(a) Each new customer making application for water service shall make a cash deposit to the city in the amount of $75 for residential customers and $150 for commercial customers; the deposits to serve as a guaranty for the payment of water thereafter furnished to the customer’s premises.
(b) In the event that water service shall be disconnected for failure to pay any bill due the city for water, such cash deposit shall be applied as a credit against all amounts due from the customer to the city, and if there shall remain any surplus of such deposit, the same shall be returned to the customer. In the event such cash deposit is insufficient to pay the amount due for water furnished, the deficiency due shall constitute a personal liability of the customer.
(c) Deposits collected pursuant to this section shall be governed by the provisions of K.S.A. 12-822.
(1987 Code, § 15-113) (Ord. 707, passed - -)