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HomeMy WebLinkAboutS-20 Repeal S-15-17 '10036 O~Z~nNC,~ NO. s-~O AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCES S-15, S-16, and S-17, AND AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING INTERCEPTOR CONNECTION COSTS, LATERAL CONNECTION COSTS, HOUSE CONNECTION COSTS and CREATING "INTERCEPTOR EXPANSION FUND", "PLANT EXPANSION AND IMPROVEMENT FUND" and FIXING INITIAL EQUIVALENT USER TABLES AND CONNECTION COSTS FOR BOTH DEVELOPED AND UNDEVELOPED ACREAGE INSIDE and OUTSIDE THE TOWN OF CARMEL. . BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF CARMEL, INDIANA: Sec. 1: REPEAL OF ORDINANCES S-15, S-16, AND S-17 Ordinance Nos. S-15, S-16 and S-17, Ordinances passed by ~e Town Board of Trustees of Carmel, Indiana are hereby repealed in their entirety. Sec. 2: ACREAGE COST jU~£M.H£D~£~R~0RD~H~I~0NC0UN~.IND. From and after effective date Of this ordinance, no connection to any Town-owned interceptor sanitary sewer or to any Town-owned trunk sanitary sewer shall be allowed until a permit is obtained and payment or satisfactory surety for payment has been made into the Town of Carmel "INTERCEPTOR EXPANSION FUND", which is a depository for interceptor extension funds. This is a connection cost intended to provide funds for future extensions as contem- plated by Burns Annot. Stat. Sec. 4~--3~%0(Supple). These costs, designated as "availability costs,, shall be, from time to time, updated and fixed by the. Town of Carmel but shall be and are hereby initially established in the sum of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) per acre of ground to be served by the interceptor and/or trunk sewer system developed by the Town of Carmel. Provided, however, that the applicant-owners of real estate applying for service may make payment by platted sections before they are approved and recorded, but in no event shall any subdivision or final plats be Commissioner for Clay Towns]lip as The allabllltv cost" of $400.00 per acre will be allocated to and paid into the project cost of the specific interceptor extension (off-site interceptor and on-site oversizing) for agent for the Town of Carmel. which it is paid. Project costs, in all cases, shall expressly ~ include construction costs, legal costs, engineering costs, con- ~ struction inspection costs, project administrative costs and easement acquisition costs. Ail elements of th~se project costs may be disbursed by the Town from the funds deposited as "awailabil~ty costs" for that specific project. Easements, in each ~case, must be obtained by the owners of real estate prior t~ designing the project. If the entire connection cost at the rate of $400.00 per acre is not needed for interceptor extension, the excess, if any, will remain in the fund to be disbursed as hereinafter provided. Sec. 3: EXCLUSION Acreage "availability costs" for interceptor and/or trunk sewer construction may, at the Town's discretion, be excluded for areas platted such as cemeteries, golf courses, and parks which are designated as such on approved plants. Sec. 4: ADDITIONAL FUNDS CONTRIBUTED The above acreage "availability cost" shall be strictly non- refundable. If, in order to extend the interceptor and/or trunk sewer, additional funds are necessary to extend the sanitary sewer to the owners of real estate, such additional funds advanced or contributed by the owners of real estate for the extension and/or oversiz~ng to meet ~le Town's requirements, is refundable, without interest, but only from funds deposited at a future date by owners of real estate under such terms and conditions as the Town shall, from time to time, set forth. The above described "additional funds" must be first deposited with the Town, and be disbursed ~n committed or encumbered to repay any such funds advanced or contri- buted, it being expressly declared that such repayment, if any, will be made under the provisions of the so-called "Fifteen Year Law" (Burns Annot. Stat. Secs. 48-3948 through 48-3967) and will be repaid only from deposits outstanding in the "Interceptor Expan- sion Fund", first in, first out, for each project area designated by the Town. However, it is expressly declared that all excess acreage "availability costs" paid by applicants proposing to be served directly or indirectly by the existing "KEYSTONE INTERCEPTOR", shall be used only the Town of Carmel to repay that'~Porti°n of the "Town of Carmel Sewage Bond Issue of 1969" related specifically to the "Keystone Interceptor" cost, namely, $254,000.00 and will not be deposited into the "Interceptor Expansion Fund"- "Availability Costs" in excess of the said $254,000.00 will be repaid in the manner described above. The "Keystone Interceptor" is described specifically as includin~ the 12" sewer extending from the intersection of Mohawk Road (126th Street) and Keystone Avenue Southward to approximately 121st Street; also the 15" sewer extending from approximately 121st Stree~ through Woodland Springs Subdivision East and South the Gray Road Lift. Station and the Lift Station and force main to the Carmel-Clay Treatment Plant at 96th Street and the White River. Sec. 5: OVERSIZING Refunding of costs for oversizing to meet Town specifications shall be made only as to that portion of the oversizing which lies within the real estate owners' development. In the event the "availability cost" per acre does not provide sufficient funds to extend and/or oversize the interceptor, trunk sewer or lift If oversizing of sewage lift stations and/or over~izin9 and extensions of local sewers constructed within their development by owners of real estate are necessary to deliver sewage from other areas to an interceptor or from one interceptor to another, such oversizing and/or extension costs will be considered as part of the interceptor costs and not part of the on-site local sewer costs and, as such, or pa~t of the "project costs" defined in Sec. 2. Sec. 6: INDIVIDUAL CONNECTION OUTSIDE TOWN Where an individual connection is sought for acreage or developed areas inside or outside the corporate limits of the Town of Carmel, the following sewer users, listed by type of Dccupancy, shall pay a CONNECTION CHARGE based on an "average user" factor of~(1)· The average or ,,equivalent" user connection cost for a single family residence is hereby initially fixed and established at One Hundred- fifty Dollars ($150.00). The units listed below will presently pay for a connection cost based on the multiplication of the listed decimal times $150.00.' The equivalent user cost of $150.00 as well as the connection costS listed below may, from time to time, be updated and changed by the Town. CONNECTION CHARGES SEWER USER Airports Apartments Barber Shop Bars & Cocktail Lounges W/Restaurant Add: Beauty shops Bowling Alley W/Bar Add: Car Washes Churches Dentist office Drive-In RestaurantS Drive-In Theatres ~ Retail Space W/Fountain Service, Add: Duplex Residence Institutions other than Hospitals UNIT 0.03/Passenger 0.70/Ap artment 0.30/Chair 0.05/Seat 0.10/Seat 0.9 O/Chair 0.40/Alley 2.0 /Alley 0.00~/sq. ft. inside 0.001/Member 1.4 /Chair 0.40/Car Space 0.10/Car Space 1.0 /1000 sq. ft. 0.5 /Seat 2.0 0.50/Bed 60.0 CONNECTION ClIARGES SEWER USER Service Stations Single Family Residence Swimming Pools Theatre Town House UNIT 0.70/Island 1.0 1.60/1000 sq. ft. 0.01/Seat 0 o 80/Unit Connection of users not listed will be negotiated. Users listed above shall also be billed a monthly rate equivalent to the percent listed as it applies to the established sewer rate for single family dwelling. However, if facilities are available for determining the quantities of wastes discharged, such as by meter, users will be billed according to established rates. Except for residential users, where a user has consumed metered water for a continuous 12 month period, beginnzng six months after time of connection, the Town will review its unit cost set forth for the preceding 12 month metered period and will adjust the unit cost in accordance with actual usage, either upward or downward as the metered usage reflects, which adjustment will fix the unit cost for the particular user and no further adjustment will thereafter be made. For the purpose of reviewing the unit cost, the usage of a single family residence will be considered as 6,000 gallons per month. Sec. 7: OFF-SITE INTERCEPTOR OR TRUNK SEWERS All plans for interceptor and trunk sewers to be installed outside the area being developed by the applicant for sewer service (i.e. off-site sewers) shall be prepared by the Town of Carmel. All easements shall be made out to the Town of Carmel and shall be obtained by and, if necessary, paid for by the owners of real estate. Easements shall also be in a form approved by the Town. The owners of real estate applying for interceptor or trunk se~er service shall dePOsit with the Town of Carmel adequate funds or surety of payment to pay engineering and appurtenant non- owners of real estate shall be non-refundable and will be used to pay incurred expenses. If funds are in excess of expenses, they will be returned to the owners of real estate making the deposit. If the project is completed, the deposit will be credited to the total p~oject cost as defined in Sec. 2. Sec. 8: OWNERSHIP OF SYSTEM Ail extensions to the Town of Carmel sanitary sewer system must be accepted by the Town before connection and once connected, shall be and remain thereafter the sole property of the Town of Carmel without further dedication thereof. Sec. 9: INSPECTION COSTS AND APPROVAL OF ON-SITE SEWERS The owners of real estate obtaining a permit for interceptor or trunk sewers shall submit plans for on-site sewers, including interceptors and trunk sewers to be constructed within his develop- ment. Said plan shall be submitted to the Town of Carmel for their review and approval before start of construction. During construc- tion of said on-site sewers the owners of real estate shall pay the expense of an inspector for the Town of Carmel and upon completion of construction, shall provide certified "as-built" construction drawings to the Town. If "as-built" drawings are not provided within 3 months after completion of construction, the Town may prepare these drawings at the expense of the said owners of real estate. The Town will provide the inspector or may approve, in writing, some person designated by the owners of real estate. In any case, the owners of real estate will pay the cost thereof to the Town of Carmel who will, in turn, pay the inspector. Sec. 10: INDIVIDUAL CONNECTIONS IN DEVI~OPZD If individual applicantS for sewage service in already-deve~ope6 acreage and/or platted subdivisions wish to be served by an inter- ceptor or trunk sewer and local sewers, they shall obtain a permit and deposit adequate funds with the Town to pay engineering any appurtenant costs prior to the authorization of such design by the Town and the receipt of bids. If the project does not proceed to completion after project costS are established, the money so de- posited by individual applicants shall be non-refundable and used to pay incurred expenses, If monies are in excess of expenses, the excess will be returned to the individual making the deposit. for awarding ' t If the pro]ec proceeds, the Town will be responsible construction contractS and will provide construction inspection. If the project, on the other hand, is completed, the deposits of individual applicants shall be credited to the individual's > costS outlined in Sec. 11 hereinafter set forth. If a connection is made to any interceptor, trunk or local sewer without obtaining a permit and paying the required ,,availability connection and local sewer costS", the individual or owners of real estate will be subject to a fine of $150.00 a day for each day the connection was unlawfully installed and be required to remove the connection until the requirements of this ordinance are complied with. Sec. 11: INDIVIDUAL CONNECTIONS cOST~ (DEVELOPED AREA~) If already-developed acreage and/or platted subdivisions are to be served by an interceptor and/or trunk sewer and local sewers, in addition to the connection cost designated in Sec. 6 above there shall be paid by each owner of real estate to be served an amount which shall be computed as follows: (a) ,,Availability Cost" $9.00 per 1000 sq. ft. of lot area or f,ractlon thereof, which amount is not refundable. (b) "Local Sewer Costs" - Each lot shak~ pay a share of the project costs computed on the basis dividing the project cost by the total number of sewer connections desirous of service. Project costs shall include construction costs, determined by public bids, and non-construction costs. Non-construction costsl shall include but not necessarily be limited to legal costs, engineering costs, inspection costs, preparation of assessment rolls, and project administrative costs. Sec. 12: REPAYMENT TO INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS Repayment for future connections made to the local sewer shall be reimbursed on the basis of the "Fifteen Year Law" (Burns Annot. Stat. Sec. 48-3948 through 48-3967). Sec.. 13: INTERCEPTOR COSTS DEFINED "Interceptor" or "trunk" sewer costs, as used in this ordinance, shall be defined as follows: Sewer costs external to a development of interest will be classed as interceptor costs.' Sewer costs within a development required to service it will be classed as local sewer costs. Oversizing costs as outlined in Section 5 will be considered inter- ceptor costs and shall qualify for refunding. Sec. 14: ALLOCATION OF RECEIPTS The individual connection charges provided in Sec. 6 shall be collected by the Town of Carmel and deposited as follows: (a) To user service line inspection fee: $20.00 (b) Remainder to the Plant Expansion and Improvement Fund. Sec. 15: "OWNERS OF REAL ESTATE" DEFINED ~ owners of real estate, as used in this ordinance, shall mean an individual, firm, company, corporation, governmental unit, or charitable and other non-profit organizations. Soc. 16: ANNEXATION pJS~3NST~NCE Ail persons or corporations, their or its surv~vors, or assigns who shall connect to any sewer main built p.arsuant to this ordinance shall agree in writing prior to said connection, to waive their or its rights to remonstrate against annexation by the Town of Carmel. Sec. 17: EFFECTIVE DATE OF ORDINANCE This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. ADOPTED AND PASSED T~S Z~ DA~ O~ ~ BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN 0F CARMEL, INDIANA. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF TOWN'OF CARMEL Owen S. Kern, Presloenn ATTEST: ' C~erk-Treasurer NOV o~ 1972 PAGE coU,~l/L mDk~A