(A) (1) Except as hereinafter stated in § 53.17, all persons desiring to avail themselves of the water, or water and sewer service of the Department of Public Works, shall, before the service is installed or connected, pay a deposit of $100 to the Office Manager.
(2) Owners who reside in the real estate for which such service is requested in the name of that owner, shall be exempt from this requirement, unless that owner/ customer has had city services disconnected in the past for non-payment.
(4) If an owner who resides in real estate which has the city service, and that service is exempt from the service deposit requirement under division (A)(2) above, and that owner/customer is a city customer at other addresses owned by that customer in the city, then the deposit requirement for each additional service shall be $50, rather than $100.
(5) (a) An owner of nonresidential real estate who occupies the real estate and has water service in his or her own name and who does have city water service at his residence shall be exempt from any service deposit requirement.
(b) If that owner has additional service at other addresses, then the service deposit requirement for each of the other addresses shall be $50, rather than $100.
(6) Customers who request temporary (less than 30 days) service for maintenance purposes shall be exempt from this deposit requirement.
(B) Any person requesting water and/or service, must, in addition to the deposit required by division (A) of this section, pay all prior amounts owing by that customer for water service to the property for which water service application is requested, and must also pay all past due bills for water and/or sewer service by the city for that customer at any other premises.
(C) The city shall not be liable for payment of interest to the depositors on the deposits made. The deposits, or so much thereof as may not have been applied toward payment of delinquent charges for water or water and sewer service, shall be refunded to the respective depositors when the service to them has been terminated for any reason.
(D) All full-time city employees shall be exempt from the service deposit requirement stated in this section, since this is considered a benefit of their employment and since any delinquent bills of city employees can, to the extent allowed by law, be set off against, or deducted from, the employees' wages.
(1992 Code, § 53.04) (Am. Ord. 111477B, passed 11-14-1977; Am. Ord. 082382, passed 8-23-1982; Am. Ord. 090991-2, passed 9-9-1991; Am. Ord. 122793N, passed 12-27-1993; Am. Ord. 092595A, passed 9-25-1995; Am. Ord. 062303B, passed 6-23-2003; Am. Ord. 2005-MC14, passed 10-24-2005; Am. Ord. 2009-MC01, passed 2-23-2009)