For purposes of this article, the following terms shall be defined
as follows:
The city limits of the City of Brady as they exist on the
effective date of this article and as they may be amended from time
to time.
The city manager or designee.
The cleaning of structures, traffic controls, streets and
other facilities in the public right-of-way, such as bridges, and
alleys which are dedicated to the use of vehicular traffic, all of
which are owned and/or controlled in whole by the city and which are
dedicated to the transportation system service of the city, including
street sweeping and any other street cleaning activities as deemed
necessary by the city council or city manager.
The fee shall be established by this article which is assessed
against, and collected from, owners and occupants of the property
for the purpose of maintaining the cleanliness of the transportation
system of the city.
(Ordinance 1132 adopted 9/17/13; 2004 Code, sec. 12.901)
The city manager or designee shall be responsible for the administration
of this article. The city manager or designee shall be responsible
for developing rules, regulations and procedures for the administration
of fees and the consideration of petitions for modification, developing
street sanitation programs, and taking all steps necessary to create
a street sanitation program, including making proposals for equipment
to the city council and hiring necessary staff.
(Ordinance 1132 adopted 9/17/13; 2004 Code, sec. 12.902)
(a)
The city council hereby establishes a street sanitation fee to be paid by each city utilities customer within the city limits, as set forth in the fee schedule in appendix A of this code. Such fee shall be set in amounts which will provide sufficient funds to properly maintain the street sanitation program.
(b)
Collection of the fee shall be charged on the basis of a set fee
per city utilities customer account within the city limits. Collection
of the fee against each property shall be made by a monthly charge
to be added to the city’s utility bill for such property.
(c)
The city council shall establish and change the fee in an adopted
schedule of fees, and said fee shall reflect the cost of maintaining
the street sanitation program.
(d)
The fee shall be billed and collected with the monthly utility bill.
All such bills shall be rendered monthly and shall be due upon receipt.
(e)
Any fee due hereunder which shall not be paid when due may be recovered
in an action at law by the city. In addition to any other remedies
or penalties provided by this article or this code, failure of any
user of the city utilities within the city to pay the fees promptly
when due shall subject such user to the discontinuance of utility
services provided by the city.
(f)
An annual report of the street sanitation fee program will be provided
to the city council.
(g)
The fee paid and collected by virtue of this article shall not be
used for the general or government proprietary purposes of the city,
except to pay for the equitable share of the cost of accounting, management
and government thereof. Other than as described above, the fees and
charges shall be used solely to pay for the cost of operation and
administration of the street sanitation program and cost incidental
thereto.
(Ordinance 1132 adopted 9/17/13; 2004 Code, sec. 12.903; Ordinance adopting 2019 Code)
Property owned by the city is hereby exempt from the street
sanitation fee.
(Ordinance 1132 adopted 9/17/13; 2004 Code, sec. 12.904)
