Prior to the initiation, delivery, providing or connection to property or premises of utilities for potable water and/or sanitary sewerage services, the prospective customer, whether owner, a tenant, or both, shall make application to the Dry Ridge City Clerk and comply, stand and perform as follows:
(A) Be competent to transact business and if a person, be beyond nonage and at least 18 years of age.
(B) Provide assurance that the property and premises to receive utilities services has an inside turnoff valve for water service.
(C) The making and execution of the application form by the owner, the tenant-lessee if the property is under lease or let, and the record filing of a copy of the landlord and tenant lease or having the landlord’s memorialized and signed acknowledgment on the application form as to the nature and term of the tenancy, leasehold, and premises occupancy by the tenant-applicant.
(D) For both residential and nonresidential properties and premises, the owner or tenant of same, as the case may be, shall pay to the to the City Clerk a service fee as determined and warranted for initiation of utility services and further shall make an initiation charge/security deposit to provide a good faith fund against the ongoing costs, charges and expenses for utilities, to-wit: one hundred dollars ($100.00) for municipal water service; and one hundred dollars ($100.00) for sanitary sewerage services, all in the total amount of two hundred dollars ($200.00).
(E) In the event of a default, delinquency or nonpayment of the depositor’s utility charges billing account, the monies within the customer’s initiation charge/security deposit account shall be applied toward the payment of any and all outstanding delinquent debts due and owing as to the customer’s utilities billing account with the surplus therein, if any, after application to the billing delinquency, to remain in the said initiation charge/security deposit account.
(F) Except as to utility customers that are non-owner tenants or lessees of the property or premises having an initiation charge/security deposit account active together with a customer utility billing account that has been timely serviced and paid and not subject to the issuance of a delinquency or default during the 12-month billing cycle next after the time of initial deposit, then such deposit account shall, upon request, be refunded, except that such deposit made by a renter, lessee or tenant shall not be refunded or made until termination of lease or the depositor’s leasehold estate and the depositor’s due removal and vacation of the property and premises under and together with the depositor’s payment of his final bill as provided for herein.?
(Ord. 848-2018, passed 6-4-18)