[Adopted 5-1-1978 as Ch. 47 of the 1978 Code]
This Part 2 shall be known as the "Sewer Rent Ordinance of the Town of Clay, 1975."
There is hereby established by the Town of Clay a scale of rents to be called "sewer rents" for each of the sewer districts located in the Town of Clay, the revenues from which shall be used for financing and maintaining sewage collection and treatment facilities of each of such sewer districts. The sewer system for each of the sewer districts for which such rents are established is defined as all sewer pipes and other appurtenances which are used or useful in whole or in part in connection with the collection, treatment or disposal of sewage, industrial waste and other wastes and which are owned, operated or maintained by a sewer district in the town, including sewage pumping stations and sewage treatment and disposal works, if any. The funds derived from these charges shall be used for all district expenses associated with design, engineering, construction, improving or maintaining a sewerage system including engineering, planning, construction, reconstruction of sewers and sewage treatment works and all necessary appurtenances thereto, including pump stations, extension, enlargement, replacement, or additions to the sanitary or stormwater sewer system, separation of sanitary and stormwater sewers, or the preliminary or other studies and surveys relative thereto and from the acquisition of land or rights-of-way for any of the capital improvements for each of the respective sewer districts.
Pursuant to Article 14-F of the General Municipal Law, the Town of Clay hereby imposes sewer rents as a charge on any parcel of real property connected with the sanitary sewer system in the following sewer districts:
A. 
Allen Road Sewer District.
A. 
Units. Sewer rents shall be based on a unit charge for the type of use as follows:
One-family dwelling
1 unit
Two-family dwelling
1 3/4 unit
Multiple-family dwelling
3/4 unit per family living space
School
1 unit per 20 students
Commercial
2 units per 10 employees or fraction
B. 
Value per unit. Each unit specified in Subsection A shall be valued as follows:
(1) 
Allen Road Sewer District: as set in the current calendar-year budget.[1]
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
Sewer rents shall be charged in the following districts commencing on the date specified:
A. 
Allen Road Sewer District: January 1, 1967.
A. 
All bills for sewer rents imposed by this Part 2 shall be due and payable net cash when rendered. In case any sewer rents shall not be paid within 30 days following the rendering of the bill, such sewer rents shall be delinquent.
B. 
Unpaid sewer rents in arrears for 30 days or longer from date of rendering shall be subject to a penalty of l% per month until paid.
A. 
Lien; collection. Sewer rents shall be liens against the real property served by the sewer system within the respective districts specified in § 185-36 of this Part 2, in any manner and to the extent set forth in § 452 of the General Municipal Law. The Town of Clay may enforce collection of delinquent sewer rents pursuant to § 452 of the General Municipal Law.
B. 
Discontinuance of service. In addition to the remedies and penalties provided under Article 14-F of the General Municipal Law, the town, in the case of nonpayment of sewer rents for three months after notice sent by certified mail, reserves the right to discontinue water service and also to require any person, firm or corporation furnishing water service to discontinue water service. Failure of any water customer or user of sewer services to receive a bill promptly will not excuse nonpayment of the same.
Revenues derived from sewer rents specified in § 185-36 of this Part 2 shall be credited to a special fund, to be known as the "sewer rent fund" for each respective sewer district, pursuant to § 453 of the General Municipal Law, and moneys in each such fund shall be used only pursuant to § 453 of the General Municipal Law and this Part 2.
This Part 2 may be amended from time to time to cover such other sewer districts as the Town Board may determine may be benefited thereby and the rates for sewer rents may from time to time be amended, all in accordance with the provisions of Article 14-F of the General Municipal Law and Article 9 of the Town Law.