(A) For the service provided by the town consisting of the collection of trash, garbage and refuse (i.e., the “trash collection service”), there shall be charged a monthly fee as set forth in § 11.01 (the “trash collection fee”) to be collected from the owners of each and every single-family and duplex residential properties in the town that receive trash collection service under the town’s existing trash collection contract.
(B) The trash collection fee shall be prepared, billed and collected by the town in the manner provided by I.C. 36-9-30, this section and as follows:
(1) The trash collection fee shall be prepared and billed monthly.
(2) The trash collection fee may be billed to the tenant or tenants occupying the properties served, unless otherwise requested in writing by the owner, but such billing shall in no way relieve the owner from the liability in the event payment is not made as herein required.
(3) The owners of properties served, which are occupied by a tenant or tenants, shall have the right to examine the collection records of the town for the purpose of determining whether bills have been paid by such tenant or tenants, provided that such examination shall be made at the office at which such records are kept and during the hours that such office is open for business.
(4) All trash collection fees not paid by the seventeenth day of the month (the “due date”) are hereby declared to be delinquent and a penalty of 10% of the first $3 of delinquent fees and 3% of the remaining delinquent balance shall be added to the trash collection fees due on the earlier of the eighteenth day of the month or the first work day following the due date.
(Ord. 2019-9E, passed 10-7-2019; Am. Ord. 2022-11A, passed 12-5-22)
Cross-reference:
Trash collection fee, see § 11.01