(A) The Finance Director shall prepare or cause to be prepared statements for water service and sewer charges and forward same to the customer. The customer shall pay such charges by the due date indicated upon the statement, which shall not be less than 15 days following the date of mailing by the Finance Director.
(B) In all instances, service is provided a customer through a service pipe or hose coupling owned by a person other than the Village. Responsibility for payment for service rests with the owner of such service pipe or hose coupling, whether or not such owner is the customer. Accordingly, payment of current and past due Village water billing is the responsibility of such owner.
(1) Whenever a final reading of a water meter and/or sewer meter is requested of the Village or whenever the owner of a premises notifies the Village that there is to be a change in occupancy of a given premises receiving service, following such request, service shall be discontinued until the account is paid in full. Service shall be resumed to such service pipe when the owner thereof applies to the Village for service as provided in this chapter.
(2) In the event of a change of ownership of service pipe without a request for final reading or in the event of change of occupancy without notice to the Village, upon becoming aware of such change, the Finance Director shall give the new owner or occupant, as the case may be, a twenty (20) day notice before terminating service. Upon such notice, the new owner or occupant, as the case may be, shall be required to apply to the Village for service as provided in this Chapter.
(C) Whenever the Village Manager/Comptroller or Finance Director determines that a given customer's water account is in arrears, he is authorized hereby to enter into an agreement with such customer to avoid termination of service.
(1) Such an agreement may create payment plans designed to allow such customer to pay over time all past due amounts for service received. At a minimum, such an agreement must provide that all bills for future service will be paid in full on time and that the arrearage will be paid in full within no more than two years. In the event a customer fails to abide by the terms of such agreement, the Village Manager/Comptroller or Finance Director shall terminate service following the second day after posting of notice of termination on the premises where service is received and the mailing of written notice of termination to such customer via first class United States mail at such customer's billing address.
(2) If a customer agrees to pay the Village immediately all past due amounts in full, the Village Manager/Comptroller or Finance Director is authorized to waive outstanding late fees and penalties accrued on such customer's account.
(Ord. 00-2245, passed 8-22-00; Am. Ord. 05-2519, passed 4-26-05; Am. Ord. 12-2895, passed 7-24-12)