This article is enacted to provide a source of revenue for construction, improvement and maintenance of the public sewer system in the Village, including the retirement of debt service, capital expenditure and operation. This source of revenue is a sewer service charge to owners or users of property within the Village served by the sanitary sewer system of the Village.
A. 
When used in this article, the terms defined in General Municipal Law § 451 shall have the meanings as set forth in that section.
B. 
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
UNIT
The basis for an annual charge of sewer rent.
(1) 
A single "unit" is comprised of any of the following:
(a) 
An individual residence, whether contained in a home, retail establishment or multiple residence.
(b) 
Each separate commercial or business use of 150,000 gallons of water or part thereof annually. For the purposes of this definition, a hotel or rooming house is a separate commercial use from a bar and restaurant, even though carried on in the same building.
(c) 
Each two beds or part thereof of a nursing home or hospital.
(d) 
Each 20 pupils' enrollment or part thereof in a school or educational institution.
(2) 
Any real property location or residence for which a special permit exists to permit the operation thereat of a bed-and-breakfast business shall be assigned two units for purposes of sewer rent charges.
[Added 9-2-1997 by L.L. No. 7-1997]
[Amended 5-19-1992 by L.L. No. 1-1992; 3-20-2000 by L.L. No. 1-2000; 3-8-2005 by L.L. No. 2-2005]
A. 
Amount of sewer rates. The rate of the sewer rent shall be increased from $250 to $270 per unit per year, effective February 1, 2005.
B. 
The Board of Trustees may, as may be deemed necessary, from time to time thereafter, by resolution duly adopted, establish new sewer rental rates for sewer services benefiting both real property located within and outside the geographic area of the Village.
C. 
Payment dates. The rate of the sewer rent shall be payable semiannually on August 1 and February 1 of each year.
All revenue derived from sewer rents, together with all penalties and interest, shall be kept by the Village Treasurer in a separate fund to be known as the "sewer fund." Expenditures chargeable against the sewer fund shall be incurred only for such purposes as set forth in § 453 of the General Municipal Law and shall be disbursed in accordance with the terms of that section. If, in any year, there is a deficit in the sewer fund after incurring such expenses, the Board of Trustees may make up such deficit out of general revenues.
The establishment of the sewer rents is for every part of the entire public sewer system of the Village of Minoa as defined in § 452, Subdivision 2, of the General Municipal Law.
Sewer rents shall be paid within 30 days of the due date. After the expiration of the 30 days, a penalty of $5 per month or 2% per month, whichever is greater, is to be added to the unpaid sewer rent.
Sewer rent shall constitute a lien as set forth in § 452 of the General Municipal Law. In addition to this, after the expiration of the thirty-day period, the Village may disconnect water service to any owner in default, and the cost of discontinuing and recommencing of service shall be borne by the owner.