(A) No employee of the town except those employees assigned to the Finance Department shall accept any money, check or other negotiable instrument as payment of any utility bill or utility fee.
(B) All fees shall be submitted as directed on the utility bill.
(C) Application of partial payments. Partial payments shall be applied to the oldest debt first, and thereafter, shall be applied in the order that the debt was incurred. Partial payment for a consolidated billing account will be applied in the following order as applicable: wastewater usage not associated with water usage; wastewater associated with water meter; then water usage as metered.
(D) Metering and billing practices for multiple structures on property. A property owner may request service to multiple structures on a single property. The property owner may request separate billing statements for each structure for record keeping purposes, however, the sum of these individual statements will be considered a single consolidated account for payment purposes. A payment made against any charges of the consolidated account will follow the city’s partial payment order.
(Ord. passed 3-12-2002; Am. Ord. 18-179, passed 2-20-2018)