(a) Billing. All bills for service charges shall be rendered to users monthly. Bills shall show the net amount due, and if not paid within fifteen days after the date rendered, ten percent of the bill shall be added thereto as a penalty for failure to make prompt payment.
(b) Enforcement - (Residents). Charges for services provided by the system shall constitute a lien on the property served, and if not paid within six months after the same are due, the official or officials in charge of the collection thereof shall, prior to March 1 of each year, certify to the city Assessor the facts of such delinquency, whereupon the City Assessor shall enter such delinquent charges upon the next general City tax roll as a charge against such premises and the same shall be collected and the lien thereof enforced in the same manner, as general City taxes against such premises are collected and the lien thereof enforced. However, where notice is given that a tenant is responsible for such charges and service, as provided in Section 21 of Act 94 of the Public Acts of Michigan, 1933, as amended, or where so determined by the City Council, no further services shall be rendered to such premises until a cash deposit of not less than seventy-five dollars ($75.00) shall have been made as security for payment of such charges and services. In addition to other remedies provided, the City shall have the right to shut off and discontinue sewer service to any premises for the nonpayment of sewer charges when due. If such charges are not paid within thirty days after the date thereof, then service to such premises shall be discontinued, and service so discontinued shall not be restored until all sums then due and owing shall be paid.
(Ord. 207. Passed 10-3-89; Ord. 353. Passed 6-17-21.)