A. Rendering Bills: Bills for sewer service shall be sent out by the Water Collector on or about the first day of the month or quarter succeeding the period for which the service is billed.
B. Payment of Bills; Liability for Service: The rates or charges for services shall be payable monthly or quarterly depending on the classifications of service for which bills are rendered. The owner of the premises, the occupant thereof and the user of the service shall be jointly and severally liable to pay for the service to such premises, and the service is furnished to the premises by the City only upon the condition that the owner of the premises, occupant and user of the services are jointly and severally liable therefor to the City.
C. Delinquencies:
1. Late Fee: All sewer bills are due and payable fifteen (15) days after being sent out. A penalty of ten percent (10%) shall be added to all bills not paid by the sixteenth day after they have been rendered.
2. Discontinuance of Service: If the charges for such services are not paid within forty five (45) days after the rendition of the bill for such services, such services shall be discontinued without further notice and shall not be reinstated until all claims are settled.
3. Liens; Notice and Foreclosure:
a. Whenever a bill for sewer service remains unpaid for ninety (90) days for monthly or quarterly after it has been rendered, the City Treasurer shall file with the County Recorder of Deeds a statement of lien claim. This statement shall contain the legal description of the premises served, the amount of the unpaid bill and a notice that the City claims a lien for this amount as well as for all charges subsequent to the period covered by the bill. If the user whose bill is unpaid is not the owner of the premises and the City Treasurer has notice of this, notice shall be mailed to the owner of the premises, if his address be known, to the Treasurer whenever such bill remains unpaid for the period of forty five (45) days for a monthly bill or one hundred five (105) days for a quarterly bill after it has been rendered.
The failure of the City Treasurer to record such lien or to mail such notice or the failure of the owner to receive such notice shall not affect the right to foreclose the lien for unpaid bills as mentioned herein.
b. Property subject to a lien for unpaid charges shall be sold for nonpayment of the same, and the proceeds of the sale shall be applied to pay the charges, after deducting costs, as is the case in the foreclosure of statutory liens. Such foreclosure shall be by bill-in-equity in the name of the City. The City Attorney is hereby authorized and directed to institute such proceedings in the name of the City in any court having jurisdiction over such matters against any property for which the bill has remained unpaid forty five (45) days in the case of a monthly bill or one hundred five days in the case of a quarterly bill after it has been rendered. (Ord., 10-1-90)