Grand Terrace Municipal Code Art. I Payment Required

As used in this article:

A. "Apartment" means a building or portion thereof containing three or more dwelling units.

B. "Commercial and/or industrial user" means any user not defined as a residential user, whose premises are not used primarily as a church, or whose premises are not used primarily as a public school.

C. "Duplex" means a building containing two dwelling units.

D. "Dwelling unit" means a suite of one or more rooms which is occupied by or intended to be occupied by one family and which contains facilities for cooking.

E. "Lot" means a parcel of land consisting of one or more contiguous lots of record in one ownership.

F. "Multiple residential complex" is one or more buildings or portion thereof, containing three or more dwelling units.

G. "Premises" means any lot, piece or parcel of land, any building or other structure, or any part of any building or structure, used or useful for human habitation or gathering or carrying on any business or occupation.

H. "Residential user" means any user whose premises are used solely for residential purposes.

I. "Sewerage system" means that composed of those pipelines and appurtenances constructed, maintained, controlled or operated by the City primarily for the collection of sewage and the conveyance thereof to the City of Colton's sewage treatment plant.

J. "User" means any person owning property to which a sewer connection exists and for which sewer service is provided.

(Ord. 43 § 1, 1980)

Every person whose premises in the City are served by a connection with the sewerage system of the City shall pay a sewer service charge, the amount of the charge to be established from time to time by resolution of the City Council.

(Ord. 43 § 2, 1980)

Sewer service charges shall be billed on a bimonthly basis, in advance of service. All such charges will be due and payable on the date of such billing and shall become delinquent 30 days thereafter. All unpaid delinquent bills shall be assessed against the using property in the manner provided for by law. In addition, the City Manager is directed to use any and all other means as provided for by law for the collection of the unpaid delinquent bills.

(Ord. 43 § 3, 1980)

The city council may waive any provision provided for in this chapter as to any particular user and may hear requests for such waiver due to special hardship or special conditions.

(Ord. 43 § 4, 1980)