(A) The Water Superintendent shall place a pad lock on water meters of any properties to prevent owners or renters from turning water on when the city has turned water off for non-payment, and/or to prevent water loss when a problem has occurred at that specific address. All city utilities due to the vacancy of a tenant of any residence become the responsibility of the property owner. All city utilities must be paid in full in order for the removal of water meter lock and for service to resume.
(B) An application from any person who, or organization which, has failed to make payment of any of his, her, or its taxes or other debts due the city, at the time such application is submitted to the City Clerk, shall not be accepted and approved until such default has been extinguished.
(C) With the delivery of the application to the City Clerk, if the applicant is the owner of the premises to be furnished with water service, the applicant shall also deliver to the City Clerk the sum of $150, which sum shall be retained by the city, without interest, as security for the payment of the account incurred for water service furnished to the premises for which application for water service is made. If the applicant is not the owner of the premises to be furnished with water service, then with delivery of the application to the City Clerk, the applicant shall deliver to the City Clerk the sum of $200, which sum shall be retained by the city without interest as security for payment of the account incurred for water service furnished to the premises for which application for water service is made. The application shall not be accepted by the City Clerk unless the sum required to be paid as a deposit at the time the application is submitted, accompanies said application. The City Clerk shall give to the applicant a receipt for the money so deposited. If the statement of account for water service is not paid within the time required in § 51.023, the amount of such account shall be deducted from said deposit. In the event a water service customer has paid the customer’s bill by the due date for three consecutive years, the City Clerk shall refund 50% of the deposit to the customer. Upon discontinuance of water service due to the vacation of, or change in owner of, the premises served, the balance of said deposit shall be returned to depositor.
(Prior Code, § 705.060) (Ord. 213, passed 5-3-1983; Ord. 313, passed 2-5-2002; Ord. 380, passed 1-5-2008; Ord. 424, passed 8-13-2014)