Charges. Hearing. Appeal. Payment by municipalities of charges upon specified classification of property or users. Optional payment plans.

(b) Any municipality may, by ordinance, provide for the payment to the water pollution control authority by such municipality of the whole or a portion of such charges for specified classifications of property or users, provided such classifications are established by the water pollution control authority in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section and meet the requirements of the federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, P.L. 92-500, as amended from time to time. (c) Any municipality may, by ordinance, provide for optional methods of payment of sewer use charges to the water pollution control authority by (1) elderly taxpayers who are eligible for tax relief under the provisions of section 12-129b , section 12-170aa or a plan of tax relief for elderly taxpayers provided by such municipality in accordance with section 12-129n , or (2) any taxpayer under the age of sixty-five who is eligible for tax relief under the provisions of a plan for tax relief provided by such municipality in accordance with subdivision (2) of section 12-129n . Assessment of charges for sewer connection not limited exclusively to statute; special act provisions effective. 160 C. 446. Cited. 171 C. 74; 213 C. 112; 216 C. 436; 220 C. 18; 231 C. 344.