The primary source of the revenues for retiring debt services,
capital expenditures, operation and maintenance of the public sewerage
works shall be a sewer service charge assigned to owners of property
located within the corporation limits of the Village whose residence
or place of business is connected to the public sewer system.
Sewer service charge rates shall be determined by the Board of Trustees on a year-to-year basis. In general, charges will be calculated from a schedule based on water consumption or on a schedule of minimum charges, whichever is the greater, with a surcharge for industrial users contributing wastes exceeding the strength of normal sewage as defined in § 89-32. The sewer service charge will be computed and billed at regular intervals throughout each calendar year, as established by the Board of Trustees.
The sewer service charge assigned to any property owner who contributes industrial wastes to the public sewers, or who contributes a combination of sewage and industrial wastes to the public sewers, shall be determined as follows: A surcharge shall be added to the sewer service charge for any waste which exceeds the standards set up in Article VI. The charge shall depend on the strength and character of the industrial waste finally admitted to the public sewer. The surcharge amount shall be established by the Board of Trustees.
A special sewer service charge shall be assigned to any industrial firm or organization or school inside or outside of the Village which, by virtue of the volume, strength or unusual characteristic of its waste alone, would overload or upset the capacity or efficiency of the sewerage works or any part thereof if such waste entered the public sewer, or whose waste disposal situation is such that it would be in the public interest to waive the requirements of §§ 89-51, 89-52, this section and § 89-54. The Board of Trustees, after appropriate study and advice from the Engineer, shall assign a special sewer service charge to the industrial firm, corporation or school by separate agreement with said firm. The applicable portions of the preceding sections, as well as the equitable rights of the public, shall be the basis for such an agreement.
The Board of Trustees reserves the right, from time to time,
to change sewer service charges originally or previously assigned
to any property owner.
The sewer service charge assigned to any property owner who
is not connected to the public water supply shall be established by
the Board of Trustees. Such sewer service charge shall be based on
the estimated or measured volume of sewage contributed to the public
sewers by such property owner.
The sewer service charge assigned to any property owner with
both a public and private water supply whose contribution of sewage
to the public sewers exceeds the volume of public water consumed by
that owner, as evidenced by his water bill, shall be established by
the Board of Trustees. The basis for determining such sewer service
charge shall be the estimated or measured volume of sewage entering
the public sewers.
All property owners who are outside the Village limits and who,
by their own request, are served by sanitary sewers must pay a sewer
service charge established by the Board of Trustees.
Each sewer charge levied pursuant to this chapter is hereby
made a lien on the premises, and if the same is not paid within 30
days after it shall be due and payable, it shall be certified to the
Treasurer of the Village, who shall place the same on the real property
tax for that year with interest and penalties allowed by law, and
be collected as other Village taxes are collected.
Those water consumers and/or users of the sewer system who,
30 days after bills have been rendered for the services described
herein and at the rates prescribed herein, have not paid their bills
shall be deemed to be delinquent, and the service to their premises
may be discontinued, and such service may not be restored until proper
settlement of the delinquent customer's account has been made, together
with any additional costs which might have been incurred by the Village
in the discontinuing or restoring of the delinquent customer's service.
