927.07 LATE CHARGES; DELINQUENT UTILITY BILL; DISCONNECTION OF SERVICE.
(a) If any bill for any product or service of the City's utilities is not paid within 20 days from the date of its mailing, a late charge, in the amount of five percent (5%) shall be imposed on the current month unpaid arrearage. Additionally, a late charge of one percent (1%) per month shall accrue on any unpaid arrearage commencing on the next due date (or what would have been the next due date if service is terminated) for such customer's next utility bill and continuing to accrue on such unpaid arrearage on all future due dates thereafter until the unpaid arrearage and late charges are paid in full.
(Ord. 2001-12-124. Passed 12-26-01.)
(b)
Any utility account shall be deemed delinquent and subject to the City’s disconnection of service procedures for nonpayment if for any given bill containing an arrearage, full payment or satisfactory arrangements for payment have not been made within the time set forth in Section 927.06(a). The City Manager or his designee shall have the authority to disconnect any or all public utility services to the consumer from whom a delinquent bill is due. Utility service shall not be resumed or reconnected at a location where it has been disconnected, nor installed or connected at any other location for any consumer with a delinquent utility account, until all outstanding bills for utility services have been paid in full or satisfactory arrangements have been made for the payment of the same.
(Ord. 2015-2-6. Passed 2-11-15.)
(c) Payments made shall be applied first to late charges, then to arrearages.
(d) Returned Check Charge. In addition to adding late payment charges as appropriate, the City shall charge and collect a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to cover the cost of handling a check which a customer tenders in payment of an account and which is returned by the bank because it cannot be paid as ordered.
(Ord. 2001-12-124. Passed 12-26-01.)
(e) Illegal Reconnection Charge. In addition to any fee or charge authorized by this or any other chapter of these Codified Ordinances, if any or all public utility services to the consumer have been disconnected by the City Manager or his designee, and if the public utility services or service are found to have been reconnected without prior City authorization, a fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) shall be assessed and paid in full by the consumer prior to reconnection of any utility service to a consumer. The consumer shall pay said amount personally at Customer Service Division of the Department of Finance.
(Ord. 2003-8-70. Passed 8-13-03.)