Corning Municipal Code Art. IV Charges and Fees

Charges and fees are as set out in Article IV of this chapter.

(Ord. 541 (part), 1993).

Other city chapters prescribe annexation fees, connection charges, capital improvement fees and user fees. This article is supplementary to the provisions of those chapters.

(Ord. 541 (part), 1993).

The city council shall from time to time establish by chapter, resolution or order fees and charges for sewage service provided by the city. Such fees shall be based on cost on influencing factors such as flow and pollutant mass emission rates and volumes, and on the degree of effort required for purposes of billing, inspection, sampling, monitoring and administration. Fees and charges may include, but are not limited to:

A. Permit fees to recover the costs of application processing, user classification, inspection, sampling and monitoring. Fees shall be assessed for permits or services at the time the permit application is filed and must be paid before a permit will be issued;

B. Appeal fees to recover the administrative cost of appeal filing. Fees shall be assessed at the time the appeal is filed;

C. User fee (service charge) to recover the costs of bonded debt retirement and interest, and operation and maintenance (including replacement), to satisfy provisions of federal or state laws and any other sewerage system related costs appropriately recoverable via service charges;

D. Annexation fees and connection charges;

E. Capital improvement fees;

F. Expansion fees.

The sewer fees shall be as follows:

Capital improvement .....$ 546.00;

Sewer plant expansion .....1,854.00;

Four-inch sewer lateral .....655.00.

The city public works crew will do the installation from the main to the property line, except in subdivisions.

(Ord. 555 (part), 1995; Ord. 541 (part), 1993).

The funds coming to the city under this chapter shall be used only and solely for the purposes of constructing, maintaining, operating, preserving, extending and replacing the sewerage system, including the storm sewer system, and to repay loans, bonds and other instruments financing the costs associated with the sewerage facilities.

(Ord. 570, 1997: Ord. 541 (part), 1993).

All users shall be classified by assigning each one to the user classification category, according to the principal activity conduct-ed on the user's premises. The purpose of such classification is to facilitate the regulation of wastewater discharges based on wastewater constituents, characteristic, and volume, to provide an effective means of source con-trol, and to establish a system of user charges and fees which will insure an equitable recovery of the city's costs.

(Ord. 541 (part), 1993).

Each user not required to obtain a wastewater discharge permit shall pay a fixed unit charge based on general wastewater con-stituents, characteristics and volume as set forth in the city's schedule of user charges and fees. Users who are issued a wastewater discharge permit under the provisions of this chapter shall pay a user charge determined by estimating or measuring the wastewater constituents, character-istics and volume.

(Ord. 541 (part), 1993).

Capital improvement fee shall provide for the payment to the city of a pro rata of capital value of the sewage systems of the city, which amount shall be fixed by the city council as condition precedent to connection to the sewerage system.

(Ord. 541 (part), 1993).

All sewer connection charges and periodic service charges against any premises shall be billed to the following persons:

A. For any person with a connection to the city sew-erage system, to the person who requested such connection or to his successor in interest; or .....

B. For any person not having a connection to the city sewerage system, to the person requesting such connection or to his successor in interest. .....

(Ord. 541 (part), 1993).

A. All sewer connection charges shall be payable in advance and prior to completion of connection, at the of-fice of the city. .....

B. All periodic user fees shall be due and payable when billed at the close of each period. These charges shall be payable at the office of the city and shall become delinquent upon the expiration of thirty days after the end of the period to which such charges are applicable. .....

C. All bills for all charges shall be issued by the city and may be combined with bills or statements for any other service furnished by the city to the person billed, and may be paid either separately or together with payment for such other services. All statements may be delivered either in person or by mail addressed to any person using the connection in respect of which the charge is made, at Corning, California. .....

D. Any payments made in advance of due date or delinquency date shall be without discount. .....

E. The city council may by resolution determine that billings for user fees may be made monthly, bimonthly, quarterly or otherwise as may appear to be to the economic advantage of the city. .....

(Ord. 541 (part), 1993).

No statement or bill shall be conclusive as to the matter set forth there-in, nor shall the filing of the same preclude the city from collecting by appropriate action such sum as is actually due and payable under the provisions of this chapter.

(Ord. 541 (part), 1993).