(A) All meters shall be read by the first day of each month and bills will be issued, insofar as is possible, by the tenth day of each month and will be deemed due on the twenty-fifth of that month.
(B) A ten percent (10%) penalty will be added to all bills unpaid at the close of business on the twenty-fifth of each month. The property owner will be notified of the impending delinquency and will have until the close of business on the last day of the month to pay the bill or be subject to disconnect or be subject to the cost of tap of the offending unit.
(D) All bills will be made in the name of the head of the household or proprietor of the business, except that all billing of master meters must be made to the property owner.
(E) Billing on vacancies unless otherwise requested will be transferred to the property owner.
(Ord. 80-10, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 83-4, passed 4-19-84; Am. Ord. 83-4A, passed 6-23-84)
(F) Any water or gas accountholder may request, in writing, to the City Clerk, that their water or gas meter be re-read for the purpose of determining if the initial reading was incorrect, and, upon such initial request a member of the public works department will re-read the meter, and provide the results of same to the accountholder.
In the event that the reading is thereby confirmed by a member of the public works department, all such accountholder's subsequent re-read requests must be accompanied by the accountholder's prepayment of a five dollar ($5.00) service fee to the city. The five dollars ($5.00) service fee shall be refunded to the accountholder if the initial reading is found to have been incorrect and shall be retained by the city to cover its cost in re-reading the meter if the initial reading is found to have been correct.
(Ord. 2000-1, passed 2-16-00)