LL 01 Sewer Rents (Please Use this Form for Filing your Local law witb the Secretary of State)
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Taoya of ......QUEEIVSBUR.y................. ...... .... ........ ..
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Local Law No. ....I............. . ..... of the year 19 . ..89.....
A local law ., enacted imposing selyt<rerlts, ,the.QuvePsbur y 1.Quaker.Road Sewer.D,istric-t• •.
(insert title)
in the Town of Queensbury, County of Warren, New York, enacted pursuant
to Article i4 (F) of the General Municipal Law and Municipal Home Rule Law
of the State of New York
Be it enacted by the . . ....TQ1Vr? PQerd.. .. .... ... . ...... ............ . . .... .... .... . . . . ... .. . of the
(Name of Legislative Body)
Myy of ...... . .. .....Queensbury.. .. ..... ... ......... ... .... ............ ..... . . .. . as follows:
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ARTICLE I
STATEMENT OF POLICY
Section 1. In order to pay costs within the Central Queensbury/Quaker
Road Sewer District including (1) all costs for the operation, maintenance,
repair of the sewer system hereinafter defined, and all other costs including
sums paid to the City of Glens Falls or others for sewage treatment; (2) the
interest on the amortization of, or payment of indebtedness which has been
or shall be incurred for the construction of said sewer system or part or.parts
thereof, for the purchase and/or construction of sewage treatment and disposal
works with necessary appurtenances, including pumping stations, or for the
cost of extension, enlargement, replacement of, or additions to such sewer
system or part or parts thereof, in that order, and to insure the proper operation,
maintenance and repair of said sewer system. There is hereby established
a Sewer Rent Law pursuant to Article 14(F) of the General Municipal Law
and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York.
AR TICL E ll
DEFINITIONS
As used in this local law, the following terms shall mean and include:
Section I. The terms, "sewer rents" shall mean as established by the
Town Board of the Town of Queensbury within the Central Queensbury/Quaker
Road Sewer District.
Section 2. The term "sewer system" shall mean the sewer system owned
and operated by the Central Queensbury/Quaker Road Sewer District and shall
include all sewer pipes and other appurtenances which are used or useful in
whole or in part in connection with the collection, treatment and/or disposal
of sewage, industrial wastes and other wastes, and which are owned, operated
or maintained by the Central Queensbury/Quaker Road Sewer District, including
pumping stations, and sewage treatment and disposal works and all extensions,
additions and improvements, which may be made to such system.
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Section 3. The term, "part", shall include all lateral sewers or all branch
sewers or all interceptor sewers or all trunk sewers and sewage treatment
and disposal works and each part with necessary appurtenance, including sewage
pumping stations.
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(1)
Section 4. (a) The term, "sewage" shall include the water-carried
human waste from residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other
places, together with such ground water infiltration and surface water as may
be present. The admixture with sewage as above defined of industrial waste
or other waste as hereafter defined, also shall be considered, "sewage" within
the meaning of this ordinance.
(b) The term, " industrial wastes", shall include any liquid,
gaseous, solid or other waste substance or a combination thereof resulting
from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business or from the
development or recovery of any natural resources.
(c) The terms, "other wastes" shall include garbage, refuse,
decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal, tar,
dyestuff, acids, chemicals, and other discarded matter not sewage or industrial
waste.
(d) Provided, however, that none of the foregoing uses of
the sewer system for the items as defined may be made unless in conformity
with the Town of Queensbury Sewer Use Ordinance and all other applicable
rules and regulations of the Town of Queensbury, County of Warren and State
of New York.
Section 5. Residential property shall include a building, structure or
land use designed and occupied exclusively as a human dwelling and upon and
in which no commercial activity or business use is maintained, unless such
activity cr use is in compliance with the Town of Queensbury zoning ordinance
as a home occupation.
Section 6. Non-Residential property shall include a building, structure
or land use designed and occupied for any commercial activity or business
use.
ARTICLE 111
SEWER RENTS
Section 1. There is hereby established and imposed a scale of "sewer
rents" for services rendered by the sewer system to the real property within
the limits of the Central Queensbury/Quaker Road Sewer District.
Charges pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, Subdivision I hereof:
A. For residential properties $50.00 annually for each residential unit,
plus $2.18 per thousand gallons of water metered to such premises in excess
of 75,000 gallons per year.
B. For non-residential properties $2.18 per thousand gallons for water
metered to such premises.
Charges pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, Subdivision 2.
A. For residential properties $7.54 per thousand dollars of assessed
valuation, plus $227.08 per acre of land occupied by said unit on a prorated
basis, plus $50.00 per residential unit for the first 75,000 gallons of water
consumed on said premises and $2.53 per thousand gallons in excess of 75,000
gallons.
B. For non-residential properties $1.54 per thousand dollars of assessed
valuation, plus $227.08 per acre for each acre of land occupied by said unit
on a prorated basis, plus $2.53 per thousand gallons of water consumed on
said premises.
Section 2. For treatment of industrial wastes or other wastes as defined
herein if any additional treatment is required because of undue concentration
of solids or any other substances which add to the operating costs, the Town
Board is authorized to fix and determine such additional sewer rent charges
therefore, as shall be equitable, in addition to the sewer rents set forth in
the proceding paragraphs.
(2)
Section 3. Sewer rents shall begin to accrue as of January 1, 1989
for use after that date and shall be billed as follows:
(a) Annual charges for residential properties of $50.00 per
residential unit and annual charges of $1.54 per thousand dollars of assessed
valuations for residential and nonresidential properties and $227.08 per acre
of land occupied, shall be billed in advance in the month of January of each
year.
(b) Charges based on water meter readings shall be billed
quarter annually in advance on February 1, May 1, August I and November
I of each calendar year based upon the water meter reading for the most recent
preceding quarter calendar year.
ARTICLE IV
ADMINISTRATION
Section I. All sewer rents shall be due and payable at the Office of the
Town Tax Collector.
Section 2. Bills will be sent out to all property owners by the Town Tax
Collector and the failure of any property owner to receive a bill promptly
shall not excuse nonpayment of the same, and in the event the property owner
fails to receive a bill promptly, he shall demand the some at the Town Tax
Collector's Office.
Section 3. Terms of payment: Bills will be rendered at the net amount
and will be due on the last business day of the calendar month when rendered.
Secti-n 4. If bills are not paid within one (7) month from the date due,
a penalty of five (.5%) percent will be added to the some and if unpaid thereafter,
a penalty of one (1%) percent per month will be added until the amount shall
have been paid or until the sewer rent is levied in accordance with Section
6 hereof.
Section 5. Sewer use rents shall constitute a lien upon the real property
served by the sewer system or such part or parts thereof for which sewer rents
are hereby established. The lien shall be prior to and superior to every other
lien or claim except the lien of an existing tax assessment or other lawful
charge imposed by or for the state or a political subdivision or district thereof.
Section 6. The Town Tax Collector shall annually on or before the Ist
day of April, certify the amounts of all unpaid sewer rents including penalties,
computed to the first day of March with a description of the real property
affected thereby and shall present such certificate to the Town Board which
shall enter the same or an abstract thereof in the minutes of the meeting.
The Town Board shall levy such amounts against the real property liable therefor
as part of the annual Town tax levy, setting forth such amounts in separate
columns in the annual tax roll. The sewer rent fund shall be credited with
the amount of all such unpaid sewer rents, including penalties, and such amounts,
when collected, shall be credited to the general fund. The amounts so levied
shall be collected and enforced in the same manner and at the some time as
other Town charges.
ARTICLE V
EFFECTIVE DATE
Section 1. This local law shall take effect immediately.
(3)
(Complete the certification in the paragraph which applies to the filing of this local law and strike out the matter
therein which Is not applicable.)
1. (Final adoption by local legislative body only.)
1 hereb certify that the local law annexed hereto,designated as local law No. ...1.. .. of 19 99.....
.Gi4tl�r;t
of the COX of ..QVffMP:1.7 '. , was duly passed by the ..,Town Board. ... . . , .
Town (Name of Legislative Body)
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on.......!.4nuory,..l7_....... 19 in accordance with the applicable provisions of law.
2. (Passage by local legislativt body with approval or no disapproval by Elective Chief Executive Officer,*
or repassage after disapproval.)
I hereby certify that the local law annexed hereto,designated as local law No. ......... of 19........
County
of the City of . ...... ........ . was duly passed by the ... ... . .. ... . . . . .. . . . . . ... ..... . ..
Town (Name of Legislative Body)
Village
not disapproved
on ............................. 19........ and was approved by the .. .. . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .. . ..
repassed after disapproval Elective Chief Executive Officer*
and was deemed duly adopted on .................................. 19 ......... in accordance with the applicable
provisions of law.
3. (Final adoption by referendum.)
1 hereby certify that the local law annexed hereto,designated as local law No. ........ of 19 ........
County
of the City of ................ was duly passed by the ........... .... . . ... .. ... . ... . .
Town (Name of Legislative Body)
Village
not disapproved
on ............................. 19 ........ and was approved by the ......... . .. .. . . .. . .... .. ...
repassed after disapproval Elective Chief Executive Officer*
on .................................. 19 .......... Such local law was submitted to the people by reason of a
mandatory permissive referendum, and received the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors voting
general
thereon at the special election held on .............................19 ......... in accordance with the applicable
annual
provisions of law.
4. (Subject to permissive referendum,and final adoption because no valid petition filed requesting referendum.)
f hereby certify that the local law annexed hereto,designated as local law No. ........ of 19........
County .
City
ofthe Town of ....:........... was duly passed by the ........... .... ... ...........
(Name of Legislative Body)
Village
not disapproved
on............................. 19........ and was approved by the ............................
repassed after disapproval Elective chief Executive Officer*
on .................................. 19 .......... Such local law being subject to a permissive referendum and no
valid petition requesting such referendum having been filed, said local law was deemed duly adopted
on .............................19.........in accordance with the applicable provisions of law.
'Elective Chief Executive Officer means or Includes the chief executive officer of a county elected on a county-wide basis or,if
there be some,the chairman of the county legislative body,the mayor of a city or village or the supervisor of a town where such
officer Is vested with power to approve or veto local laws or ordinances.
(4)
S. (City local law concerning Charter revision proposed by petition.)
I hereby certify that the local law annexed hereto,designated as local law No. ........ of 19 ........
of the City of ................................... having been submitted to referendum pursuant to the
provisions of 137 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, and having received the affirmative vote of a
majority of the qualified electors of such city voting thereon at the special general election held on ............
............ 19......... became operative.
6. (County local law concerning adoption of Charter.)
I hereby certify that the local law annexed hereto,designated as local law No. ........ of 19.........
of the County of .. ....................State of New York, having been submitted to the Electors at the
General Election of November ......... .... 19.......pursuant to subdivisions S and 7 of section 33 of the
Municipal Home Rule Law, and having received the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors
of the cities of said county as a unit and of a majority of the qualified electors of the towns of said county
considered as a unit voting at said general election,became operative.
(If any other authorized form of final adoption has been followed, please provide an appropriate certifica-
tion.)
1 further certify that I have compared the preceding local law with the original on file in this office
and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of such original local law, and was
finally adopted in the manner indicated in paragraph ....I........above.
Clerk of the County legislative body,City,Town or Villase Clerk or
officer designated by local legislative body
Date:
(Seal)
(Certification to be executed by County Attorney, Corporation Counsel, Town Attorney, Village Attorney or
other authorized Attorney of locality.)
STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF.............V..prm.,..........
1, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing local law contains the correct text and that all
proper proceedings have been had or taken for the enact�rrt of thefocal.law annexed hereto.
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NYS Department of State F: �-
Bureau of State Records "�-
162 Washington Avenue
Albany,NY 1 223 1-0001 `
•:.y � .te .- .. .,
Darleen M. DougTiiff,r Town"Clerk
Town of Queensbury
Town Office Bldg, Bay at Harlland Rds.
Queensbury, NY 12801
L/6/89
Local Law(s)No. 1
Year 1969
Municipality Town ot Queensbury
Please be advised that til above-referenced material was received and filed by
this office on_____—
/89
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NYS Department of State
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