[Adopted 12-21-1982 as Art. III of Ch. 3-16
of the 1982 Code]
There is hereby established a scale of charges
to be called "sewer rents" which are hereby levied and assessed against
every lot, parcel of land, building or premises now or hereafter having
a connection with that portion of the sanitary sewer system of the
Kenwood Sanitary Sewer District of the City of Oneida, which conducts
sewage waste to the City of Sherrill municipal sewage treatment plant.
Such rents shall be used for the payment of principal and interest
on the obligations issued or to be issued by the City to finance the
construction of the sanitary sewer system and any subsequent additions
to and improvements therein, for its share of the cost of operation
and maintenance of the City of Sherill sewage treatment plant, and
the cost of oversizing the City of Sherrill plant to accommodate the
Kenwood Sanitary Sewer District.
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Editor's Note: Former Sec. 3-16-41, Sewer
rents fixed, which immediately preceded this section, was repealed
12-19-2000 by L.L. No. 6-2000. As last amended by L.L. No. 3-1996,
the sewer rents for the Kenwood Sanitary Sewer District are fixed
at the rate of $5.50 per 100 cubic feet of water consumption of customers
in said district.
[Amended 3-16-1982 by L.L. No. 2-1982; 6-17-2014 by Ord. No. 14-02]
Except as otherwise provided herein, such sewer
rents shall be at a rate to be fixed from time to time by the Common
Council based or computed on water consumed on the premises as determined
by the water bill issued bimonthly by the Sherrill-Kenwood Water District
or quarterly by the Oneida Water District. Where water rents are charged
by said water district to the occupant or occupants of any such premises
other than the owner thereof, such sewer rents shall be charged and
billed initially to such occupant or occupants and shall also be a
lien against such premises to secure the payment thereof to the City.
[Amended last by L.L. No. 3-1996]
The sewer rents for the Kenwood Sanitary Sewer
District are fixed at the rate of $5.50 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumption of customers in said district.
In the case of metered water consumers who contribute
to the sewage treatment system an amount of sewage substantially less
than or substantially greater than the amount of water supplied to
such consumer by the Sherrill-Kenwood Water District, or in the case
of owners or occupants of property within the or to be issued by the
City to finance the construction of the Kenwood Sanitary Sewer District
who are not consumers of the Sherrill-Kenwood Water District but who
are connected to the sewage treatment system, the Common Council shall
fix and determine the sewer rents applicable to such real property
upon such equitable bases as may be determined by the Common Council.
At the option of the owner or occupant of real
property being served by the City of Sherrill sewage treatment system,
such occupant or owner may, at his own expense and subject to the
approval of a City Engineer, install a sewage meter measuring the
amount of sewage contributed to the sewage system. In such cases,
the sewage rent applicable thereto shall be computed on the basis
of the sewage meter reading rather than the water meter reading. The
City Engineer shall investigate any situation where it appears that
the amount of discharge into the sewage treatment system exceeds the
amount of water supplied to the premises by the Sherrill-Kenwood Water
District. In making such investigation, the City Engineer may cause
to be installed at the City's expense a sewage measuring device. He
may make such other investigation as he shall deem necessary. If he
shall report to the Common Council that there is an excessive discharge
into the sewage treatment system, the owner or occupant of such property
shall be charged on the basis of such actual use of the sewage treatment
system instead of the water bill.
Sewer rents shall be due and payable at the
City of Sherrill offices bimonthly within 15 days after the end of
each billing period. Such bimonthly billing periods shall end on the
last Monday of January, March, May, July, September and November of
each year.
Sewer rents unpaid within such thirty-day period
shall bear interest at the rate of 10% from the end of the billing
period. All sewer rents, plus accrued interest, due and unpaid, as
of December 1 of each year shall be added to, assessed and levied
as part of the real property tax of the City against the premises
served by such sewer connection, and shall be collected in the same
manner and at the same time as the general property tax assessed against
such premises.
Every person discharging sewage wastes into
the sewage treatment system shall permit the City Engineer of the
City of Sherrill or his agents to enter upon the premises at all reasonable
times to determine the amount of discharge into the system. If such
permission be denied, the City may discontinue sewage service to the
property.
