Water bills shall be due and payable monthly at the office of the City Clerk. The City Superintendent shall read or cause to be read water meters monthly during which service is used. The City Superintendent shall direct the City Clerk to charge and collect from each customer for the amount of water consumed since the last examination, together with any other charges, properly itemized, due the Water Department. Bills shall be mailed on the first day of each month following consumption and shall be payable by the tenth of each month. Bills not paid by the tenth day of each month shall be deemed to be delinquent. Upon being deemed to be delinquent, as herein defined, the City Clerk shall give a written notice to the customer of such delinquency and shall demand payment immediately. In the event that the bill is not paid within seven days after the sending of said notice, it shall be discretionary with the Superintendent to cut off service at any time; provided, if the delinquent customer is a known welfare recipient, it shall be the duty of the City Clerk to notify the customer and the County Welfare Department by certified mail of the proposed termination. The City Superintendent shall assess an additional service charge of $50 in the event that water is shut off for the nonpayment of any water bill, to compensate the municipality for the additional hook-up necessary to again provide water service to the delinquent customer.
(Prior Code, § 3-111)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-542, 19-2702