(A) No initial or reconnected utilities services shall be made or provided to person, property or premises until the initiation charges and deposits are made and paid.
(B) No initial or reconnected utility services shall be provided to person, property or premises for or to which utilities billing accounts be delinquent, or for, or to, or upon which monies and sums be still owed or remain unpaid, or be in delinquency, until such delinquent accounts or monies owed for current utilities services be paid.
(C) No person or customer having one or more utility billing accounts in default, or being deemed as delinquent, shall be provided utilities services to any other site, location, address, place, or any other property or premises within the City of Dry Ridge, Kentucky, until any and all such utility billing accounts in default or being delinquent be paid current.
(D) Returned or dishonored customer checks or drafts are and shall be deemed and treated as a no payment and nonpayment subject to determined service charges and service fees and be grounds for the finding of a customer default or delinquency, and termination of service.
(E) Customers tendering or suffering two (2) returned or dishonored checks, or drafts, or other modes of payment direct or to a factor’s intermediate depository debt-payment account inuring to the city’s benefit for initiation charge/security deposit or the amount of a utility billing account, shall be, thereafter, required to pay utility billing accounts by guaranteed funds only and be subject to all determined services charges and service fees.
(F) Service charges and service fees referenced herein are monies settled and inuring to the benefit of the city to compensate it for expenses incurred for requisite utilities’ work and activities, or insure the city for and against financial-monetary-accounting expenses issuing out of utility customer’s dishonored or non worthy payments and tenders, all being in an amount and sum present and current of not less than thirty-five ($35.00) dollars for each determined, covered activity or exposure to financial -monetary-accounting liability or loss.
(G) If the last day of the due-payment term-period provided for and referenced in § 53.09(E) falls on a weekend, Saturday, Sunday or any holiday observed by the City of Dry Ridge, then the utility customer is given to 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, on the next business-working day to make and effect a worthy payment direct to the city’s offices or as provided for in § 53.09(E) and of even date.
(Ord. 848-2018, passed 6-4-18)