As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
BONDED CONTRACTOR
A person licensed as a master plumber or water utility bonded
contractor by the Township or a person approved by the Township and
under bond to the Township as provided in its rules and who has filed
a certificate of insurance in the amount of $100,000/$300,000/$25,000.
CONSUMER
Any person using water supplied by the water utility.
CONSUMER PERMIT
Permission by the Township for use of water by a property
owner for the purposes specified in this chapter.
CUSTOMER
Any person supplied with water service by the water utility.
DEVELOPER
Any person desiring to construct an extension or addition
to the water distribution system of the Township and shall include
the owner of the fee title, mortgage, and any other person having
an interest, legal or equitable, in the property.
MAINS
All pipes other than service pipes conveying water to or
distributing water within the Township's distribution system or water
supply.
METER
Any device used for the purpose of measuring the quantity
of water delivered by the water utility to a customer or user.
OWNER
The applicant, consumer, person or company holding record
title to the premises supplied.
PROPER NOTIFICATION
Applicants are instructed to give proper notification to
the water utility, and if the time of notification is a time other
than standard office hours the Township Police Department shall be
the proper department to notify.
SERVICE PIPE
Each service pipe shall be considered, for the purposes of
this chapter, to consist of two parts: the service connection pipe
which extends from the main in the street to the curb stop, and the
house service pipe which is that portion of pipe which extends from
the curb stop to the dwelling or building unit.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills acting through its
Director of the Department of Municipal Utilities, Water Superintendent
or other duly authorized representative.
WATER UTILITY
The division of the Department of Municipal Utilities having responsibility for the operation, control and maintenance of the Township's water supply and distribution system, all as more specifically set forth in Chapter
4, Administration of Government, of this Code.
Where an existing service pipe supplies two
or more customers or consumers, any violations of the rules of the
water utility with reference to either or any of such consumers as
the case may be shall be deemed a violation as to all and the water
utility may take such action as could be taken if it were used by
a single consumer.
[Amended by Ord. No. 90:23; Ord. No. 91:4; Ord. No. 94:13; Ord. No. 94:34; Ord. No. 95:9; Ord. No. 97:20; Ord. No. 98:5; Ord. No. 99:9; Ord. No. 2000:31; Ord. No. 2001:07; 6-18-2002 by Ord. No. 2002:20]
A. Single-family residential. The following water connection
fees for single-family residential use are hereby established for
the following years:
[Amended 2-25-2003 by Ord. No. 2003:04; 4-27-2004 by Ord. No. 2004:10; 1-11-2005 by Ord. No. 2004:37; 5-18-2010 by Ord. No. 2010:09; 9-20-2011 by Ord. No. 2011:17; 5-14-2013 by Ord. No. 2013:09; 9-26-2017 by Ord. No. 2017:23]
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Year
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Amount
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2017
|
$2,014.87
|
|
2013
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$1,684.50
|
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2011
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$1,761.41
|
|
2010
|
$1,685.72
|
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2005
|
$1,021.39
|
|
2004
|
$1,404.00
|
|
2003
|
$1,359.00
|
|
2002
|
$1,322.00
|
|
2001
|
$1,274.00
|
|
2000
|
$1,217.00
|
|
1999
|
$1,209.00
|
|
1998
|
$1,136.00
|
|
1997
|
$1,061.00
|
|
1996
|
$1,053.00
|
|
1995
|
$1,053.00
|
|
1994
|
$984.99
|
|
1993
|
$920.10
|
|
1992
|
$861.06
|
|
1991
|
$791.37
|
B. Uses other than single-family residential. Water connection
fees for other than single-family residential shall be based upon
a computation for utilizing the charge for a single-family residence
multiplied by the equivalent number of single-family units contributing
the same flow to the system and in accordance with the following standards:
(1) Design flow rate for one single-family dwelling is
180 gallons per day.
[Amended 4-17-2018 by Ord. No. 2018:03]
(2) The design flow rate for various types of establishments
as set forth in Schedule A shall be used to determine the equivalency
factor for the type of establishments listed therein.
(3) In any case where the design flow cannot be reasonably
established, using Schedule A as a guide, the Township shall determine the design flow by such means
as are, in its opinion, fair and equitable. The water connection fee
shall be equivalent to one single-family-dwelling residence.
C. Calculation of fee. The water connection fee shall
be calculated to reflect the actual cost of the physical connection
plus an amount computed in the following manner to represent a fair
payment toward the cost of the system:
(1) The amount representing all debt service, including
but not limited to sinking funds, reserved funds, the principal and
interest on bonds, and the amount of any loans and the interest thereon,
paid by the Township to defray the capital cost of developing the
system as of the end of the immediately preceding budget year shall
be added to all capital expenditures made by the Township not funded
by a bond ordinance or debt for the development of the system as of
the end of the immediately preceding budget year.
(2) Any gifts, contributions or subsidies to the Township
received from, and not reimbursed or reimbursable to, any federal,
state, county or municipal government or agency or any private person,
and that portion of amounts paid to the Township by a public entity
under a service agreement or service contract which is not repaid
to the public entity by the Township shall then be subtracted.
(3) The remainder shall be divided by the total number
of service units served by the Township at the end of the immediately
preceding budget year, and the results shall then be apportioned to
each new connector according to the number of service units attributed
to that connector. In attributing service units to each connector,
the estimated average daily flow of water for the connector shall
be divided by the average daily flow of water to the average single-family
residence in the area served by the Township, to produce the number
of service units to be attributed.
D. Annual recomputing of fee. The water connection fee
shall be recomputed annually at the end of each budget year, and a
public hearing shall be held by the Township Council prior to its
adoption. The revised connection fee may be imposed upon those who
subsequently connect in that budget year to the system.
E. Exempt facilities.
(1) The following facilities are exempt from the charges
imposed by this section:
(a)
Churches and other places of worship;
(b)
Facilities used solely by volunteer fire companies
and volunteer ambulance/first aid squads;
(2) If an exempt facility is converted to a use other
than one of those enumerated, the nonexempt use shall be subject to
a connection fee according to Schedule A.
F. Payment required prior to connection. All water connection
fees as outlined under this section shall be paid to the Parsippany-Troy
Hills Township water utility prior to any connection being made to
the Township's system and/or prior to the issuance of a certificate
of occupancy.
G. To the fullest extent authorized by law,
a property connected to the public water system in the Township that
does not have a new physical connection to the public sewer but is
subject to an addition, alteration or change in use which materially
increases the demand from such property on the public water system
shall be assessed a new connection fee based upon the amount by which
the increased demand on the public water system exceeds the demand
prior to the addition, alternation or change.
[Added 12-17-2019 by Ord. No. 2019:69]