The town’s utility billing clerk, on the disconnection date each month or, if a disconnection date falls on a day when the town is not open for business, the next day on which the town is open for business, shall compile and deliver to the town’s Public Works Operation Manager a list of all delinquent customers (the disconnect list). The town’s Public Works Operation Manager shall then, as soon as is practicable and without delay or preference, effect the discontinuation of water service to all delinquent customers. If the town’s utility billing clerk receives from a delinquent customer, on or after the disconnection date but prior to the physical disconnection of that delinquent customer’s water service, in the form of cash, money order, or cashier’s check, all past due charges, the town’s utility billing clerk may attempt to contact the town’s Public Works Operation Manager and have that delinquent customer removed from the disconnect list. Neither the town’s Public Works Operation Manager nor anyone other than the town’s utility billing clerk may accept payment of charges owed to the town’s water utility and/or sewage works. Payment by a delinquent customer, prior to the physical disconnection of that delinquent customer’s water service, of all past due charges may not prevent water service from being discontinued or the imposition of applicable disconnection and reconnection fees.
(Ord. 2017-2, passed 3-6-2017)