(a) A late payment penalty assessed at a monthly rate of one and one-quarter percent shall be imposed on all sewer usage fees billed under Section 3-12-060 for which payment in full is not received within 24 calendar days from the date the bill for such charges was sent as shown by the records of the department of finance and shall be subject to Section 11-12-480. Where the correctness of a rate or charge imposed under this chapter is disputed and where complaint of such incorrectness has been made prior to the time the usual penalty would be imposed, and where the adjusting of such complaint requires additional time, the penalty may be held in abeyance up to and including the tenth day succeeding the resending of such bill.
(b) The rates and charges calculated and applied under Section 3-12-060 shall be recited upon a unified statement of charges. The unified statement of charges shall be prepared and sent to the billed party in such time periods as established by the Comptroller. All revenues received in payment of such sewer use rates, charges, and penalties shall be deposited to the sewer revenue fund established under Section 3-12-010. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Comptroller shall enforce the provisions of this section. Pursuant to Section 2-106-040, the Commissioner of the Department of Water Management shall maintain the power and duties over the sewerage system of the City of Chicago.
(c) Charges for sewer service hereunder shall be a lien upon the premises served pursuant to the law thereto pertaining. When such charges have been delinquent for a period of 60 days, the Comptroller may cause a statement of lien to be recorded against the premises served and delinquent in the form and manner provided by law. The failure to record such a lien or to send notice thereof shall not affect the right of the city to foreclose or adjudicate such lien, by an equitable action in accordance with the statutory requirements therefor and in the same manner as provided for water service in Section 11-12-490, et seq., of this Code. The Comptroller shall execute releases of such liens on behalf of the city upon receipt of payment thereof.
(Added Coun. J. 12-12-01, p. 75777, § 6.3; Amend Coun. J. 12-4-02, p. 99026, § 1.6; Amend Coun. J. 12-2-09, p. 78837, Art. 5, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 13798, Art. I, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 10-28-15, p. 12062, Art. IX, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 7-20-22, p. 50569, § 2)