Sewer charges shall be used for deriving revenues for financing and maintaining sewage collection and treatment facilities. The funds derived from these charges shall be used for all municipal expenses associated with constructing, improving or maintaining a sewerage system, including engineering, planning, construction, reconstruction of sewers and the cost of the wastewater treatment works and all necessary appurtenances thereto, including pumping stations, extensions, enlargement, replacement or additions to the sanitary sewer systems or the preliminary or other studies and studies and surveys relative thereto and for the acquisition of land or rights-of-way for any of the capital improvements.
Sewer charges shall include a sewer user charge, which shall be levied on owners of properties located within or without the district boundaries who contribute sewage to the public sewers, and a capital cost amortization charge to be levied on all owners of property within the improvement boundaries.
A. 
The following items will be funded by the sewer user charge:
(1) 
The cost of operation and maintenance of the entire sewer collection system, including pump stations.
(2) 
The improvement's share of the cost of operation and maintenance of the sewage treatment plant.
B. 
The following items will be funded by the capital cost amortization charge:
(1) 
The cost of the retirement of the capital bonds of the improvement.
The Town Board of the Town of Marlborough shall review the user charges annually and revise them periodically to reflect the actual sewage works, operation and maintenance cost.
[Amended 7-24-2000 by L.L. No. 2-2000]
Sewer user charges shall be billed semiannually at the same time that the Marlborough Water District bills for water usage charges. Capital cost amortization charges shall be billed at the same time and included in the tax statement that is sent out by the town for county charges and general town taxes.
A. 
Sewer user charges shall be levied on the basis of the amount of water from a Sewer Improvement Area used by each sewer user at such per-gallon rates as the Town Board may from time to time establish, but in no way shall there be less than a minimum charge of $10 for the first 5,000 gallons or less per semiannual billing period.
[Amended 12-19-1988 by L.L. No. 4-1988; 7-24-2000 by L.L. No. 2-2000]
B. 
(Reserved)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 118-52B, Estimated first year operations and maintenance cost, was repealed 7-24-2000 by L.L. No. 2-2000.
C. 
This user charge is based on domestic flows or properly pretreated large or industrial flows. It is based on the following formula:
D. 
The strength of large or industrial uses shall be measured by the district, and the semiannual charges will be based on the above formula.
E. 
In the event of a defective water meter, the average of its last two semiannual billings for sewer user charges during which the meter was operating properly will be charged. If the property has its own water supply or is served by an unmetered independent water company, the owner shall install a water meter at his expense. Commercial or nonresident users must install a water meter at their own expense. The capital cost amortization charges shall be levied on the basis of the assessed valuation of each parcel of property within the improvement boundaries for general town and county tax purposes at such rates that may from time to time be set by the Town Board.
F. 
In the event that an entity becomes a user of the public sewer system but is not part of the Marlborough Water District or does not use Marlborough Water District services, the sewer usage charge shall be estimated in accordance with typical usage charges for similar entities as established by the Superintendent of Sewers or contractor for sewer operations as designated by the Town Board.
[Added 7-24-2000 by L.L. No. 2-2000]
[Amended 5-20-1985 by L.L. No. 1-1985]
A. 
The bills for sewer user charges shall become due and payable to the Marlboro Sewer Improvement or Milton Sewer Improvement Area, and such payments shall be made to the Town Clerk, at the Clerk's office, semiannually. If such bills are not paid by the due date listed on the bill or within 30 days, whichever the latter, a penalty of 10% of the amount of such bill will be added thereto.
[Amended 3-9-1992; 8-22-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994; 7-24-2000 by L.L. No. 2-2000]
B. 
Sewer user charges and capital cost amortization charges and the interest and penalties thereon shall be a lien upon the real property which is using the public sewer or which is located within the improvement boundaries, and on or before the day when, under Town Law, preliminary estimates of expenditures are required to be submitted, the Town Clerk shall prepare and file with the Town Board a statement showing all sewer user charges, with penalties and interest thereon, which remain unpaid, which said statement shall contain a brief description of the property to which sewer services were supplied or which is within the improvement boundaries, the name of the owner liable to pay the same, so far as may be known, and the amount chargeable.
A. 
Connection charges. A charge in an amount as set by resolution of the Town Board will be levied against all property owners who tap in on the collection main imbedded in the street. The minimum sewer size shall be four inches in diameter. Any sewers in excess of four inches in diameter will pay additional charges; connection charges, interest and penalties shall be a lien upon the real property which is connecting to the public sewer and shall be levied on the property if not paid at the time the bill for connection charges is offered.[1]
[Amended 8-22-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994; 7-24-2000 by L.L. No. 2-2000]
[1]
Editor's Note: The current fees resolution is on file in the office of the Town Clerk and may be examined there during regular office hours.
B. 
The cost of constructing the lateral from the public sewer to the property line will be covered by the above connection charge, and the work will be performed by the town.
C. 
The property owner shall pay all costs of constructing the building sewer from the property line to the building drain or the Town Board may, if it deems it advisable and feasible, contract for the cost of constructing said building sewer from the property line to the building drain and charge the property owner an installation charge therefor, at a rate to be established by the Town Board, but the property owner shall pay all costs of preparing an opening through the building wall permitting the passage of said building main through the wall to the building drain. If the Town Board decides to contract for said connections, then all necessary connections will be made under that contract.