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ORDINANCE NO. 112 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING SEWER SERVICE AVAILABILITY AND CONNECTION CHARGE TO PAY RESERVE CAPACITY COSTS OF METROPOLITAN SEWER BOARD. The Village Council of the Village of Hugo, Washington County, Minnesota, hereby ordains: Section 1. RECITALS. The Metropolitan Sewer Board has deter- mined to reserve unused capacity in the metropolitan disposal system each year commencing in 1973 for local government units in which new buildings to be connected to the system and new connections to the system are commenced during such year; and to allocate the debt service costs of such unused capacity for the year among local govern- ment units. In order for the Village to pay such costs allocated to it each year, it will be necessary to establish sewer service avail- ability and connection charges for all buildings to be constructed or connected to the metropolitan disposal system on or after January 1, 1973. Section 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF CHARGES. For the purpose of paying costs of reserve capacity allocated to the Village each year by the Metropolitan Sewer Board, there is hereby established a charge for: Subd. A. The availability of treatment works and interceptors comprising the metropolitan disposal system; and Subd. B. Connections, direct and indirect, to the metropolitan disposal system. The charge is imposed on each building or structure in the Village, or each connection to the metropolitan disposal system directly or through the Village's system inside the Sewer Service Area established by the Metropolitan Sewer Board, construction of which is commenced on or after January 1, 1973. The charge shall be payable upon the issuance of a building permit or a connection permit, as the case may be, but no charge shall be due upon the issuance of a connection permit if a charge was paid upon issuance of a building permit. The charge for each building or structure shall be equal to the number of units of sewage volume which it will discharge, multiplied by $275 for 1973, and $300 for 1974, $325 for 1975, $350 for 1976 and $375 for 1977, unless amended. A unit of sewage volume shall be 100,000 gallons per year and shall be assigned as follows: Subd. A. Single family houses, townhouses and duplex units shall each comprise one unit;