The charge for water service is set by Village Board resolution.
All rates will be referenced from the Village of Springville Rate
Table and are subject to change, as determined by the Village Administrator.
A.Â
The rates for metered water service to customers located outside the Village limits for each monthly period shall be 200% of the rates specified in § 193-81 hereof.
B.Â
A security deposit equal to the total of three months' average
water rate charge shall be required for each current and future water
customer in order to qualify or continue to qualify for service at
a premises outside the Village.
(1)Â
The amount of deposit for each such customer shall be reasonably
determined and redetermined from time to time by the Village Clerk.
Such deposits shall be held by the Village in a common account to
the credit of each customer and, after satisfaction of all outstanding
water service charges, any balance remaining shall be returned to
the customer without interest upon termination of water service to
that consumer. In the event of a transfer of title to the premises
being supplied with Village water, a new security deposit shall be
determined and established by the Village Clerk in the name of the
new owner.
(2)Â
The water customer may elect to make such deposit in one payment
or it may be funded by making 10 successive monthly payments of 10%
of such deposit as an additional charge on each month's water
bill until the entire required security deposit has been made.
(3)Â
The foregoing security deposit requirement shall take effect for
current customers 60 days after notice thereof has been mailed by
the Village Clerk to the customer. Failure to make a single payment
of the entire required deposit within 30 days of such notice shall
be conclusive evidence of the customer's election to fund the
deposit account by making successive monthly payments until that customer's
security deposit account shall be fully funded.
(4)Â
The security deposit requirement for a new customer at the same service
location shall take effect immediately and, unless funded by a single
payment of the entire security deposit when the account is established,
shall be funded by making 10 successive monthly payments of 10% of
such deposit as an additional charge on each month's water bill
until the entire required security deposit has been made.
C.Â
Any real property outside the Village of Springville not currently
served by municipal water from the Village of Springville shall not
be provided Village of Springville water service except through an
approved annexation into the Village of Springville or by being part
of a water district, as contemplated by Article 12 of the New York
State Town Law, within the Town of Concord.
A.Â
Water service to any customer may be terminated at the direction
of the Village Clerk whenever any water service charge, penalty, security
deposit payment or other lawful charge or fee remains unpaid for 30
days after payment shall have become due. In the event that water
service is terminated, a termination fee as established herein, or
as otherwise provided from time to time by resolution of the Board
of Trustees, shall be paid by or on behalf of the customer whose service
was terminated before that customer's water service or a new
customer's water service may be reinstituted at that same service
location.
B.Â
A monthly late payment penalty of 1Â 1/2% of the water rates
established by the preceding sections shall be added to all accounts
that are not paid before the end of the calendar month following the
month in which each monthly billing period ends. The late payment
penalty so added to such unpaid accounts shall be compounded and assessed
for each calendar month or part thereof that an account remains unpaid
until the first day of May in each year, at which time the amount
of all unpaid water bills together with all late payment penalties
shall be included by the Board of Trustees in the annual tax levy
upon the respective parcels of real property in the Village to which
such unpaid water bills relate.
A.Â
CONNECTION EXPENSE FEE
CONNECTION INSPECTION FEE
CUSTOMER
REINSTITUTION OF SERVICE FEE
REPAIR TERMINATION FEE
SERVICE LOCATION
TERMINATION FEE
VOLUNTARY TERMINATION FEE
The following words when used in this article shall have the following
meanings:
The fee charged to compensate for the Village's cost
to make the physical connection of the customer's private service
line to the public water main; this fee shall include the connection
inspection fee.
The fee charged for the cost of the Village's inspection
of the physical connection of a service location to the Village water
system.
The owner(s) of the real property being provided with water;
does not include a tenant or other occupant of the real property using
the water unless that occupant is the legal owner of the real property.
The fee charged for the cost of resuming service to the same
customer at the same service location.
The fee charged to compensate for the cost of terminating
service at a service location necessitated by the customer's
faulty connection or water service line or at the request of the customer
so that repairs can be made to the customer's connection to the
Village water system or to the customer's other waterlines.
The customer's building or other structure or place
on the real property receiving water service from the Village through
a single water meter.
The fee charged to compensate for the cost of terminating
service at a service location for nonpayment of service charges or
rates.
The fee charged for terminating service at a service location
at the request of the customer for reasons unrelated to connection
repair or service line repair or nonpayment of water rates.
B.Â
The billing periods, late payment penalties, deposit amounts, service
fees, water rates, water service charge components and rate structure
established in this article may be changed from time to time by resolution
of the Board of Trustees after a public hearing has first been held
before said Board of which at least three days' notice shall
have been given by publication in the official Village newspaper.
