(a) Payment Required Prior to Water Service Resumption. Where a water bill has not been paid as provided by the rules and regulations of the City Manager and the proper shutoff notice has been delivered, the water shall thereafter be shut off in accordance with these rules and regulations, and it shall not thereafter be turned on again until all charges due and payable, including advance charges, if any, are fully paid.
(b) Application. This section shall apply whether or not there has been, in the meantime, a change of ownership or possession of the premises supplied, except as provided in subsections (c) and (d) hereof.
(c) Insolvent or Bankrupt Water User. Where premises in arrears for payment of water bills becomes subject to a bankruptcy or insolvency court, the Service Department may permit the supply of water to such premises to be continued or restored without previous payment of the water bill accrued under the bankrupt or insolvent owner.
(d) Foreclosure Proceedings Against Premises Supplied With City Water. Whenever the Department of Finance, Utilities Billing Division, has been given written notice that foreclosure proceedings have been instituted against premises supplied with City water, the Department shall arrange to require deposit payments or other suitable guaranties in advance for the water furnished to such premises until the premises have been sold or the proceedings otherwise terminated. If the Department receives notification in writing of the pendency of the foreclosure proceedings and the location of the premises affected thereby prior to such sale, the purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall be entitled to have water furnished the premises without payment of water charges accrued under the previous owner, for any period subsequent to the date of the receipt of notice of the pendency of foreclosure proceedings by the Department.
(e) Where payments required to be made to the City under a Development Incentive Agreement or a pre-annexation agreement (i.e. a contract by which a customer outside of the City’s corporate boundary is provided with municipal water and/or sewer services) have not been paid as provided under the Development Incentive Agreement or pre-annexation agreement and the proper shutoff notice has been delivered, the water shall thereafter be shut off in accordance with these rules and regulations, and it shall not thereafter be turned on again until all charges due and payable, including advance charges and payments required to be made under the Development Incentive Agreement or pre-annexation agreement, if any, are fully paid.
(Ord. 11-321. Passed 12-6-11.)