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(A) Accounts. All accounts shall be carried in the name of the owner who personally, or by his or her authorized agent, applied for such service. The owner shall be liable for water and sewer services supplied to the property, whether he or she is occupying the property or not, and any unpaid charges shall be a lien upon the property.
(B) Charges due. The Chief Financial Officer shall compute the amount due the city for service charges and render a statement thereof monthly to the owner of any premises served or to both. All amounts due hereunder shall be payable to the office of the Finance Department.
(C) Payment required. Payment of user charges must be made when a connection is established, temporary or permanent, vacancy notwithstanding
(D) Enforcement of charges. Each charge levied by and pursuant to this section is hereby made a lien upon the corresponding lot, land, or premises served by a connection to the sewer system of the city. All the charges which are more than 60 days past due, and having been properly billed to the occupant of the premises served, shall be certified by the City Clerk to the County Auditor by November 30 of each year. The City Clerk shall specify the amount thereof, the description of the premises served, the name of the owner thereof which shall be certified by the Auditor on the tax rolls against the premises in the same manner as other taxes.
(E) Right of action. Any charges levied by and pursuant to § 50.36, and which have not been properly billed to the owner of any premises served, and not paid, may be recovered in a civil action by the city in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(F) Application of funds. The funds received from the collection of charges authorized by this section shall be deposited as collected in a fund known as the Water Fund and Sewer Fund and shall be disbursed:
(1) To meet the costs of operation and maintaining the water and sewage disposal pumping stations, treatment plant, and collection system; and
(2) To meet the costs of repair and replacement of the water and sewage disposal facilities.
(Prior Code, § 7-3-3) (Ord. 214, passed 10-28-1991; Ord. 785, passed 9-26-2022)
(A) Industrial waste measurement and sampling. Any person discharging industrial waste into the disposal system shall provide and maintain a suitable point or points of access together with the necessary meters and other appurtenances at an appropriate location prior to discharge of the waste into the disposal system to permit observation, measurement, and sampling of the waste by the city. Plans for the sampling points and measuring equipment shall be submitted to and approved by the city prior to construction and installation of same. Sampling and measuring facilities shall be such as to provide safe access for making inspection and verification of their proper operating condition. The metered water supply to a source of industrial waste may be used in lieu of a measured industrial waste volume where it can be established that the metered water supply and waste quantities are approximately the same or where a measurable adjustment to the metered supply can be made to determine the waste volume.
(B) Industrial waste analyses. Determination of the character and concentration of an industrial waste discharged into the disposal system shall be made by the person discharging it or his or her designated agent. Reports showing quantities and pertinent analytical data of the industrial waste discharges shall be filed with the city.
(C) Measurement and test procedures. All measurements, tests, and analyses of the characteristics of waste to which reference is made in these rules and regulations shall be determined in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation. Sampling shall be carried out by methods acceptable to and approved by the city. Alternate methods for certain analyses may be used subject to prior written approval by the city.
(D) Confidentiality of critical information.
(1) Any records or other information obtained by the city or furnished by an industrial waste discharger which are certified by the discharger to relate to:
(a) Production or sales figures;
(b) Processes or production unique to the discharge; or
(c) Information which would tend to affect adversely the competitive position of the discharger shall be only for the confidential use of the city in discharging its statutory obligations unless otherwise authorized by the discharger.
(2) However, all the information may be used by the city in compiling or publishing analyses or summaries relating to the general condition of the public waters so long as the analyses or summaries do not identify any discharger who has so not certified.
(Prior Code, § 7-3-4)
(A) Any person violating any provision of this chapter for which no specific penalty is prescribed shall be subject to § 10.99 of this code of ordinances.
(Prior Code, § 7-2-21)
(C) Violators of § 50.17 will be warned the first time and a water use surcharge as listed in the fee schedule ordinance will be billed for a second offense; the surcharge for third and subsequent violations within a 12-month period is listed in the fee schedule ordinance. The Public Works Department may shut the water off for repeat offenses. The standard turn-off and turn-on rates shall apply in addition to the surcharges.
(Prior Code, § 7-2-17)
(Ord. 362, passed 7-23-2001)