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ORDINANCE NO. 146.-
AN ORDINANCE FOR THE REGULATION AND OPERATION
OF THE MUNICIPALLY OWNED SEWAGE SYSTEM OF THE
VILLAGE 'OF DEERFIELD, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS,
FIXING RATES AND CHARGES FOR THE USE THEREOF,
AND PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION OF SAID RATES
AND CHARGES
BE IT ORDAINED by.the President and Board of Trustees of the
Village of Deerfield, Lake County, Illinois, that:
Section 1. For any lot, parcel,of land, building or premises
situated within the corporate limits of the Village of Deerfield, Illinois,
and having any connection with or abutting on a street or ways served by
the Village Sanitary Sewerage System of otherwise discharging sanitary
sewerage, industrial wastes, water or other liquid, either directly or in-
directly, into the Village Sanitary Sewerage System, there shall be and
there are hereby established rates and charges for the use and service of
the sewage system of the Village. Such rates and charges shall be based on
G'1 the amount of water supplied by the municipal water works system as shown
by the water meter readings for each two month period, and shall be as
follows:
20¢ per 100 cubic feet first 2,000 pubic feet
18¢ per 100 cubic feet next 3,000 cubic feet
16¢ per 100 cubic feet next 5,000 cubic feet
14¢ per 100 cubic feet next 50,000 cubic feet
12¢ per 100 cubic feet over 60,000 cubic feet
Provided that for all premises that have been occupied during the
preceding winter, the bill for each two -month period shall be based on the
water used during the two -month period which included the preceding month
of January.
The minimum charge shall be ninetj cents (.90) per month.
In all cases in which users of said sewer service are not supplied
with water from the municipal water works system, the charge for the use of
the sewage service shall be such as may be set by'ordinance from time to time
but not less than a minimum of $1.80 each two months or fraction thereof,
plus fifty cents (.50) additional for each person over three (3) living or
employed on the premises served by said sewage system on the first day of each
period for which such charge is made. The charge to premises outside the cor-
porate limits served by the municipalsewer system shall be three and one -half
(3j) times the charge for similar service to premises within the corporate
limits, provided that ten per -cent additional shall be paid if the bill is
not -paid by the eighteenth (18th) of the month following the last month for
which it is rendered.
Section 2. For any lot, land, building, or premises from which
connection is made with the Village Sanitary Sewerage System, or which begins
to discharge sewage, industrial wasted, water or other liquids into the
Village Sanitary Sewerage System, either directly or indirectly, after the
ordinance becomes effective, a charge shall be made pursuant to this ordinance,
the same to be a per diem pro rata amount based upon the minimum rate per
month from the time such sewer connection is made or such discharge into the
Village Sewerage System, either directly or indirectly, is begun until the
next following billing period, except should the measured service exceed the
minimum charge the correspondin g measured rate or rates shall be charged.
Section 3. If at any time rates or charges herein mixed shall
not be sufficient to pay the cost of operating and maintaining the sewerage
system, to provide an adequate depreciation fund, and to pay the principal of
and interest upon the sewerage revenue bonds payable from the revenues derived
from the operation of said sewerage system, which may then be outstanding, the
President and Board of Trustees shall forthwith increase the rates fixed by
this ordinance, so that the same shall be sufficient to provide adequate
revenues for said purpose.
Section 4. Chargessfor said sewer service shall be made at the
time that water bills are sent out to each user.
Section 5 In the event the charges for sewer services are not
paid within thirty (30 days after rendition of the bill for such service,
such charges shall be deemed and are hereby declared to be delinquent, and
thereafter such charges shall be deemed and are hereby declared to be de-
linquent, and thereafter such delinquency shall constitute a lien upon the
real estate for which such service is supplied, and the Village Clerk be
and he is hereby authorized and directed to file sworn'statements showing
such delinquencies in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Lake County,
Illinois, and the filing of such statement shall be deemed notice of the lien
of such charges for such service.
Section 6. All sewer service shall be discontinued without
further notice if the rates or charges for such service axt not paid within
thirty (30) days after rendition of the bill therefor.
Section 7. The rates and charges herein established shall be
collected from the otwners, occupants and users of the premises within said
Village from and after the effective date of this ordinance.
Section 8. When this ordinance becomes effective, a copy thereof,
properly certified by the Village Clerk, shall be filed in the Office of
the Recorder of Deeds of Lake County, Illinois, and it shall be deemed
notice to all owners of real estate of their liability for sewer service to
any occupant or user of such service on their property.
Section 9. The Village reserves the right to make such reasonable
changes in rates and in the regulation and use of the sewerage system and to
establish further collection regulations from time to time as may be deemed
necessary.
Section 10. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after November 1, 1954.
ATTEST:
Ville[ge Clerk
PASSED: This 26th day of October, A.D., 1954.
RECORDED: This 27th day of October, A.D., 1954.
APPROVED:
President, Village of Deerfield,
Lake County,Illinois.
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