(A) Payment shall be due on the thirtieth after the date of the bill. If that thirtieth day of the month falls on a Sunday or holiday, payment shall be due the previous business day. If payment is made by mail, the envelope must be postmarked not later than the due date of the bill. A penalty of 10% of the amount billed shall be added to any bill that is not paid by the due date.
(B) Checks and money orders shall be paid to the City of Broadview Heights.
(C) A bill that remains unpaid at the end of the calendar year will be certified to the County Auditor to be collected on the real estate taxes as a sewer assessment.
(D) If a bank should return a check for insufficient funds, an account will be subject to an insufficient funds charge of $25.
(E) If a person has two checks returned for insufficient funds, the city may require all future payments to be made in cash or money order.
(F) Upon the claim of a person that the return of a check for insufficient funds was a bank error, the city may waive an insufficient funds charge and/or accept payment by check if the bank supplies adequate documentation of its error.
(G) A person should contact the Finance Department if he or she fails to receive a bill by the eighteenth day of the first month of a calendar quarter. Upon a claim of a person that a bill was not received:
(1) If the records of the city show the bill was duly mailed to the last reported mailing address, the person shall be responsible for timely payment of the bill.
(2) If the records of the city show the bill was not duly mailed to the last reported mailing address, the Finance Department may either:
(a) Issue a bill due ten days from the date of mailing; or
(b) Add the unpaid charge to the following quarter’s bill without a penalty.
(H) In using the U.S. Postal Service for delivery of their payment of a sewer service charge, users assume responsibility for any failure of the U.S. Postal Service to deliver the payment to the city. Accordingly the Finance Department shall not waive payment penalties for any person claiming that the U.S. Postal Service failed to deliver a payment.
(Ord. 08-08, passed 1-22-2008)