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MAR FacE afraid that they will be forced to hook up under our ordinance. The ordinance does not say that. Capacity is not available. Mandatory collection is mentioned in our ordinance only because of our bond company, and it says if you provide capacity to people and they pay for it, they have to hook up. Chairman Bird asked if there are some commercial estab- lishments where it is mandatory that they hook up, such as a restaurant, and Commissioner Scurlock noted, for example, that there is a restaurant in Sebastian that was denied expansion of their business because the septic tank was not acceptable. Whether we had our system there or not, they would not be allowed to put a septic tank in. Commissioner Wheeler understood that any business having a pipe running in front of the property has to hook up when they come in to pull a permit for something. It's mandatory that you hook up or you don't get the permit. Attorney Vitunac pointed out that is a State health law requirement, not a County Utilities' requirement. However, they can only hook up if there is capacity to hook up. The Health Department cannot force Utilities to let them hook into the line. Commissioner Scurlock noted that many people in the north county are under the mistaken impression that somehow somebody has decided that they will be put on the system in the entire service area within the corporate limits, which is basically from the river up to U.S. #1, and that everybody in that area is going to be charged $.18 a square foot. That is not the case, and actually it would be his recommendation not to do that. He preferred that we follow the same voluntary assessment process we did on SR -60. In any event, he felt the solution is that the destiny of Sebastian should be in the hands of the City Council of Sebastian. It would be his recommendation that the County formally indicate to them that this Commission's policy is that if they wish to remove themselves from that service area and 61 ;I I