(A) If payment shall not be made as provider in this chapter, any amount due for sewer service, benefits or other charges provided for in this chapter when the same becomes due, the city may file or cause to be filed a complaint in the circuit court of the county for a foreclosure of such lien, or, upon becoming a defendant in any pending suit affecting the premises or real estate, an answer to the complaint in the nature of an intervening petition or real estate, an answer to the complaint in the nature of an intervening petition or cross complaint, then the city may proceed in its corporate name to foreclose such lien in like manner and with like effect as provided by the statues of the state in foreclosure of mortgages on real estate. Any decree rendered in the court may be enforced and collected as other decrees or judgements in the same court.
(B) The City Attorney is hereby authorized and directed to institute such proceedings in the name of the city, in the circuit court of the county, or in any court having jurisdiction over such matters, against any property for which a bill for sewer service charge has remained unpaid for 30 days after it has been rendered.
(C) The remedy provided in this section for the collection of delinquent sewer use charges or benefit shall not be construed to abridge or in any manner interfere with the right and power of the city to enforce a collection thereof by any other action or as otherwise provided in this chapter, but the remedy herein provided shall be taken and held as an additional means to enforce payment of such delinquent rates, charges or benefits.
(Prior Code, § 18-16-5)