[Added 10-11-1995 by L.L. No. 3-1995]
This article shall be known and may be cited
as the "Sewer District Capital Charge Law."
This article shall apply to all of the sewer
districts and extensions thereof within the Town of Liberty and operated
by the Town of Liberty.
The purpose of this article is to establish
an equitable schedule of rates to be used in determining the annual
charge that each lot or parcel of land benefited shall be required
to pay in order to recover the capital costs and improvements in accordance
with the provisions of Article 14-F of the General Municipal Law.
The Town of Liberty reserves the right to annually
change the schedule of rates hereinafter established and to impose
sewer rents in accordance with Article 14-F of the General Municipal
Law.
After reviewing the various methods of establishing
equitable assessments to apportion and assess the costs of capital
improvements of the various sewer districts in the Town of Liberty
in just proportion to the amount of benefit which such improvements
shall confer upon each of the several lots and parcels of land so
benefited, the following schedule of rates is hereby established which,
in the opinion of the Town Board, is the most just and equitable.
A.
Units shall be computed on land road frontage and
improvements separately, but shall be totaled by parcel. Vacant land
shall be assigned the same road frontage units as improved land.
B.
Access roads and rights-of-way in approved subdivisions
shall be considered road frontage for purposes of this article.
C.
Single-family residences located on a corner lot shall
be assigned road frontage units based upon the longest side of the
lot.
D.
Land unit schedule. The following schedule shall apply:
(1)
Up to 50 feet of road frontage: twenty-five hundredths
(0.25) unit.
(2)
Over 50 feet to 100 feet of road frontage: fifty hundredths
(0.50) unit.
(3)
Over 100 to 150 feet of road frontage: 0.75 unit.
(4)
Over 150 feet to 200 feet of road frontage: 1.00 unit.
(5)
Each additional 50 feet: 0.25 unit.
E.
Improvements unit schedule. The following schedule
shall apply:
(1)
Residential.
(a)
Single-family residence: 1.0 unit.
(b)
Each separate apartment in a two-family, three-family
or multiple dwelling: 1.0 unit.
(c)
Mobile home: 1.0 unit.
(d)
Mobile home park, each pad: 1.0 unit.
(e)
Combination single-family residence with professional
or business office: 1.5 units.
(f)
Combination apartment with store: 2.0 units.
(2)
Commercial and industrial.
(a)
Hotel, each three rooms or fraction thereof:
1.0 unit.
(b)
Store (manufacturing plant and any other commercial
or industrial use not otherwise provided for in this schedule), each
rest room facility: 1.0 unit.
(c)
Industrial plant: each type of manufacturing
plant will be determined by the volume and type discharge into the
system.
(d)
Theater, each 50 seats or fraction thereof:
1.0 unit.
(e)
Bar and grill: 2.0 units.
(g)
Service station: 1.0 unit.
(h)
Car wash, per bay: 2.0 units.
(i)
Launderette, each washing machine: 1.0 unit.
(j)
Rooming house, each three rooms or fraction
thereof: 1.0 unit.
(k)
Professional or business office, each rest room
facility: 1.0 unit.
(3)
Bungalow colony and camp. Any apartment or rental
unit located within a commercial district, industrial district or
camp will be counted as a separate improvement.
(4)
Institutional.
(a)
School or college, each 10 full-time students
or fraction thereof: 1.0 unit.
(b)
Church or synagogue, each rest room facility:
1.0 unit.
(c)
Correctional facility or jail, each room: 1.0
unit.
(d)
Museum or social hall, each rest room facility:
1.0 unit.
(e)
Rehabilitation center, each room: 1.0 unit.
(f)
Health-care facility, each room: 1.0 unit.
(5)
Exemptions. Cemeteries and Town property owned and
utilized for water and sewer purposes shall be exempt.
F.
Improvements unit computations. Improvements shall
be computed based on an inspection of the facility by personnel of
the Town of Liberty Sewer Department.
