925.14 Authority of City Engineer, City Administrator, Superintendent of Water Pollution Control, and Pretreatment Appeal Board

(a) The City Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to adopt and enforce specifications and regulations in accordance with Sections 925.02 to 925.04 for the purpose of providing control of the installation of sewer connections and the inspection thereof. The City Engineer shall maintain accurate and complete records of all permits issued and inspections made. The City Engineer is hereby authorized to require the abandonment and removal of connections to the public storm sewers which violate any of the provisions of this chapter.

(b) The Superintendent of Water Pollution Control is hereby authorized and directed to adopt and enforce regulations in accordance with Sections 925.02, 925.05 through 925.09, 925.13, 925.135 and 925.15, for purposes of controlling wastes discharged into the City's system. The Superintendent of Water Pollution Control shall maintain accurate and complete records of all monitoring and enforcement actions to correct violations of this chapter.

(c) The Pretreatment Appeal Board is hereby authorized and directed to consider and respond to written notices of appeal submitted by appealing parties which relate to pretreatment issues in accordance with Section 925.135(b).

(d) Council affirms that the sanitary sewers and the sanitary sewerage system of the City are under the exclusive control of the City Administrator as provided in Ohio R.C. 729.50. Council has general powers over the sanitary sewerage system as provided for in Ohio R.C. 727.01.  (Ord. 5330. Passed 10-15-91.)

             925.15 RIGHT OF ENTRY

(a) The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the City, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing in accordance with this chapter, including, but not limited to, taking necessary photographs. Such City employees shall be permitted to review and/or copy any records or information specified in Section 925.08(1). Each significant industrial user discharging to the POTW shall be inspected and sampled by the City at least once a year. The City and OEPA shall have the right to set up sampling/monitoring/metering devices on the discharger's property.

(b) City Engineer, the City Administrator and other duly authorized employees of the City, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the Municipality holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, repair, sampling and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater works lying within the easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on the easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved. (Ord. 5330. Passed 10-15-91.)

             925.16 SEWER CONNECTIONS; FEES

(a) Assessment Made Against Sewer Line and Treatment Plant. In cases where an assessment has been made for both a sewer line and the treatment plant against the property for which an application has been made for a sewer tap, the applicant shall be charged for the sewer tap, the actual cost of making the tap or one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00), whichever is greater. In cases where the abutting property owners paid for the whole cost of constructing the sewer, either by assessment or through real estate subdivision development, the property shall be exempt from the tap charge when the lot service taps are located and connected into by the property owner at no expense to the City. The cost to the City for existing sewer taps and risers or lot service pipe installed during the construction of sewers in the intercepting system of the sewage treatment plant shall be added to the minimum standard cash cost provided in this subsection. However, if no new City work is required for the connection pipe service, then the minimum standard cash cost may apply.

(b) Assessment Made Against Sewer Line Only. In cases where an assessment for a sewer line and not for the treatment plant has been made against the property  of an applicant for a sewer tap, the applicant shall be charged as follows:

(1) For residence property, the fee shall be the tap fee as provided in subsection (a) hereof, plus $.0049 for each cubic foot of water consumed on the premises for the previous twelve months, plus $.019 for each one dollar ($1.00) of assessed valuation of the property as shown on the records of the County Auditor, plus $.00237 for each square foot of the lot or land served by the sewer connection. The water consumption charge shall be based on the average monthly consumption projected to a twelve-month period. If no City water has been consumed during the previous twelve-month period, the water consumption charges shall be based on a minimum of 1,000 cubic feet per quarter projected to a twelve-month period. If the records of the County Auditor are incomplete as to the valuation of the property, or if improvements have been made and the improvements have not been included in the tax valuation, then the Board of Control shall estimate the tax valuation, including contemplated improvements.

(2) For commercial and industrial property, the tap charges shall be as set forth in paragraph (b)(1) hereof, except that if no City water has been consumed on the premises during the previous twelve-month period, the water consumption shall be estimated by the Board of Control.

(c) Assessment Not Made Against Sewer Line or Treatment Plant. In cases where an assessment has not been made for a sewer line or the treatment plant against the property of an applicant for a sewer tap, the applicant shall be charged the same as set forth in subsection (b) hereof, plus an amount equal to the foot frontage cost of constructing such sewer line, as evidenced by the assessment against the properties to finance the construction of such sewer line, multiplied by the number of front feet of the property to be served.

(d) Fee Adjustment. In the case of unusual circumstances, an applicant for a sewer tap may apply to Council for an adjustment in the tap fee as set forth in subsections (b) and (c) hereof. An adjustment shall be made only on a two- thirds vote of the elected Council members.  (Ord. 5330. Passed 10-15-91.)