(A) (1) Prior to a hookup or turn-on for water rental service, a subscriber must pay a turn-on fee, plus a deposit to be applied or held as a retainer fee toward a contingency for non-payment of that subscriber’s water rental account.
(2) Upon due notice of termination of water rental service by the subscriber to the city, and upon full payment of water rental charges that have accrued to such termination date, the deposit, or retainer fee, shall be returned to the subscriber.
(B) (1) Any unpaid water charges due, payable, and accrued at the termination date of water rental service shall be deducted by the city from the initial deposit before a refund of the deposit, or retainer fee, shall be made.
(2) The Common Council may waive the requirement of an initial deposit, except for the turn-on fee, at its discretion, if the subscriber is the owner of record of real property served by the hookup of water rental service.
(C) (1) Similarly, at its discretion, the Common Council may exercise a waiver by refunding the deposit, or retainer fee, when the subscriber or consumer subsequently becomes the owner of record of real property served by the water rental service.
(2) If such deposit has been waived, the Common Council shall reserve the right to cancel or rescind said waiver and to demand a deposit from such subscriber at any time after said subscriber has allowed his or her water rental account to become delinquent.
(3) Upon cancellation or rescission of such waiver, water rental service shall not be continued thereafter until said subscriber shall have paid the deposit.
(D) The Common Council may from time to time, by resolution, establish the water deposit rates and charges, including the categories of collection, as to residential, commercial, or any other special categories or rates.
(Prior Code, § 5.0308) (Ord. 410, passed 9-2-1992; Ord. 486, passed 9-7-2010)