4.04.450   Septic tanks—Permit fee.

Before any permit for the installation of a septic tank is issued, a fee in the amount of one hundred dollars shall be paid to the city.

(Ord. O-09-96 § 1 (part), 1996: prior code § 4-1-74)

4.04.460   Tap fees—Refunds.

(a)

Any person, firm or company applying for sewer service shall pay the following tap-in fees at the time of their application:

(1)

Single-dwelling unit residential buildings shall pay a four hundred dollars tap fee;

(2)

Multi-dwelling unit residential buildings shall pay a tap fee of four hundred dollars for the first unit and a two hundred dollar tap-in fee for each additional unit within the same building;

(3)

Single-unit office, commercial and service buildings shall pay an eight hundred dollar tap fee;

(4)

Multi-unit office, commercial and service buildings shall pay tap fee of eight hundred dollars for the first unit and a four hundred dollar tap-in fee for each additional unit within the same building;

(5)

Single-unit industrial buildings shall pay a one thousand dollar tap fee;

(6)

Multi-unit industrial buildings shall pay a tap fee of one thousand dollars for the first unit and a five hundred dollars tap-in fee for each additional unit within the same building.

A "unit" is defined as one or more rooms with facilities separate and distinct from other units within the same building and designed to be used as a principal place of residence for one family or a principal place of business for one separate business.

(b)

Any person, firm, or company applying for sewer service shall pay the following city impact fees at the time of their application in addition to the tap-in fees listed in subsection (a) of this section.

(1)

Single dwelling unit residential building shall pay a one thousand two hundred dollars impact fee.

(2)

Multi-dwelling unit residential building shall pay a one thousand two hundred dollars impact fee for each unit within the same building.

(3)

Single unit office, commercial and service buildings shall pay a two thousand four hundred dollars impact fee in addition to the following impact fees: one thousand two hundred dollars for each four hundred gallons per day of wastewater flow.

(4)

Multi-unit office, commercial, and service buildings shall pay a two thousand four hundred dollars impact fee for each unit within the same building in addition to the following impact fees: one thousand two hundred dollars for each four hundred gallons per day of wastewater flow.

(5)

Single unit industrial buildings shall pay a four thousand eight hundred dollars impact fee in addition to the following impact fees: one thousand two hundred dollars for each four hundred gallons per day of wastewater flow.

(6)

Multi-unit industrial buildings shall pay a four thousand eight hundred dollars impact fee per unit in addition to the following impact fees: one thousand two hundred dollars for each four hundred gallons per day of wastewater flow.

A "unit" is defined as one or more rooms with facilities separate and distinct from other units within the same building and designed to be used as a principal place of residence for one family or a principal place of business for one separate business. Wastewater flow based on latest addition of S.C. DHEC "unit contributory loadings" and actual flow from industrial buildings.

(Ord. O-05-06 § 1, 2006; Ord. O-09-96 § 1 (part), 1996; prior code § 4-1-72)

4.04.470   Separate sewer connection—Taps.

Each house or building shall be separately provided with sewer connections. In the event one building is to the rear of another building, two tap fees will be required. Where a dwelling and place of business occupy the same building, two tap fees will be required.

(Prior code § 4-1-73)

4.04.480   Waiver of tap fees.

Any developer who has installed at his own expense any sewer line and connections required by this chapter in and upon his land and/or in public rights-of-way contiguous thereto, and who shall convey said sewer lines to the city in the form and manner required by the city, may request a waiver of tap fees. The city may waive, in whole or in part, any and all tap fees otherwise required herein on such terms and conditions as it shall deem fit and proper.

(Prior code § 4-1-74)