When You Don't Have to Pay for Sewer Hookup Charges

(a) No lateral installation charge shall be made for one or more original laterals to an original lot that is being or has been assessed in accordance with the improvement district ordinance, unless this lot has later been rezoned for higher usage and the owner desires an additional lateral or the lot is required to be served by a relief sewer, which has been or will be constructed to relieve an inadequate existing sewer. (b) No lateral installation charge shall be made for one or more original laterals to a property within an improvement district when the property is served by an existing properly functioning individual wastewater disposal system, other than a cesspool, permitted by the DOH and constructed pursuant to § 43-1.5 (c); provided that if the owner or person legally responsible subsequently wishes to connect to the sanitary sewer system, the owner or person legally responsible shall be required to pay the lateral installation charge. If a property within an improvement district served by an existing properly functioning individual wastewater disposal system, other than a cesspool, permitted by the DOH and constructed pursuant to § 43-1.5 (c) is required to connect to the public sewer system, then the owner or person legally responsible shall not be required to pay the lateral installation charge for a period of 25 years following connection to the public sewer system; provided that if such property is sold or otherwise transferred, except for a transfer due to the death of the property owner, prior to the end of the 25-year period, then the owner of the property, or person legally responsible, following such sale or other transfer shall be required to pay the lateral installation charge immediately following such sale or other transfer. )