(a) Whenever the city receives a request for termination of water service or temporary cessation of water service, no matter the duration of the cessation or the reason for the cessation, a service disconnection fee as approved by the governing body and listed in the latest City of Kingman Schedule of Fees, plus any water usage, shall be charged. This disconnection fee and any water usage prior to disconnection shall be added to the customer’s next or final bill, whichever is applicable, or billed to the individual who requested the disconnection of services. Any sendee disconnected for nonpayment of a delinquent bill shall be reconnected only upon payment of the delinquent bill, interest penalty thereon, and a reconnection charge as approved by the governing body and listed in the latest City of Kingman Schedule of Fees.
(b) Whenever the city receives a request to reconnect water service after a termination of service or to reconnect water service after a temporary cessation of service, a service reconnection fee as approved by the governing body and listed in the latest City of Kingman Schedule of Fees shall be charged and added to the customer’s next bill or billed to the individual who requested the reconnection of water service. This reconnection fee shall be charged no matter the duration of the reconnection of service or the reason for the reconnection of service.
(c) In the instances of temporary cessations and temporary reconnections of water service, the City Clerk is authorized to require the disconnection and reconnection fees to be paid in advance before water service is disconnected or reconnected with usage to be billed in the regular course of water billing to the party requesting the action.
(d) The provisions of this section shall not be applicable upon presentation of a valid plumbing permit issued by the city.
(Ord. 1997, passed 8-13-2015)