There is imposed upon the owners of, or the users of water in or on, all properties served by the public sanitary sewage system, sewage collection, transportation and treatment charges for the use of said system, payable in the amounts and as provided in the Sewer Rate Resolution heretofore adopted by the Board and as it is hereinafter from time to time amended and modified. Said owners and users will be jointly and severally liable for the payment of said sewage collection, transportation and treatment charges and the penalties therein prescribed for delinquent payments thereof.
All bills for sewage collection, transportation and treatment charges shall be due when rendered and shall be subject to the penalty provisions set forth in the Authority's Sewer Rate Resolution. Owners and, where adequate arrangements have been made with the Authority, users will be billed periodically for the sewage collection, transportation and treatment charges in accordance with the billing practices of the Authority.
The Authority's initial sewage collection, transportation and treatment charges shall be on a water usage and flat rate basis in accordance with its Sewer Rate Resolution. The Authority may, if it deems it advisable, elect at some time in the future to impose, in whole or in part, the sewage collection, transportation and treatment charges on such other basis as it may determine. When water usage is used as the basis for said charges, the volume of water to be used for billing purposes shall be based upon water meter readings of the Water Authority or, in the absence of such readings, upon estimates made by the Authority or flat rate charges.
When water usage is used as the basis of charges, then if an owner or user obtains part or all of the water used in or on a property from sources other than the Water Authority, such owner or user may, after written approval from the Authority, at no expense to the Authority or the Water Authority, install and maintain a water meter or meters satisfactory to the Authority and the Water Authority for measuring all water used other than that obtained from the Water Authority, and the quantity of water used to determine the sewage collection, transportation and treatment charges shall be the quantity of water measured by all such meters plus the quantity of water obtained from the Water Authority. In lieu of such additional meters, the Board may establish under the Sewer Rate Resolution a flat-rate charge which shall be applicable to such nonmetered water usage.
When water usage is used as the basis of charges, then if it is established to the satisfaction of the Board that a portion of the water used in or on any property served by the public sanitary sewage system does not and cannot enter said system, and in the event that the total water used in or on said property exceeds 100,000 gallons per quarter, the Board may determine, in such manner and by such method as it may deem practical, the percentage of the water entering the public sanitary sewage system, or the Board may require or permit the installation of additional meters in such manner as to determine either the quantity of water excluded from the public sanitary sewage system or the quantity of water, sewage or industrial waste actually entering the public sanitary sewage system, exclusive of stormwater runoff. In such case, the sewage collection, transportation and treatment charge shall be based upon the quantity of water estimated, measured or computed by the Board to be actually entering the public sanitary sewage system, exclusive of stormwater runoff.
When water usage is used as the basis of charges, then any person requesting consideration for a reduction of the amount of the sewage collection, transportation and treatment charges because of water not entering the public sanitary sewage system shall make written application to the Board for such consideration, giving the name of such person, his address and setting forth supporting data fully describing other sources of water, if any, as well as the disposition of water alleged not to be entering the public sanitary sewage system. The application shall be accompanied by a sketch to approximate scale showing the plan of the property, the water distribution system, sewer layout, existing meters, and proposed meters in the scheme to determine the quantity of flow entering, or not entering, the public sanitary sewage system. The cost of furnishing, installing and maintaining any meters other than those utilized to measure water purchased from the Water Authority shall be borne by the applicant. The type, size, location, arrangement and maintenance of such meters shall be subject to the approval of the Board and the Water Authority.