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Timeline of Compliance
Though it may appear we are placing the cart before the horse, we believe it is helpful to identify up front when the provisions of Act 57 will affect your authority.
Effective Immediately
Authorities that are revising, increasing or imposing a connection fee, customer facilities fee, or tapping fee for the first time must comply with the new provisions of the act immediately.
June 30, 2005
Most other authorities that are not revising, increasing or imposing such fees for the first time will have until June 30, 2005 to comply with Act 57. However, some authorities that meet special exceptions will have even longer to comply, as is explained below.
FY 2008
Authorities using tapping fees to support debt service on financing closed prior to July 1, 2003 that has at least a fifteen-year term will not be subject to the per capita flow provisions of Act 57 for five years.
FY 2018
Joint authorities with six or more municipal members that entered into a treatment contract before January 1, 2003 and do not permit an increase in sewer user fees will have fifteen years to comply with Act 57.
No authority will be subject to the refund provisions related to abandoned projects for any fees collected prior to the effective date of the act. Each authority has seven years from the date they begin collecting a fee for future facility costs to place those facilities into service before the refund is due. If, however, the authority provides service to five or more municipalities, it has fifteen years to place the facilities into service before a refund is due. This refund must include interest.
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