24-2021 - Amend Part 9 to establish Impervious Surface Fee

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(1) "Industrial pretreatment" means a regulatory program administered by the City for the purpose of permitting and monitoring the discharge of industrial wastewater into the wastewater disposal system. (m) "Recovery period" means the thirty-year period during which the industrial cost recovery charge shall be imposed upon industrial units of service of the wastewater disposal system. (n) "Replacement costs" means those costs incurred in obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the wastewater disposal system to maintain the capacity and performance for which the wastewater disposal system was designed and constructed. (o) "Residential unit of service" means, for purposes of system charges, any aggregation of space or area occupied as a single residence, and any apartment or flat which is equipped with one or more fixtures for supplying sewer service separate and distinct from the other users on the premises. In multi -unit dwellings, only those divisions of the building shall be considered as units of service where the suite or apartment has facilities for cooking. (p) "Treatment plant" means the facility forming a part of the wastewater disposal system which is utilized primarily to treat wastewater flows. (q) "User charge" means the fee imposed by Section 902.03 upon all units of service of the treatment works in a total amount sufficient to pay the costs of operation and maintenance, including costs of replacement of the wastewater disposal system. (r) "Wastewater" means the water and water -borne wastes discharged into the wastewater disposal system from premises on which any structure has been erected. (s) "Wastewater disposal system" includes all lateral, main and intercepting sewers, lift stations, pumps, sewage treatment and disposal plant or system, and structures and other appurtenances for the collections, transportation, treatment and disposition of wastewater. This shall not include plumbing inside or in connection with buildings services or service sewers from a building to the street lateral. is hereby repealed. Section 4. That new Section 902.01 Definitions is hereby enacted to read as follows: 902.01 DEFINITIONS. Certain terms used in this chapter shall have the meanings given them in this section unless a different meaning is indicated by the context in which the particular term is used. (a) "Apartment/Condominium Property" is considered to be a lot or parcel of real estate on which is situated a building containing 4 or more dwelling units. (b) "Capital charge" means a fee imposed by Section 915.03 hereof upon all units of service of the wastewater disposal system in a total amount sufficient to pay the costs of principal and of interest obligations issued to finance acquisition and construction of the wastewater disposal system. (c) "Capital costs" means payments of principal and of interest or obligations issued to finance the costs of acquisition and construction of the wastewater disposal system. (d) "Connection" means a residential, commercial or industrial establishment served by a water or wastewater meter, public or private, the metered flow of which is subsequently discharged to the wastewater disposal system. Establishments with more than one meter, the metered flow of which is subsequently discharged to the wastewater disposal system, are hereby determined to have one connection for each such meter. (e) "Commercial unit of service" means, for purposes of system charges, any aggregation of space or area occupied for a distinct purpose such as retail store, office, laundry, restaurant or other like units, which is equipped with one or more water fixtures draining into the wastewater disposal system, separate and distinct from other units of service. In office buildings or other premises containing more than one tenant, only those tenants shall be classified as users of service who occupy space which are equipped with a distinct opening or fixture or set of fixtures for the use of water separately from other tenants and with waste draining into the wastewater disposal system. (f) "Commercial wastewater" means normal domestic wastewater discharged by a nonresident or nonindustrial unit of service into the wastewater disposal system.