(A) The town shall continually maintain in effect just and equitable rates or charges for the use of and the service rendered by the works, to be paid by the owner of each and every lot, parcel of real estate or building that is connected with and uses the sewage works by or through any part of the sewerage system of the town or that in any way uses or is served by the works; that the rates or charges shall be sufficient in each year for the payment of the proper and reasonable expenses of operation, repair, replacement and maintenance of the works and for the payment of the sums required to be paid into the Sewage Works Sinking Fund by this chapter and by I.C. 36-9-23. The rates or charges shall, if necessary, be changed and readjusted from time to time so that the revenues therefrom shall always be sufficient to meet the expenses of operation, repair and maintenance and the requirements of the Sewage Works Sinking Fund. The rates or charges so established shall apply to any and all use of the works by and service rendered to the town and all departments thereof as the charges accrue.
(B) Rates and charges currently in effect are shown in Appendix XIV, on file in the office of the Clerk-Treasurer and made a part hereof by reference as though set out in full herein, as it may be amended from time to time by Town Council ordinance or resolution.
(C) When any user of the sewage works shall fail to pay an invoice for sewage use charges within 15 days after the same shall be mailed to the user, there shall be added to the invoice a penalty equal to 10% of the net amount thereof. The penalty shall be added only once for a single month’s billing.
(D) Failure to pay the penalty may result in a lien being placed upon the property served, the same as if the penalty were part of the user charge.
(1982 Code, § 14-17) (Am. Ord. 86-7-86, passed 7-28-1986; Am. Ord. 86-10-22, passed 10-21-1986; Am. Ord. passed 6-27-1996; Am. Ord. passed 9-25-1996; Am. Ord. 2003- , passed 7-16-2003; Am. Ord. 11-06-2008, passed 11-17-2008)