Renne v. Waterford Township

Plaintiff and intervening plaintiffs are property owners who appeal an adverse summary judgment upholding defendant Waterford Township’s Sewer Operational Ordinance (hereinafter, "the Ordinance”). Each of the plaintiffs owns a home or building which utilizes a septic tank for the purpose of waste disposal. The Ordinance in effect requires plaintiffs on pain of criminal penalties to forgo use of their septic tanks and to tie their structures into the township’s sewage disposal system.

Specifically, the Ordinance provides that a property owner pay $600 as a "capital charge”, $1400 as a "lateral…