Section
52.01 Generally
52.02 Establishment of a Water Department
52.03 Application for start-up service
52.04 Payments
52.05 Delinquent accounts
52.06 Turning on water
52.07 Keeping service in repair
52.08 Applications for new water systems
52.09 Plumbing requirements
52.10 Use of fire hydrants
52.11 Private water supply
52.12 Suspension of water
52.13 Water service
52.14 Water rates
52.15 Access to meters
52.16 Reconnect fee
52.17 Injury to property
52.18 Disposition of revenues
52.19 Effective date
The rules and regulations herein specified shall be considered a contract with every person or corporation who is supplied with water from the waterworks system of the city. Every person, company, or corporation, by taking water, shall be considered to be consenting to these rules and regulations and bound by them. When any of these rules or others that the city may adopt are violated, the water shall be cut off, even if 2 or more persons receive water from the same pipe. The water shall not be turned on again until all required payments have been made. Other terms may be required by the City Council before the water is turned back on, including a satisfactory understanding with the party that no further cause for complaints shall arise.
(Ord. 107, passed 7-3-1995) Penalty, see § 10.99
There is hereby established a Water Department which shall be under the supervision of the Public Maintenance Supervisor. There shall be a licensed waterworks operator who may or may not be the same individual as the Public Maintenance Supervisor.
(Ord. 107, passed 7-3-1995)
Every person, company, or corporation (hereafter referred to as the applicant) who desires a supply of water must make application to the City Clerk/Treasurer. All accounts shall be carried in the name of the owner unless the owner signs a form stating that the owner prefers having the utilities billed directly to the renters of the property. All owners shall be responsible for full payment of the utilities at the rental unit, whether occupying the property or not and any charges unpaid are subject to being made a lien upon the property. Unless the applicant has had a record of prompt payment of previous city utility billings within the last 12 months, the application must be accompanied by a deposit which is established by the City Council by resolution. The deposit shall be refunded with the next billing after 4 quarterly consecutive timely payments or 12 monthly consecutive timely payments or upon termination of service with all prior bills paid in full.
(Ord. 107, passed 7-3-1995)
Statements for water and sewer usage for the preceding quarterly period shall be mailed by the City Clerk/Treasurer to each customer on or before the first day of each quarter (January, April, July, October). The bill shall designate the number of gallons of water that was consumed (previous reading subtracted from the present reading) times the current rate. Other charges may be included on the bill. These charges may include, but are not limited to, fees for sewage treatment, recycling, garbage service, appropriate taxes, state water connection fees, landfill clean-up surcharges, NSF fees, and other charges in regard to services received from the city. The amount listed on the statement shall be due on or before the fifteenth day of that same month (January, April, July, October). If payment is not made on or before the fifteenth day, the customer shall be charged a fee of $15 as a penalty for late payment. Half of this $15 late fee shall be deposited in the Sewer Fund as required by Chapter 51, as amended.
(Ord. 107, passed 7-3-1995; Am. Ord. passed 3-3-1997; Am. Ord. passed 3-6-2006)
(A) The city shall endeavor to collect delinquent accounts promptly. In any case, where satisfactory arrangements for payment have not been made, the Public Maintenance Supervisor may, after the procedural requirements of division (B) below have been complied with, discontinue service to the delinquent customer by shutting off the water at the stop box. When water service to any premises has been discontinued, service shall not be restored except upon the payment of all delinquent amounts due plus a fee of $25 to cover city costs for the disconnection and reconnection. The City Administrative Clerk/Treasurer shall prepare an assessment roll each year providing for assessment of the delinquent amounts against the respective properties served. The assessment roll shall be delivered to the Council for adoption on or before October 1 of each year for certification to the county for collection along with taxes. The action is optional and may be subsequent to taking legal action to collect delinquent accounts.
(B) Water shall not be shut off pursuant to division (A) above until notice and an opportunity for a hearing have first been given the occupant of the premises involved. The notice shall be sent by mail or personally served to the customer occupying the premises and shall state that if payment is not made before a day stated in the notice but not less than 15 days after the postmark of the notice, or 20 days during that part of the year covered by the state’s Cold Weather Rule regarding shutoffs, the water supply to the premises will be shut off. In the case of rental property, a copy of the notice shall also be mailed to the owner of the property. The notice shall also state that the customer (or in the case of rental property, the owner) may, before the date, demand a hearing on the matter, in which case the supply will not be cut off until after the hearing is held. If the customer or property owner requests a hearing before the date specified, a hearing shall be held on the matter by the City Council at least 1 week after the date on which the request is made. If, as a result of the hearing, the City Council finds that the amount claimed to be owing is actually due and unpaid and there is no legal reason why the water supply of the delinquent customer may not be shut off in accordance with this chapter, an employee of the city may be directed to shut off the water supply.
(Ord. 107, passed 7-3-1995; Am. Ord. 126, passed 11-2-2009)
No person except an authorized city employee shall turn on any water supply at the stop box or tap any distributing main or pipe of the water supply system or insert a stop cock or other appurtenance therein without the express permission of the city.
(Ord. 107, passed 7-3-1995) Penalty, see § 10.99
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