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Legal Notices for 7/13/2011, page 2
Posted On 20 Jul 2011
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Section 22. Billing; Collection; Penalties.
The foregoing schedule of water rates and the foregoing schedule of sewer rates shall be put into effect in the collection of all water and sewer bill rendered after July 1, 2011. The rates and charges for both water service and sewer service shall be billed in the aggregate, monthly on the same billing on or about the 6th and 20th day of each month, (two billings), and all bills for such services shall be due within 20 days, after 20 days such charges shall be deemed delinquent. It is intended that bills for sewer service and water delivered to the same premises shall be billed, collected and enforced together, and if any delinquent bill is not paid with 10 days after delinquent notice, the officer or agent of the City in charge of the operation of the City waterworks system shall discontinue or shut off water service to the premises served, and such water service shall not be reinstated until the entire bill for both water and sewer services is paid in full. An additional fee or charge of $25.00 shall be made and collected for reinstating service when any such delinquent bill or bills are paid. The City Attorney is hereby authorized and directed to enforce and collect any charges remaining delinquent for thirty days.
Section 23. Penalty for Violation of Ordinance; as Applies to Sections 1-12.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance, or failing or refusing to comply with same, whether or not he, she or it shall be the owner or the occupant of the property involved, shall be fined not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00), nor more than Twenty Dollars ($20.00) for each offense. Each day such person, firm, or corporation fails or refuses to connect the sanitary sewerage drain pipes from any property or building owned or occupied by him, her or it, with the City sewer system, and each day any such privy, well, pool, cistern, septic tank or sink, into which such sewage is cast or permitted to be disposed of, is kept or maintained in violation of this Ordinance, shall constitute a separate offense.
Enacted this 16th day of June, 2011.
First Reading: June 13, 2011
Second Reading: June 16, 2011
Roddy Harrison, Mayor
Attest: Teresa H. Black, City Clerk
