Measuring, billing and collecting outside the city.
Denver Revised Municipal Code § 56-101
in effectSec. 56-101. - Measuring, billing and collecting outside the city.
(a) The manager of transportation and infrastructure shall determine the delivery flow rate characteristics of sanitary sewage flowing into the city sewerage system from the connector jurisdiction and from all outside connectors including such metering as is necessary, using acceptable engineering principles and techniques, to determine the actual volume for billing purposes. Any connector who disputes the volume so measured may have an administrative hearing before the manager of transportation and infrastructure (who may designate an official of the department of transportation and infrastructure to act in the manager's stead) by request, in writing. The connector shall be notified in writing, at least seven (7) days in advance, of the time and place of the hearing. While the hearing shall be administrative, not judicial, in nature, the procedure used during the hearing shall be such as to provide the connector with due process of law.
(b) The rates or charges set forth in this division shall apply to all billings made under all existing contracts for carriage and treatment of sewage from beyond the limits of the city wherein, under the terms thereof, such rates or charges are applicable without further action on behalf or on the part of the city; where any such contract requires any notice or other action on behalf or on the part of the city as a condition precedent to a change of the rates or charges therein specified, the appropriate notice or action shall be given or taken by the appropriate officials of the city to the end that the rates and charges set forth in this division may be effective as to the carriage and treatment of sewage covered by such contract at the earliest possible date.
(c) The charges or rates under existing and future contracts for the carriage and treatment of sewage from outside the limits of the city, together with other related charges based on such contracts and imposed by the manager of transportation and infrastructure, are hereby fixed and are hereby assessed against each parcel of property lying outside of the municipal and territorial limits of the city which is served by the city by the carriage and treatment of sanitary sewage, whether by direct connection with the sanitary sewer system of the city or by means of intervening sanitary sewerage systems which connect therewith, for each year or portion thereof in which such parcel is so served by such carriage and treatment or by the right to have sanitary sewage so carried and treated.
(1) Charges and rates for each billing period shall be due and payable as billed unless the time of payment shall have been modified by the contract pursuant to which such sewage is carried and treated.
(2) When such rates and charges are not paid in full with respect to any parcel of property at the offices of the treasury of the city thirty (30) days after having been billed, such parcels shall be considered delinquent with respect thereto, and the manager of transportation and infrastructure shall prepare a list of said delinquent parcels showing the description there, the amount due, and the year or years for which the delinquent amounts were levied.
(3) Such list shall then be certified by the city clerk as provided by law to the county in which the property is located, and the manager of transportation and infrastructure shall thereafter refuse to accept payment on account of any delinquency so certified.
(4) Such certification shall forthwith, when received by the county commissioners of the proper county, be delivered to the county treasurer thereof, who shall thenceforth collect such rates and charges together with interest thereon at the rate established for delinquent property taxes, from the first date thereafter as may be allowed by law until the same are paid or the property sold therefor, whichever sooner occurs, and together with the statutory charge for advertisement, where applicable.
(5) Such rates and charges shall be a continuing lien from the time the certification is lodged with the county treasurer.
(6) The treasurer shall issue receipts for such payments, as in the case of payment of taxes, and shall remit monthly the money received to the city after deducting therefrom a commission of two (2) percent for collecting same.
(7) Upon receiving the certification aforesaid, the county treasurer shall proceed to advertise and sell any and all real estate as to which such rates and charges are delinquent, as aforesaid, and such sales and advertisement shall be made at the same time or times, in the same manner and under the same conditions and penalties, with like fees and with the same effect as are provided by general law for sales of real estate in default of payment of general taxes.
(8) The cost of such advertisement shall not exceed the statutory rates for advertisement of notices of tax sales, and shall be paid by the city upon receipt of a proper statement for such cost.
(9) If, at the time of sale of the said properties as aforesaid, there shall be no bids for any tract offered, the treasurer shall pass it over for the time, and shall reoffer it at the beginning of the sale the next day, until all the tracts are sold, or until the treasurer shall become satisfied that no more sales can be effected, when it shall become his duty to strike off to the city the parcels remaining unsold for the amount of such taxes, interest and costs thereon, in the same manner and with the same effect as in the case of sales for general taxes.
(10) Redemptions from such sales shall be affected in the same manner and upon the same terms, conditions and limitations as in the case of sales for general taxes, and tax deeds for such sales shall be issued in the same manner, upon the same conditions and with the same effect as in the case of sales for general taxes.
(Code 1950, § 167.10; Ord. No. 78-87, § 34, 2-9-87; Ord. No. 755-88, § 3, 12-5-88; Ord. No. 267-11, § 7, 5-16-11; Ord. No. 39-20, § 242, 2-3-20)
Source: City and County of Denver, Revised Municipal Code and Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/co/denver/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIIREMUCO_CH56UT_ARTIIISE_DIV3SASECHMAWA_S56-101MEBICOOUCIFetched: 10/27/2026