(A) Bills for electric service shall be rendered to subscribers by the borough’s Electric Department at one-month intervals. Upon failure, refusal, or neglect of any subscriber to pay for electrical service, within 30 days after being billed therefor, electric service to the premises for which such bill was rendered shall be discontinued. No such service shall be discontinued, however, until the borough’s Electric Department shall have given notice to such subscriber, personally, or by mail addressed to such premises, and until ten days shall have elapsed, after such notice. Thereupon, following the expiration of such ten-day period, service may be discontinued without further notice. Where service shall have been discontinued for nonpayment of any bill, reconnection shall not be made until all outstanding bills have been paid and, in addition, a charge of up to $300 for reconnection has been paid.
(B) (1) All owners of real estate located in the borough shall be responsible for the prompt payment of utility charges assessed by the borough’s Electric Company.
(2) In the event that any tenant, renter, or occupant of the real estate fails to pay the outstanding obligation, the landowner shall be liable for the payment of same.
(3) Upon failure of the tenant, renter, occupant, or landowner to pay said account, the borough shall be authorized to initiate legal proceedings to collect same along with court costs and enter a judgment lien against the landowner and real estate.
(Ord. 10-1963, passed 6-11-1963; Ord. 97-1, passed 3-11-1997)