(A) Payment of water bills. Water bills are due when rendered. The owner of the premises and the occupant thereof and the user of either water or sewerage service or both water and sewer service shall be jointly and severally liable to pay for the service on said premises; such service is furnished to the premises by the village only upon the condition that the owner of the premises, the occupant and the user of the service are jointly and severally liable thereof. If the water bill is not paid within 21 days from the date of issuance of the bill, a 10% penalty shall be added and thereafter the bill shall not be considered paid unless and until the total bill plus all penalties are paid in full.
(B) Delinquency of water bills. When the water bill for any premises remains unpaid for 30 days, the water accounts shall be deemed delinquent.
(C) Notice of delinquency. Upon delinquency, the village shall give notice to the person, firm, or corporation in whose name the account stands on the records of the village. The notice may, but is not required to be given by the village to the owner of the premises in connection with which the water was used, if the owner is other than the user and if his name and address is known to the village.
(D) Form of notice of delinquency. The form of notice of delinquency shall be in such form as the Finance Director may from time to time prescribe, and shall inform the person notified of the amount of the delinquency and the action which may be taken by the village in case the delinquency continues to exist at the end of five days from the date of the notice and the right to have a hearing before the Village Manager.
(E) Water to be shut off. In each case where delinquent water bills (at least 60 days past due) are not paid within five days from the date of the notice, the water furnished to the premises shall be shut off by the Public Works Department, and shall not thereafter be restored until such time as the full amount past due is fully paid including a service charge of $50 for restoring the service, and all other provisions of the water ordinance have been complied with.
(F) Notice of lien. In each case where a delinquent water account is not paid within five days from the date of the notice of delinquency, and when no negotiation is completed allowing the account to be paid in installments, the Village Clerk shall cause a notice of lien to be prepared and filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Will County, Illinois. The Notice of Lien shall be in substantially the following form:
NOTICE OF LIEN FOR WATER FURNISHED
To
(Owner's Name)
(Owner's Address)
And to all Persons Now or Hereafter interested in the Following Property:
You and each of you are hereby notified that the Village of Romeoville, a municipal corporation, organized and existing under and by virtue of the Laws of the State of Illinois, claims a lien upon the real estate commonly known as
Romeoville, Illinois, and otherwise described as follows, to wit:
(Insert Legal Description)
In the County of Will and State of Illinois, for delinquent water rates for water supplied to said real estate by the claimant, Village of Romeoville, up to and including
, 19 . You and each of you are further notified that the amount of money now claimed to be due the Village of Romeoville for delinquent water rates for water furnished to said real estate as aforesaid is Dollars ($ ) which amount became delinquent of , 19 .
VILLAGE OF ROMEOVILLE
A Municipal Corporation
By
STATE OF ILLINOIS )
) SS.
COUNTY OF WILL )
, being first duly sworn upon his oath deposes and says that he is a duly authorized deputy collector employed in the office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Romeoville, the books and records of the accounts for water furnished by the Commissioner of Public Works of the Village of Romeoville and that he has read the foregoing notice of lien for water furnished and knows the contents thereof, and that all the statements contained therein are true.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of 19 .
Notary Public
(G) The Village Clerk shall keep a record of all Notices of Lien as may be filed pursuant to (F) above. Upon the full payment of any delinquent water account which any notice of lien has been filed, the Clerk shall execute a release evidencing the satisfaction and discharge of the lien and deliver the release to the person paying the delinquent account.
('71 Code, Ch. 13 § 1-24) (Ord. 192, passed 11-5-58; Am. Ord. - - -, passed - - 71; Am. Ord. 771, passed 1-21-81; Am. Ord. 997-87, passed 5-20-87; Am. Ord. 2137-91, passed 10-16-91; Am. Ord. 2159-92, passed 2-19-92; Am. Ord. 2231-93, passed 7-21-93; Am. Ord. 04-0154, passed 6-2-04)