(A) Meters will be read, weather and other considerations permitting and bills shall be rendered monthly, but the town reserves the right to vary the dates or length of the period between meter readings and covered in the customer’s bill.
(B) Charges for water and sewer will be figured in accordance with the town’s published rate schedule then in effect, in § 50.460, based on the amount of water consumed or estimated and actual or estimated sewer use for the period covered by the meter readings.
(C) Charges for service commence when the meter is installed and the connection made, whether any water is immediately used or not.
(D) A separate bill, including appropriate base charges, will be issued for each separate meter even if more than one meter is in the same customer’s name.
(E) Bills are due when rendered and become delinquent 20 days following the date of the bill. Bills not paid prior to the delinquent date are subject to the late fee currently in effect and subject the customer and any adjunct customer to an immediate termination of service.
(F) A claimed failure to receive a bill does not prevent a bill from becoming delinquent or relieve the customer from timely payment, late charges or the other town remedies contained in this subchapter.
(G) At the request of a customer and deposit of the actual cost of testing, the town will test a customer’s meter. If the meter is found to register use more than 10% higher than the correct volume, no charge for the testing will be made and the customer’s deposit for the test will be refunded. If testing indicates that the meter registers use within 10% higher of the actual use or less, the deposit shall be retained.
(H) If the seal of a meter is broken, other than by the town’s representative, or if the meter fails to register correctly or is stopped for any cause, the customer shall be required to pay a bill for each period for which no reliable meter reading was made in an amount estimated from the record of the customer’s previous 12 bills for which use was reliably measured, if available, and/or from other appropriate data.
(Ord. passed 6-21-2011; Ord. passed 7-17-2012)