City of Revelstoke

CONSOLIDATED FOR CONVENIENCE
SEWER REGULATIONS BYLAW NO. 1683 - 2002

(CONSOLIDATED COPY – Includes Amendments
Enacted by Bylaw No. No. 1760 and 1910)

CONSOLIDATED FOR CONVENIENCE

All persons making use of this consolidated version of City of Revelstoke Bylaw No. 1683 – 2002 are advised that it has no legislative sanction; that the amendments have been embodied for convenience of reference only and that the original by-law must be consulted for all purposes of interpreting and applying the law.

Sub sections of the original bylaw and/or amendments which have been repealed have not been included in this consolidation.

CITY OF REVELSTOKE
BYLAW #1683

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A Bylaw to provide for the regulation of the sewer works system and
to establish a scale of charges therefore.
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WHEREAS pursuant to Section 517(1) of the Local Government Act, the Council may by by-law, establish any service that it considers necessary or desirable for all or part of the municipal-ity and regulate in relation to a service.

NOW THEREFORE the Council of the City of Revelstoke, Province of British Columbia, in open meeting assembled enacts as follows:

1. TITLE

This bylaw may be cited for all purposes as the City of Revelstoke “Sewer Regulations Bylaw No. 1683, 2002”.


2. INTERPRETATION

In this bylaw, unless the context otherwise requires:

“Building Inspector” means the Building Inspector, as approved by the Council of the Corporation of the City of Revelstoke, from time to time.

“City” means the City of Revelstoke.

“Combined sewer” means a public sewer receiving both storm sewer and sewage.

“Customer” means the owner or occupier of real property or an agent acting on behalf of the owner or occupier.

“Director of Finance” means the person appointed as such by the Council of the City and any person delegated to assist him in carrying out his duties under this bylaw.

"Domestic Sewage" means the septic discharge and waste from a residential dwelling unit.

“Industrial or commercial premise” means a building or self-contained part thereof, occupied and used for other than a dwelling, including but not restricted to warehouses, stores, eating places, wholesale or retail business places and office blocks, packing houses, canneries, processing plants, manufacturing plants, and apartments or condominiums where water must be stored and collected from a single point on the premises.

"Medical Health Officer" means the Medical Health Officer, or designate, for the Provincial Ministry of Health in the City of Revelstoke.

“Multi-residential dwelling premise” means a premise that contains four or more individual dwelling units which are self-contained and non-strata.

“Natural outlet” means any outlet into a watercourse, pool, ditch, lake, bay, ocean or other body of surface sewer or into ground sewer.

“Occupier” means any person to whom a sewer service is rendered.

“Owner” means the registered owner, or the person named as the registered owner on the tax roll by reason of agreement for sale, of any lands and premises situated within the City boundaries and shall, where applicable, include the agent, executor or administrator of such owner or the lessee or occupier of the premises.

“Person” shall, in addition to its ordinary meaning, include a firm or partnership, company or corporation. In addition, throughout this bylaw where the context requires, the singular shall be held to mean and to include the plural and the masculine, the feminine or body corporate.

"Pre-Treatment" means the alteration, reduction or elimination of pollutants in wastewater to a less harmful state.

“Properly ground garbage” means the waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of foods, ground to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers.

“Public sewer” means a sewer which is controlled by the City and which is intended for public use.

“Residential dwelling premise” means an individual dwelling unit that is self-contained which would include, but not exclusively, single family dwellings, suites contained therein (approved or otherwise), duplexes or triplexes, and strata units.

“Sanitary building sewer or sanitary house sewer” means the sewer extending from the property line of the property concerned to the building or structure situated thereon and joining the sewer connection to the plumbing system at the building.

“Sanitary sewer” means a public sewer to which private storm, surface and ground sewer connections are strictly prohibited.

“Sanitary sewer lateral or sanitary building sewer connection” means a sewer pipe ex-tending from a public sewer to the property line of the property being served or about to be served.

"Sanitary Sewer System" means the sewerage works and all appurtenances to it owned and operated by the City of Revelstoke, its agents or contractors, within any highway, municipal right-of-way or easement, including pumping stations, treatment plants, la-goons and sewer effluent outfalls.

"Septage" means a combination of water carried liquid and solid wastes and/or settled solids from residences, businesses and institutions normally collected in a septic tank, holding tank, or accumulated in wastewater lines.

“Septage Waste” means septage that meets the quality criteria specified in Schedule “E” of this Bylaw.

“Service Connection” means the pipe and appurtenances, which connect a Sanitary Building Sewer to the Sanitary Sewer System.

“Sewage” means sewer carried wastes from residences, buildings, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm sewer as may be present, or any combination of such wastes and shall include:

A) “Industrial wastes” meaning the wastes from industrial processes;
B) “Storm waters” meaning sewer resulting from a period of natural precipitation;
C) “Sanitary sewage” meaning the portion of sewage exclusive of industrial waste and storm waters.

“Sewer” means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.

“Sewerage Treatment Plant” means the devices and facilities used for the treatment and processing of sewage.

“Standard Methods” means the methods set out in the current edition of the publication “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater” by the American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.

“Storm sewer or storm drains” means a public sewer which carries storm and surface water but excludes sewage and industrial waste.

“Superintendent of Public Works” means the person appointed as such by the Council of the City and any person delegated to assist him in carrying out his duties under this by-law.

“Suspended solids” means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.

“Trucked Waste” means any sewage or waste approved by the Superintendent of Public Works for discharge into the Sanitary Sewer System which is transported to a designated discharge location.

“Waste Discharge Permit” means a permit issued pursuant to this Bylaw for the discharge of non-domestic sewage into the Sanitary Sewer System or a watercourse, or into a disposal system connected to the Sanitary Sewer System or a watercourse.

“Watercourse” means a channel, ravine, gully or other similar depression in which a flow of water naturally occurs, either continuously or intermittently.


3. SEWER SYSTEM USAGE

No person within the City shall utilise the sewer system except in accordance with the provisions of this bylaw.


4. SEWER SYSTEM

4.01 The City is authorised to establish a sewer system, including a piped distribution system, lift stations, sewage treatment plant and a river discharge system which shall be under the control of the Superintendent of Public Works.

4.02 The City is authorised to establish a billing and collection system under the control and inspection of the Director of Finance.

4.03 All applications for connection to the sewer system shall be made in writing in the required form by the owner of the property to which the application refers or by the owner’s duly authorised agent.

4.04 All applications for service shall state the purpose for which the service is to be used, the size of pipe and the number of outlets in connection with such installation together with the legal description and location of the property or buildings in which the installation is to be made and any other information deemed necessary by the City to determine the correct charges to be levied under this bylaw.

4.05 Additional applications for service shall be made in the same manner as in 4.03 for all extensions of service to additional buildings and for the installation of additional outlets in buildings already receiving service.
4.06 Every owner or occupier of a residential dwelling, multi-residential or commercial premise within the City and connected, or capable of being connected to the sewer system under 5.11 shall pay the rates, fees and penalties set out in Schedules "A", "B" and "C", except those who have applied for and have been granted a discontinuance or suspension of service for which special provisions apply later in this bylaw.

4.07 The Superintendent of Public Works may refuse to issue a service connection where, in the opinion of the Superintendent of Public Works:

(1) The Sanitary Sewer System would be incapable of handling the additional load or the load would cause danger of sewer overflow and flooding of the real property.
(2) The sewage proposed to be discharged is or may be injurious to, or may impair the efficiency of the Sanitary Sewer System or the Sewerage Treatment Plant.
(3) The sewage does not comply with the terms and conditions set out in this Bylaw.

4.08 Where the Sanitary Sewer System is not available, every owner on which a building or structure exists for any human occupancy or use, or is intended for any human occupancy or use, shall connect the Building Sewer to a private sewage disposal which shall be installed, operated and maintained by the owner in accordance with all applicable City Bylaws, the Health Act and any other applicable regulation.

4.09 Where a real property has been served by a septic tank system and is subsequently connected to the Sanitary Sewer System, the owner shall within one (1) month of the connection, remove or clean out the septic tank system and fill in the tank or excavation with clean fill so that no danger of a cave-in shall exist.

4.10 No person shall connect any septic tank system to the Sanitary Sewer System or a Service Connection.

4.11 No person shall disconnect or in any manner discontinue the sewage service of any building or structure connected to the Sanitary Sewer System without the written permission of the Superintendent of Public Works.

4.12 Where any building or structure which is connected to the Sanitary Sewer System is to be demolished, or the building or structure may be disconnected from the Sanitary Sewer System, the owner shall first make application to the Building Inspector for a Demolition Permit and pay a disconnection fee as set out in Schedule “C” of this Bylaw.

4.13 Where any Building Sewer is abandoned, the owner shall block the Building Sewer at the Service Connection with a watertight seal and shall have the seal inspected by the Building Inspector prior to covering the site.

4.14 Every person who violates any of the provisions of this bylaw or who neglects to do or refrains from doing anything required to be done by any of the provisions of this bylaw, or who does any act which violates any of the provisions of this by-law, shall be deemed to be guilty of an infraction thereof, and liable to the penal-ties hereby imposed.

4.15 Every person guilty of an infraction of this bylaw shall be upon summary conviction in a Court of competent jurisdiction be liable to a fine as set out in Schedule "B".


5. CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

5.01 The owner of lands or premises to which a sewer service has been provided here-under shall install and keep in good repair all pipes, joints, valves and materials and generally shall comply will all bylaws of the City in that behalf. If the same or any portion thereof is found to be defective or inoperative or if sewage is being discharged unlawfully, the City, by its officer or agent in that behalf, may require immediate remedy thereof and the owner or occupier shall remedy the same forthwith. In the event of failure to remedy, as aforesaid, sewer service may be discontinued until such remedy is effected and no reduction in user charges shall be applicable. Upon payment of the required fees as provided for in the attached schedules the sewer service may be resumed.

5.02 Any building sewer connected to a public sewer or sewer connection without a permit therefore, or any building sewer depositing into a public sewer or into a sewer connection thence to a public sewer any sewage, substance or matter prohibited by this Bylaw may be disconnected, stopped up and closed by the authority of the Superintendent of Public Works.

5.03 Where possible, every existing building sanitary sewer shall include within its building or structure or in an approved location outside the building the installation of a standard sump and backwater valve installed and designed to the specifications and satisfaction of the Building Inspector. The Superintendent of Public Works may dispense with the necessity of a backwater valve where he is of the opinion that the property lies at such an elevation that there would be no danger of flooding of the property as a result of surcharge or back-up in the sanitary sewer.

5.04 Where any building or structure on any real property is used, or intended to be used, for any industrial, commercial or institutional purpose, the Superintendent of Public Works may require the use of interceptors in the Building Sewer for the control of sewage containing grease, flammable substances, sand, grit, or any other harmful ingredient.

5.05 Interceptors required pursuant to this Bylaw, shall be installed and maintained by the owner at the owner's expense and shall be of the quantity and type as pre-scribed by the Superintendent of Public Works and shall be located so as to be easily accessible for inspection.

5.06 No person shall discharge, deposit or throw, or allow or permit to be discharged, deposited or thrown into any part of the Sanitary Sewer System:

(1) any sewage or waste of any kind except as provided for in this Bylaw;
(2) any substance which, in the opinion of the Superintendent of Public Works, may obstruct, injure or interfere with the Sanitary Sewer System or Sewerage Treatment Plant;
(3) any Prohibited Waste, Restricted Waste or Specified Waste as set out in Schedule "E" of this Bylaw; or
(4) any sludge or deposit contained in any septic tank except where authorized by the Superintendent of Public Works and subject to the fees set out in Schedule "A";
(5) any sewage or waste that originates outside the Municipal boundaries.

5.07 Every person wanting to discharge trucked waste into the Sanitary Sewer System shall:

(1) Establish and maintain a valid credit account with the City of Revelstoke.
(2) Prior to discharge, provide a signed declaration for each truckload identifying the date, origin and type of waste. This declaration shall be signed by the owner or occupier of real property at the origin of the waste.
(3) Provide, when required by the Superintendent of Public Works, a laboratory analysis of the waste to be discharged.
(4) Obtain written authorization from the Superintendent of Public Works for all non-domestic trucked waste. This authorization shall be obtained prior to trucking and discharging wastes.

5.08 Where, in the opinion of the Superintendent of Public Works, any person discharges or proposes to discharge any waste into the Sanitary Sewer System or a watercourse which does not comply with the terms and conditions set out in this Bylaw, the Superintendent of Public Works may:

(1) prohibit the waste from being discharged;
(2) require the person, at the person's expense, to install, operate and maintain:

(a) flow-equalizing equipment and facilities to control the quantity and rate of sewage;
(b) pre-treatment equipment and facilities to provide pre-treatment of the sewage to meet the terms and conditions set out in this Bylaw; and
(c) monitoring equipment and facilities to monitor the quantity and content of the sewage;

(3) charge an additional fee to cover the added cost of handling and treating the sewage;
(4) require the person to obtain a professional consultant's report on the effect of the sewage on the Sanitary Sewer System.

5.09 Where any person discharges any sewage or waste into the Sanitary Sewer Sys-tem or a watercourse which requires treatment or removal by the City to comply with the terms and conditions set out in this Bylaw, that person shall be responsible to pay to the City the costs of treatment or removal which shall be:

(1) the actual cost to treat or removal all substances which must be treated or removed to comply with the terms and conditions set out in this Bylaw;
(2) in the case of BOD5, COD and TSS which exceeds the limits set out in Schedule "E" of this Bylaw, an additional treatment charge as set out in Schedule "D" of this Bylaw; and
(3) the actual cost to repair or replace any part of the Sanitary Sewer System or Treatment Plant damaged, injured or rendered inoperable by the discharge.

5.10 No person shall discharge into the Sanitary Sewer System or any watercourse, any Industrial Discharge without first obtaining a Waste Discharge Permit from the Superintendent of Public Works and written permission from the Medical Health Officer.

5.11 Every person wanting to discharge Industrial Discharge into the Sanitary Sewer System, a private sewer or a watercourse, shall first make application to the Superintendent of Public Works for and obtain a Waste Discharge Permit at least sixty (60) days prior to the discharge and pay the fee set out in Schedule "D" of this Bylaw.

5.12 Every Waste Discharge Permit shall be subject to the following:

(1) The permit shall be valid for a period of five (5) years unless otherwise specified on the permit.
(2) The rate of discharge for a twenty-four (24) hour period shall not exceed the extra capacity of the sewer system after all other regular users have been accommodated.
(3) Where required by the Superintendent of Public Works, the owner of the real property shall install, operate and maintain on the property, holding facilities, pumps, valves and flow regulating and measuring devices to determine flow rate.
(4) The Superintendent of Public Works may cancel or modify any Waste Discharge Permit where:

(a) federal, provincial or local regulations change with respect to the discharge.
(b) adverse weather, environmental or geographic conditions affect the City's ability to accept or process the discharge; or
(c) the permit holder does not meet the terms and conditions set out in the permit.

(5) Discharge into a watercourse or similar outlet is also subject to the approval of the Medical Health Officer and the Provincial Ministry of Environment.

5.13 Every holder of a Waste Discharge Permit shall meet the following requirements as set out in the permit, including but not limited to:

(1) control the quantity and content of the discharge;
(2) install sampling chambers and meet sampling program requirements;
(3) provide spill control measures and accidental spill prevention plans; (4) provide sludge control plans and solvent management plans;
(5) meet maintenance requirements;
(6) install monitoring equipment and meet monitoring requirements;
(7) keep records and meet reporting requirements;
(8) conduct or allow studies to evaluate discharge limits or compliance; and
(9) comply with all applicable federal, provincial and local regulations.

5.14 Every holder of a Waste Discharge Permit shall, where and as directed by the Superintendent of Public Works, provide:

(1) a means of inspection to facilitate inspection, sampling and measurement of the discharge;
(2) sampling chambers which shall be located on a highway and in such a manner that flow measuring and sampling equipment, and a shutoff gate or screen, can be readily installed by the City; or
(3) an automatic sampler and analyzer or flow measurement device to monitor the discharge.

5.15 Samples of sewage shall be taken at the sampling chamber of the real property as provided for in this Bylaw, and where a sampling chamber is not required or does not exist, samples shall be taken from the sewer at the nearest downstream man-hole from the Service Connection of the real property.

5.16 All testing, analysis and measurement of sewage made pursuant to this Bylaw shall be in accordance with the standard methods.

5.17 Every holder of a Waste Discharge Permit shall maintain records relating to the discharge as set out in the permit, including:

(1) routine maintenance;
(2) flow and disposal records;
(3) self-monitoring reports;
(4) analytical lab results;
(5) dates and times of sample collection and batch discharges;
(6) pH and equipment calibration and pH monitoring records;
(7) any other information or data requested by the Superintendent of Public Works.

Records required to be kept pursuant to this Section shall be retained for a minimum of five (5) years and shall be made available to the Superintendent of Public Works at all reasonable times.

5.18 Every person with an existing Waste Discharge Permit who proposes to:

(1) change the volume of the waste flow by 20% or more;
(2) change the characteristics of the waste;
(3) establish a new point of discharge;
(4) add a new or different process, product, or a manufacturing line that will increase or decrease the concentration of pollutants in the waste stream or require modification in the operation of the pre-treatment system;
(5) add new or different pre-treatment equipment; or
(6) alter a sample site;

shall first make application to the Superintendent of Public Works for a new Waste Discharge Permit at least thirty (30) days prior to making any change, addition or alteration.

5.19 Where a person has been required by the Superintendent of Public Works to pro-vide pre-treatment of sewage, that person shall not dilute the sewage in any way as a substitution for the required treatment, unless dilution is expressly authorized by the Superintendent of Public Works as part of the pre-treatment process.

5.20 Any person who becomes aware of the discharge of regulated or prohibited sub-stances directly or indirectly into the Sanitary Sewer System shall immediately report the discharge to the Superintendent of Public Works.

5.21 No person other than the City, its servants, employees, agents contractors or licences shall install or cause to be installed any part of a sewer connection or in any way break, interfere or tamper with any public sewer, open or tamper with a manhole cover or other appurtenance forming part of the sewer.

5.22 No person shall give, sell, permit or allow any person not legally entitled to sewer service under this bylaw use of the sewer system provided to his lands or premises.

5.23 No person shall cause any sanitary building sewer to be connected to the public sewer system without first having received permission from the City and paying the required fees under this bylaw.

5.24 If the City disapproves of a proposed connection, the applicant shall be so in-formed, the reasons for such disapproval given, and any fees deposited by the applicant shall be refunded.

5.25 The City shall require any owner of real property upon which is situated a building or structure to connect to the public sewer providing if it is available in the manner prescribed herein, by mailed notice to the owner or occupier at the ad-dress shown on the last available tax roll requiring connection within sixty (60) days of receipt of such notice or further period as may be allowed by the Council:

(1) If after the expiration of the sixty (60) day period or other period specified, the owner or occupier served with such notice has failed to or neglected to construct and install a building sewer and to connect his building or structure to the public sewer system as required, the City may enter upon the subject property and cause the connection to be made.
(2) The costs and expenses incurred by the City of installing the building sewer, including any costs and expenses incidental thereto, shall be charged against the owner or occupier of the subject property and they shall be jointly and severally liable to pay such costs and expenses upon demand.
(3) Any such costs or expenses remaining unpaid as outlined in 2) above shall form a lien or charge upon the subject property, and in the event said lien or charge is not paid by December 31 of the year in which it is due and payable, the amount of such lien or charge shall be entered on the tax roll as taxes in arrears by the City.

5.26 If an application for an additional service pipe to any one site is allowed by the Superintendent of Public Works in accordance with Section 4.05 he may require that the sewer piping within a building served by two service pipes be interconnected.

5.27 The location of a service pipe shall be at the discretion of the Superintendent of Public Works. If an owner or occupier requests that a service pipe be installed at a location other than that proposed by the Superintendent of Public Works, and if the Superintendent of Public Works approves such location, the owner or occupier shall pay the connection fee as provided in Schedule "C", plus any costs in excess of the connection fee attributable to the alternative location.

(1) No person shall connect, cause to be connected, or allow to remain connected, any piping, apparatus, fitting or fixture, container or other appliance in a manner which causes noise or pressure surges, or allows sewage from a source other than the City’s system, or waste water, or any other harmful material to enter the City’s system or creates any other disturbance that, in the opinion of the Superintendent of Public Works, may result in annoyance to other customers or damage to the sewer system.
(2) Where any such conditions exist, the Superintendent of Public Works may give notice to the customer to correct the fault within 96 hours (4 days) or such lesser period as may be specified in the notice.
(3) If a customer fails to comply with such notice within the time specified, the Superintendent of Public Works may either:

(a) have the sewer service shut off until the fault has been corrected, or
(b) take such other action, either on or off the customer’s property, as he deems appropriate to correct the fault or to reduce the possibility of further annoyance to other customers or damage to the sewer system, or
(c) have any necessary remedial work carried out.

and any costs incurred may be recovered as a charge under this bylaw. Any shut off of sewer service under this section shall not constitute a discontinuance of service for the purposes of determining user charges.

5.28 The City does not guarantee continuous availability of sewer service, nor does it accept responsibility at any time for the maintenance of its lines. The City re-serves the right at any and all times and without notice to change the sewer operating conditions, to shut off sewer service, or otherwise interrupt the sewer service for the purposes of making repairs, extensions, alterations or improvements or for any other reason at any time. Neither the City, its officers, employees or agents shall incur any liability of any kind whatsoever by reason of the cessation in whole or in part of sewer service, or by reason of the sewer containing prohibited substances or material of any kind.

5.29 The City shall have the right to limit or discontinue sewer service to any customer or to limit the hours during which sewer may be used should circumstances deem such action to be warranted in the public interest by the Superintendent of Public Works.

5.30 All sewer pipes, connections, appurtenances or facilities carrying sewer to the customer’s property line, which are constructed whether at the customer’s expense or at the City’s expense in present or future public highways or within the City’s right-of-way or City property, shall be the property of the City.

5.31 No interruption of service of any kind to lands and premises shall entitle the owner or occupier of such lands and premises a reduction in user charges unless otherwise specifically provided for in this bylaw.

5.32 The Superintendent of Public Works and any person under his authority is hereby authorised an empowered to enter at all reasonable times upon any property in order to ascertain whether the provisions of this bylaw are being carried out and for such purpose to enter onto such property in order to:

(1) determine the size, depth, location and condition of any sewer, building sewer and all connections made and utilised therewith;
(2) determine the location and method and place of discharge of roof and surface drains and plumbing fixtures;
(3) inspect, observe, measure, sample and test the quantity and nature of sew-age being discharged into any public sewer, natural outlet or watercourse.

6. SEWER EXTENSION

6.01 Applications for extensions of sewer mains and sewer laterals shall be in writing.

6.02 The Superintendent of Public Works shall, in all cases, decide what size of sewer main and service laterals are to be installed, but shall not prescribe a sewer main of a size smaller than six (6) inches, unless there are circumstances which clearly justify a smaller size for specific reasons.

6.03 The customer, as referred to hereinafter, shall be a customer of permanent and established type (exclusive of Real Estate Developer or Builder) who receives sewer services at a premise improved by structures of a permanent nature.

6.04 Any sewer main and/or service lateral extension installed hereunder shall become and remain the sole property of the City.

6.05 The size, type, quality of materials and their location will be specified by the City and the actual construction will be done by the City or its contractor.

6.06 The applicant or applicants for an extension to the sewer system shall pay the actual cost of the extension to the City prior to the extension being made by the City. The cost of the extension will be estimated and any monies due after the ex-tension is completed shall be paid to the City prior to the service connection(s) being made, and if there are any surplus funds after the extension has been completed, they will be refunded to the applicant or applicants.

6.07 Where an applicant or applicants for an extension to the sewer system pays for the entire cost of the extension they shall be eligible for a refund based on the actual frontage charge to each property that fronts on the new line and that connects to the line, within the extension distance.

6.08 Where more than one applicant is involved in the original extension any refunds shall be divided proportionately according to each applicant’s original investment in the extension.

6.09 At no time will the applicant or applicants receive refunds greater than their original cost of the line fronting their property.

6.10 No refunds shall be made after five (5) years of completion of the extension.

6.11 Where an applicant or applicants so desire they may apply to the City in writing to pay the cost of such extension over not more than five (5) years. The installments shall be equal annual installments that shall be added to the annual tax notice of the subject property and shall include interest at 1% over the City’s bank’s prime rate at the date of approval of such installment plan.


7. FEES AND CHARGES

General

7.01 Any person being the owner or occupier of lands and premises to which sewer service hereunder is provided, shall pay to the City the rates established under this bylaw in accordance with the attached Schedules and each owner and occupier of such lands and premises shall be jointly and severally liable for such charges.

7.02 The fees applicable under this bylaw for residential dwelling premises shall be added to the tax notices for the applicable calendar year.

7.03 The Director of Finance is hereby authorised, following the appropriate resolution from Council, to change the frequency of fee collection for residential dwellings and establish an invoicing system to accommodate such change.

7.04 The fees applicable under this bylaw for multi-residential dwelling premises and commercial premises shall be invoiced quarterly in advance. The invoices will be sent to the last known address of the owner or occupier of the property on December 1, March 1, May 1 and August 1, or as soon thereafter as possible, and will be due for payment not more than thirty days thereafter, except that when a property becomes vacant all sewer charges outstanding become due and payable immediately.

7.05 The owner of lands or premises situated in whole or in part outside of the corporate limits of the City to which sewer services is supplied from time to time shall pay to the City for the use thereof at the rate shown in Schedule "A".

7.06 Where in any lands or premises there are contained more than one rate classification, the rate applicable for each separate classification shall be charged in accordance with Schedule "A".

7.07 The connection fees set out in Schedule "C" shall be inclusive of all inspection fees and are in addition to costs set out in Section 6 for sewer main extensions and service lateral installation.

7.08 Every carrier of trucked waste with a valid credit account shall be billed monthly on the basis of user fees as set out in Schedule "A" of this Bylaw. Fees are due and payable within 30 days from the date of billing. The carrier is responsible for the payment of all accounts in arrears, and the City may refuse service until such arrears have been paid in full.

Notification of Charges

7.09 The owner or occupier of property shall be deemed to have received notification of sewer charges if said notification was mailed or otherwise delivered to the ad-dress contained in the City's utility invoicing system, and no person shall be discharged or relieved from liability in respect of such fees and charges or from penalties attached to non-payment hereby imposed by reason of non-receipt of any statement of account thereof. The date of notification of charges shall be the in-voice date in accordance with section 7.04.

Non-payment Provisions

7.10 Residential dwelling premise sewer fees added to property tax notices that remain unpaid at the due date of payment for such notices will suffer the same penalty as property taxes.

7.11 Quarterly sewer charges remaining outstanding after the due date will have a penalty added thereto in accordance with Schedule "B".

7.12 The fees and charges imposed and payable under the provisions of this bylaw and which remain unpaid after December 31 shall be deemed to be taxes in arrears in respect of the property and shall be forthwith entered on the real property tax roll by the Director of Finance as taxes in arrears.

7.13 All accounts for fees and charges under this bylaw shall be rendered to the owner or occupier of lands and premises to which sewer service or connection is being provided on the basis that every occupier of said lands or premises shall be jointly and severally liable with the owner for the same.

Discontinuance, Alteration and Reinstatement of Service

7.14 Where any person shall refuse, omit or neglect to pay the rate or rates shown in Schedule A after the expiration of any billing period, the City, by its proper officer or employee in that behalf, may discontinue the service to that person and such service shall not be reinstated until such time as all outstanding amounts have been paid in full to the City.

7.15 Applications for new or reinstatement of sewer service must be made in writing in the prescribed form and submitted to City Hall and the applicable fees shall be prorated to the end of the year or the current billing period, whichever is appropriate.

7.16 Applications for discontinuance of or alteration in sewer service from commercial customers must be made in writing in the prescribed form and submitted to City Hall. All such applications for discontinuance of or alterations in sewer service must be received by the City within 30 days of notification of sewer charges. Applications for retroactive changes are not permitted. No application for a discontinuance of service from an owner or occupier will be considered if the lands and premises to which the service is provided remains occupied by a tenant.

7.17 Where a commercial customer has applied for a discontinuance or suspension of service due to a vacancy in their premise there shall be, nonetheless, a minimum charge imposed in accordance with Schedule "A".

7.18 Applications for discontinuance or suspension of service charges with respect to individual units under the Tourist Rental Accommodation category in Schedule "A" are not admissible regardless of occupancy.

7.19 If a residential dwelling premise becomes vacant, an owner of such property may request a suspension of sewer charges by applying to the City for a discontinuance of service on the required form. The discontinuance of service must be for a minimum, continuous period of six months. If the property becomes occupied within the six month period the suspended sewer charges become due and payable immediately. If the property becomes occupied after the initial six month period sewer charges shall be applied from the date of reoccupation. No adjustment shall be made for a period less than six months and no adjustment under this section shall apply retroactively.

Miscellaneous

7.20 No monies received by the City in payment of fees and charges under this bylaw shall be applied to the payment of charges for the then current quarter, unless all charges which have become due in previous quarters have been fully paid.

7.21 Where any lands or premises or other classification is not specifically mentioned in Schedule A, the Director of Finance may establish and set user rates for the same and such rate or rates shall be valid and binding as if included in said schedule.

7.22 Where it is questionable which category lands or premises fall into for the purposes of establishing an applicable fee under Schedule A, the highest appropriate fee rate determined by the Director of Finance shall apply.

7.23 In the event that the City has made an error in its calculation of fees to a property owner or occupier, it may, upon written application providing full details and the amount claimed, refund the overcharge to that owner or occupier for a period up to but not exceeding six years.

7.24 Where sewer service hereunder has been or is to be maintained for a period less than one month, the charge therefore shall be calculated on the basis of one month.

7.25 Where the owner or occupier of lands and premises shall refuse, omit or neglect to pay the rate or rates herein contained after the expiry date of the quarterly billing period of the City, by its proper officer or employee in that behalf, may turn off and discontinue the sewer service to said lands or premises and such service shall not be renewed or turned on until all outstanding rates and fees are paid in full.

7.26 Nothing herein contained shall derogate from any legislation, law or bylaw or the remedies therein contained for the collection of the said rates or invalidate or derogate from the lien of the City upon lands and premises in respect of which said rates may be due; provided that under this section the sewer service to any of the said lands or premises shall not be turned off and discontinued until ten (10) days notice of the fact has been given.


8. REPEAL OF PREVIOUS BYLAW

That City of Revelstoke Sewer Regulations Bylaw No. 1644 is hereby repealed in its entirety.


READ A FIRST TIME THIS 13TH DAY OF MAY, 2002

READ A SECOND TIME THIS 13TH DAY OF MAY, 2002

READ A THIRD TIME THIS 13TH DAY OF MAY, 2002

ADOPTED BY CITY COUNCIL THIS 27TH DAY OF MAY, 2002



___________________________________
Director of Corporate Administration


Certified a true copy this ___ day of __________, _____.






 

SCHEDULE "A"

ALL RATES PER MONTH

TRUCKED WASTE RATE:

(1) $14.48 per cubic metre for discharges 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday except holidays

Minimum Charge: $14.48

(2) In addition to the above, discharges other than at the times and days mentioned above are subject to overtime callout rates minimum of 2 hours.
 

SCHEDULE "B"
FINES AND PENALTIES

An infraction of any provision of this bylaw will render the person liable to a fine as established within the Offence Act.

The penalty for late payment of any fees or charges levied under this bylaw is 5%

SCHEDULE "C"
SEWER CONNECTION FEES

A sewer connection charge for each connection shall be imposed upon the real property for the privilege of connecting to the City’s sewer system.

1. Sanitary Sewer
A) 4” connection: Actual cost of installation with a minimum charge of $400
B) Over 4” connection: Actual cost of installation with a minimum charge of $450

2. Storm Sewer
A) 4” connection: Actual cost of installation with a minimum charge of $450
B) Over 4” connection: Actual cost of installation with a minimum charge of $500

3. Disconnection Fee $345

4. Inspection Chamber Installation (where applicable) $600



SCHEDULE "D"
INDUSTRIAL WASTE FEES


1. WASTE DISCHARGE PERMIT FEE:

Application Fee - $80.00
A non-refundable fee payable at the time of application; credited to the first Annual Base Fee.

Annual Base - $250.00
Fee A yearly fee payable upon issue of the Waste Discharge Permit and upon each anniversary thereafter.

Amendment Fee - $80.00
A fee to amend the terms of an existing Waste Discharge Permit.

2. DISCHARGE FEE: $0.17 per cubic metre of discharge

For discharge containing concentrations of BOD5, COD or TSS that do not exceed the limits specified in Schedule "D" of this Bylaw.



SCHEDULE "E"

PROHIBITED WASTE, RESTRICTED WASTE AND SPECIFIED WASTE

1. PROHIBITED WASTE:

2. RESTRICTED WASTE:

3. SPECIFIED WASTE:

NOTE: Dissolved concentration of any of the above substances higher than the Special Waste Regulation Leachate Quality Criteria, as amended, will designate the waste as Special Waste, regardless of the sampling method used.

All concentrations are expressed as total concentrations, which include both the dissolved and undissolved substances.

* Chlorinated phenols are the total of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 2, 3 4, 6 tetrachlorophenols and pentachlorophenol.

 
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