(A) Bills for sewage disposal service are due and payable at the business office of the village, or to any designated agent, on their date of issue, and if not paid by the fifteenth day thereafter, shall be deemed delinquent and shall be subject to a penalty as determined from time to time by the Village Council. Bills shall be dated and mailed monthly and shall cover one month’s service. If a bill is not paid within 30 days after its date of issuance, the village shall serve upon the customer a written notice of delinquency and, if it is not paid within 60 days after the date of issuance, the village may discontinue sewer service to the premises and take such other measures as are permitted by state law.
(B) All bills and notices relating to the conduct of the business of the village and of the sewage works will be mailed to the customer at the address listed on the application for the connection permit, unless a change of address has been filed in writing at the business office of the village; and the village shall not otherwise be responsible for delivery of any bill or notice, nor will the customer be excused from non-payment of a bill or from any performance required in said notice.
(C) Applications for connection permits may be cancelled and/or sewer service disconnected by the village for any violation of any rule, regulation, or condition of service, and especially for any of the following reasons:
(1) Misrepresentation in the permit application as to the property or residential equivalents to be serviced by the sewage works;
(2) Non-payment of bills; and/or
(3) Improper or imperfect service pipes and fixtures or failure to keep the same in a suitable state of repair.
(D) Where the water or sewer service supplied to a customer has been discontinued for non-payment of delinquent bill, the village reserves the right to request a nominal sum be placed on deposit with the village for the purpose of establishing or maintaining any customer’s credit. The reconnection will not be made until after all delinquent bills and other charges, if any, owed by the customer to the village have been paid.
(E) The Village shall make all reasonable efforts to eliminate interruptions of service, and when such interruptions occur, will endeavor to re-establish service with the shortest possible delay. Whenever service is interrupted for purpose of working on the Sewage Works, all customers affected by such interruption will be notified in advance whenever it is possible to do so.
(F) (1) Owners of premises no longer being used for human occupancy may make a request in writing to the Village Clerk for a discontinuance of sewer service.
(2) Said premises shall not be re-occupied within one year of discontinuance of service until all monthly service charges have been paid from the date of service discontinuance through the current month of proposed re-occupancy and resumption of sewer service.
(3) If resumption of sewer service and re-occupancy does not occur within one year of discontinuance, a new tap-in fee as provided by § 50.23(A) shall be paid.
(Ord. 75-36, passed 11-5-1976; Ord. passed 3-3-1980; Ord. 1 of 2003, passed 2-3-2003)