This article is adopted under the authority
granted by the Municipal Home Rule and General Municipal Law of the
State of New York. The article shall be known as, referred to or cited
as the "Sewer Charge Law for the City of Kingston, State of New York,"
and hereinafter referred to as the "law."
The City of Kingston hereby finds that the requirements
for the issuance of federal grants and the acceptance of such grants
by the City of Kingston under Title II of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act Amendments of 1972, as amended (Public Law 92-500, as
amended), and the regulations of the United States Environmental Protection
Agency as promulgated in the September 27, 1978, Federal Register,
Volume 43, Number 188, Part III, for the construction of waste treatment
works to improve the quality of effluent discharges establish the
necessity of adopting a sewer charge system that would be proportionate
to all users and produce the revenue required to sustain the sewage
collection and waste treatment system.
The Common Council of the City of Kingston shall
review, at least biannually, the total costs of operation and maintenance
and the user charge system and revise as needed to accomplish the
following:
A. Generate sufficient revenue to pay the total operation
and maintenance costs necessary to the proper operation and maintenance,
including replacement, of the treatment works.
B. Apply excess revenues collected from users to the
costs of operation and maintenance for the next year and adjust the
rate accordingly.