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. 911.076 SEWER CONNECTIONS; TAP-IN PERMIT FEE AND PENALTY. (a) Tap-In Charge Required. From and after January 1, 1972, no person, corporation, public agency, partnership or association what- soever shall connect, or cause to be connected, any building or other structure in the City either directly or indirectly with the Municipal Sanitary Sewerage System for the purpose of discharging sanitary sew- age or industrial waste therefrom without first securing from the Service Director a permit for such purpose in a form prescribed by the Director and without first paying a tap-in charge determined in accordance with the provision of subsection (b) hereof. (b) Schedule of Tap-In Charges Based on Benefited Units. The Service Director shall not issue a permit for the purpose described in subsection (a) hereof until the applicant therefor has paid a tap-in charge to be determined in accordance with the following: If Permit Obtained: From January 1, 1975 to December 31, 1977 From January 1, 1978 to December 31, 1979 From January l, 1980 to December 31, 1984 From January l, 1985 and thereafter Benefited Unit of One $325.00 420.00 483.00 555.00 Such incremental charges are designed to offset in part the interest costs incurred by the City in issuing notes and bonds and the loan from the Ohio Water Development Authority to pay the cost of con- structing improvements and extensions to the sewerage system which were not recovered by special assessments. Definition of Benefited Units Single-Family Residence Apartments: Efficiency and one bedroom Number of apartment units x .5 Two bedroom Number of apartment units x .75 Three bedroom and over Number of apartment units x 1.0 The number of benefited units to be assigned to nonresidential build- ings, structures or other facilities shall be determined by the Service Director in the following manner. The Service Director shall review the preliminary plans of the building, structure or other facility to be served by the connection, together with other pertinent information, and based upon accepted engineering practices determine the estimated average daily quantity of sewage to be discharged from s uch building, structure or other facility to the sanitary sewer sys- tem. The quantity so determined shall then be divided by the esti- mated average daily quantity of sewage discharged from a single-family residence and the resulting quotient carried out to the nearest one- hundredth shall be the number of benefited units assigned to such building, structure or other facility. The tap-in charge will then be calculated by multiplying the number of benefited units by the rate per unit applicable at such time. -19-