There is hereby imposed a connection fee for
each connection made to the Township sewer collection system at the
curb or property line, which fee shall be payable prior to final subdivision/land
development approval or the issuance of building permit(s), whichever
shall occur first, and which fee shall be set by resolution of the
Board.
There is hereby imposed upon the owners and
upon the users of each property served by the collection system, for
the use thereof, an annual rent to be computed and payable quarterly,
for the previous quarter, which amount shall be set by resolution
of the Board. Rents shall be payable to the "SKIPPACK TOWNSHIP SEWER
FUND" at the Skippack Township Administration Building or at the Harleysville
National Bank and Trust Company, Skippack Branch.
Sewer rentals or charges imposed by resolution
of the Board shall be a lien on the improved property connected to
and served by the wastewater system; and any such sewer rentals or
charges which are delinquent more than 90 days shall be filed as a
lien against the improved property so connected to and served by the
wastewater system, which lien shall be filed in the office of the
Prothonotary of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and shall be collected
in the manner provided by law for the filing and collecting of municipal
claims.
The Board reserves the right to require improved
properties to install suitable measuring devices for measuring the
amount of waste flows from a property to the wastewater system. The
furnishing and installation of meters or other measuring devices permitted
under provisions of this chapter shall be the sole responsibility
of the owner. The installation or use of such meters or other measuring
devices at all times shall be subject to the approval of the Board
and may be tested and inspected by the Board whenever necessary. The
owner shall be responsible for the maintenance, safekeeping and repair
of any meter.
Rules and regulations regarding the payment
and collection of the sewer rents imposed hereunder and the use of
the collection system may be promulgated by the Board, and upon approval
by the Board, such rules and regulations shall become effective as
though set forth herein.