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(a) Water bills based on the schedules contained in this chapter are due on and after the first day of each and every calendar month for water service for the preceding month and are delinquent if not paid by 5:00 p.m. on or before the fifteenth day of each month. It shall be the duty of the Supervisor of City Maintenance to have bills rendered to the users each month, but failure to render does not excuse the user from making prompt payment of the bill. If a water bill is delinquent, a penalty of ten percent of the amount due shall be added for the purpose of taking care of the additional bookkeeping thus necessitated. The Supervisor shall discontinue service without further notice if the charges for services are not paid within sixty days after the bill for such services has been rendered. Such services shall not be reinstated until all claims are settled. A fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) shall be charged for disconnection of any water service because of delinquency. There shall be a fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) for reinstating such service. If both water and sewer bills are delinquent, there shall be only a single charge for disconnection and/or reinstating such service.
(b) Whenever a monthly bill for water service remains unpaid for ninety days after it has been rendered, the City Attorney shall, at the direction of Council, file with the County Recorder of Deeds a statement of lien claim. This statement shall contain the legal description of the premises served, the amount of the unpaid bill and a notice that the City claims a lien for this amount as well as for all charges subsequent to the period covered by the bill.
If the user whose bill is unpaid is not the owner of the premises and the Supervisor has notice of this, notice shall be mailed to the owner of the premises, if his or her address is known to the Supervisor, whenever such bill remains unpaid for forty-five days after it has been rendered.
The failure of the City Attorney to record such lien, the failure of the Supervisor to mail such notice or the failure of the owner to receive such notice shall not affect the right to foreclose the lien for unpaid bills.
(Ord. 570. Passed 11-14-88; Ord. 619. Passed 11-9-92; Ord. 801. Passed 1-12-04.)
Rates for water service by the waterworks system of the City are hereby established as follows:
(a) A minimum charge of twenty-nine dollars and ninety cents ($29.90) shall be made monthly to each customer, which entitles such customer to the use of 5,000 gallons.
(b) For the next 30,000 gallons, the charge shall be at the rate of five dollars and twenty-seven cents ($5.27) per 1,000 gallons.
(c) For the next 25,000 gallons, the charge shall be at the rate of four dollars and twenty-seven cents ($4.27) per 1,000 gallons.
(d) For the use of over 60,000 gallons, the charge shall be at the rate of four dollars and seven cents ($4.07) per 1,000 gallons.
(Ord. 706. Passed 9-8-97; Ord. 785. Passed 10-14-02; Ord. 897. Passed 6-13-11; Ord. 911. Passed 6-11-12; Ord. 935. Passed 4-14-14; Ord. 977. Passed 11-13-17; Ord. 993. Passed 7-15-19; Ord. 1,011. Passed 12-13-21.)
Until such time as a meter is installed, the unmetered water user shall be charged with and required to pay for water service at the rate of twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($27.50) per month.
(Ord. 742. Passed 11-8-99; Ord. 785. Passed 10-14-02; Ord. 897. Passed 6-13-11; Ord. 911. Passed 6-11-12; Ord. 935. Passed 4-14-14; Ord. 977. Passed 11-13-17; Ord. 993. Passed 7-15-19.)
No person shall, by himself or herself or by any person acting under his or her authority or direction, use or take water from any part of the waterworks system of the City without first having obtained a license or permit to do so as provided in this chapter, or without authority make an excavation in any street, alley or public walk, or injure or deface any fire hydrant, water main, service line, curb cock, meter, curb cock box, meter box or any other fixture or device appertaining to the waterworks system, or turn on any water service which may have been turned off for nonpayment of a water bill, or do anything to injure, deface, obstruct or impair the waterworks system or any part thereof or any building, machinery or appliance thereof.
(Ord. 570. Passed 11-14-88.)
There shall be established a Water Fund into which there shall be paid all funds and moneys derived from the revenue of the water system. The money in such Fund shall be used for the reasonable expenses of operation, maintenance and repair of the waterworks system, and of replacements to such system, at the specific direction of Council. From the Fund there shall be set aside, in a separate account, an amount of at least twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), to be used from time to time for repair, maintenance and replacement of water lines and the water system.
(Ord. 570. Passed 11-14-88.)
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