All accounts shall be in the name of the owner of the property being serviced by utility services and the owner shall be liable for utility services to the owner's property whether the owner is occupying the property or not.
(A) Property owners. The total amount due shown on the shut-off notice must be paid even though the utility services have been discontinued. If the total amount due shown on the shut-off notice is not paid in full in ten consecutive calendar days after shut-off notice due date, then the account shall be put on the "collection as taxes list".
(B) Collection as taxes list. If an account is paid in full before this list is certified to the county's Auditor, then that account shall be removed from the "collection as taxes list". All accounts shall be removed from the "collection as taxes list" once the list is certified to the county's Auditor.
(C) Certify to county's Auditor. The city's Administrator of the city shall on a quarterly basis each year certify the "collection as taxes list" to the county's Auditor and shall thereupon become and be alien upon the property on which the total amount due was incurred and shall be added to and become and form part of the taxes next to be assessed and levied upon the lot or any part thereof and shall bear interest at the same rate as taxes and shall be collected and enforced by the same officer and in the same manner as taxes.
(Ord. 250, passed 8-18-2004; Ord. 310, passed 5-21-2014; Ord. 326, passed 12-16-2015)