[Adopted 8-12-1976 as Ch. 115 of the 1976
Code]
Pursuant to the authority of the Sewer Rent
Law of the State of New York (Article 14-F of the General Municipal
Law) and any and all amendments thereto, there are hereby established
and imposed sewer rents as a means of producing revenue for sewer
districts in the Town of Perinton. These provisions shall be known
as the "Sewer Rent Ordinance."
As used in this Part 1, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
"Chargeable units" shall be determined as follows:
A single-family dwelling connected with or served
by the sewer system or any part or parts thereof.
Residential structures connected with or served
by the sewer system or any part or parts thereof, and occupied or
designed to be occupied by two or more families, including two-family
and multifamily dwellings and apartments, apartment houses and such,
shall consist of the following charges: for studio and one-bedroom
apartments, 1/2 unit; for two-bedroom apartments, 3/4 unit; for apartments
with more than two bedrooms, one unit. In the event that such premises
also contain space not used for residence purposes, such space shall
consist of such number of additional chargeable units determined by
dividing the annual water consumption in such space by 60,000 gallons.
Public schools shall be charged one unit for
each 22.5 full-time pupils attending each school connected with or
served by the sewer system or any part or parts thereof. The number
of pupils attending each school will be determined by the enrollment
in each school as of the last Friday in September. This number will
be provided by the school district to the Town on or before October
15 of each year for use in computing the following year's budget.
The number of units to be charged for schools to be opened for the
first time in the following year shall be based upon estimated enrollment
and shall be prorated for that portion of the year for which it is
estimated that the school will be in operation.
All types of structures connected with or served by the sewer system or any part or parts thereof, and not described in Subsections A, B and C above, including but not exclusive of schools, churches, institutions, motels, stores and commercial and industrial establishments, shall constitute that number of chargeable units determined by dividing the annual water consumption on said premises by 60,000 gallons. Such premises, however, shall constitute a minimum of one chargeable unit.
In the event that any parcel of real property
in its entirety falls within more than one of the above classifications,
that classification which produces the greatest number of chargeable
units shall be the one applicable. In the event any parcel of real
property is divided into two or more classifications, the number of
chargeable units in each classification shall be determined, and the
total thereof shall constitute the number of chargeable units applicable
to the entire parcel.
If a sewer district contracts with another municipality
or agency for transmission and treatment of sewage, the number of
chargeable units shall be determined by the applicable ordinance or
law of the municipality or agency which provides facilities for transmission
and treatment of said sewage.
Any liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste substance, or a
combination thereof, resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing,
trade or business or from the development or recovery of any natural
resources.
Garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand,
lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dyestuffs, acids, chemicals
and other discarded matter not classified as sewage or industrial
waste.
All lateral sewers, or all branch sewers, or all interceptor
sewers, or all trunk sewers, and any sewage treatment and disposal
works, each part with necessary appurtenances, including pumping stations.
The water-carried human or animal wastes and permissible
industrial wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments
or other places, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface
water as may be present.
A scale of annual charges established and imposed in sewer
districts in the Town of Perinton for the use of the sewer system
or any part or parts thereof.
All sewer pipes and other appurtenances which are used or
useful in whole or in part in connection with the collection, treatment
or disposal of sewage, industrial waste and other wastes and which
are owned, operated or maintained by a sewer district in the Town,
including sewage pumping stations and sewage treatment and disposal
works, if any.
Sewer rents are hereby established and imposed
for the sewer systems in the Town of Perinton serving sewer districts
now existing, those hereafter created and extensions of either, on
behalf of said sewer districts.
The Town Board, acting on behalf of each sewer
district in said Town, shall fix and determine the amount of the sewer
rent to be charged for each chargeable unit in the respective sewer
districts in the Town of Perinton.
[Last amended 11-13-2019 by L.L. No. 10-2019]
Effective January 1, 2020, and until hereafter changed by ordinance
or local law adopted by the Town Board, annual sewer rents are hereby
established and imposed as follows:
A.Â
Upon all
property within the boundaries of Perinton Consolidated Sewer District
No. 8 and extensions thereto: $84 per chargeable unit.
A.Â
Sewer rents shall become due and payable annually
on January 1 of each year, except for that portion of the sewer rent
in the Perinton O'Connor Road Sewer District which is payable to the
Village of Fairport for sewage treatment which is billed by said Village
of Fairport on a quarterly basis. Said portion will be payable within
10 days from the rendering of charges by the Village of Fairport.
B.Â
The Town Board shall annually cause statements to
be prepared setting forth the amount of the sewer rents for each of
the properties subject thereto as of September 1 of each year, and
the name of the person or persons in whose name such real property
is assessed, which shall be presented to the Town Board on or before
October 15 of each year, and the board or body which levies taxes
in the Town shall levy the amounts contained in such statements against
the real property liable at the same time and in the same manner as
other Town taxes, and such amounts shall be set forth in a separate
column in the annual tax rolls. The amounts so levied shall be collected
and enforced in the same manner and at the same time as provided by
law for the collection and enforcement of Town taxes.
C.Â
Sewer rents shall be received by the collecting officer
on or before the 31st day of January without interest, except in the
case of the Perinton O'Connor Road Sewer District, which shall be
received on or before 30 days following the billing date. On all rents
received after such date, there shall be added interest of 1% for
the following month and an additional 1% for each additional month
or fraction thereof until such sewer rents are paid.
[Added 4-23-1980]
[Amended 12-10-1986; 6-22-1988]
Revenues derived from sewer rents shall be credited
to a special fund to be known as the "Sewer Rent Fund," and a separate
sewer rent fund shall be created and maintained with respect to each
of the sewer districts within the Town. Moneys in such funds shall
be used only in the manner and for the purpose specified and in the
order required by the laws of the State of New York.
The Town Board may from time to time amend,
supplement, change, modify or repeal this Part 1 pursuant to the provisions
of the Town Law applicable thereto.
