A. Billing:
1. All service charges, costs, fees, and penalties assessed by the City of Cedar Hills shall be billed for and collected on a single unified bill.
2. If the property is vacant and/or there is no utility bill, the base utility fees (as seen on the city fee schedule), shall be charged to the owner of the property. The fees shall be deemed a civil debt owed to the city by the person or entity paying for the city utility services provided to the property.
B. Payment Of Fees: Payments on any city utility statement shall be applied as designated by city policy, although the culinary water fee portion of the bill shall be paid last. If a customer pays only a portion of the city utility bill, all penalties shall be paid in full before any amount is applied to the remaining services.
C. Assumption: Residents must notify the City of Cedar Hills in writing of any billing errors within one hundred eighty (180) days of the statement date from the bill on which the error or problem appeared or failed to appear. If no notice of error is received within the one hundred eighty (180) day period, the bill will be deemed correct and the city will have no recourse for errors.
D. Failure To Pay:
1. On or before the tenth day of each month, the city shall mail or otherwise deliver a written or printed statement to each user showing the amount of water and/or sewer service charges assessed against the user for the preceding billing period, together with any other outstanding charges.
2. Said amount shall be due and payable upon receipt of the statement and shall be considered past due on the second day of the month following receipt of the statement (past due date).
3. In the event that payment of the utility bill is not received by the city prior to the past due date, the city may assess a past due fee in an amount to be set by resolution of the city council according to the city fee schedule, and in the event that the city shall not have received payment in full of all past due utility fees that shall have been assessed within fifteen (15) days after the past due date, the account shall be considered delinquent and the water service shall be subject to shutoff by the city without further notification to the user.
E. Disconnection Of Water Service For Nonpayment Authorized; Other Remedies:
1. In the event any person shall fail to pay for the water and/or sewer service furnished or shall use such service in violation of the provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations adopted pursuant hereto, the city may cause the water to be shut off from such premises.
2. Before any water service that has been shut off as a result of nonpayment of service fees shall be restored, all past due service charges, delinquency fees and such extra charge for turning the water on and off as the city council may have established by resolution according to the city fee schedule shall be paid in full.
3. The city is authorized and empowered to enforce the payment of all delinquent service charges by any action at law in the corporate name of the city.
4. To the extent authorized by Utah law, the city may, in addition to any and all other remedies provided herein, impose a tax lien on the premises being served to recover all delinquent fees and charges.
F. Payment Of Postpetition Services: The city may refuse or discontinue utility services if a debtor in bankruptcy or a bankruptcy trustee, within thirty (30) days after the date the bankruptcy petition was filed, does not provide the city adequate assurance of payment of postpetition services in the form of a deposit or other security.
G. Turning On Water After Being Turned Off Prohibited: It is unlawful for any person, after the water shall have been turned off for nonpayment of service charges or other violation of the rules and regulations pertaining to the water or sewer system, to turn on the water or allow it to be turned on or used without authorization to do so from the city. (Ord. 9-20-2011A, 9-20-2011)