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<br />CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />ORDINANCE NO. 99 - 66 <br />BY.• COUNCIiMAN DEAN MCIYAY <br />AN 4RDI7VANCE CREATING NEW SECTION 915.19 OF <br />CHAPTER 9I5 OF THE CODIFZED ORDINANCES OF THE <br />CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, ENTITLED "iISER CHARGE <br />SYSTEM,"IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FORA METHOD OF <br />COLLECTING DELINQUENT SEWFA CHARGES, AND <br />DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. <br />WHEREAS, the City Engineer has reported to this Council that the City has in the <br />past encountered substantial difficulties in the collection of sewer user charges incurred by <br />property owners during the period of tirrie occur-,ing between the date upon which said <br />property owners legally or illegally tap into the North Olmsted sanitary sewer system and <br />the subsequent date upon which the City of Cleveland Water Department begins to bill <br />said property ovmers for sewer user charges; and <br />WHEREAS, as a result, the City has lost in the pq.st, and will continue to lose in <br />the future, significant revenues from such uncollected sewer user charges; and <br />WHERF.,QS, the City Engineer has recommended that this Council enact <br />legislation providing for the establishment of'a method of alleviating the number of current <br />delinquent sewer users who are not billed by the City of Cleveland Water Department and <br />which charges are difficult to otherwise collect; and <br />WHEREAS, this Council adopts the findings in the report of the City Engineer arid <br />desires to enact legislation consistent with recommendation 3f the City Engineer; <br />NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY <br />OF NORTH OLMSTED, CUYAHpGA COUNTY, AND STATE OF OHIO: <br />SECTION 1: That there be, and hereby is, enacted a new Section 915.19 of the <br />Codified Ordinances of the City of North Olmsted, Ohio, which shall read as follows: <br />"915.19 NON-BILLED SEWER USER CHARGES <br />The provisions of this section shall apply to users of the Municipal sanitary sewerage <br />system and which are in that portion of the system for which sewer user charges paid to <br />the City are based on water consumption as per Section 915.07. <br />(a) Any user of the Municipal sanitary sewerage system for which the property served <br />was legally or illegally tapped-in to the system and which sewer user chaxges have not <br />