[Adopted 9-6-1977 by Ord. No. 1503]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
JOINT MEETING
The municipalities of the City of East Orange, the Township of Hillside, the Town of Irvington, the Township of Maplewood, the Township of Millburn, the City of Newark, the Borough of Roselle Park, the Village of South Orange, the City of Summit, the Township of Union and the Town of West Orange, organized in a Joint Meeting pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:63-68 et seq., under the terms of a contract dated June 1, 1926, as amended and supplemented, in the matter of a joint trunk and outlet sewer and treatment plant for the sewage wastewater emanating from said municipalities.
USER CHARGE
The charge levied upon all users of the treatment works for the annual cost of operation and maintenance, including replacements, of such trunk lines and such works, all as defined in the federal rules and regulations.
The purpose of this article is to impose an annual user charge, as herein defined, on all domestic, commercial, industrial, institutional and governmental users of the sewer system of the Township of Maplewood, which sewage, contributed to and flowing therein, is collected and treated by said Joint Meeting.
A. 
All residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and governmental users shall be charged at a uniform rate per dwelling unit for domestic waste contributed to said system. In the case of commercial, industrial or multifamily residential units, the charge shall be based upon equivalent dwelling units.
B. 
[Amended 5-1-1979 by Ord. No. 1532; 9-2-1980 by Ord. No. 1563] The following table shall be the basis for said charges:
Schedule of Dwelling Units
Type of Establishment
Measurement Unit or Number of Equivalent Dwelling Units
Measurement Constituting 1 Equivalent Dwelling Unit
Private dwellings
Person*
3.5 people (fixed)
Apartment buildings
Apartment
1 apartment
Transient dwelling units
Hotels
Bedroom
4 bedrooms
Lodging houses and tourist homes
Bedroom
5 bedrooms
Motels and tourist cabins
Bedroom
5 bedrooms
Boardinghouses (resident)
Bedroom
7 bedrooms
Camps
Trailer camps (private bath)
Person*
4 people
Children's camps (central bath, etc.)
Person*
7 people
Day camps (no meals)
Person*
20 people
Restaurants (including washrooms)
Average type
Seats
20 seats
Bar and cocktail lounges
Seats
70 seats
Short-order or drive-in-service
Clubhouses
Patron*
70 patrons
Residential type
Person*
4 people
Nonresidential (serving meals)
Person*
20 people
Institutions
Hospitals
Person or beds
2 people or beds
Other institutions
Person or beds
3 people or beds
Schools
Elementary (no shower or cafeteria)
Person*
35 people
With cafeteria
Person*
25 people
With cafeteria and showers
Person*
20 people
With cafeteria, showers and laboratories
Person*
15 people
Boarding
Person*
5 people
Automobile service stations
No car washing
1 equivalent dwelling unit
Car washing (water recycled)
3 equivalent dwelling units
Car washing (water not recycled)
6 equivalent dwelling units
Stores, shopping centers, office buildings and factories (8-hour shift)
Square foot
2,800 square feet
Warehouses
Person*
14 people
Self-service laundries
Washers
0.5 washers
Bowling alleys
Alley
2 alleys
Swimming pools and beaches
Person*
300 people
Picnic parks (municipal with flush toilets)
1 equivalent dwelling unit
Assembly halls
Seat
70 seats
Airports (based on passenger use)
Passenger
115 passengers
Churches
1 equivalent dwelling unit
Theaters (indoor)
Seat
70 seats
Theaters (drive-in with food stand)
Car
70 cars
NOTES:
*Any measurement unit designated as "person" or "patron" should be interpreted on a design or average number basis.
C. 
"Domestic use or waste" is hereby defined to be domestic wastewater from sanitary conveniences.
D. 
User charges for industrial waste.
(1) 
User charges for industrial waste shall be charged to industrial waste contributors who discharge industrial waste into the system. User charges for industrial waste shall be based upon the flow, suspended solids and biochemical oxygen demand of the waste as determined by the Joint Meeting. Sampling and measurement shall be accomplished by each industrial discharger at its own expense, and the results thereof shall be monitored by the Joint Meeting staff. Where deemed necessary by the Joint Meeting, permanent measurement and sampling facilities shall be installed by the industrial user at its own expense. The rate of charges shall be determined annually by resolution of the Joint Meeting. For the first year of operation of the secondary treatment facilities, the Joint Meeting shall make an estimate of the rate of charges based upon the results of an industrial cost recovery - heavy metals survey and shall embody the estimated first year of operation charges in a resolution to be adopted.
(2) 
User charges for industrial waste shall be assessed only where sampling and testing show that industrial waste from a particular industrial waste contributor exceeds 2,000 gallons per day or where the suspended solids contribution exceeds 50 pounds per day or where the biochemical oxygen demand contribution exceeds 50 pounds per day.
E. 
The cost of sampling and testing by the Joint Meeting, as referred to in Subsection D herein, shall be assessed against each industrial waste contributor on the basis of the actual cost thereof.
F. 
"Industrial waste" is hereby defined to be nondomestic wastewater flow resulting from industrial processing and manufacturing and including cooling water discharge.
G. 
Where an industry has both domestic wastes and industrial wastes and said wastes are commingled and so discharged into the sewer system, the industrial waste charge as set forth in Subsection D(1) shall apply. Any industry may, at its option and at its own cost and expense, separate its industrial waste from its domestic waste and provide separate connections to the municipal sewer system for each such type of waste. If an industry exercises this option of separation of wastes as herein set forth, the Schedule of Dwelling Units, as set forth in Subsection B, shall be applicable to its domestic waste flow, and the rates set forth in Subsection D(1) shall be applicable to its industrial waste flow and use.
H. 
User charges shall be determined annually by resolution of the Joint Meeting and shall be based upon actual usage for the preceding year. However, for the first year of operation of the joint trunk sewer system, said user charges shall be based upon an estimate of the cost of operation thereof and shall be set forth in a resolution to be adopted by the Joint Meeting.
A. 
All charges established and provided for herein shall be assessed against the owners of the property from which said sewage or wastewater emanates, respectively, and shall be collected annually on the first day of June of each billing year.
[Amended 5-1-1979 by Ord. No. 1532]
B. 
Such charges shall draw the same interest from the time they become due as taxes upon real estate in the municipality and shall be a lien upon the premises until paid, and the municipality shall have the same remedies for the collection thereof, with interest, costs and penalties, as it has by law for the collection of taxes upon real estate.
C. 
All sums collected under the terms of this article shall be applied by the Township of Maplewood for reimbursement of such sums advanced by it to the Joint Meeting as the result of estimates made and assessments levied by said Joint Meeting for the cost of operation and maintenance of the joint trunk sewer and treatment works, including appurtenances, as set forth in § 223-14 hereof.
D. 
The annual dwelling unit rate shall be the sum as provided in Chapter 123, Fees.
[Amended 5-1-1979 by Ord. No. 1532; 2-16-1982 by Ord. No. 1598; 2-3-1987 by Ord. No. 1713; 2-21-1989 by Ord. No. 1774; 2-20-1990 by Ord. No. 1818; 2-19-1991 by Ord. No. 1843; 8-1-1995 by Ord. No. 1977]
For the purpose of determining said user charges, the number and classification of all users of said sewage system shall be made by the Township of Maplewood. Said determination shall be subject to audit, review and redetermination by the Joint Meeting.
The user charge referred to herein shall be due and payable from and after the first day of January following the completion of the secondary treatment facilities by the Joint Meeting.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this article and the Federal Water Pollution Act of 1972 requiring the imposition of user charges as defined herein, as set forth in said Act and as provided for in the rules and regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency, and without intending to interfere with or contravene the provisions and requirements of the imposition of said user charges as herein and therein defined, it is the express intention of the Township of Maplewood to adhere to and comply with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:63-116 providing for annual expenses, estimated and apportioned, and additional expenses if necessary, in order that the Joint Meeting may thereby be enabled to continue and perform its normal functions.