A. The city exercises its police power to protect the public health of its residents by ensuring the removal and proper processing of wastewater, the removal of storm water, and the removal of garbage and rubbish from the city. These three services bear a clear and demonstrable relationship to the goal of protecting public health. Further, these three services are directly related to providing residents clean drinking water because without drinking water service, residents would not have a need for sewer service, and structures and buildings would not be habitable.
B. The city, by and through its Moorhead Public Service Commission, provides residents with cost-efficient and reliable electrical service and clean drinking water. The provisions of electrical service and clean drinking water to the residents, along with the three other interrelated fee-based services described in Section A, directly impact and support the public health of the city and its residents.
C. The city hereby finds that because the services of electrical, drinking water, wastewater, storm water, garbage service, and street light service are interrelated, the non-payment of one of these interrelated services may result in service being discontinued pursuant to the due process protections and procedures set forth in this chapter. (Ord. 2023-07, 6-26-2023)