(A) The billing and collection of stormwater user fees shall be administered by the Board. The stormwater user fees for residentially developed properties and non-residential developed properties shall be billed as frequently as monthly with payment due as of the date stated in the billing. The Common Council is authorized to amend the city's contract with Indiana-American Water Company for the purpose of affecting those billings. The Board shall determine a policy and procedure for billings and collections from all properties without Indiana-American Water Company service. The Common Council shall have authority to enter into agreement with Indiana-American Water Company to provide for suspension of drinking water service in the event of partial or incomplete payment of fees required by this chapter.
(B) For billings and collections administered directly by the city (i.e., not through the Indiana-American Water Company contract), in the event that a partial payment is received, the payment shall be applied pro-rata to each account billed on a consolidated statement by city services in the proportion that the account bears to the total consolidated statement of all current charges for all accounts. All bills for stormwater user fees shall become due and payable in accordance with the rules and regulations in effect, or subsequently adopted by, the Board.
(C) The Board shall have authority to annually place tax liens on properties in default of fees required by this chapter. The Board shall provide notice of any intended tax liens subject to the provisions of applicable Indiana law. Removal of the property tax lien will only occur upon full payment of the stormwater user fees or other payment arrangements approved by the Board. In the alternative, the Board may take appropriate legal action to collect unpaid charges.
(D) The interim user fee defined in § 56.05(C) shall be billed and collected through the existing sanitary sewer billing. The Board shall consider migrating to billing through the county tax bill over the long term and take into account the cost of billing, administration and collection rates.
(E) The threshold for retroactive billing shall be six months. Vacant or unidentified property that has not been charged stormwater user fees may be billed retroactively up to six months.
(Ord. G-05-52, passed 11-2-2005)