Bills for water and sewer service shall be rendered and meters read on a monthly basis. No meter readings shall be combined for billing purposes. The water and sewer rates prescribed herein are net. If accounts are not paid within fifteen days from the date of billing, a gross rate shall apply which is based upon the net rate plus ten percent (10%) thereof.
A qualified residential utility user, as defined below, shall be entitled to a discount of twenty percent (20%) of the amount, as otherwise determined in accordance with Section 913.05 and 913.071, to be owed for water and/or sewer service furnished to such user during the billing periods which begin no sooner than fifteen days after such user successfully applies for such discount in accordance with the provisions for application herein below set forth.
As used herein, "qualified residential utility user" means any natural person who:
(a) (1) Holds a Golden Buckeye Card or proof acceptable to the City of age 62 or older;
(2) Resides in the structure to which water and/or sewer service is furnished by the City;
(3) Is the person to whom bills for such utility services are addressed; and
(4) Furnishes the Utility Billing Office proof that:
A. Such person, if single, widowed, legally separated or divorced, has an adjusted gross income of less than twenty seven thousand nine hundred fifty dollars ($27,950) per year as determined by the Internal Revenue Code of the United States or, if married, has an adjusted gross income, when combined with that of his/her spouse, of less than thirty one thousand nine hundred fifty dollars ($31,950) per year as determined by the Internal Revenue Code of the United States; and
B. Such person owns the property to which the aforementioned discount is to apply or rents such property from the owner thereof pursuant to a written lease of same; or
(Ord. 1999-43. Passed 3-17-99.)
(b) (1) Has some impairment in body or mind that makes him/her unfit to work at any substantially remunerative employment which he/she is reasonably able to perform and which will, with reasonable probability, continue for an indefinite period of at least twelve months without any present indication of recovery therefrom or has been certified as permanently and totally disabled by a state or federal agency having the function of so classifying persons;
(2) Resides in the structure to which water and/or sewer service is furnished by the City;
(3) Is the person to whom bills for such utility services are addressed;
(4) Furnishes the Utility Billing Office proof that such person meets the conditions set forth in subsections (a)(4)A. and (a)(4)B. hereof. Only one qualifying discount shall be allowed with respect to any single utility bill, regardless of the number of qualified residential utility users served thereby.
Any premises making connection with the system and using the same after the first day of any calendar month, shall be charged a per diem pro rata amount, based upon the minimum bill, from the time such connection is made or water and/or sewer service is received, until the commencement of the next following billing period applicable to such premises except that, should the measured service exceed the minimum bill, the measured rate shall be charged.
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to authorize or require retroactive application of the discount here created prior to the effective date of this section or prior to the first full billing period which begins thereafter, as determined by the existing practices and procedures of the Utility Billing Office. (Ord. 1999-43. Passed 3-17-99)