(A) The charges established by this chapter shall be billed after the service is rendered.
(B) Bills shall be mailed to the owner of the property at the mailing address of the property being billed unless the owner shall, in writing, request the bill be sent to a different mailing address of the owner. Bills shall not be sent to a lessee of the property. In the case where the land is separately owned from the building, the bill shall be sent to the mailing address of the owner of the building.
(C) Any current user of the city’s sanitary sewer system who is determined by the Director of Finance to have accumulated delinquencies of sanitary sewer service charges while such user owned or occupied the property to which such charges were applicable and who was not furnished by the city with periodic statements as to those charges became due shall have the option to pay such charges in installments, under the following conditions.
(1) The Director of Finance shall notify each such current user, by notice sent to the address to which statements for sanitary sewer service charges are to be sent, of the aggregate amount of the unpaid charges that are owed by that user to the city and of the user’s option to pay the delinquent amount in installments as provided in this chapter.
(2) Any portion of the unpaid amount that is not received by the city within 30 days of the mailing of such notice shall be payable in installments of $5 per month, which installments shall be added to, and shall be payable with, the current charges shown on the next and subsequent quarterly statements sent to the user.
(3) Payments made by a user pursuant to such quarterly statements shall be applied first to the current user charge, and any balance shall be credited against the delinquent amount. Any amounts that are paid in excess of the total shown on a quarterly statement shall be applied to reduce the amount of the accumulated delinquency, but shall not reduce the amount of any remaining monthly installment payments. The final monthly installment shall be in such amount as shall be required to satisfy the then remaining amount of the delinquency after application of the previous installments.
(4) The Director of Finance shall, at the request of any user or of a prospective purchaser of the property of a user whose property is subject to the provisions of this section, furnish to such person a statement of the then-current balance of the delinquent sanitary sewer service charges that are owed with respect to that user’s property. Any accumulated delinquent amount shall constitute an obligation related to the property and shall be payable by each then-current owner regardless of any transfer of ownership or control of the property.
(5) Unpaid delinquent amounts that are not paid as they become due pursuant to this section shall be certified for collection as provided in § 1043.07.
(D) The Director of Finance and the Director of Law shall take such actions not inconsistent with the provisions of this section as they shall determine to be reasonable or useful to collect delinquent sanitary sewer service charges from prior owners or occupants of the property in question, including entering into installment payment arrangements with such users.
(Ord. 08-08, passed 1-22-2008)