(A) If a consumer shall for any reason order the service discontinued, or shall remove from the premises, or for any reason shall be indebted to the city for water service furnished, such amount due under the terms of this chapter, together with any rents and charges in arrears shall be considered as delinquent water rent, which is hereby declared to be a lien upon the premises or real estate for which or upon which the same was used or supplied, and upon the refusal of the consumer to pay the delinquent water rents, they shall be collected by being placed upon the assessment roll and tax books for collection like other taxes.
(B) All accounts due from water consumers for water rent shall be a lien upon the premises or real estate upon which or for which the same was used or supplied from and after the time the amounts become due for water rent, as hereinbefore provided, are delinquent and from and after the date the owner shall have been notified in writing of such delinquency by the city. It shall be the duty of the Clerk on the June 1 of each year to report to the Council a list of all unpaid accounts due for water together with a description of the premises or real estate, upon or for which the same was used or supplied. The report shall be examined, and if approved by the Council, shall be certified by the Clerk to the County Clerk, giving the amounts due and the description of the premises or real estate upon or for which water from the waterworks system of the city was used or supplied, the same to be collected as other taxes, by the County Treasurer.
(Prior Code, § 51.064)