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detached residential property as determined by random sampling of such properties in the City. Service Fee means the stormwater service fee set forth in this chapter. Stormwater Facilities means anyone or more of the following devices used in the collection, treatment, or disposition of storm, flood or surface drainage waters, including all manmade structures or natural watercourses for the conveyance of runoff: detention areas, berms, swales, improved watercourses, channels, bridges, gulches, wetland areas, streams, gullies, flumes, culverts, gutters, pumping stations, pipes, ditches, siphons, catch basins and street facilities; all inlets; collection, drainage, or disposal lines; intercepting sewers; disposal plants; settling basins; outfall sewers; all pumping, power, and other equipment and appurtenances; all extension, improvements, remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; and any and all rights or interests in such storm water facilities. Watercourse means a stream having a body or banks and usually discharging into some other stream or body of water. Sec. 13.37.030. Stormwater management program. There is hereby recognized and established a stormwater management program in the City of Louisville, to be operated as an activity of the City's water and wastewater activity enterprise. Through said program, the City shall construct, operate, and maintain stormwater facilities and pay other project costs and perform other functions or duties authorized by law. Such stormwater facilities shall be owned by the City and operated in accordance with all applicable laws. Sec. 13.37.040. Stormwater utility service fee. A. Fee established. There is hereby imposed on the owner of each and every lot or parcel of land within the City containing an impervious surface, a stormwater utility service fee. This service fee is deemed reasonable and is necessary to pay for the project costs of existing and future stormwater facilities. B. Basis for fee. The basis for the amount of the service fee is the extent to which each parcel of land within the City makes use of the stormwater facilities, such use to be defined by the amount of impervious surface on the property. The fee is also based on the cost of including the parcel in the property and billing records, plans, and monitoring activities of the stormwater management program. C. Exemptions. All public highways, roadways, streets, alleys, railroad rights-of-way, irrigation canals, city-owned property, city-owned facilities, and undeveloped property shall be exempt from the service fee and all other charges imposed by this chapter. D. How fee collected. The service fee shall be payable monthly and shall be billed and collected with the City water and sewer bill. All billings and notices regarding the service fee shall be effective upon mailing said billing or notice to the address of the property that is being served or to the last known address of the property owner of the property being served as shown in the most - 3-