(a) Agents for the collection of water and sanitation accounts for the City, for the territory in which the various utilities of the City serve customers, are hereby created and established. Such agents shall furnish, at their own expense, suitable quarters, and they shall be and are hereby authorized and directed to collect and to receipt water and sanitation bills of such City utility customers as may desire to take advantage thereof. Such agents shall account for all moneys received at such intervals and when called upon to do so by the Chief Clerk of the Water and Sanitation Office or by his duly authorized representative. The collection records of the agents shall be open to inspection by the Chief Clerk of the Water and Sanitation Office or his duly authorized representative at all reasonable times.
(b) Such agents shall deliver to the Chief Clerk of the Water and Sanitation Office any and all moneys collected and held, together with the stubs representing payments received on a daily basis and at such times as may be mutually agreed upon.
(Ord. 82-119. Passed 12-22-82.)
(c) Such agents hereby appointed are the Citizens Savings Bank, the Peoples Banking Company and the Fidelity Savings and Loan Company, a division of Metropolitan Savings Bank together with the branch offices of each financial institution designated herein. The Peoples Banking Company and the Fidelity Savings and Loan Company shall receive as compensation for making such collections a sum equivalent to ten cents (10¢) for each utility bill represented by a City utility bill stub. The Citizens Savings Bank shall receive as compensation for making such collections a sum equivalent to five cents (5¢) for each utility bill represented by a City utility bill stub. The aggregate sum to be paid each agent for such service shall be paid monthly by the Auditor of the City, which compensation is so allowed for the reason that the amount of work involved in collections and the responsibility incurred warrants and justifies compensation for the service so rendered.
(Ord. 93-46. Passed 5-20-93.)
(d) The Chief Clerk of the Water and Sanitation Office is hereby authorized to prepare and adopt rules and regulations by which agents shall be guided in the execution of this service for the Water and Sanitation Office, covering such matters as no partial payments, no collection without customer bills, no adjustments or alterations in utility bills, no acceptance of checks except those payable to the Department of Public Service, and such other administrative matters.
(e) Agents appointed herein may discontinue the services rendered under authority of this section by giving the Chief Clerk of the Water and Sanitation Office and Council ninety days written notice of their intention to so discontinue the services.
(f) The authorities granted herein to the agents shall take effect and be in force from and after January 1, 1983.
(Ord. 82-119. Passed 12-22-82.)