A. Schedule: The charges for public sewer service shall be upon a schedule of rates to be determined and fixed by the Public Works Supervisor and approved by the City Council.
B. Vacant, Unoccupied Premises: There shall be no credit for vacant or unoccupied premises as to public sewer service.
C. Public Buildings And Parks: The City shall pay to the Sewer Department from the current expense fund the following:
For all sewer service used in public buildings and parks, an amount figured at regular rates for each service installed.
D. Payable: All charges for sewerage service shall be due and payable at the Office of the Clerk on or before the tenth day of each month, and shall become delinquent after the fifteenth day. Sewerage bills shall cover periods of one month. All payments and collections for sewerage service shall be paid into the Sewer Revenue Fund.
E. Lien For Nonpayment: All unpaid charges for sewer connections and service, and all service charges, provided in this chapter, or as may be amended hereafter, together with penalties and interest thereon, shall be a lien upon the property with which such connections are made or to which such sewerage service is rendered, superior to all other liens and encumbrances whatsoever, except for general taxes and local special assessments. Enforcement of such lien or liens shall be in the manner provided by law. (Ord. 12, 2-1971)
F. Discontinuance Of Water Services: As an additional and concurrent method of enforcing the lien of said City for sewerage charges, the Public Works Supervisor is hereby authorized and directed at the end of sixty (60) days after the date of first delinquency of any of such charges in the case of sewerage charges to cut off the water services from the premises where such services are provided until such time as all such charges, plus penalties have been paid. (Ord. 12, 2-1971; amd. 2019 Code)