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--- (13) --- Editor's note— Ord. of 3-9-2010 renumbered Div. 13, § 21-199, as Div. 14, § 21-199.
Sec. 21-199. - Property damage.#
No person(s) shall maliciously, willfully, or negligently break, damage, destroy, deface, or tamper with any structure, appurtenance, or equipment that is a part of the wastewater facilities or collection system. Any person(s) violating this provision shall be subject to arrest under charge of disorderly conduct.
(Ord. of 1-2002, Art. XIII, § 1)
Sec. 21-200. - Sewer use charges.#
In order to ensure that all Warren sewer and waste treatment users bear a proportionate share of the costs of operation and maintenance, and pursuant to G.L. 1956, § 45-14-1, et seq., all such users shall be responsible for contributing to said costs.
For sewer users who are otherwise annually liable for the payment of property taxes, a fee totaling the apportioned annual cost of operating the public sewer system shall be billed annually and payable on the same schedule and in the same manner as property taxes. For sewer users who are exempt from property tax payment, the town manager shall annually send a bill for the sewer use obligation, styled [as] "sewer use fee." The fee shall be calculated by using the estimated usage table provided in section 21-51 of the Code, and charging at the rate of .0061508 cents per gallon.
If the tax-exempt sewer user is dissatisfied with the sewer use fee, he or she shall have the right to appeal to the town manager within forty-five (45) days of the fee being issued. The appeal must be made in writing and signed by the user. The form on which the sewer use fee is issued shall notify the user of the right to appeal, the procedure for appeal, and the time period to do so. On appeal to the town manager, the user may present any evidence he or she deems necessary to prove that his or her fee should be lower. The town manager shall have authority to revise the Fee in any manner he or she deems necessary to accurately reflect the user's obligation, or the manager may deny the user's appeal.
If the user's appeal is denied, or if the fee is revised in a manner that is not satisfactory to the user, the user may appeal the manager's decision to the town council, in writing, within forty-five (45) days of being notified of the manager's decision and the right to appeal and procedure for appeal of the same. The town council shall have authority to revise the fee in any manner it deems necessary to accurately reflect the user's obligation, or the town council may deny the user's appeal.
Failure to timely appeal a sewer use fee as outlined in this section shall bar such appeal, unless the town council grants a waiver of the time for appeal. All unpaid sewer use fees shall be a lien upon the real estate of the users, and the lien created hereby shall be a lien upon the house, building, tenement, lands and estate of the user in the same way and manner as taxes assessed on real estate are liens, and if not paid as required by the Town of Warren shall be collected in the same manner that taxes assessed upon real estate are by law collected.
(Ord. of 6-14-2016(1); Ord. of 2-13-2018; Ord. of 4-9-2019)
Editor's note— Ord. of 6-14-2016(1), adopted June 14, 2016, amended the Code by the addition of § 21-201; however, said section already existed, therefore, provisions have been redesignated as § 21-200, at the discretion of the editor.