(a) Regulations a contract. The rules, regulations, and water rates hereinafter set forth shall be considered a part of the contract with every person, company, or corporation who is connected with the water system, and every such person, company, or corporation by connection with the water system shall be considered as expressing his or her or their assent to be bound thereby. Whenever any of said rules and regulations, or such others as the said village may hereafter adopt are violated, the service shall be shut off from the building or place of such violation (even though two or more parties are receiving service through the same connection) and shall not be re-established except by order of the Village Board, and on payment of all arrears, the expenses and established charges of shutting off and putting on, and such other terms as the Village Board may determine and a satisfactory, understanding with the party that no further cause for complaint shall arise. In case of such violation, the said village furthermore may declare any payment made for the service by the party or parties committing such violation to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited. The right is reserved to the Village Board to change the said rules, regulations, and water rates from time to time, as they may deem advisable; and to make special rates and contracts in all proper cases, all subject to the authority of the State Public Service Commission whose finding of fact, certification, and order are hereby adopted by the village as applicable to the Water Utility Department.
(b) Mandatory connection.
(1) a. The owner of each parcel of land adjacent to a water main on which there exists a building usable for human habitation or in a block through which such system is extended, shall connect to such system within 60 days’ notice in writing from the Village Administrator, Clerk, and highest elected official, as appropriate. Upon failure to do so, the village may cause connection to be made and bill the property owner for such costs.
b. If such costs are not paid within 30 days, such notice shall be assessed as a special tax lien against the property, all pursuant to Wis. Stats. § 281.45; provided, however, that the owner may within 30 days after completion of the work file a written option with the Village Administrator, Clerk, and highest elected official, as appropriate, stating that he or she cannot pay such amount in one sum and ask that they be levied in not to exceed five equal installments and that the amount shall be so collected with interest at the rate of 18% per annum from the completion of the work, the unpaid balance being a special tax lien, all pursuant to Wis. Stats. § 144.06.
(2) a. In lieu of the above, the village at its option may impose a penalty for the period the violation continues, after ten days’ written notice to any owner failing to make a connection to the water system in an amount of $100 per month for each residential unit equivalent for the period in which the failure to connect continues, and upon failure to make such payment, said charge shall be assessed as a special tax lien against the property, all pursuant to Wis. Stats. §144.06.
b. This section ordains that the failure to connect to the water system is contrary to the minimum health standards of said village and fails to assure preservation of public health, comfort, and safety of said village.
(Prior Code, § 9-1-22)