A. In the event of failure to pay sewer service charges, connection fees, industrial pretreatment compliance monitoring analysis, any administrative or civil fines assessed by the city or court after they become delinquent, failure to cease discharging to the sewer substances prohibited by any rules and regulations of the city, or failure to have flow monitoring or sampling devices in proper operating condition for more than 7 days, the city shall have the right to remove or close sewer connections and enter the property for accomplishing that purpose.
B. The expense of the removal or closing, as well as the expense of restoring service, shall likewise be a debt due to the city and a lien upon the property, and may be recovered by civil action in the name of the city against the property owner, the person or both.
C. If past due sewer service charges or connection fees are placed in the hands of the City Attorney for collection, the property owner, the person or both shall be liable for the city’s reasonable attorneys’ fees and collection costs in the recovery of the sewer charges, both at trial and appeal.