Article VII — FEES AND CHARGES

(a)

All individual residential dwelling units (single-family homes, duplexes, multi-family, apartment complexes and townhouses) shall be charged a fixed monthly fee for each individual dwelling unit. The residential sewer charge shall be established by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate. The sewer fees shall be sufficient to cover the share of sewerage costs attributed to the residential class of users. The costs shall include all costs associated with financing, maintaining, and operating the sewerage system and developing the necessary reserve funds to ensure future development and operation of the system.

(b)

Commercial and industrial users shall be charged on a monthly basis of total water consumption during a comparable water billing cycle utilizing the land use loadings for BOD and TSS based off the land use category identified for that business. The monetary rate for users shall be established by resolution or ordinance, as necessary. The sewer fees shall be sufficient to cover the share of sewerage costs for that land use category that they occupy. The costs shall include all costs associated with financing, maintaining, and operating the sewerage system and developing the necessary reserve funds to ensure future development and operation of the system.

(c)

Significant industrial users may utilize either annual water usage (gallons per day) from the previous calendar year or metered water usage from the properties' flow meter (readings taken daily at the same time) or an installed and calibrated flow metering device approved by the industrial pretreatment division. All industrial monitoring shall consist of individual 24-hour composite samples collected over one production day during the first full week of the month. The sample analysis results (actuals) for BOD and TSS are then used to calculate the monthly sewer charges with the flow volume (gallons per day).

(Ord. No. 965-2019, § 1, 12-2-2019)

All users shall be required to pay a permit fee based on the designated class of permit issued to the user. The permit fee shall include charges for the issuance of the user's permit and the costs for routine inspections and monitoring as established by resolution for the specific class of user.

(Ord. No. 965-2019, § 1, 12-2-2019)

All users shall be charged additional monitoring and/or inspection fees, as established by resolution, for all supplemental activities completed by the city which are necessary to verify compliance with previously issued violations of this chapter, the user's permit, applicable discharge limits, or any other related proceedings completed by the city.

(Ord. No. 965-2019, § 1, 12-2-2019)

All fees, charges, and penalties established by this article VII are due and payable upon receipt. All fees required of this chapter and related resolutions shall be included in the user's monthly water service bill or supplemental invoice submitted by the city.

(Ord. No. 965-2019, § 1, 12-2-2019)

(a)

In the event a user fails to pay any required fee, charge, or penalty established by this article VII; the industrial pretreatment division may elect to sever all water and/or sewer service to the user.

(b)

The city manager shall submit notice to the user a minimum of five days prior to the severance of water and/or sewer service.

(c)

Water and/or sewer service shall not be resumed until all outstanding fees, charges, penalties, and the user has paid all costs for the resumption of service.

(Ord. No. 965-2019, § 1, 12-2-2019)

(a)

Compliance deposit: The city may require a user that has been subject to enforcement and/or collection proceedings to submit a compliance deposit to the city in an amount determined necessary by the industrial pretreatment division to guarantee payment of all future charges, fees, penalties, costs and expenses that may be incurred, before continued sewer service is provided by the city.

(b)

Security deposit: The city may require a user who has been suspended or revoked sewer service to submit a security deposit to the city in an amount equal to the average total fees and charges for two calendar quarters during the preceding year. The deposit shall be used to guarantee payment of all future fees and charges incurred for sewer service provided by the city.

(c)

Security deposit return: The city will either return the security deposit or credit the account of a user provided the user remits all required payments in full within the time prescribed over a continuous two-year period.

(Ord. No. 965-2019, § 1, 12-2-2019)