[Adopted 9-15-1999 by Ord. No. 99-212]
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Editor's Note: The Sunny Acres/Blue Development Sewer District was merged with the Central (Original) Sewer District 1-6-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-1. See Art. XIV of this chapter for an enumeration of the impacts of said merger on this article.
A. 
There is hereby imposed upon each property located within the Borough of Riverside that is served by the Sunny Acres/Blue Development sewer system and having the use thereof sewer rents or charges, payable as hereinafter provided, for the use, whether direct or indirect, of the sewer system. Such user charges will be assessed based upon the following formula:
Debt service + operation + maintenance costs + capital reserve
B. 
The number of equivalent dwelling units in the Sunny Acres/Blue Development of the Borough of Riverside, utilizing the schedule of classifications, and rates are set forth as follows:
(1) 
The annual rate for each equivalent dwelling unit (EDU) shall be paid quarterly. The amount to be paid shall be the sum of $110 per quarter, or $440 annually.
[Amended 3-1-2010 by Ord. No. 2-2010]
(2) 
The number of EDU deemed to be served at each type of user shall be as follows:
Classification of Property
Number of EDU
Single-family dwelling
1
Two-family dwelling
2
Apartment house
One-, two- or three-bedroom apartment
1
Each additional bedroom
1/2
Mobile home
1
Retail store
1
Business or professional office
Not attached to or forming owner's residence
Five or less full-time employees
1/2
Each additional five full-time employees over five, or a fraction thereof
1/2
Forming part of owner's residence (no employees)
No additional charge
Business or industry not providing showers for employees
Ten or less employees
1
Each additional five employees over ten, or fraction thereof
1/2
Hotel or motel (in addition to restaurant facilities), per rental room
1/2
Restaurant, club or tavern, per twenty seats or fraction thereof
1
Funeral homes
2
Church
1
Service station or automobile repair garage
Three bays or less (without car wash facilities)
1
Three bays or less (with car wash facilities)
2
Each additional bay over three
1/2
Barbershop
Two chairs or less
1/2
Each additional chair
1/2
Beauty shop
One chair
1/2
Each additional chair
1/2
Retail store with meat and/or vegetable preparation facilities, per 5 employees or fraction thereof at food preparation station
1
Community center
1
If use or classification of any property should change within any quarterly period, the difference in the sewer rental, prorated on a monthly basis to the nearest calendar month, will be charged or credited, as the case may be, on the bill of the succeeding quarterly period. Additional classifications and additional sewer rentals may be established by the Borough by resolution from time to time.
Sewer rentals or charges shall be paid quarterly, and billings for sewer rentals shall be made by bills dated on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year, for the three-month period immediately preceding the date of the bill. The bills for the quarterly period during which a property is connected will be prorated on the basis of the applicable rate. The bill for the first billing period after this article is enacted shall be prorated. All bills shall be due and payable not later than 30 calendar days after the billing date.
If not paid within 30 days after becoming due, the bill shall bear interest from the due date at the rate of 1% per month or fraction thereof until paid, and the Borough shall have the right, after notice given, to cut off sewer service from the delinquent premises and not to restore the same until all delinquent bills against the same and the cost of cutting off and restoring service shall have been paid.
All persons connected to the sewer system must give the Borough their correct address. Failure to receive bills mailed to this address will not be considered an excuse for nonpayment, nor permit an extension of the period during which bills are payable.
Notwithstanding remedies in § 225-64 above, all sewer rentals, together with all penalties thereon, not paid on or before the end of one year from the date of each bill shall be deemed to be delinquent. All delinquent sewer rentals and all penalties thereon shall be collected by the Borough using any or all legal remedies, including entering a lien against such property in the office of the Prothonotary of Northumberland County, and shall be collected in the manner provided by law for the filing and collection of such liens.
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Editor's Note: Former § 225-68, Segregation of sewer revenues, was repealed 1-6-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-1 as part of the merger of the Sunny Acres/Blue Development with the Central (Original) Sewer District.
The rates hereunder shall become effective on the earliest date permitted by law and shall be applicable to all properties as soon as they respectively become connected with and/or have the right to use the sewer system. The Borough reserves the right to make such changes from time to time as, in its opinion, may be desirable or beneficial and to amend this article by resolution or to change the rates or charges in such manner and at such time as, in its opinion, may be advisable.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original Section 3, Effective date and revision of rates, which immediately followed this section, was deleted 9-19-2011 by Ord. No. 009-11.
It is hereby declared that the enactment of this article is necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation of the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the Borough.
The Borough Council is authorized by proper resolution to adopt any necessary rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this article and/or its declaration of purposes.
[Added 9-19-2011 by Ord. No. 09-11]
Any person violating the provisions of this article shall be punishable by a maximum fine of $1,000, plus costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 30 days.