(A) Payment of all water and sewer bills shall be due upon receipt by the consumer, as set forth in § 50.04(D). Failure to pay by the consumer within the time specified shall result in penalties and termination of service as set forth in Ordinance § 16-1-4.
(B) All users shall be billed monthly, such billing schedule to coincide with the billing schedule for water users as set forth in § 50.29. The charge shall be based on the average of the actual water usage during the metered periods ending on February, March, and April 15 of each year, and said average shall remain the same for the following monthly billing periods until April 15 of the next year when a new average will be calculated, except as hereinafter provided.
(C) The charge for users not receiving water service from the city water system during any or all of the metered periods ending on February, March, or April 15 or where there is no prior water usage, shall be based on estimates prepared by the city. If the metered water usage during any of the months used in calculating the average are substantially high or low as compared to metered water usage during the other months used in the calculation, a more appropriate amount may be substituted for the substantially high or low month’s metered water usage.
(D) The charge for users having substantially higher or lower metered water usage in several of the following monthly billing periods than the average as calculated in this section may be based on estimates as determined by the city.
(Ord. 430, passed - -; Ord. 518, passed - -)