(A) Charges for furnishing water supply service and/or sewage disposal service shall be made against those premises connected to either of such systems or those premises discharging sewage, either directly or indirectly, into the sewage disposal system or any part thereof.
(B) The owner(s) of any premises furnished water supply service and/or sewage disposal service is the party responsible for the charges of the service used except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
(C) On all properties located within the boundaries of the village and, to the extent authorized by law, on all properties outside the boundaries of the village which receive water and/or sanitary sewer services from the village, the village shall have a lien upon the premises to which water supply service and/or sewage disposal service is supplied as security for the collection of water and/or sewage system rates, assessments, charges, or rentals due or to become due, including without limitation volume usage charges. Said lien shall become effective immediately upon the distribution of the water or provision of the sewage disposal service to the premises as provided for in Public Act 178 of 1939, being M.C.L.A. § 123.162, as amended, and Public Act 94 of 1933, as amended, being M.C.L.A. § 141.121, as amended.
(1984 Code, § 7-01-02-020) (Ord. 277, passed 6-10-1997; Ord. 352, passed 11-10-2002; Ord. 392, passed 6-15-2008)