(A) The owner of any lot, parcel of real estate or building that is connected with and uses the sanitary sewer works system of the town, and who shall be continuously absent from such lot, parcel of real estate or building for a continuous period of 90 days or more, wherein no sanitary sewage shall be discharged into the town’s sanitary sewer works system from such lot, parcel of real estate or building for such continuous 90-day period or more, if such owner follows the following procedure, then the sewer rates for such 90-day period or more shall be waived.
(B) Such procedure to be as follows:
(1) File or have filed with the Clerk-Treasurer’s office a notice from the Hoosier Water Company stating that said water service to said lot, parcel of real estate or building has been shut off or disconnected;
(2) File a written certification with the Clerk-Treasurer indicating the likelihood that such water service shall be disconnected continuously for a period of more than 90 days and stating that such owner’s property shall not be discharging sanitary sewage into the town’s sewage treatment works; and
(3) Certify to the Clerk-Treasurer that in the event the water service to said lot, parcel of real estate or building, shall be reconnected by the Hoosier Water Company Utility, that the owner of said property shall immediately notify the Clerk-Treasurer’s office, in writing, within a period of three days following the reconnection of the water supply to the owner’s said lot, parcel of real estate or building.
(C) Any such waiver of rates shall be for a full month’s service, if application for such waiver is made prior to the next billing date at the Clerk-Treasurer’s office. Any resumption of use within a lesser period of a month prior to the next regular scheduled billing date of the sanitary sewage works utility shall not be pro-rated, but the owner of such lot, parcel of real estate or building shall be charged for a full month’s service rate.
(Ord. 5, 1976, passed 9-21-1976)