(A) Bills/statements for fee. Bills or statements for the drainage utility fee shall be rendered by the city for all properties subject to the fee. Bills shall be payable when rendered and shall be considered as received by the customer, whether actually received or not, when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the utility customer. Bills shall be rendered monthly for the previous month's service.
(B) Fees; multiple users and users without utility account. For any parcel for which there is more than one user who receives utility services from an individual utility account or one or more users for whom a utility account is not established, each user's fee shall be based upon the relative contribution to runoff of the parcel controlled by that user.
(C) Bills due and payable. Bills are due and payable on the date specified thereon and if full payment is not made by the date specified, it shall become delinquent. The city shall have the right to apply interest of 10% per month to amounts delinquent.
(D) Bill with other public utility billings. Drainage utility fees shall be billed with the city's other public utility billings and shall be identified separately on the bill as a drainage utility fee. Delinquent drainage utility fee bills shall be mailed to the user at the address at which the user receives other city utility services, or if no other city utility services are received, to any known address for the owner or user.
(E) Penalties for failure to pay. Any charge due hereunder which is not paid when due will subject the user to discontinuance of all utility services provided by the city. Drainage utility fees that become delinquent pursuant to this section shall be subject to a penalty in the amount of $5 to cover administrative costs. Any drainage charge due hereunder which is not paid when due may be recovered in an action at law by the city including fixture of a lien against the property.
(F) Lien. The city may impose a lien against a user's property, unless it is a homestead.
(G) Access to benefitted property. The city shall have access, at all reasonable times, with reasonable notice, to any benefitted property served by the drainage utility for inspection, repair or enforcement of this subchapter
(Ord. 100921-A, passed 9-21-2010)