(A) Rules and regulations. Water service charges shall be billed and collected in accordance with rules and regulations established by the City Manager and approved by the Council.
(B) Collection. The Director of Finance is hereby empowered to discontinue water service for nonpayment of any water rates, assessments, charges of rentals due the city, or for the violation of any provision of this subchapter. In addition thereto, the Director of Finance is further empowered to discontinue water service to any person or property located outside the city limits, if any charges against said person or premises arising out of the furnishing by the city of sewage disposal service becomes more than 90 days delinquent. Water services that are turned off for nonpayment and subsequently turned on shall be assessed a service charge established by Council and posted in the Office of the City Clerk. No service discontinued hereunder shall be reinstated except upon payment of a turn-on service charge shall be established by Council and posted in the Office of the City Clerk that.
(C) Lien against premises served. The charges for water and services which are, under the provisions of the Revenue Bond Act, Public Act 94 of 1933, being M.C.L. § 141.121, as amended, made a lien on all premises served thereby, unless notice is given that a tenant is responsible, are hereby recognized to constitute such lien and whenever any such charge against any piece of property shall be delinquent for six months, the city official in charge of the collection thereof shall certify to the tax assessing officer of the city the fact of such delinquency, whereupon such charge shall be entered upon the next tax roll as a charge against such premises and 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. All provisions of the Charter of the city and of the laws of the state applicable to the time and manner of certification and collection of delinquent city taxes levied against real estate in the city shall be applicable to and shall be observed in the certification and collection of charges for water service. Provided, however, where notice is given that a tenant is responsible for such charges and service as provided by M.C.L. § 141.121, no further service shall be rendered any piece of property until a cash deposit pursuant to § 52.36 shall have been made as security for the payment of such charges and service. A like lien for such charges and service shall to the extent permitted by law be imposed against property outside the city and shall be enforced as provided in M.C.L. § 141.121, observing procedures similar to the above as appropriate for township taxes.
(Prior Code, § 52.37) (Ord. D-304, passed 4-7-1953, effective 6-21-1953; Ord. D-1643, passed 9-23-1991, effective 10-3-1991; Ord. O-29, passed 2-7-2005, effective 2-17-2005)