Water bills shall be due and payable monthly at the office of the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer. The Municipal Clerk-Treasurer shall charge and collect from each customer the monthly fee for water service, together with any other charges, properly itemized, due the Water Department. Bills shall be mailed on the first day of each month. Bills shall be due on the tenth of each month and shall be payable by the fifteenth of each month. Bills not paid by the fifteenth of each month shall be deemed to be delinquent. Upon being deemed to be delinquent as herein defined, the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer shall give a written notice to the customer of such delinquency and shall demand payment immediately. In the event that the bill is not paid within seven days after the sending of said notice, it shall be discretionary with the governing body to cut off service at any time; provided, it shall be the duty of the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer to notify the customer by mail of the proposed termination. The Municipal Clerk-Treasurer shall assess an additional fee of $25 in the event that water is shut off for the nonpayment of any water bill to compensate the municipality for the additional hookup necessary to again provide water service to the delinquent customer.
(Prior Code, § 3-111) (Ord. 123, passed 4-3-1995; Ord. 273, passed 6-4-2024)
Statutory reference:
Waterworks; rules and regulations, see Neb. RS 17-542 and 70-1602