BOND FEE: The fee the city must collect from its residents and nonresident users of city service to pay the principal and interest and bond sinking funds required by law on bonds which are not general obligation bonds and loans obtained to finance the city's water and sewer systems and sewer treatment and water treatment facilities.
UTILITY FEE: The fee the city must collect from its residents and/or users of its service for supplying water, sewer and sanitation services, including reserves to replace worn out equipment, etc. (Ord. 965, 10-22-2012)
A. Individual Utility Fee And Bond Fee Statement(s) Mailed: Individual city utility fee and/or bond fee statements, which set forth the charges for bond fee and/or utility fee shall be mailed to all parties with an account with the city on or after the twenty fifth day of each month.
B. Due Date: Payment shall be due on or before the tenth day of the month following the month in which city water meters were read, unless said day is a holiday, Saturday or Sunday, in which case the account will be due on the next day the city clerk- treasurer's office is open for business.
C. Delinquent Or Late Fee: Individual city statements which are not paid on or before the twentieth day of the month following the month in which the water meter for such city utility fee statement was read, shall be assessed a late fee. A minimum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) or ten percent (10%) of the past due balance with a maximum of twenty five dollars ($25.00) will be added to such delinquent utility fee and/or bond fee statements.
D. Charges: The total monthly billing to each utility fee and/or bond fee account shall be considered as one bill for property owners who reside on said property. Any payment received shall be credited first to the utility fee portion of the account and then to the bond fee portion of the account. In the event the property owner rents said property the utility fee account and billing will be set up and mailed to the renter and the bond fee account and billing will be set up and mailed to the property owner.
E. Payments On Account: The clerk-treasurer shall have authority to accept partial payments to apply upon the balance due on the entire account and shall have authority to accept prepayments to apply against all future billings to the account.
F. Correct Or Remove Delinquency: Once a delinquent or late fee has been assessed against a city utility fee and/or bond fee statement (account), said account and all subsequent city statements relating to the said delinquent account, whether or not billed, shall also be included as being delinquent and must also be paid in full to correct or remove the delinquency.
G. Turnoff Order: In the event a city utility fee and/or bond fee account becomes delinquent, the city clerk-treasurer may issue a turn off order to shut off city water and other services until entire past due amount is paid in full or partial payment is made with arrangements to pay remaining balance within one week is made with city clerk-treasurer's office.
H. Reinstatement: Once services have been turned off, they will not be reinstated until the entire account, including all late fees, has been paid in full or arrangements have been made with the city clerk-treasurer's office. In addition a turn on fee of fifty dollars ($50.00), one hundred dollars ($100.00) for repeat offenders, will be assessed to the utility fee/bond fee account.
I. Fee Collected: The city council shall apply the utility fee and the bond fee collected to the payment of the various services rendered by the city in the manner determined by resolution adopted by the city council. (Ord. 965, 10-22-2012)
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