19-27a09. Maintenance fund; tax levy; user charges.
19-27a09
19-27a09. Maintenance fund; tax levy; user charges.
(a) The governing body of any sewer district shall have power to levy annually
a special maintenance tax for the purpose of creating a maintenance fund
to be used for the purpose of maintaining and keeping in repair
sewer improvements in the district.
(b) In addition to the
special maintenance tax and for
the purpose of sewer improvements or to pay the costs of operation and
maintenance thereof, the governing body may establish a schedule of
charges to be collected from individuals, cities, townships, sewer
districts or other municipalities for the use of the sewer district facilities. Such
charges may be graduated based on the use
required and shall include the consideration of, but not limited to, the
quantity, quality and rate of delivery of waste water contributed.
(c) Any special maintenance tax
or user charge shall become a lien upon the property
against which the levy or service charge is made from the date the levy
or sewer service charge becomes due.
History: L. 1983, ch. 99, § 10; July 1.