the contracts herein authorized, so that such sewerage facilities
and system shall constitute an independent sewerage system of the
other municipality, and the City shall have no interest in or obligation
for any part of the same.
If, however, at any time it shall become necessary, in order
to render the service provided for in any contract made under authority
of this article, that the sewer system of the City, as it now exists
or as it may be enlarged under authority of law, must be further enlarged,
improved, reconstructed or equipped in order to accommodate and furnish
the services contracted for under the authority of this article, provision
shall be made in any contract entered into as herein provided, that
the City may make such extension, enlargements, improvements or additions
to equipment to meet that necessity in the way that shall be planned
and recommended by the City Engineer or the consulting engineers of
the City, and that the governing authority benefitted by such extensions,
enlargements, improvements or additions to equipment shall pay to
the City its proportionate share of the cost of the same.
Wherever it can be easily and expeditiously done by the City,
the cost of such extensions, enlargements, improvements and additions
to equipment shall be paid by the City in any of the ways provided
for third class cities by law and reimbursement for its proportionate
share thereof shall be made to the City by the other contracting municipality.
[Ord. 5525, passed 10-17-1955]
The City may take advantage of the provisions of Section 3260
of the Third Class City Code to the fullest extent and wherever possible
the Council may in its discretion from time to time provide by contract
or resolution for the issuance and sale of non-debt revenue bonds
for sewer purposes, which issue of bonds shall be subject to all limitations
and restrictions provided in the said Section 3260 of the Third Class
City Code. The City may, however, issue bonds under the authority
of the Municipality Borrowing Act for the purpose of maintaining,
extending, enlarging, repairing, constructing or reconstructing its
sewage disposal plant and equipment and its sewerage system within
or without the limits of the City.
[Ord. 5619, passed 3-4-1957]
Hereafter, all moneys collected by the City Treasurer either
as initial connecting charges or as rentals under authority of such
contracts, shall be immediately set apart, segregated, and deposited
in a special fund, to be designated "Special Sewer Improvement Fund"
in the City Treasury, and the City Treasurer and the Department of
Administration are directed and required to keep a separate and distinct
account of the special fund; and shall and may not make any payments
out of the Fund without a special appropriation of the money therein
and direction by ordinance for the payment thereof.
[Ord. 5913, passed 7-11-1961]
(a)
The township, borough or authority shall pay to the City a tap-in
fee in the amount of $54 for each sanitary sewer connection for residential
purpose made to the City sanitary sewer system when such connection
is made.
(b)
The township, borough or authority shall pay to the City for each
sanitary sewer connection made to the City sewer system for residential
purposes as rental, $2 per month per connection, payable quarterly.
[Ord. 5913, passed 7-11-1961]
(a)
The township, borough or authority shall pay to the City for each
sanitary sewer connection made to the City sewer system for commercial
purposes, when such connection is made, the following sum per unit:
|
Cubic Feet
|
Tap-in Fee
|
|---|---|
|
1,000 or less
|
$300
|
|
Over 1,000 - 5,000
|
$300
|
|
Over 5,000 - 7,000
|
$300
|
|
Over 7,000 - 10,000
|
$400
|
|
Over 10,000 - 15,000
|
$400
|
|
Over 15,000 - 20,000
|
$400
|
|
Over 20,000 - 40,000
|
$500
|
|
Over 40,000 - 60,000
|
$500
|
|
Over 60,000 - 80,000
|
$500
|
|
80,000 - or over
|
$500
|
(b)
The township, borough or authority shall pay to the City for each
sanitary sewer connection made for commercial purposes as rental,
the following sums per unit payable quarterly:
|
Cubic Feet
|
Rental Per Month
|
|---|---|
|
1,000 or less
|
$4
|
|
Over 1,000 - 5,000
|
$5
|
|
Over 5,000 - 7,000
|
$6
|
|
Over 7,000 - 10,000
|
$7
|
|
Over 10,000 - 15,000
|
$8
|
|
Over 15,000 - 20,000
|
$9
|
|
Over 20,000 - 40,000
|
$10
|
|
Over 40,000 - 60,000
|
$12
|
|
Over 60,000 - 80,000
|
$14
|
|
80,000 - or over
|
$16
|
[Ord. 5913, passed 7-11-1961]
(a)
The township, borough or authority shall pay to the City a tap-in-fee
for each sanitary sewer connection made for a school in the amount
of $54 for each classroom in the school building.
(b)
The township, borough or authority shall pay to the City as rental
for each sanitary sewer connection made to the City sewer system for
a school in the sum of $2 per month, payable quarterly for each classroom
in the school building.
[Ord. 5913, passed 7-11-1961]
Tap-in fees and rentals for additional establishments not enumerated
above and modifications of the above schedule may be fixed and established
by the City from time to time.
